One Foot in the Grave (Seasons 1–6)

One Foot in the Grave (1990) is a BBC sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. After 26 years behind the same desk, Victor Meldrew is shoved into early retirement. Everyone insists it's a fresh start. Victor is convinced it's the beginning of the end.

Richard Wilson plays the perpetually furious pensioner whose simple errands — fixing a fence, dealing with a neighbour, answering the door — spiral into domestic catastrophe. Annette Crosbie is his wife Margaret, the only person on earth who can absorb his rage and fire it back. The comedy runs on black humour and flat-out surrealism: small suburban annoyances balloon into disasters, and the universe seems to single Victor out for fresh torment each week.

Created by David Renwick, the show gave Britain its most quotable groan of exasperation — Victor's strangled "I don't believe it!" If you like dry English misanthropy and jokes built on a man's sheer indignation, this one lands hard. Stream One Foot in the Grave (1990) online on iFILM.