Season 1
Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic?
Synopsis
One Foot in the Grave (1990), Season 1 is the BBC sitcom you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes that introduce Victor Meldrew, freshly made redundant at sixty and replaced at work by a talking machine.
The whole season runs on one idea: forced retirement gives a restless man far too much time, and everything he touches goes wrong. A neighbour's loud party. A baffling rash. An atheist's funeral. He gets mugged while photographing badgers, finds an insult sprayed across his house, and responds by calling a crime-prevention meeting. Later episodes hand him a babysitting ordeal, a new hobby that turns out to be painting nudes — not quite what his wife Margaret had hoped for — and a hard-earned holiday that opens with food poisoning. Domestic comedy laced with black humour and a streak of the surreal.
Written by David Renwick, with Richard Wilson as Victor and Annette Crosbie as Margaret, this first run sets the show's tone: a grumbling man at war with a world he keeps provoking. Stream One Foot in the Grave Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Alive and Buried
Victor Meldrew, 60 years old, is at last retiring from the rigors of his security guard job at Watson-Mycroft. Replaced by a talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as many reasons to be grumpy.
S1·E2The Big Sleep
As retirement throws more problems for Victor Meldrew's retirement, including a next-door neighbour's noisy party, a disturbing and puzzling rash and an atheist funeral, has Victor bitten the bullet?
S1·E3The Valley of Fear
After being mugged whilst photographing badgers, and having his house sprayed with the phrase 'The Man Who Lives Here Is A Turd', Victor decides to hold a crime prevention meeting.
S1·E4I'll Retire to Bedlam
After being stuck in the shed for over three hours, then forced to spend an entire day with his eyes closed after a visit to the optometrist, Victor cannot bear the trials of babysitting.
S1·E5The Eternal Quadrangle
Although Margaret is glad that Victor finally has a hobby to occupy his time, she is less pleased to discover that it involves painting nudes.
S1·E6The Return of the Speckled Band
Following a food poisoning incident and problems with the electricity man, the Meldrews embark on a well-deserved holiday, however this is only the start of their problems.
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