One Foot in the Grave
Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic?
Created by David Renwick
On BBC One
A darkly comic sitcom about retirement's indignities, built on one man's self-inflicted misery and surreal domestic chaos rather than warmth or reassurance.
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series. The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.
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