One Foot In The Grave - Series 1 - Complete Collection (DVD)

One Foot in the Grave is a well-known and well-loved British sitcom written by David Renwick that ran for six series’ between the years of 1990 and 2000. In 2004 it was voted as the 10th best British sitcom in a BBC pole, a position I think it well deserves. The series as a whole follows lead character Victor Meldrew as he struggles to find things to fill up his days after he is forced to take early retirement when he is ‘replaced by a box’. Victor ...
...The first series and the one I will be reviewing today sees Victor receive the news he is to be retired as well as begin to cope with what this means. What this means for his wife Margaret however is quite simple. It means Victor moping about the house and garden complaining about everything and anything. She always knew he was a grumbler but now he has more time to do it. Series One consists of six, thirty-minute episode chronicling Victor’s first ...

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...British sitcoms and this particular one is one of my favourites. It also reminds me of my dad who gets more miserable as he gets older - he does things like ring up our local council to complain about the lack of clarity in recycling guidelines and is a regular feature in November at our local police station to complain about the noise fireworks make. I kid you not...but I still love him! Anyway, in my expert opinion, Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew ...
...there is a seen in one episode when a cat gets trapped in the Meldrew's refrigerator and freezes to death. As a cat lover, I found this quite offensive and far from funny. Apparently I am not the only one. Many people wrote it to complain about this, to the extent that Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie begged the writer, David Renwick, not to write in anything else that involved harm to animals, because as the main actors, they were the ones that ...

sunmeilan 03.01.2007 · Read full review
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The early episodes of OFITG are a good example of how funny OFITG has been to start to finish. The complete series 1 is an excellent way to start the story of Victor's retirement years, and then continue on to the rest of the series (6 in total). There is a full box set available which will save you a fair penny - I bought each individually as I was particularly impatient to be able to watch OFITG again. Looking back, the first series especially ...
...but this all adds to the cosy situational comedy, and of course part of the appeal is its relatability to middle aged ninties suburbia - quite potent issues are raised in the episodes, even in Series 1, like hooliganism (episode The Valley of Fear). This series is much more central to the couple and Mrs Warboys is not well established yet - nor is much said of the neighbours yet - this is all to come later. The DVD contains: EP1 Alive and Buried ...

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