A tramp moves into the Meldrews' garden shed & Patrick gets a shock

One Foot In The Grave Christmas 1996: Starbound

Comedy

Christmas Special 1996. A tramp moves into the Meldrews' garden shed, and Patrick is shocked when his new boss tells him that she has hired Victor as her gardener. 

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BAFTA-winning comedy about a grumpy old git - Richard Wilson stars

BAFTA-winning comedy about a grumpy old git. Richard Wilson stars as Victor Meldrew, a man forced into retirement and trying to keep himself busy. Inevitably it ends in mishaps of his own making.

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Replaced at work by a box, Victor embarks on his enforced retirement.

Alive and Buried

At the age of 60, and after 26 years of loyal service, Victor is retired from his job as a security guard for Watson- Mycroft. He's replaced by a box and a recorded message; and is arrested for kerb crawling.

Will a self-help book from the library or keep-fit classes take Victor's mind off things?

The Big Sleep

The Meldrews attend an atheist funeral and receive a visit from what Victor calls 'the Jehovah's Witness police.' As the fog descends on suburbia Victor wakes up thinking he's dead and attempts to assault God.

Victor's outing to photograph badgers doesn't end up going quite as planned.

The Valley of Fear

Victor's trip to Bluebell wood to photograph badgers with his new camera has ended with his being mugged and to make matters worse, someone has scrawled insulting graffiti on the side of his house. Victor decides to hold a crime prevention meeting.

Victor and Margaret are trapped in their garden shed by a swarm of bees.

I'll Retire to Bedlam

Margaret worries that Victor might have his eye on another woman.

The Eternal Quadrangle

Margaret is pleased when Victor takes up a new hobby but regrets her encouragement when she discovers that he's been painting a nude and giving the model a lift home afterwards. Margaret retaliates by seeing more of her friend Mr Wharton.

Unexpected events distract Victor and Margaret, who are preparing for a holiday to Athens.

The Return of the Speckled Band

Victor and Margaret are preparing for their holiday to Athens, but Victor's scared of flying. Things only go from bad to worse in the form of food poisoning, the electricity man and suburbia being invaded by reptiles.

The Meldrews return from a Greek holiday and get a horrible shock.

In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream

Victor and Margaret return from holiday to find that their baggage has been sent to the other side of the world and their house has been demolished following a terrible fire. They attempt to cheer themselves up by holding a house warming party.

Victor and Margaret agree to look after Kylie the tortoise.

We Have Put Her Living in the Tomb

The Meldrews begin the task of decorating the new house, and are entrusted with the responsibility of tortoise sitting for Margaret's god-daughter, Jenifer while she's on holiday. Disaster is lurking amongst the grass cuttings.

Margaret joins the local amateur dramatic society and takes Victor to a Bergerac party.

Dramatic Fever

Victor writes a hilarious script for a new comedy series. Unfortunately no-one else finds it funny. Margaret also catches the dramatic fever and makes a foray into amateur dramatics.

The arrival of a door-to-door salesman and a deluge of junk mail arouse concern.

Who Will Buy?

Victor fends off a toy dinosaur salesman. Meanwhile, Pippa suspects that Victor is responsible for the murder of an elderly blind man. A benefit concert gives Victor the chance to resurrect Cuthbert the dummy and air his ventriloquist skills.

Victor and Margaret head to Bournemouth for the weekend.

Love and Death

Victor and Margaret decide to make a weekend visit to see friends Vince and April in their boarding house in Bournemouth on the south coast. Vince presents Victor with a most unusual and unwelcome gift.

When Victor has a sleepless night, everyone else suffers his torment.

Timeless Time

As Victor is unable to sleep, he kindly ensures that Margaret also gets no peace. Things get so desperate that Victor contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year - but no, he's not quite that desperate.

Victor returns home from the supermarket and gets a nasty shock.

Monday Morning Will Be Fine

Victor and Margaret return from a shopping trip to discover that the house has been burgled and their television stolen. So they decide to go to the pub where Victor meets up with an old school friend who mistakes him for someone else entirely!

Margaret goes missing after suffering a nightmare.

Dreamland

Mrs Warboys tells the story of how Margaret went missing following a series of haunting dreams. Mr Swainee evades Victor's attempts to nail the fence closed and invites the Meldrews round to see his pigeons.

Victor's brother, Alfred, pays a visit from New Zealand.

The Broken Reflection

Patrick and Pippa quite rightly fear the worst when they ask Victor and Margaret to look after their house whilst they are on holiday. For when Victor seeks revenge for the litter thrown into his garden, it goes terribly wrong.

A trip to Whipsnade Zoo turns into a nightmare for Victor and Margaret.

The Beast in the Cage

A day out turns into a nightmare for Victor, Margaret and Mrs Warboys; when the bank holiday traffic comes to a standstill on the motorway. Trapped in the car staring at a horse's back end for four hours!

Victor and Margaret battle to rid their home of an evil curse.

Beware the Trickster on the Roof

Victor's first day back at work involves a nasty case of vermin control.

The Worst Horror of All

Victor and Margaret visit the BBC. Victor is overjoyed when he finally gets a decent job offer as the doorman at a posh hotel. But after being insulted by a guest in an obvious wig he decides that retirement is the better option after all.

Patrick's cherry tree launches an attack on Victor's junipers.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Victor decides that Patrick's cherry tree is the cause of his garden being dry and enlists a Neanderthal gardener to cultivate the stray roots. But only when it's too late does he learn that the pit could have a secondary use.

Roger, Victor's cousin, accidentally invites the couple to his 60th birthday.

Descent into the Maelstrom

Margaret collapses from nervous exhaustion, but after a few days of Victor's loving care decides to go back to work in order to get some peace and quiet. Andrea Temple visits Margaret with a baby that has a mysterious fondness for garden gnomes.

A day on the river leads to complications for the Meldrews.

Hearts of Darkness

Margaret embarks on an adventure that could change her and Victor's lives.

Warm Champagne

The Meldrews return home from a disastrous holiday only to face another series of disasters which almost sends Margaret over the edge. She is surprised to find another woman in her bed when she returns. And so is Victor!

Victor is called up for jury service and ends up as the man on trial.

The Trial

Victor's conjuring group runs into trouble when a trick goes horribly wrong.

The Secret of the Seven Sorcerers

The Meldrews invite Patrick and Pippa round for a friendly meal, but Patrick is distinctly worried about what horrors might befall them. Luckily they escape the threat of Victor's deadly curry when it is accidentally drunk by the window cleaner.

Victor is dogged by some practical jokers, and then joyriders steal his car.

The Man Who Blew Away

Mrs Warboys moves in with the Meldrews after rain floods her basement home.

Only a Story

The Affair of the Hollow Lady

Everyone is stunned when Mrs Warboys has a wax model of herself made as the prize from a competition. Victor comes face to face with extra-marital temptation, when Millicent Miles, the local greengrocer, takes a fancy to him.

Victor and Margaret visit a solicitor to sort out some legal matters.

Rearranging the Dust

The Meldrews suffer a long wait in their solicitor's waiting room. Victor observes the strange habits of the other visitors, fidgets impatiently, and finally attacks a dog with a cake. Margaret remembers the first time they kissed.

Margaret comes into some money, and Victor helps a young Dutch girl get back on her feet.

Hole in the Sky

Margaret and Pippa once more attempt to get Victor and Patrick to bury the hatchet but the result is no less of a disaster than usual. Victor restores a Dutch girl marionette and experiments with some deadly seafood cookery.

Margaret tries to organise an unlikely love affair after Victor takes to the road.

The Exterminating Angel

Romance is in the air for Mr Swainee when he finally invites Tania his mother's nurse out for a date. Victor takes a job as a chauffeur but rapidly wipes out his employers beloved fleet through a series of Victor-esque mishaps.

An artistic dispute with the Meldrews threatens to scupper Patrick's birthday plans.

The Executioner's Song

The Meldrew household is in a state of relative equilibrium, until a dispute scuppers Patrick's plans for a quiet birthday. Meanwhile Pippa finds herself in an adulterous affair that threatens to wreck her marriage.

Victor is alarmed when a routine medical test turns out to have sinister implications.

Tales of Terror

Victor is alarmed when a routine medical test turns out to have sinister implications. He also has problems with the builders, and the continuing irritation of from Ronnie and Mildred and her cousin Wilf's palm top voice synthesiser.

Victor begins to regret hiring a cleaner to help around the house.

The Futility of the Fly

Victor begins to regret hiring a cleaner to help around the house. He also has trouble with the owner of a fish and chip shop, a giant fly and an intimate moment in the bath with Mrs Warboys. Then there's the mysterious package.

Plunged into darkness after a power cut, Victor and Margaret reflect on their lives.

Threatening Weather

Plunged into darkness after a power cut on a sweltering summer night, Victor and Margaret with no television, reflect on their lives, hopes and fears. Until they are receive a visit from their elderly neighbour, 'the Hindenburg on legs'.

Victor's hobby of fishing leads to an encounter with humanity at its most primitive.

The Dawn of Man

Victor's hobby of fishing leads to an encounter with humanity at its most primitive. Patrick's gay brother, Nigel, comes to visit and Victor is asked to speak to the WI about 'Evolution gone wrong', where Victor exercises his moaning muscles.

After everything suddenly changes in her life, Margaret must face up to it.

Things Aren't Simple Any More

After Victor dies in a road accident, Margaret faces up to life without him.

The Meldrews head to Portugal with Mrs Warboys in tow

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