One Foot in the Grave - Season 5

One Foot in the Grave - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes9
DatesDec 25, 1994 - Dec 25, 1997
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Episodes

The Man Who Blew Away
Season 5Episode 140 min

The Man Who Blew Away

The Meldrews set out for a routine visit to a garden centre little imagining the good luck that fate has in store for them. But their fortune is short-lived: a phone call is about to turn their world upside down.

Dec 25, 1994
Only a Story
Season 5Episode 230 min

Only a Story

After Mrs Warboys's flat is flooded, she becomes something of a fixture in the Meldrew house - rather like woodworm. Fortunately, Victor and Margaret manage to get away for an evening. They return to find chaos, but Victor, recent graduate of a course in stress relief, is the picture of serenity.

Jan 1, 1995
The Affair of the Hollow Lady
Season 5Episode 330 min

The Affair of the Hollow Lady

The Meldrews decide to step up security on their home. But when the new locks jam Victor is confronted with a problem: how to break out of the house in time forthe European Cup game at Wembley. Meanwhile, red-headed Millicent Miles , widow from the local greengrocer's, arrives on the scene with designs on Victor that are more animal than vegetable.

Jan 8, 1995
Rearranging the Dust
Season 5Episode 430 min

Rearranging the Dust

Victor and Margaret visit a solicitor to discuss a separation. An eventful wait then brings more misery.

Jan 15, 1995
Hole in the Sky
Season 5Episode 530 min

Hole in the Sky

Victor's latest culinary adventures bring chaos to the Meldrew household.

Jan 22, 1995
The Exterminating Angel
Season 5Episode 630 min

The Exterminating Angel

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

Jan 29, 1995
The Wisdom of the Witch
Season 5Episode 730 min

The Wisdom of the Witch

When Cousin Ursula dies, Victor and Margaret must clear out her country house; before they go, a witch predicts an untimely end for Victor.

Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Meldrews, then Patrick gets stuck with Victor while trying to escape his secretary's jealous boyfriend (Phil Daniels). When the boyfriend finally catches up with them, Victor manages to rescue Patrick by charging at the man, knocking both of them out of the window.

Dec 25, 1995
Starbound
Season 5Episode 860 min

Starbound

A man (Ray Winstone) whom the Meldrews find living in their shed turns out to be a drug dealer. Victor takes a gardening job working for Patrick's new boss, Fenella Fortune (Rula Lenska) and dealing with very effective herbicide. Mr Swainey's mother claims that she is being abducted by aliens every night.

Dec 26, 1996
Endgame
Season 5Episode 970 min

Endgame

The Meldrews make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbours Derek (Tim Brooke-Taylor) and Betty McVitie (Marian McLoughlin) and the two couples go on holiday together. Victor buys a haunted caravan and accidentally kidnaps the mother of an Indian millionaire.

Dec 25, 1997

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