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One foot in the grave. Season 2 Cover Image DVD DVD

One foot in the grave. Season 2

Belbin, Susan. (Added Author). Crosbie, Annette, 1934- (Added Author). Wilson, Richard, 1936- (Added Author). BBC Video (Firm) (Added Author). Warner Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Annette Crosbie, Richard Wilson. (Cast).

Summary: "Life continues to throw more slings and arrows at Victor as he and Margaret move to a new house. Next door, the cheerful but terminally boring Nick Swainey seems intent on disturbing Victor's peaceful retirement, while on the other side Patrick and Pippa's lives are made a misery from the moment they first meet the Meldrews."--Container.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1419847945
  • ISBN: 9781419847943
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    2 videodiscs (ca. 175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [S.l.] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, 2007.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on television on the BBC.
Formatted Contents Note: disc 1. In Luton Airport no-one can hear you scream (Victor and Margaret return from holiday to find that though their house has been demolished, someone has still managed to post a sample of HP spicy sauce through the letter box.) -- We have put her living in the tomb (The Meldrews are entrusted with the responsibility of tortoise sitting and Victor helpfully informs the Secretary General of the United Nations that he's been using TCP.) -- Dramatic fever (Margaret is joining an amateur dramatics society. Meanwhile, Victor is writing a situation comedy -when he isn't continuing a feud against a litterbug.) -- Who will buy? (Victor fends off a toy dinosaur salesman and resurrects Cuthbert the ventriloquist's dummy-- Meanwhile Pippa thinks he is responsible for the murder of an elderly blind man--) -- Love and death (A weekend with April and Vince, who run a boarding house at a seaside resort, finds Victor getting an unusual present, assaulting some midgets with insect repellent and making seagull noises in a public lavatory.) -- Timeless time (As Victor is unable to sleep, he kindly ensures that Margaret also gets no peace. Things get so desperate that he even contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year--) --
Participant or Performer Note: Annette Crosbie, Richard Wilson.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD9, DVD5, NTSC, region 1, aspect ratio 4:3; Dolby Digital stereo.
Language Note:
English soundtrack; subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Subject: Middle-aged men England Drama
Retirement England Drama
Genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Television comedies.
Situation comedy -- Television series.


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