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One Foot in the Grave: Season 3

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Well, I finally gave up and ordered this excellent series from Amazon UK in the region two format. It wasn't all that expensive to pick up a multi-region player and boy has it been worth it. "One Foot in the Grave" is one of the funniest comedies to come out of Britian. Richard Wilson is absolutely hilarious as Victor Meldrew, a working man of 60 replaced by a square box and forced into early retirement. His moaning, groaning and griping character is played to perfection - there's never too much. Annette Crosbie is the perfect counterpoint as the long-suffering Margaret and I throughly enjoy the delightful, fluttery actress who plays Mrs. Warboys. I don't know if this show will ever be released in region one but if it ever is, BritCom lovers should snap it up and if it isn't, it's worth getting in region two. Let me add my caution to those who might be tempted to grab the knock-off region one copies from e-bay. Unless your DVD player plays DVD-R, the disk won't work in anything but your computer.

Enter Victor Meldrew - the chronic pessimist, the man to whom everything bad truly does seem to happen. On retiring from his public service job, Victor discovers that having one foot in the grave is not nearly as boring as he expected - nor quite as relaxing. From the personalized tombstone offered by a friend as a retirement present to the radioactive fertilizer dumped in his yard, Victor and his life will give you hours of the best British comedy around. I sincerely hope that this collection becomes available in the USA very soon - I will be first in the queue when it goes on sale.

One Foot In The Grave is truly the best Brit-Com ever made. I do not understand why it hasn't been released in the usa. I had to make due by taping off pbs and ordering converted tapes. Please Please release this absolute gem of a show.

Unlike Patrick I would love to be the Meldrew's neighbor! Not to mention Mr. Swaney.

There are tons of brit-coms that have been released in the USA why not OFITG?

Yoo-Hoo people from Amazon...are you reading this? WE WANT ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE!!!!!

I just love this show! I found it by accident when purchasing other British comedies on Amazon. It's a comedy along the lines of Fawlty Towers, The Thin Blue Line and Blackadder. Yet, One Foot in the Grave is distinctly unique. It covers an overlooked segment of the population (the recently retired & aging segment).

If you have never saw One Foot in the Grave, start at season 1 and work your way up. The show and characters are more enjoyable watched in order, as many times they will work off something that occured in a previous show. Season 3 is perhaps the best of the series, so far, with the characters having grown and really filling out their roles.

An overview of the story (starting at Season 1), is about a 60 year old man (Mr. Victor Meldrew) whom is forced into retirement and has his whole life turned upside down. As he battles against a world that now longer makes sense, trouble seems to find him at every corner. Richard Wilson plays Victor Meldrew and Annette Crosbie plays as his wife Margaret Meldrew. Both Crosbie and Wilson are hysterical & believable. Victor being on the brink of a breakdown all the time, and his wife the voice of sanity, that brings humor to every situation. Or is Victor the sanest of them all? The older I get the more I identify with grumpy ole' Victor Meldrew.

Great show that gets funnier every season. If you are a fan of British comedy this is a must see!

This series is one of the funniest BBC Britcoms, but has not been released on bonifide region one discs.
Beware of bogus region 1 discs of this series (and others) on eBay.
Eight of them I have purchased won't play properly on my Panasonic region 1 players.
If you have a region free player, grab them. If you have a Mac, you can use iDVD to play them,
but remember you can only switch regions 5 times according to the window that opens when you load a non-region 1 DVD.
All of these programs are hilarious.
The Richard Wilson, Annette Crosby team is a superb Britcom treasure.

David Renwick has created a very unique Brit-com. Created during the waning days of the Thather/Reagan era partly as a statement of how the Governments had neglected the needs of many people such as the Elderly, the young, the needy and so on. These issues were made comic fodder for our hero Victor Meldrew, a man who goes to work one day to discover that he's been replaced by a box. At 60 years old Victor feels that he has many good years left and now faces a new life and how to keep busy.

Victor's wife, Margaret tries to help as best she can, but she's not the biggest fan of his passions. (magic, ventriloquism) Victor's biggest passion seems to be correcting the wrongs of the world which he attempts with great enthusiasm. Most often these endeavors end in disaster, but on occasion they are successful such as an encounter with a computer salesman that's comic gold, as well as what happens when he awakes in the hospital, thinks he's dead and sees a man who he thinks to be God.

To some, the dark, sick and twisted scripts may be off putting. On first viewing, one would think that Mr. Renwick hates Victor but the true payoff is that after all the disasters and fights, at the heart, Victor and Margaret truly love each other and Mr. Renwick does a wonderful job of showing us this without beating us over the head with it as would happen on American TV.

Richard Wilson brings great life to Victor. We feel Victor's pain when he goes too far and tries to make amends to a world who, sadly doesn't care. This is a fairly complicated series (on American standards) i is certainly not as wild and broad as a Fawlty Towers or a Thin Blue Line but it's well worth a look

I would like to add my voice to the many who ask that this series be released in the region 1 (USA & Canada) format. This is the only one of the top 10 all time best British comedies that has never been released on DVD. Why would that be? I also check regularly to see if it's been released. I sent an email to the BBC asking about this but only got a "thank you" form letter back.

Third season of a great british sitcom. Those who love the traditional britcoms will love this one. Great acting, hilarious storylines.

Have become a fan of the series, have all 6 seasons at this point. the quality of this product was just fine. We have spent meany enjoyable hours laughing

Just beginning to watch this series and have found it very amuzing and entertaining--a great step from the nothing to watch Basic Cable. While Victor is a bit much in terms of complaining the reaction from Margaret and others makes it hilarious. A one of a kind show.