Product Details

• Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Owen Brenman, Doreen Mantle, Bill Gavin
• Directors: Susan Belbin
• Writers: David Renwick
• Producers: Susan Belbin
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Run Time: 175 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000Z7G85Y
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #56,929 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Is it a personality defect, bad karma or sheer rotten luck that sets Victor Meldrew apart from the human race? Anything that can go wrong – and quite a few things you wouldn’t think possible – invariably befall our hero. Not that he accepts each setback phlegmatically…

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
TV Special

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WELL WORTH A VIEW......., April 16, 2008

By	Mark Durand (Chicago) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: One Foot in the Grave - Season 4 (DVD)

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 These issues were made comic fodder for our hero Victor Meldrew, a man who goes to work one day to discover that he's been replaced by a box.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

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious British comedy- don't be a Victor Meldrew, watch it!, May 11, 2008

By	Shana "That's my opinion- I could be wrong!" (NY- the Empire State) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

This review is from: One Foot in the Grave - Season 4 (DVD)

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 with the characters having grown and really filling out their roles. Season 4 is just as good tho.

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!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect british sitcom, April 20, 2008

By	ajs (southern california) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: One Foot in the Grave - Season 4 (DVD)

Fourth season of an hilarious british sitcom. No matter how often I watch this series, I never fail to find something new to laugh at. Highly recommend this one.