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One Foot in the Grave Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Monday Morning Will Be Fine
30 mins
When their television set is stolen, the Meldrews decide to go to the local pub. They meet Victor's childhood classmate Billy, who mistakes him for a different classmate and mocks 'that old misery Meldrew.' To keep up the pretence, Victor lets Billy give him a lift 'home'. Having lost his voice from his long walk home in pouring rain, he is mistaken for an obscene caller when he rings to complain about the telephone line, and arrested after being mistaken for a prowler in the garden of the stranger's house to which Billy had driven him.
Episode 2
Dreamland
30 mins
Mrs Warboys relates a story, to some women she meets in a cafe, about the Meldrews. After losing to Nick at Scrabble, and discovering that the black shoes he wants to buy are still on the feet of their last owner--presently deceased--Victor is even grumpier than ever, the more so when Margaret disappears without trace. It turns out she just wanted a break and, after she has returned, Victor helps Nick at a garden fete where he is pursued by an amorous chimpanzee.
Episode 3
The Broken Reflection
29 mins
Victor's brother Alfred comes to stay from New Zealand. They are actually quite similar, but Victor finds him annoying and Alfred leaves after hearing Victor's opinion of him on an audio recording. Pippa and Patrick are away and Victor has agreed to water their plants. After a row with some customers from a Chinese restaurant who drop litter on his lawn Victor drops litter back on them. They decide to get revenge by piping rubbish through his letter-box but, seeing him go into the Trents' house to water the plants, they exact their revenge on the wrong house.
Episode 4
The Beast in the Cage
30 mins
The Meldrews are stuck in the mother of all traffic jams - there's even time for Mrs Warboys to go to the pub and forget to buy them all crisps. When Victor jumps out of the car to relieve himself, the traffic moves on. There's a horse box in front of Victor, giving him an unbridled view of the animal's rear end, and the salesman in the car on one side of him is using Victor's airspace to chat up the two girls on the other side. And when Victor decides to play a tape of soothing music, it's the final straw.
Episode 5
Beware the Trickster on the Roof
29 mins
Patrick and Pippa are hoping to sell their house but, thanks to Victor, they aren't having much luck. Their first prospective buyers are put off when their child finds a grotesque hybrid Teddy bear made by Victor; the second see him shouting abuse from the bedroom window; and the third are present when a cow, accidentally delivered to the Meldrews, crashes into the lounge. To cap it all, the burglar who stole Victor's VCR rings to ask how it works.
Episode 6
The Worst Horror of All
29 mins
Mrs Warboys' cousin Wilfred, recovering from some time in hospital, is staying with her and she asks Margaret and Victor to take him with them to a live T.V. show recording. Mrs Warboys knocks a window cleaner off his ladder without realising it and he lands on her car roof and ends up at her house. He comes through the garage into the house in a dazed state and the Meldrews, assuming he is Wilfred, take him to the studio, where he spends all his time asleep. The mistake is only noticed when they return to the house and find Wilfred waiting for them. Victor gets a job as a commissionaire, but is angered by a stroppy client whose toupee he throws down the drain.
