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	One Foot in the Grave
		Renwick created the lead character, Victor Meldrew, with Scots actor Richard Wilson in mind, but Wilson initially turned down the role because he felt he was too young to play a sixty-year-old man. Luckily, he thought again and a new hero for the 1990s made his debut on 4 January 1990.
		The first episode, "Alive and Buried", introduced Victor Meldrew just as he was about to be made redundant from his job as a security guard--replaced by a computer chip.
		She has to bear the brunt of most of Victor's tetchiness and although he sometimes drives her to distraction, we are never left in any doubt that she loves him dearly.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/O/htmlO/onefootint/onefootint.htm (831 words)

	Victor Meldrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Meldrew was the main character in the BBC 1 sitcom One Foot In The Grave, created by David Renwick and played by Richard Wilson.
		The series was so successful that in the UK the term a Victor Meldrew has become shorthand for a bitter and complaining elderly man. This is a little unfair to the character, as the bizarre misfortunes that befell Meldrew would often be enough to exasperate anyone.
		In the final episode, Meldrew was killed off after being hit by a car.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Meldrew (225 words)

	Victor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Victor' (from vincere "defeat", victoria "victory") is a first name normally given to male boys.
		Saint Victor Maurus or Victor the Moor, Victor of Milan.
		Victor Meldrew, character in the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor (246 words)

	Jeff K's Australian DVD Site - Region 4 News, Reviews and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Victor goes to the fridge and finds a frozen cat in his freezer and screams out to Margaret, what the bloody hell is this cat doing in our freezer, to which she replies not much by the look of it.
		Victor drives the woman doing the modeling home and when Margaret sees the drawings of the nude woman she comments to Victor about why he made her breasts so big and thinks that he is having a affair with her.
		Victor has a dim view of life and how everyone is out to get him, anything that can go wrong does and usually does in the most hilarious situations and you can’t help but laugh at Victor and his sarcastic wit.
	www.australiandvd.net /showreview.php?id=1306 (1692 words)

	screenonline: One Foot In The Grave (1990-2000)
		Victor's fury at the failings of the world, and his ability to attract misfortune, causes constant conflict with people around them - much to Margaret's exasperation.
		Victor rails against universal irritations, such as voicemail or clingfilm.
		The show was brought back for a final series in 2000, culminating in Victor's death from a hit and run driver.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/579040 (419 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Today - Victor Meldrew
		The 'Meldrews' are frustrated and discontented with society.
		Another fear is their financial future, as pensions funds seem to be dwindling.
		A Meldrew is probably quite affluent, although they are fed up with the 'rat-race'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/archive/features/victor_meldrew.shtml (174 words)

	TV ACRES: Character Bios > Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew (One Foot in the Grave)
		Margaret Meldrew, nearing her 60s, is Victor’s extremely patient wife of 34 years who now has to put up with her husband’s rants and raves since he no longer has a job to go to.
		The Meldrew’s family included a son named Stuart who died as a child; Margaret’s mother [died in 1993] and her god-daughter, Jennifer; Victor’s accident-prone brother, Alfred and cousin Geoffrey.
		In 2000, Victor is killed - run over by a hit and run driver - while returning from a failed school reunion (no one showed up).
	www.tvacres.com /char_meldrew_victor.htm (731 words)

	One Foot In The Grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Victor Meldrew was pushed to the sidelines (principally through being dead) resulting in a Hamlet-without-the-prince damp squib of a finale.
		However, for all of his querulous "kvetching," Victor Meldrew is, at heart, a very decent man, who, as the previous poster pointed out, rails out against some of the inevitable indignities of everyday life, in a most amusing way, of course!
		Meldrew throughout the series) was standing in front of a mirror in his home, complaining about something or other to his long-suffering wife.
	www.jumptheshark.com /o/one_foot_in_the_grave.htm (1502 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Wilson mellow after Meldrew
		He is, we have been warned, to be killed off by a woman driver at the end of the new and final series of the hit sitcom.
		The first programme in the new series is full of the mishaps and misunderstandings that have tormented Victor for years.
		Everyone knows Victor is going to die - and they think they know how - but David has planted false trails along the way," he explains.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/967188.stm (856 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Mellow old men leave the anger to grumpy women
		GRUMPY old men, exemplified by the moaning Victor Meldrew, are a myth, new research suggested yesterday.
		The researchers discovered that men tend to mellow as they get older and do not take on the mantle of grumpy television character Victor Meldrew, but found levels of self-reported anger among women stayed roughly the same throughout their age range.
		Victor Meldrew was the character played by Richard Wilson in the BBC1 comedy series One Foot in the Grave.
	news.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=343462005 (710 words)

	Crabby cat Victor Meldrew finally gets a new home - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Animal welfare workers were struggling to find a willing owner for the sour puss they christened Victor Meldrew after the character from TV's One Foot In The Grave.
		After he was taken in by staff at the centre, Victor gave them grief by turning his nose up at most brands of cat food.
		John said Victor acted a bit strangely when he took him home but he seemed to be settling in - even letting him pick him up.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /news/5030090.shtml (351 words)

	Victor Meldrew a short biography for Jest Wishes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Victor Meldrew was the main character in the BBC's 'One Foot In The Grave'
		The series featured the exploits of Victor Meldrew, an irascible pensioner with attitude, played by one of Britain's leading charactor actors, Richard Wilson.
		This is a little unfair to the character, as the bizarre misfortunes that befell Victor would often be enough to exasperate anyone.
	www.jestwishes.com /Meldrew.htm (281 words)

	Newton's Laws of TV: One Foot In The Grave episode guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Victor is surrounded by death, including his cousin Geoffrey who had also just taken early retirement at the age of 60.
		When Cousin Ursula dies the Meldrews have to clear out her house in the country, although a witch has predicted that Victor is about to come to an untimely end.
		Victor is suffering from a hernia but this hasn't stopped him getting a job as a gardener working for Patrick's new boss.
	www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk /tv/onefoot.htm (3186 words)

	Victor Meldrew Cartoons
		Victor Meldrew cartoon 1 - catalog reference jdo0219
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/v/victor_meldrew.asp (213 words)

	ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
		Over the course of the series decade long run, viewers were treated to an almost unending barrage of quick fire, perfectly executed sight gags, running jokes and sometimes almost painfully emotional moments, which elevated the series into the rarefied upper echelons of high class comedy.
		The character of Victor and his never-ending, but ultimately futile fight against being cast on to the barren scrap heap of retirement, made Richard Wilson a national comedy icon, who's place in the British consciousness will endure for generations to come.
		Although the series has reached the end of its original life span, the comedic memory of Victor Meldrew's acerbic hilarity will, thankfully, continue to be a shining beacon of wonderfully crafted comedy genius for as long as viewers continue to appreciate truly creative situation comedy.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /meldrew.htm (484 words)

	Observer \| Time to say goodbye to all that...
		With the imminent and coincidental deaths of Victor Meldrew and Inspector Endeavour Morse this month, we will mark more than the passing of two much-loved TV figures.
		Victor was 'born' in 1990 when, in the first episode of One Foot In The Grave, he was made redundant from his job as a security guard (how very Eighties) and set about complaining for England to fill his long days.
		Morse was ITV, in the same way that Meldrew was BBC1: phenomenally popular but far from dumb, both men, while very much of their time, harked back to a golden age of pre-satellite and pre-internet television.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4089741-102281,00.html (1310 words)

	"One Foot in the Grave" (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plot Summary: Victor Meldrew is a retiree with an attitude who seems to attract bad luck.
		Victor Meldrew's relationship with the world has been fractured and, suddenly, he's out of step with everything.
		But Victor is more three dimensional than Hancock: he has real disappointments, the fact that he is childless, old-age hasn't brought him respect, even from his wife.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0098882 (465 words)

	Victor Meldrew's last scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The village of Shawford, near Winchester, became the unlikely focus for the nations comedy enthusiasts on Saturday when it emerged that one of Britain’s best-loved TV characters would meet his demise there.
		Whinging Victor Meldrew, of One Foot in the Grave, will be killed off in a dramatic accident in the final series to he screened later this year.
		The hilarious character played by Richard Wilson becomes the victim of a hit-and-run driver who mounts the pavement at high speed and hits Victor as he waits for a lift.
	compton.parish.hants.gov.uk /VictorMeldrew.htm (316 words)

	soon to be a one foot in the grve page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Renwick created the lead character, Victor Meldrew, with Scots actor Richard Wilson in mind, but Wilson initially turned down the role because he felt he was too young to play a sixty-year-old man.
		The first episode, "Alive and Buried", introduced Victor Meldr žew just as he was about to be made redundant from his job as a security guard--replaced by a computer chip.
		In "The Worst Horror of All" Victor is convinced that the skip he has hir Ìed will, in the morning, have an old mattress dumped in it.
	www.caersws.powys.sch.uk /Year6/Myles/ofitg.htm (742 words)

	Official Richard Wilson Archive
		Even a year after his much-loved screen alter ego, Victor Meldrew, was tragically killed in a hit and run accident, actor Richard Wilson cannot escape from people coming up to him and wanting to talk about One Foot in the Grave, the highlights of which are now available on a BBC Worldwide video.
		As conceived by writer David Renwick, Victor sums up our general sense of exasperation with all those aspects of existence that are sent to try us.
		I was lying in a gutter in the rain at 3.30 in the morning.
	www.richardwilsonarchive.com /dvdreview.htm (1177 words)

	One Foot in the Grave TV Show - One Foot in the Grave Television Show - TV.com
		Victor Meldrew, a man who, put simply, is annoyed by every one of life's 'challenges'!, has never been renowned for his patience and tolerance.
		Victor Meldrew, 60 years old, is at last retiring from the rigors of his security guard job at Watson-Mycroft.
		Replaced by a talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as much reason to be grumpy.
	www.tv.com /one-foot-in-the-grave/show/2136/summary.html (297 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - A GRAVE HOPE FOR MELDREW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He told TV Times he misses the nation's favourite whinger, who was killed off by series creator David Renwick in 2000 after an 11-year run.
		Wilson, 68, said: "If David thought we could do a catch-up with Victor in five years' time, I wouldn't be averse to it.
		Annette Crosbie, 70, who played Meldrew's long-suffering wife Margaret, also pines for her old part.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid=14489472&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=a-grave-hope-for-meldrew-name_page.html (166 words)

	To the Victor Meldrew the spoils É - [Sunday Herald]
		It is the increasing regularity of my Victor Meldrew moments that is beginning to worry me. I had been coping reasonably well with my transition from Barcelona's baking heat to the chill of a Glasgow summer, taking a perverse pleasure in the occasional sudden rainy squall.
		Like Victor Meldrew, a significant part of my life is spent contemplating the litter with which passers-by adorn my garden.
		In a recent Meldrew moment I gathered a bin-bag of choice items and took it to Ken Cunningham, the Hillhead heidie.
	www.sundayherald.com /26155 (1077 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - One Foot In The Grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the beginning of the first series Victor Meldrew is forced into taking early retirement, and tries to adjust to an unwanted final years of leisure with his wife Margaret.
		As Victor becomes embroiled in such shenanigans, his volcanic temper - which tends to simmer at the best of times - erupts in a torrent of verbal vitriol against the unfairness of it all, such onslaughts usually being preceded by his bemoaning exclamation 'I don't be-lieve it!'.
		Meldrew was a tragi-comic character, who thought himself a sane man living in a mad modern world.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/o/onefootinthegrav_7774990.shtml (1324 words)

	One Foot in the Grave
		Warboys breaking the news that the Meldrew's house has burned, been ravaged by a hurricane and then demolished while they were in Greece.
		The scene with Victor, the donkey and Hugo in the bath is a highlight of this show.
		Victor had met his demise, although it turned out not to be
	www.tvheaven.ca /victor.htm (1172 words)

	articles about the lives of Older Gay men in the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They are the new Victor Meldrews of this world.
		For readers outside the UK, Victor Meldrew is a character in a popular UK TV comedy programme.
		Survey after survey shows the thirty five to fifty four age group are cross and fed up, they don't have much to look forward to, expect the health service to deteriorate, their pensions to be worthless, rising house prices preventing their moving to larger houses and work as unfulfilling.
	www.keith-london.freeuk.com /Stradivarius/2202meldrew.html (537 words)

	Discover Hertford Online Forum - Dog Dirt!
		My comment was aimed at the dog owners who turn a blind eye at there pooches dropping their feaces, and because of this the council having to employ poo pickers, it's a disgrace, i would shoot the barstewerds.
		maybe so, but i doubt it, as singapore is rife with aids and stds i think, not sure, that the morals of people are different in singapore than they are in hertford, i dont really get your point there victor.
		I think a custodial sentence is not a bad idea, ok, the dog has to do his biz somewhere, its the keeper for not picking it, and besides who would get the sentence, the dog or the owner.
	www.hertford.net /yoursay1/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=573 (1251 words)

	Beebfun - One Foot in the Grave Desktop Theme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After 26 years of loyal service, Victor is retired from his job as a security guard for Watson-Mycroft.
		With enforced retirement as the prize for such loyal service, Victor becomes even more grumpier with the world at large and Margaret finds life full of new challenges, not least of which is Victor himself.
		Set in the fictitious village of Walkford, near Shaftsbury, Dorset, the sitcom series (there have been five series to date, the last episode aired in 1995) centers on Victor Meldrew, his neighbours and misadventures.
	www.beebfun.com /ofg.htm (582 words)

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