RE: One Foot In The Grave - it is a classic sitcom, swiss guy didn't explain it very well - however, US viewers may only be familiar with the saccharine, point-missing US remake called, er, COSBY. I suppose the set up of a grumpy guy railing at the modern world could be compared to lots of things, most recently Curb Your Enthusiasm, but the show is written with genuine anger, with Victor becoming a proxy for our own disenchantment with Thatcher's Britain.
It is significant for including deeply disturbing material, within a cosy, studio-set, sunday evening sitcom - kind of like season 5 of Archie Bunker's Place! An example of this would be the episode 'who will buy?'
One Foot in the Grave - Who Will Buy? (1/3)In the episode, a sub-plot involves Victor's wife befriending a lonely blind man who is repeatedly burgled. He lives in hope of a letter from his son in Australia, and ask's Margaret to read him one, which turns out to be junk mail. At the end of the episode, the man dies following another burglary, and the coda to the epsiode reveals that he spent the money he had put aside for improving security on toys for his absent grandchildren.