Sitcom · 1990s
One Foot in the Grave
The Wisdom of the Witch
Victor Meldrew, one tarot reading and the worst luck in the country.
- Family-safe
BBC One
1995
First shown 25 Dec 1995
- First shown
- 25 December 1995
- Channel
- BBC One
- Runtime
- 1 hr
- Genre
- Sitcom
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Victor Meldrew has been given a tarot reading, and it says disaster is coming his way. Naturally, that's the last thing a man who already has the worst luck in Britain needs. Meanwhile neighbours Patrick and Pippa sell their house, and a house clearance crew gets mistaken for their removal men, because nobody in Meldrew's orbit can ever have a quiet Christmas. It's the king of grumbling at his finest, and the whole thing is classic 90s Christmas Day telly: a full hour of gloriously bad luck while you sit in the good chair, full of turkey. I don't believe it? Believe it.
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