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A very sad, but very brilliant episode, the final episode of 'One Foot in the Grave'It's been six months now since Victor was killed. He was invited to a reunion, he was the only one that turned up and on the way back he was the victim of a hit and run accident. The driver still hasn't been caught. Margaret is naturally very angry at all this. She has been getting out more though as a result and has been good friends with Glynis. At Glynis's house one day, Glynis has a headache. Margaret goes to get her paracetamol. She then comes upon a strange scrap-book of all newspaper reports on Victor's death. Glynis must have been the driver. She confesses. The big question is did Margaret slip something over than the paracetamol in Glynis's drink. Margaret leaves. Then we are left with clips of Victor's last few days on earth. Such as driving past a car with someones backside hanging outside of it, hence Victor throws a needle in it.So, did Margaret put something into Glynis's drink. Possibly, as she said at the start she will kill the person who killed Victor if she finds them. When asked, writer David Renwick answered 'I honestly don't know' It's even a mystery to him. This is such a sad episode, yet Renwick was never afraid to look into the darker side of life, so he has again done it to the extreme in this final episode. The only criticism is that with it being the final episode, appearances from Mrs Warboys, Mr Swainey, Patrick and Pippa should have occurred. They were in the show for so long, they deserved to be in the final episode. But some good guest cast in the final episode. Hannah Gordon played Glynis. Paul Merton played a barman. Ex radio DJ Jean Challis played the Cabaret. She plays an old lady who is the cabaret. She of course played Mrs Arnott in John Sullivan's 'Dear John' Also playing Mr Grundy was Jonathan Cecil. He brilliantly played Captain Cadbury in the classic 'Dads Army' episode 'Things that go Bump in the Night' 'Doctor in the House' fans may remember him as Mungo in the episode 'Rallying Around' Anyway as I said above, I have a horrible confession to make. It is well known, that ITV horribly put on the first winner of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' that night. Which as Professor Stahlman quite rightly says it was a greed fest. Yet I'd watched 'Millionaire' since it was on at the time (I don't watch it anymore) and thought to myself I've got to watch somebody win it. So I watched that and taped this final episode. Looking back now, I realise what an idiot I was. In defence to my madness, at the time I was making a tape of the final series (I've got it on DVD now), so I had to tape 'One Foot' to complete my tape, so I felt I had to watch 'Millionaire' Best Bit: The final scenes watching Victor's last few days with the great song 'It's Alright'
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