One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)

The Worst Horror of All (1992)

Annette Crosbie: Margaret Meldrew

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mrs Warboys : What's this? More paraphernalia?

  Margaret Meldrew : [reads]  'Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents'. Some survey or other. I thought I'd fill it in while we're waiting for the x-rays.

  [reads] 

  Margaret Meldrew : 'Give a brief description of how the accident occurred.'

  Mrs Warboys : A garden shed fell on him.

  Margaret Meldrew : I put: Rotting timbers collapsed on head while dismantling old outhouse in rear garden.

  [reads] 

  Margaret Meldrew : 'Was the accident unavoidable or due to the patient's carelessness?'

  Mrs Warboys : Carelessness. Put stupidity. That was asking for trouble in anyone's book, unscrewing all the nails in the building before you've taken the roof off.

• Margaret Meldrew : We'll be out tomorrow evening with Jean at the BBC.

  Victor Meldrew : Ye-es. I expect she's booked us into another real side-splitter, has she? Like the last show I went up there to see, it was supposed to be a glitter evening at Television Centre; the most exciting moment was urinating next to Peter Sissons.