One Foot In The Grave

Margaret tries to help her husband cope with early retirement by getting him a book from the library entitled Coping with Old Age.

The window cleaner is distressed because she claims that Victor had indecently exposed himself to her when she was cleaning the windows; he was drying himself but she says she's going to report him to the police. The police arrive, but they're off-duty officers doing their Jehovah's Witness duty, and Victor reacts rudely to them before throwing them out.

Margaret tells Victor she's just hear that a cousin of his has died. Freshly depressed, she takes him to try a yoga class for the elderly. Ironically, the fitness instructor dies mid-meditation, whilst another student finds her hip replacement seizes - and then quickly faints, leaving the Meldrews to seek help.

After his cousin's funeral, Victor begins noticing his own health problems: lumps behind his ears and a rash across his entire upper body foremost, whilst consultation of a medical dictionary does nothing to help matters. Attempting to relax whilst Margaret is out, Victor sits in the back garden to read his newspaper but soon falls asleep. Whilst slumbering a thick fog descends, and when he wakes up Victor believes he has died - before managing to knock himself out in the mist!