One Foot in the Grave end of 2006. A slimmer series 1-6 box set was released in 2010 in Region 2. One Foot in the Grave One Foot in the Grave is a British television sitcom written by David Renwick. There were six series and seven Christmas specials over an eleven-year period, from early 1990 to late 2000. The first five series were broadcast between January 1990 and January 1995. For the next five years, the show appeared only as Christmas specials, followed by one final series in 2000. The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, and his long-suffering wife,
Clive Mantle Heart". In 1991, Mantle played an irate husband whose wife is chatted up by Richie (Rik Mayall) in the first episode of "Bottom", "Smells", and also had a role as a police inspector in an episode of "Drop the Dead Donkey". In 1991–92 he played Dave in Sandi Toksvig's "The Pocket Dream" at the Nottingham Playhouse and Albery Theatre in London. In 1992 he played a minor character as a bald monk in the film "Alien 3", in which he had to shave his head for the role. In applying for the film, Mantle sent off photographs of himself from