One Foot in the Grave resulted in everyone laughing at her. She then realized that the teacher had done it deliberately just to be cruel to her and knew why the other budgie never wanted to leave its cage. Margaret could be said to have a catchphrase - typically a long, exasperated use of the word "God", usually when making a realisation about the reasons behind one of Victor's mishaps. These are occasionally inadvertently aided by herself in some way, such as leaving the phone off the hook or giving permission to someone to enter the Meldrews' house when she isn't there. Jean Warboys (Doreen
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