One Foot in the Grave running joke is her beating Victor at board-games, including Trivial Pursuit and chess, while having a conversation with someone else. Doreen Mantle described her character as "wanting to do the right thing but always finding out that it was the wrong thing". Patrick Trench (Angus Deayton) – Patrick and his wife Pippa live next door to Victor, and often catches Victor engrossed in seemingly preposterous situations, all of which in context are perfectly innocuous. The couple's relationship with their neighbours begins badly after Victor mistakes Patrick and Pippa for distant relations when they arrive outside with three suitcasesnot realising that
Big George I Got News For You", "The Office", "Room 101", and "Graham Norton" as well as play-out music for "One Foot in the Grave" (for which he claimed he was paid more than the more famous "Have I Got News For You" theme). Webley also composed numerous other themes for the National Theatre, Arts Theatre, ballet, and radio including Ian McMillan’s "East Coast Girls", Emma Clarke's "Share and Share Alike", and Neil Mossey’s "Stockport So Good They Named It Once". Webley began presenting the Saturday late show on GLR in 1994 and continued until 1996 when he suffered a heart attack