 The 1995 Christmas Special was initially intended as the series  finale, and would have seen Victor being killed while saving  Margaret from being attacked by a madman. The 1997 special was then  intended to end the series with Margaret dying from a heart attack  bought on from the strain of Victors misadventures, but on both  occasion the production crew got cold feet. It wasnt until the  final series in 2000 that the team, in David Renwick (qv)s words,  "plucked up the courage to kill Victor."