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Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
1985 - 1987 7.6 (8 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
BBC Two

Victoria Wood As Seen On TV

Overview

A British comedy series starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show was televised on BBC Two between 1985 and 1987 and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom; these included one-offs like Two Soups and regular features such as Acorn Antiques, as well as musical performances by Wood including her most well-known number, The Ballad of Barry and Freda. The show was created when Wood was enticed away from rival television station ITV in 1984. She wrote the whole programme and also the synopsis of it for listings magazine the Radio Times. The series has led to spin-off script books, video tapes and DVDs.

Key Crew

Writer: Victoria Wood

Producer: Geoff Posner

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1985)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
1985-01-11

'Chipper' Patel arrived from New Delhi in 1962 with an artificial leg and five pounds in his pocket. He now controls a multi-million pound vinyl flooring empire. He didn't want to be filmed. So here's a tatty old comedy programme with some women in it. Starring Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston and Susie Blake.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Episode 2
1985-01-18

Two years ago a woman from a North Lancashire village forgot to stoke her solid fuel boiler. An award-winning camera crew follow her determined and often heartbreaking attempts to light it. I loved it. (DAILY MAIL). Special guest Patricia Routledge.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Episode 3
1985-01-25

Would Jane Austen have used a food processor ? Did Mendelssohn have a mole in the same place as Anita Harris ? Where can you buy stair rods ? All these questions and more, ignored in tonight's programme.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Episode 4
1985-02-01

No 18: 'The Incredible Journey'. Before a paper clip reaches your stationery tray, it will have undergone over 800 separate manufacturing processes, none of them interesting.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Episode 5
1985-02-08

It's February. It's drizzling. Charlie Coleridge is divorced, unemployed and homeless. He has enough painkillers to leave a heartless and uncaring world behind. But first - he has to tie his cravat... Fairly amusing (DAILY TELEGRAPH). Featuring Denis Lawson, Maureen Lipman and Zara Nutley.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Episode 6
1985-02-15

The last in the present series. 47: 'Managing without Opera'. It's the third week of the experiment. How are Hannah and Gavin coping ? Why is their sitting room pale green ? Why can't they laugh without showing their gums ? What's on the other side ? Special guest Pete Postlethwaite.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1986)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
1986-11-10

When a popular racing commentator is found in a deep coma, there are only two explanations. Either a deadly rival has slipped an undetectable narcotic into his hoover bag, or someone else has.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Episode 2
1986-11-17

Will men ever get pregnant ? And if they do, will they opt for shoulder-tie dungarees, or play safe with Peter Pan collar-type loose smocks ? Whatever they decide, there's bound to be a documentary about it. And possibly a tea towel.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Episode 3
1986-11-24

Written in the 1920s, this gently humorous and moving account of a Cumbrian childhood lay undiscovered in a biscuit tin for over 60 years. Then, unfortunately, someone found it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Episode 4
1986-12-01

Only 130 years ago, Charles Dickens was a prolific novelist, a devoted father and an energetic long-distance walker. Now he's dead. Angela Barlow pops on an anorak and finds out what went wrong.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Episode 5
1986-12-08

Comedy series about three divorcees who share a one-room apartment on the Upper East Side. One has a lisp, one has an accordion, and one has an affair with the script editor and most of the one-liners.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Episode 6
1986-12-15

"Have it your way, Waseem, but if disposable saris don't catch on, count me out!"

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Christmas Special
1987-12-18

Anthropologist Kerry Askham gave chimpanzee Chester a typewriter and lots of paper. After three years he came up with an idea for a jeans commercial, a sonnet and a Victoria Wood Special. Sadly, after this programme was made, Chester contracted an infection and is now working for Channel 4.

Runtime: 30 min

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