Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985)

7.6 (8 votes)

2 Seasons

January 11, 1985

English

Comedy

Synopsis

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British sketch comedy series created by and starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show broadcast 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.

Network

BBC Two

Episodes

Episode 1

Jan 11, 1985

30 min

'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.

Episode 2

Jan 18, 1985

30 min

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.

Episode 3

Jan 25, 1985

30 min

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.

Episode 4

Feb 1, 1985

30 min

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.

Episode 5

Feb 8, 1985

30 min

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.

Episode 6

Feb 15, 1985

30 min

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.