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Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

1985 2 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 7.9 Comedy

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Episode 1

'Chipper' Patel arrived from New Delhi in 1962 with an artificial leg and five pounds in his pocket. He now controls a m

EP 2

Episode 2

Two years ago a woman from a North Lancashire village forgot to stoke her solid fuel boiler. An award-winning camera cre

EP 3

Episode 3

Would Jane Austen have used a food processor ? Did Mendelssohn have a mole in the same place as Anita Harris ? Where can

EP 4

Episode 4

No 18: 'The Incredible Journey'. Before a paper clip reaches your stationery tray, it will have undergone over 800 separ

EP 5

Episode 5

It's February. It's drizzling. Charlie Coleridge is divorced, unemployed and homeless. He has enough painkillers to leav

EP 6

Episode 6

The last in the present series. 47: 'Managing without Opera'. It's the third week of the experiment. How are Hannah and

EP 1

Episode 1

When a popular racing commentator is found in a deep coma, there are only two explanations. Either a deadly rival has sl

EP 2

Episode 2

Will men ever get pregnant ? And if they do, will they opt for shoulder-tie dungarees, or play safe with Peter Pan colla

EP 3

Episode 3

Written in the 1920s, this gently humorous and moving account of a Cumbrian childhood lay undiscovered in a biscuit tin

EP 4

Episode 4

Only 130 years ago, Charles Dickens was a prolific novelist, a devoted father and an energetic long-distance walker. Now

EP 5

Episode 5

Comedy series about three divorcees who share a one-room apartment on the Upper East Side. One has a lisp, one has an ac

EP 6

Episode 6

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

EP 7

Christmas Special

Anthropologist Kerry Askham gave chimpanzee Chester a typewriter and lots of paper. After three years he came up with an

Popular Cast

Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood

Julie Walters

Julie Walters

Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston

Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie

Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge

Susie Blake

Susie Blake