Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1985 - 1987
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Victoria Wood casts another comic glance at the world, with help from Julie Walters and Celia Imrie. Also features Susie Blake and Duncan Preston.
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Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 20th June 2024Vinyl highlights collection for Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
A 2-disc vinyl collection of highlights from the landmark sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV is to be released in May.
British Comedy Guide, 20th January 2023BBC Four to repeat comedy classics
To link in with the celebrations of 100 years of the BBC, from Saturday 22nd October BBC Four will begin broadcasting classic episodes of sitcoms and sketch shows.
British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2022100 BBC TV gamechangers
The Sooty Show, Goodness Gracious Me and Hancock's Half Hour have been named amongst 23 comedy titles in a BFI list of the 100 most important television programmes from the BBC, as the broadcaster marks its 100th anniversary.
British Film Institute, 28th April 2022My discovery of 80 unseen Victoria Wood scripts
The treasure of trove sketches for As Seen on TV are as good as anything she wrote.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 20th April 2021Show that shaped me: Steven D. Wright on Victoria Wood
As a teenager, seeing the comic perform live at TVC - including four long takes of her most iconic song - set the Kerfuffle managing director's career on track.
Steven D. Wright, Broadcast, 10th April 2019By turns affectionate, biting and poignant, this remains one of the finest sketch shows of all time. Meticulously crafted gems include the naïve schoolgirl who decides to swim the Channel, regular updates from shabby soap Acorn Antiques, plus a Coronation Street parody (with Wood as a startlingly accurate Ena Sharples). So it's heartening to see it back in the schedules - part of a season celebrating Wood's career. Tonight we also get dinnerladies, the rarely repeated Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah (from a 1989 series of one-off sitcoms), plus a 1992 Christmas special.
David Brown, Radio Times, 5th September 2010A night to settle in with a sausage dumpling and a pot of hot coffee as BBC2 offers a much-deserved hooray to Britain's top lady comic. First a 90-minute documentary featuring favoured collaborator Julie Walters and one-time co-star Roger Moore. Then another chance to see her frankly wonderful Christmas special from 2000 (it's been that long), plus a classic episode of dinnerladies to finish. Burp. Pardon. She's a clever old thing.
The Guardian, 21st December 2009