About This Artist Victoria Wood 4,631 listeners 1) Victoria Wood is a talented comedy actress/writer/singer who has built up a national reputation following a string of self-written TV plays, films and sketch shows. Go directly to shout page. Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British comedy sketch series written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood, with appearances from Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. A few years ago if you went in to buy a condom they'd sell you a shower cap and a rubber band. The reporter (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters) 3: 3 "Show 3" Marcus Mortimer: Victoria Wood: 25 January 1985 () Stand up: Swimming baths and the Doctors (Victoria Wood) . The list remained locked away in her personal office until now. ), Continuity announcer: Darker nights (Susie Blake), The Health Food Restaurant (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters), Continuity announcer: Ministry of Warnings (Susie Blake), Continuity announcer: The Skip (Susie Blake), Advertisement: Bicycle Clips (Duncan Preston), Continuity announcer: American Musical (Susie Blake), Continuity announcer: Soap operas (Susie Blake), Documentary: "Mr Right" (Duncan Preston, Anne Reid), Continuity announcer: Unemployment (Susie Blake), Stand up: Blood Donors & Shakespeare (Victoria Wood), Continuity announcer: Spanish opera (Susie Blake), Kelly-Marie Turnstall (Victoria Wood, Mary Jo Randle), Continuity announcer: Advertisement for Acorn Antiques Record, Continuity announcer: "Well Woman" (Susie Blake), Documentary: "Today in Hospital" (Duncan Preston), Stand up: Public Transport (Victoria Wood), Continuity announcer: Frigidity (Susie Blake), Margery and Joan (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters), Stand up: Acne & Schooldays (Victoria Wood), Continuity announcer: With Signs for the Deaf (Susie Blake), Documentary: "A Very Funny Young Man Indeed", Jean and Barbara: Partly Political Broadcast (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters), Continuity announcer: Regional breakfast TV (Susie Blake), Continuity announcer: Birthday Parade 1 (Susie Blake), Song: "A Day at the Seaside" (Hope Jackman, Meg Johnson, Victoria Wood), Continuity announcer: Birthday Parade 2 (Susie Blake), The Garden Hose (Lill Roughley, Stephen Hancock), Stand up: Old Moore's Almanac (Victoria Wood), Continuity announcer: Axing of Acorn Antiques Characters (Susie Blake, Duncan Preston, Julie Walters, Kenny Ireland), Continuity announcer: Final Comment (Susie Blake), Advertisement: The Man's Bra (Duncan Preston), Self-Service (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters), Coronation Street (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Lill Roughley), Continuity announcer: Employment (Susie Blake), Continuity announcer: Sunday television (Susie Blake), The Mayflower Hotel, Nottingham (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Duncan Preston), Documentary: "The Making of Acorn Antiques" (Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Kenny Ireland, Maggie Steed, Sam Kelly, Paul Heiney), Continuity announcer/Andrew: Epilogue (Susie Blake), This page was last edited on 20 July 2022, at 05:42. In 1999, as part of Comic Relief, Wood parodied Routledge in Wetty Hainthropp Investigates, a spoof of Routledge's BBC1 detective series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.[1]. I don't like men's men. 34) SELF-SERVICEVictoria & Julie Walters are shoppers in a canteen queue. The show aired on BBC Two between 1985 and 1987. [17], Medical School had Wood as a nervous interviewee, applying to become a medical student. They remained lifelong friends and went on to appear together in Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV, Pat and Margaret, Dinnerladies and Acorn Antiques. Victoria Wood Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on. ", "Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe, that's who we want to see (We agree) / Not Santa Claus, not Zoe Ball, not William Hague. Let's do it tonight!". Hey Look Squirrel. '"[2][19], As Seen on TV featured other musical styles: So Pissed Off With Love, a duet with Wood and Denis Lawson; Keep On Shopping, an epic musical number about shopping; At The Chippy, with Wood, Walters, Meg Johnson and others singing in tribute to their local fish parlour; Marie And Clarie And Min, featuring Wood, Johnson and Hope Jackman as three old women on a seaside trip, as well as other numbers. Victoria was joined by a regular supporting cast of Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, and Duncan Preston, who all appeared in various guises throughout the series, while Susie Blake was the pussy-bowed continuity announcer with a tendency to share some unwarranted opinions ( "Tomorrow's play is Fitted Kitchen, Ill Fitting Relationships and it stars Born May 19, 1953 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. Why is their sitting-room pale green? Comedy sketches featured music, like the parody of the staging of a West End musical, Bessie, and a send-up of the Judy GarlandMickey Rooney "let's put on a show" genre in "I'm Counting Moonbeams". Born in 1953 in Lancashire in Northern England she first had small screen exposure in the TV talent search show New Faces when she sang SonicHits Show all results: Artists Songs inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Go directly to shout page. Actually my favourite sketch too! "He did! Accompanying herself on the piano, she scored heavily with viewing audiences with her jaunty tunes, which often belied her sharp, poignant lyrics. "[45], For a series so lauded, its commercial release was for many years limited to compilations, with only a full commercial release of the entire series 20 years after the show ended. All six episodes of Victoria Wood's BAFTA award-winning 1980s sketch show in which she showcases her mischievous perception of daily life. Her regular themes of unrequited love, tedium, mismatched couples, and suburban living as well as her ability to find humour in the minutiae of modern life, stood her in good stead when she moved into writing plays for the stage and later for television. The world is a duller place without her. She later revealed that alongside her starring role in Educating Rita, it's the part she's still recognised the most by the public for. #OurFriendVictoria We have lyrics for these tracks by Victoria Wood: The lyrics can frequently be found in the. Though they veered off into the glitzy and . We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. It was a continuation of style for Wood, who had previously produced similar pseudo-realistic spoofs such as The Woman Who Had 740 Children and Girls Talking for Wood and Walters. Monologue: Transport to the Show / Pregnancy Test / Dessert Trolley / Announcer: Night Owls Mystery Intro / Mystery: The Second Mrs Constable / Margery and Joan: Tanning and Gadgets / Acorn Antiques: Alterations and Refurbishments / Song: "Don't Come Back" / Announcer: Double Agent . Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Find Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV . [1] Most famously playing the recurring role of Clifford in Acorn Antiques, he advertised a men's bra, was "Corin Huntley" a documentary presenter and was the voice of the monster Crayola in Wood's parody of Doctor Who. Shes pretty keen on this trolley, and theres little the two men dining can do to dissuade her from offering anything on the trolley! Another spoof was of a musical detailing the life of Bessie Bunter, entitled Bessie! His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada. Have you seen it on the trolley? https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosebuchanan/wonderful-moments-to-remember-victoria-wood-by. Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock . As a theatre tie-in, Wood arranged a short stand-up tour with the same name as the show, to capitalise on her television appearances around the same time. Monologue: Transport to the Show / Pregnancy Test / Dessert Trolley / Announcer: Night Owls Mystery Intro / Mystery: The Second Mrs Constable / Margery and Joan: Tanning and Gadgets / Acorn Monologue: Transport to the Show / Pregnancy Test / Dessert Trolley / Announcer: Night Owls Mystery Intro / Mystery: The Second Mrs Constable / Margery and Joan: Tanning and Gadgets / Acorn Antiques: Alterations and Refurbishments / Song: "Don't Come Back" / Announcer: Double Age Monologue: Transport to the Show / Pregnancy Test / Dessert Trolley / Announcer: Night Owls Mystery Intro / Mystery: The Second Mrs Constable / Margery and Joan: Tanning and Gadgets / Acorn Antiques: Alterations and Refurbishments / Song: "Don't Come Back" / Announcer: Double Agent Investigation / Old Person "Billy" Documentary / Fireside Tales: Beast in the Loch / An See production, box office & company info. Watching Wood and Walters as a youngster, and later the 'As Seen on TV' sketches, I discovered a heightened comic version of a world I knew. "He wrote a card to me saying he adored Miss Babs. The tongue-in-cheek blend of songs, sketches and the tacky soap opera 'Acorn Antiques,' sees Wood ably assisted by friends including Julie Walters, Celia Imrie . I've just had it with sketch shows for a bit people have liked it, and I want to stop while they still like it. So . How are Hannah and Gavin coping? [18] In On The Trolley, Wood played a waitress in a restaurant, responding to any order of food with the repetitive phrases "Is it on the trolley?" The Ballad of Barry and Freda (Let's Do It) Victoria Wood. and "Can you point at it?" All six episodes of the first series were broadcast between 11 January and 15 February 1985 at 9:00pm on Friday evenings on BBC2. 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 (in which Walters, as an elderly waitress, takes far too . For many fans of the late, great Victoria Wood, there is one sketch that stands or perhaps I should say totters above all others, and that is the one widely known as TWO SOUPS. In the end, I just put the thing away. I was so dismayed not long ago when I read of her passing. [28], Celia Imrie was a long-standing friend of Wood and had even been in the studio audience when Wood performed on the TV talent show New Faces in 1974. Victoria Wood as Seen on TV - S02E02 - Julie Walters / Celia Imrie / Duncan Preston / Susie Blake . I was already writing the new series and every time I looked at the award, I kept on thinking that people would be expecting so much more now, and I just wouldn't be able to live up to it. However, she soon decided that the play was "too Alan Ayckbourn", threw it away and began writing the second run instead. The sketches - chosen by Victoria herself - were discovered on a list in one of her personal notebooks after her untimely death. This was because in the interim, Wood was getting viewers of it turning up to her solo stand-up shows expecting to see a double act. Victoria Wood As Seen On TV programme page. It must be awful for them". 7) A SIMPLE NORTHERN BOYVictoria at piano singing Im just a simple northern boy with brass band. [39] In 2005 it was revived by Wood as a West End theatre production Acorn Antiques: The Musical!, starring the original cast and directed by Trevor Nunn. Her regular themes of unrequited love, tedium, mismatched couples, and suburban living as well as her, 1) Victoria Wood is a talented comedy actress/writer/singer who has built up a national reputation following a string of self-written TV plays, films and sketch shows. Victoria Wood I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room. "I brought them home for a joke" This was wonderful, a real high point from one of the best specials from one of our greatest comedians. Victoria Wood's Secret List features more than 20 sketches from the comedian's vast array of work. Just An Ordinary School, for example, took a look at an exclusive girl's public school, with one pupil claiming, "there are all sorts of girls here, even coloured girls, though they tend to be princesses mainly".[11]. Now the girl from New Faces has gone, and the world is a duller place. Just two coffees, no sweet. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. The comedy legend refused to accept she was dying after being. Victoria Wood as Seen on TV - S02E06 - Two Soups Sketch / Julie Walters / Celia Imrie / Duncan Preston / Susie Blake. Trolley is probably the only word I can do in an accent , Your email address will not be published. A look at Victoria's unique and unmistakable genius for comedy. Their daughter Victoria was born on December 21, 1939, one day before their third wedding anniversary. [1], The show won BAFTA Awards for all its episodes and, in 1996, was awarded all-time "Favorite Comedy Series" by the BBC. "[5][6], The He Didn't? "Very wise with those hips! Imrie though believes that the praise should go to Wood's writing: "Every word is of huge importance and crafted to perfection. [1], The series returned for a 40-minute special on 18 December 1987. This first series reached 4.55 million viewers by the penultimate show, making it the tenth most popular programme that week on the channel. Wood defined 'special' as "ten minutes longer and I've splashed out on a new bra". They have become shorthand for me, my sister and many of my friends;. Acorn Antiques is. I'd love to cast her in a song-and-dance number I feel so sorry for her always having to wear those terrible blouses". Add a video, Do you know any background info about this track? This unforgettable few minutes sees an infuriated Duncan Preston & Celia Imrie, who are in a rush to catch their train having to deal with Julie Walters ancient waitress in a old-fashioned English restaurant. She continued nevertheless to produce one-off specials including Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story (2002) and Victoria Wood's Big Fat Documentary (2004). The second series of six episodes were broadcast between 10 November and 15 December 1986, this time on the (then) more popular Monday slot on BBC2. '", "If anyone feels faint during this, just have a whiff of Pauline's leotard. . asked her son, pulling the face of a 'confused' emoji. "[1] The series then went on to win BAFTAs for its entire run. The two shop customers appearing at the start of each sketch, examining some antique, are always played by the same two actors. Friends of Victoria Wood talk about some of her best sketches and comedy routines. It starred Wood as the show's gossiping Ena Sharples, with Julie Walters as Martha Longhurst and Lill Roughley as Minnie Caldwell, with Ena telling them the "gossip" she has heard about the show's plotlines for the next two decades. Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account, Do you know a YouTube video for this track? Yes, thank you. 8) ACORN ANTIQUESFirst Acorn Antiques. 6) MARGERY & JOANVictoria & Julie Walters as daytime TV presenters, later demonstrating new idea for stopping drafts and noise at windows brick them up. It was a spoof soap opera set in an antiques shop, which, despite its provincial high-street status, manages to supply an unending stream of works by Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. 1) Victoria Wood is a talented comedy actress/writer/singer who has built up a national reputation following a string of self-written TV plays, films and sketch shows. "Let's do it, let's do it, I really want to run amok / Let's wiggle, let's jiggle, let's really make the rafters rock / Be mighty, be flighty, come and melt the buttons on me flame-proof nighty / Let's do it, let's do it tonight. In it, As Seen on TV beat Monty Python's Flying Circus for "Favourite Comedy Series". 28) KITTYKitty discusses a bring and buy sale, reincarnation and regression. 33) WAITRESS!Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston as a couple in a restaurant ordering lunch, Julie Walters as doddery, old waitress. But Astoria's history goes way back. Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes. No, my favourite Victoria Wood sketch also sees us in an old-fashioned English restaurant and also features a barmy waitress this time played by Victoria herself and it is entitled IS IT ON THE TROLLEY? Why were Gipsy Creams funny? Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV was a British comedy sketch series starring and written by comedienne Victoria Wood. Wood and Walters both appeared as Margery and Joan in a sketch for Red Nose Day 1988 A Night of Comic Relief, broadcast live. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. 13) TURKISH BATHVictoria and Julie Walters in steam room with bikinis over clothes. On being asked about Bessie's fatness, the producer (Sir Dave) replies "it is a sort of mental fatness". They just were. To produce and direct the show, Wood chose Geoff Posner, who had worked on successful British comedy shows of the early 1980s such as Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Young Ones and the pilot of Blackadder. A Gannett Company. is rewritten completely and the previous cast are sacked: it is, after all, a musical about "a big fat girl". In the end it took six months to complete, an experience she did not enjoy. A comedy stand-up, writer, actor and director, Wood has won the most TV Baftas in. The Kitty character shared similarities with a character in one of Wood's earlier sketch shows, Wood and Walters, Dotty (then played by Julie Walters). She played many two handers with Wood as well as other roles such as daytime television host Margery, a mad shoe shop lady, the elderly waitress in the Two Soups sketch, and a transsexual hairdresser. The 62-year-old comedian died in 2016 aged 62 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer and a new. [1] She aimed to write 18 minutes of script a week. [1] A DVD reissue followed in 2005. Anyway, there were only two series of Fawlty Towers and, as far as I'm concerned, this rates with it, so I'm sure it'll be shown lots of times". 24) TELEVISION CLASSICS / CORONATION STREETTV Commercial for set of videos Coronation St parody (in B&W) with Julie Walters & Victoria. At first I thought it might be Paul Darrow, but not quite. Editors' Code of Practice. Victoria Wood As Seen On TV Is It On The Trolley John Milne 352 followers More information Victoria Wood As Seen On TV Is It On The Trolley Find this Pin and more on Humorous by Millie Dillane. Victoria Wood. OldTVShow. They followed the same format with an opening stand up monologue from Wood, followed by a mixture of sketches, songs and spoof mini-documentaries, with regular soap opera parody Acorn Antiques making its introduction. [1] The entry for the first show on 8 January 1985 said: 'Chipper' Patel arrived from New Delhi in 1962 with an artificial leg and five pounds in his pocket. Going into production in summer 1984 with studio recordings in September and October the first series of As Seen on TV was intended for broadcast late that year. The sketches even led to a fanzine and appreciation gatherings, where fans would dress up as the characters. Have you seen it on the trolley? Within the half-hours that followed, there were usually several fairly regular sketch items mixed in. by Rose Troup Buchanan BuzzFeed News Reporter by. [23] Audio highlights of the show were released over two cassettes by the BBC in 1991.[50]. [25], Duncan Preston (who appeared in Wood's 1981 teleplay Happy Since I Met You)[26] was cast in weekly roles. "Put a pikelet in it," I texted my friend Louise, who I first met on freshers week three decades ago. Search, watch, and cook every single Tasty recipe and video ever - all in one place! [41], There have been two books published featuring scripts from As Seen On TV. Her words became so ingrained that I can't say "Kimberley" without her Lancashire twang. and "Can we get by, we're not having a sweet." With Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston. 4) CONTINUITY (BLACK & WHITE TELEVISION)Susie Blake as news reader intro-ing Acorn Antiques, saying shes off to mend the dispenser in the ladies loos. The razor-sharp brilliance of Victoria Wood's wit, as a writer and performer, touched many people and there's not much left to say in tribute that hasn't been said over the past week. "[7] Each responds to the other after a ludicrous anecdote with the words In the sketch she delivers Wood a pair of high-heeled shoes, though Wood requested a flat pair. Wood, having just received a BAFTA for the first series, said at the time: "I was very pleased to win, but it really put pressure on me. Comedian, singer and writer Victoria Wood has died after "a short but brave" battle with cancer aged 62. Judith was courtly and reserved; Billy was brash and indelicate. 11) KEEP RIGHT ON SHOPPINGMusical number set in a tearoom shopping all day long. Born in 1953 in Lancashire in Northern England she first had small , Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. sketches that featured in the second series starred Wood as Kelly Marie Tunstall, a delinquent teenager standing at a bus stop telling her friend (Mary Jo Randle) ever more fanciful stories. It all feels like one of her gentler, melancholic songs. Victoria Wood as Seen on TV - S02E06 - Two Soups Sketch / Julie Walters / Celia Imrie / Duncan Preston / Susie Blake. Oh, how we miss Victoria Wood! Duncan's mainly the sort of man who likes women, so you can talk to him about your ovaries, and it causes no embarrassment". Miss Babs marriage to Mr. Bob called into question. Born in 1953 in Lanca read more Similar Artists Kenneth Williams Morecambe & Wise Bernard Cribbins 24,498 listeners Peter Sellers 23,615 listeners View all similar artists Features 3. Plus, Advert for products and touring costume exhibition. It is obvious that Victoria Wood (left) blazed a trail for women in modern TV comedy and many - including French and Saunders and Catherine Tate - have lined up to acknowledge the debt. Born in 1953 in Lancashire in Northern England she first had small screen exposure in the TV talent search show New Faces when she sang comedy songs of her own composition. Victoria Wood died from cancer six years ago today, but it later emerged that she'd secretly been diagnosed back in 2012 but was given the all-clear after undergoing gruelling treatment [20][21], Preferring to work with people she knew, Wood hired David Firman to be musical director for the series. ", Music featured regularly on the show, often with Wood singing self-penned songs accompanying herself on the piano. This is an episode listing for the BBC television show Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, with the episodes' original airdates listed. 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