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Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

1985 - 1987

Episode 1

11th January 1985
Episode 1
'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

18th January 1985
Episode 2
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

25th January 1985
Episode 3
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

1st February 1985
Episode 4
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

8th February 1985
Episode 5
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

15th February 1985
Episode 6
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.
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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.

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