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After two series of her 1985-6 sketch show 'As Seen on TV', Victoria Wood returns to longer narratives with these slices of comic observation. Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters. Victoria Wood regulars including Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Susie Blake, Una Stubbs and Jane Horrocks make appearances.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
It's hard to top such a wonderful series as As Seen On TV - but Victoria Wood's TV follow up was a series of single story episodes covering different situations. In all the episodes she plays a lady called 'Victoria' while she lets all the other people play all the characters. Julie Walters appears in two of the episodes and as always Victoria gives her brilliant lines.
I remember this was really popular with audiences but not as popular wth critics but what do they know? It was good that she was doing something different - and each one of these have some lovely laugh out loud moments in them. I've seen them quite alot now, and I can still watch them again. It's nice that they are available on DVD now. It's good Victoria Wood. Obviously she is best with just a mike and off she goes - but this is a good quality series and there's some lovely set pieces in it.
I remember this was really popular with audiences but not as popular wth critics but what do they know? It was good that she was doing something different - and each one of these have some lovely laugh out loud moments in them. I've seen them quite alot now, and I can still watch them again. It's nice that they are available on DVD now. It's good Victoria Wood. Obviously she is best with just a mike and off she goes - but this is a good quality series and there's some lovely set pieces in it.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Scots Lass
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Health Farms, Package Holidays, Camping, Day Time Television, Libraries & Dating and the Party Circuit - all are meat and drink to one of our best comics, Victoria Wood.
Each 30 minute playlet is crammed with wonderful characters - some all too familiar! - and snappy dialogue as Victoria observes and interacts with bossy librarians, pushy friends and the holiday makers from hell.
Why the BBC held these back for so long is a puzzle but they are so well written and acted that they are as fresh as the day they were shown. The trials of airport delays could not be more up to the minute, and the horrors of going, unwillingly, to a party where you know no one is painfully and hysterically portrayed. Backpacking with a friend who turns out to know nothing about putting up a tent and the ensuing S L O W repetition of the far from clear instructions is a situation that most viewers will have been in at some point in their life - be it assembling a wardrobe or wrestling with a deckchair. And who wouldn't want to take part in "Chuck A Sausage", a BBC daytime gameshow, with Jeffrey Paige?
Suitable to watch again and again, you will soon be dropping some of the lines into your daily conversation - trust me!
Each 30 minute playlet is crammed with wonderful characters - some all too familiar! - and snappy dialogue as Victoria observes and interacts with bossy librarians, pushy friends and the holiday makers from hell.
Why the BBC held these back for so long is a puzzle but they are so well written and acted that they are as fresh as the day they were shown. The trials of airport delays could not be more up to the minute, and the horrors of going, unwillingly, to a party where you know no one is painfully and hysterically portrayed. Backpacking with a friend who turns out to know nothing about putting up a tent and the ensuing S L O W repetition of the far from clear instructions is a situation that most viewers will have been in at some point in their life - be it assembling a wardrobe or wrestling with a deckchair. And who wouldn't want to take part in "Chuck A Sausage", a BBC daytime gameshow, with Jeffrey Paige?
Suitable to watch again and again, you will soon be dropping some of the lines into your daily conversation - trust me!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By John Self
Thank goodness these six individual comedy 'playlets' have finally been released on DVD, 18 years after they were shown. I taped them at the time and my VHS tape has all but worn out since - and in fact it's the only VHS tape I still have.
This series shows Victoria Wood at the peak of her powers, around the same time that she was doing Audience With and just before Pat & Margaret. The lines from these shows have peppered my conversations ever since: "my pet noire," "it's the first day of Lewis's sale," "I see that was Allardyce," all of which may mean nothing to you now, but will be all too familiar once you've seen the first episode, Mens Sana In Thingummy Doodah, set in Pinkneys Health Resort ("Boiled water with lemon was my special treat").
And the remaining five episodes are even better, with Wood drinking in with her wonderfully astute eye, observations on camping ("Trouble is meat and drink to daddy"), superficial TV people ("You father died... and you lost weight. Isn't that SO funny!"), dinner parties ("What happens to the prizes they don't win?") and cut-price travel ("Evelyn Waugh? I'm surprised she had time, what with her column").
It's no exaggeration to say that these six episodes comprise some of the very best television comedy of the 1980s. Essential viewing.
This series shows Victoria Wood at the peak of her powers, around the same time that she was doing Audience With and just before Pat & Margaret. The lines from these shows have peppered my conversations ever since: "my pet noire," "it's the first day of Lewis's sale," "I see that was Allardyce," all of which may mean nothing to you now, but will be all too familiar once you've seen the first episode, Mens Sana In Thingummy Doodah, set in Pinkneys Health Resort ("Boiled water with lemon was my special treat").
And the remaining five episodes are even better, with Wood drinking in with her wonderfully astute eye, observations on camping ("Trouble is meat and drink to daddy"), superficial TV people ("You father died... and you lost weight. Isn't that SO funny!"), dinner parties ("What happens to the prizes they don't win?") and cut-price travel ("Evelyn Waugh? I'm surprised she had time, what with her column").
It's no exaggeration to say that these six episodes comprise some of the very best television comedy of the 1980s. Essential viewing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
victoria wood dvd
had this on vhs ,good to know i managed to find it on dvd victoria wood at her very best
Published 1 month ago by AMANDA MUNELL
5.0 out of 5 stars
funniest dvd ever
this dvd is absolutely classic so funny if you like victoria wood you will love it . I have watched it several times already and it just gets funnier and funnier
Published 5 months ago by prahl
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great
Can't fault anything. Delivered on time, with exactly what was ordered, and as for the DVD, hilarious as usual cannot expect anything less from Victoria though can you?
Published 9 months ago by AmyW
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fondly remembered classics
Anyone who enjoyed the first screenings of these episodes is in for a treat - they don't seem to have dated at all. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Georgie Pillson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very very funny in places - just the odd lull
Victoria Wood's celebrated and popular "As Seen On TV" was going to be a tough act to follow - and I remember, at the time, being impressed that she didn't just keep milking the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by not_a_real_folkie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sir, Madam, would you like...to order?
Now on DVD for you to keep and keep again! This is one of the funniest DVD collections I have ever seen. Read more
Published 24 months ago by David W
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic VW
I recorded the series on VHS when it was originally shown and have virtually worn out the tapes having played them so often. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2010 by Colin Balmer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still as funny 20 years on
These six stories have been the source of jokes for my wife and I since we first watched them on TV more than 20 years ago. 'My husband's just coming'..'where from, Bangladesh? Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2010 by Kelv
4.0 out of 5 stars
victoria wood at almost her best
I remember seeing these programmes on TV, and it is a pleasure to be able to watch them again. They perhaps come as a very slight disappointment after "Victoria Wood as seen on... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2009 by R. D. Beckett
5.0 out of 5 stars
About Time! :-)
This "mini-series" collection is Victoria Wood at her script writing best.
Like other reviewers I can't believe it has taken the BBC so long to release it. Read more
Like other reviewers I can't believe it has taken the BBC so long to release it. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2008 by paulbmth
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