Items7The creator’s order
  1. 1Wood and Walters (1982)Wood and Walters (1982) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 1, 1982This is where the partnership with Julie Walters starts on screen. Granada made a pilot, Two Creatures Great and Small, and then a short series, all written by Wood, with Walters as her equal partner and an early Duncan Preston in the supporting cast. It is rougher than what came next, and the…0
  2. 2Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985)Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 11, 1985The one to start with, and the one people quote. Across twelve half-hour episodes on BBC2 and a 40-minute special in 1987, Wood built a troupe around Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston, with Patricia Routledge and Susie Blake dropping in every week. The famous bit is Acorn Antiques, a…0
  3. 3Victoria Wood (1989)Victoria Wood (1989) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 16, 1989After the sketches, Wood tried six one-off comedies on BBC1, each a self-contained story with her playing a character called Victoria. One strands her in an airport lounge, waiting with her fellow passengers for a delayed plane instead of enjoying a vacation in the sun; in Over to Pam she ends up…0
  4. 4Victoria Wood's All Day BreakfastVictoria Wood's All Day BreakfastWood's return to sketches came as a 50-minute BBC One special on Christmas Day 1992, and it is mostly a send-up of British daytime television. She and Duncan Preston link the sketches as Sally and Martin, a married presenting couple modeled on the hosts of This Morning, a pair she found…0
  5. 5dinnerladies (1998)dinnerladies (1998) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 12, 1998The sitcom where she kept one regular cast across two series, and the best place to fall in love with her writing. Sixteen half-hour episodes on BBC One between 1998 and 2000, almost all in the canteen of a Manchester factory, on one set, in front of a live audience. Wood plays Bren, the kind…0
  6. 6Victoria Wood with All The TrimmingsVictoria Wood with All The Trimmings 7.8/10 on IMDbThe big Christmas Day 2000 special, 55 minutes at the center of BBC One's schedule, with the dinnerladies women in tow: Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Anne Reid, Maxine Peake and Shobna Gulati, plus a cameo crowd that includes Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie, Alan Rickman and Roger Moore. The pick of it is…0
  7. 7Victoria Wood's Mid-Life ChristmasVictoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas 6.2/10 on IMDbWood's first sketch show for nine years went out on BBC One on Christmas Eve 2009 and drew 7.45 million viewers. The reason fans seek it out is Beyond the Marigolds, a mock documentary following Julie Walters as Bo Beaumont, the actress who once played Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques, as she ventures…0