Victoria Wood (1989)

After 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 impersonating a friend on a self-absorbed host's daytime chat show. Be warned that it is the uneven one. Critics were mixed at the time, and Wood herself later said it was not as well written as it could have been. Watch it after the big two, for the stretches where her ear for small talk turns a stuck-in-a-room setup into something bittersweet and very funny.