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| Victoria Wood Presents | 
 enlarge | Actors: Victoria Wood, Deborah Grant, Celia Imrie, Joan Sims, Julie Walters
Studio: Cinema Club
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5008
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 180 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138306083
ASIN: B000NTPGR0
Release Date: May 21, 2007
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About Time! :-) February 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. All we need for them to do now is release "All Day Breakfast" on DVD and I will be very happy!
The best episodes for me are "We'd Quite Like To Apologise" because I work in travel myself and I still see these sort of passengers travelling today. The other one I really like is "Mens sana ... " just because of Julie Waters' character.
If you haven't got these episodes already - buy them today! :-)
Victoria Looks at Life in Britain! August 12, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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!
Stands up to (many) repeated veiwing May 28, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
..This is definitely one of the best things Victoria Wood has ever done. The standout episodes are 'Over to Pam' and 'We'd Quite like to apologise'.
As ever Victoria captures the English perfectly and most of the characters would just be random every day people in an office, airport lounge etc...
I think the most amazing thing, however, is how the BBC have sat on this for nearly 20 years and are finally releasing it on DVD..... almost a record, even for them?
I love the way you say Situation Comedy... May 21, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Another Masterpiece... nearly! April 21, 2007
11 out of 11 found this 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.
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