Wood and Walters: Two Creatures Great and Small (1981 Pilot) - Victoria Wood and Julie Walters
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Broadcast 1 January 1981
After she had turned down the female role in the satirical sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News in 1979, Wood was offered a sketch show of her own in 1980. However, Wood agreed only on the understanding that Walters received equal billing, not feeling confident enough as yet to go it alone. Wood had in fact only ever written one sketch three years earlier before being given her own show. She fell back on songs, which she felt was her strength, the pilot contained four in 30 minutes. The sketches concerned themselves with Marriage Guidance Council, keep fit classes, DIY and gossip. Wood hated the finished result, so was very surprised that the show was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme alongside The Two Ronnies, The Kenny Everett Video Show and The Stanley Baxter Series (which won).
A third Wood play with Walters was made between the pilot and series for Granada. Like Wood and Walters, Happy Since I Met You also contained an appearance from another long term Wood collaborator Duncan Preston.
Fantastic double act RIP VICTORIA
I've just finished Let's Do It, and am slowly making my way through all the things I either missed or forgot about. Thank you for posting this. I know she wasn't that confident about it, but everybody has to start somewhere and the strength they gave each other on stage gave birth to two of our most beloved entertainers.
Same here!
Oh great thanks. Keep em coming. So good to see then both way back when & Julie singing
Still so very much missed.
They make comedy, sad Victorias gone, she is missed by everyone who loved her. Julie Walters 😂❤
I missed all this. Thanks
Brilliant. Loved the support stockings. Didn't realise they are for the hands too! Wasn't prepared for the red streaks in the hair though! Phew!
Precious.
Julie Walters song in pink twin set....Brilliant.❤😂
I love Julie Walters’ outfit!
This is brilliant
Robert Longdon excellent here as well
In Julie’s performance as Dotty in “Handicrafts”, we see an embryonic Mrs O who will eventually come to fruition in “Macaroons” in “Acorn Antiques The Musical”.
The character she plays is a kind of prototype Kitty too.
First people in our crescent to have a wok PMSL 😂😂
07:58 "travel overland to Morocco" - she recycled that line in Acorn Antiques. You can see a lot of embryonic stuff here. The song Julie performes after that is very much like Mrs Overall's stuff in Acorn Antiques - The Musical. I kept waiting for Julie to sing "Have a f'ckin custard cream and shut the f'ck up."
Two great comediennes 🙏🙏✅✅
Never knew until today she was in line for Not The Nine O'Clock News. I can see, of course, why they wanted her, but she must have known what she was doing and what other opportunities were ahead.
There's something I find hilarious about the way Julie puts the bib on Victoria (at 21:40)
R.I.P Victoria and Peter Eckersley who wrote Wood and Walters he died before another series was made
He didn't write it. He was a TV boss. He signed victoria up for it.
They were quite a pair. Sorry I had never heard of them sooner. It didn't make it over to Canada.
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25:40 Is that Esther Rantzen's sister in the audience?
What’s going on with Julie Walter’s top?
Bring back Dorothea Chubb!
Joseph and 😀 Today
Didn’t realiseJulie was so flat chested.
'I don't have a cleavage. It's too much worry.' - Julie Walters' character in 'Wetty Hainthrop Investigates', for Comic Relief. (Written by Victoria Wood).
Ooh la, la, coup d'etas.
*état