"Actor: Victoria Wood"

• Victoria Wood - An Audience With Victoria Wood | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The incomparable Victoria Wood (Acorn Antiques Dinnerladies) is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards - for Best Light Entertainment Programme and for Best Light Entertainment Performance. Before a celebrity audience this wonderfully funny comedienne treats her star guests to a sparkling selection of her witty monologues and songs including her timeless anthem to sexual frustration - ""Let's Do It"". Watching her per

• Dinnerladies: The Complete Collection - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £29.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (1.49%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Victoria Wood - Three Plays | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Victoria Wood: Three Plays (2 Discs)

• Victoria Wood - Midlife Christmas | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas features highlights from the Midlife Olympics 2009 the popular costume drama Lark Pies To Cranchesterford and the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters.

• Fungus The Bogeyman | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Andy Serkis lead a stellar cast in the festive three-part adaptation of Raymond Briggs' classic children's tale of Fungus and his family. It's a tale of slimy monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door. Darkness-dwelling Fungus, his beloved wife Mildew and son Mould are exiled to the surface. There, they encounter the ˜Dry Cleaners' (as in drier and cleaner than Bogeymen) of Daventry and begin to wonder what their job of scaring people is all about. Then there's Wendy and Daryl Snow, who live on the surface with their daughter Lucy and wind up with Fungus and his family as their neighbours. Until now, life for the Snows has been relatively straightforward, but when the Bogeys move in next door things soon start to change. Also starring Joanna Scanlan, Keeley Hawes and Marc Warren.

• Victoria And Albert | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In revealing the strength of the marriage which left Queen Victoria so devastated as a widow, the colourful costume drama Victoria and Albert could almost serve as a prequel to the film Mrs Brown. In common with that dramatisation, this TV drama features performances (and cameos) from some of Britain's finest actors, this time including Jonathan Pryce, David Suchet, Penelope Wilton, Peter Ustinov, Richard Briers and the wonderful Nigel Hawthorne as Lord Melbourne. Victoria Hamilton and Jonathan Firth are the impressive leads who command the viewer's attention through the lengthy process of turning Albert and Victoria's arranged marriage into a love story, from their first inauspicious meetings, to Albert's dissatisfaction over the impotence of his position. Concentrating as it does on Victoria's early reign means the drama does tend to skip over the couples' later years with their children and disappointments over their heir, Bertie, but overall this story has all the romance, settings, make-up and wigs of a fine costume drama. On the DVD: Victoria and Albert comes as a two-disc set that features an informative 25-minute "making of" documentary presented by the producer, that includes contributions from the Screenwriter, Director, stars Jonathan Firth and Penelope Wilton, and the Director of Photography. The filmographies are somewhat abridged but the Victoria Timeline is interesting for those wanting to learn more about the authentic history of events. --Rachel Ediss

• Neverending Story - Vol. 4 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £19.35   |  Saving you £-13.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o

• Pat & Margaret | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £13.28   |  Saving you £2.71 (20.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat a glamorous British born star of American soaps returns home to plug her auto biography on television and meets for the first time since they were teenagers Margaret her plain fat and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both sisters highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with their uncaring mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the current whereabouts of the long lost errant mother...

• Victoria Wood - At The Albert Hall - Live | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £11.52   |  Saving you £5.73 (55.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Victoria Wood Live at the Albert Hall provides proof, if any were needed, that after two decades at the top of her profession, Wood is one of a small handful of British comedians of either sex capable of filling the country's largest venues. For the consistently high quality of her penetrating observations of the mundane she has no equal. Recorded in 2001, this performance has all the hallmarks of her microscopic examinations of life's perplexing minutiae and trivia. From her recent hysterectomy to Paul Daniels, from the NHS help line to wheelie bin covers, from Americans in Disneyworld to the ageism of catalogue mailing lists, nothing escapes Wood's attention. Not even in-vogue authors: she refuses to read "Captain Corelli's friggin' Mandolin" as it sits reproachfully at her bedside. Wood even provides her own interval act: a devastatingly accurate parody of a vulgar, second-rate cabaret singer shot to stardom on the wings of a cruise ship docu-soap. Jane McDonald's sense of humour will never face a harder test. More poignant are Wood's observations on parenthood and marriage, with all the physical ailments of middle age ("We've only got one fully operating leg between us"). She has since separated from her husband, the magician Geoffrey Durham. Fans will await the impact of that on her stand-up material with some interest. --Piers Ford

• Anytime Tales | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.50   |  Saving you £2.49 (33.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A selection of ten best-selling stories from two of Britain's most admired authors narrated by Johnny Morris Victoria Wood and Steven Steen. Tony Ross takes you on a journey through five wacky and amusing tales: I Want My Potty (the UK No.1 bestseller) I Want My Cat Super Dooper Jezebel Oscar Got The Blame I'm Coming To Get You. David McKee (creator of King Rollo and Mr Benn) entertains with five fantastical stories: Not Now Bernard Elmer The Sad Story Of Veronica Who Pl

• Victoria's Empire | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In Victoria's Empire Britain's favourite comedienne Victoria Wood travels through the old British Empire in search of the legacy of Queen Victoria. Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage will take her to key places around the world that also share her namesake from Fort Victoria in Ghana to Victoria Nova Scotia and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure will be fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She will explore how Victoria felt about the colonisation being forged in her name and what she was like as a wife and mother. In her inimitable fashion Victoria Wood will record her adventure tracing a nation's colourful history - blending the outrage and eccentricity with a celebration of the ordinary.

• Dinnerladies - The Complete Series | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by written by and starring the one and only Victoria Wood 'Dinnerladies' chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a ""manky old canteen"" up in the north of England... Series 1: 1. Monday 2. Royals 3. Scandals 4. Moods 5. Party 6. Nightshift Series 2: 1. Catering 2. Trouble 3. Holidays 4. Fog 5. Gamble 6. Christmas 7. Minnellium 8. Christine 9. Gravy 10. Toast

• Dinnerladies - Series 1 | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Victoria Wood Julie Walters and a superb ensemble cast serve up the laughs in this critically acclaimed comedy set in a factory canteen. Episodes Comprise: 1. Monday 2. Royals 3. Scandals 4. Moods 5. Party 6. Nightshift

• The Wind In The Willows | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £16.96   |  Saving you £-10.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Follow the adventures along the river bank and enjoy the thrill of the chase as a manic Mr Toad escapes from the police in a stolen car. Cheer on Badger and Rat as they lead the battle to reclaim Toad Hall from a band of evil weasels. Packed with comedy fun and high drama 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic. Featuring an all-star cast of top British comedians.

• Victoria Wood - Live in Your Own Home | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £4.74   |  Saving you £11.25 (237.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Victoria Wood: Live In Your Home

• Victoria Wood - All The Trimmings | DVD | (25/11/2001) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings contains exactly what it says on the box. Harking back to the classic BBC Christmas comedy specials of yesteryear, the show features a star-studded cast: Alan Rickman, Richard E Grant, Michael Parkinson, Bob Monkhouse, Hugh Laurie, Angela Rippon, Roger Moore, Caroline Aherne, the list goes on. The show takes a typically idiosyncratic canter through a dream set of telly programmes for Christmas Day. Thus we get expertly played skits of A Christmas Carol (with Delia Smith as the cook); Brassed Off (in which Tony Blair solves the North/South divide by declaring everything The South); Brief Encounter (Parky as the station master, with a side order of drugs and lesbianism); a regency romantic drama (with the line "could you not stick your hand in your muff?") and lots more. What makes the production a true cut above, however, is the linking theme that takes a blatant pot shot at the modern BBC--or as Wood sees it--BBC Upmarket, BBC Downmarket, BBC Newmarket (for racing), BBC Makeover, BBC Takeover, etc. This is funny, cutting and achingly on the ball about the state of modern television.--Ian Watson

• Julie Walters And Friends | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £7.86   |  Saving you £5.13 (65.27%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Julie Walters and Victoria Wood star in this classic Christmas sketch show from 1991. Written by and starring acclaimed writers Alan Bennett Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale as well as Wood herself these four writers have been instrumental in working with Walters throughout her career and are responsible for some of her undoubted success.

• My Big Fat Greek Life | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £6.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (187.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Although My Big Fat Greek Life doesn't capture the same relaxed, storytelling rhythm of the phenomenally successful My Big Fat Greek Wedding, almost the entire acting ensemble from the movie returned for this small-screen spin-off (only John Corbett, due to other obligations, was ably replaced by Steve Eckholdt as Nia's non-Greek husband), and their skilled interplay makes for a satisfying show. So it's a shame that the sitcom was cancelled after half a season. Like the movie, most of the episodes are concerned with family issues, playing with the contrasting tugs of family obligation and the desire for independence, all anchored by writer-star Nia Vardalos's smart, engaging presence. --Bret Fetzer

• Goodbye Mr Chips | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Hilton's beloved novel Goodbye Mr Chips is tenderly remade here in this 2002 TV production. Martin Clunes plays the schoolteacher over a 50-year period, from his first day as a novice Latin instructor until his death at 83 as retired headmaster. The world and Mr Chipping change dramatically over the decades. He marries a proto-feminist (Victoria Hamilton) who nicknames him "Chips" and gives him courage to test his humanitarian impulses. World War I hits home in many ways--a long list of the school's graduates die or are maimed and Chips struggles with the discriminatory exile of his best friend, the German teacher. Despite obvious breaks for commercials, this film has a graceful honesty that transcends the sometimes sentimental storyline. The casual cruelty at the all-boys' school may make parents flinch more than their children, rendering this a safe choice for family viewing. --Kimberly Heinrichs

• The Tribe - Season 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the wake of a deadly virus that has wiped out the adult population the children of the world must now survive on their own. The sophisticated hi-tech society that their forefathers created has collapsed into confusion anarchy and fear. It is in this dangerous new world where The Tribe must construct a new culture in their own image and learn that in the aftermath of a disaster there come fresh opportunity and new responsibility. The future is theirs to create. Contains all 52 e