Wood and Walters is a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with one pilot in 1981 and a series of six shows in 1982.
Both women had first met at Manchester Polytechnic in 1970, Wood was hoping to enroll, and Walter was coming to the end of her course. They met again in 1978 when they both appeared in the same revue In At The De...
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Wood and Walters is a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with one pilot in 1981 and a series of six shows in 1982.
Both women had first met at Manchester Polytechnic in 1970, Wood was hoping to enroll, and Walter was coming to the end of her course. They met again in 1978 when they both appeared in the same revue In At The Death at The Bush Theatre in London.
Wood had been initially spotted by Granada’s head of drama, Peter Eckersley, performing in her self-written play Talent at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, who asked her to recreate it for television (his widow is actress Anne Reid, who would go on to appear as Jean in Wood’s 1998 sitcom dinnerladies).. The TV version of Talent and it’s sequel Nearly A Happy Ending, would also co-star Walters.
After she had turned down the female role in the satirical sketch show Not The Nine O’Clock News in 1979 , Eckersley...
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