Victoria Wood on Dinnerladies - From Seen On TV 

My fave sitcom of all time. Just so quotable, funny and sweet. RIP Victoria ♥️

One of the best comedies ever. I've watched it over and over it always cheers me up.

I’ve watched Dinnerladies dozens and dozens of times! As a former Mobberley and Manchester girl who has lived in Australia for 35 years this show holds such an attraction for me. I never tire of it. 💛 RIP to a wonderful talent ...

"I'd never written a sitcom so I thought that was something I ought to have a crack at". Goes on to write, inarguably, one of the best sitcoms ever made. "Just give us a teabag and I'll suck it on me way 'ome".

You can watch it again and again ,I choose to do so around Christmas .Lots of love RIP Victoria .

I’ve watched this series dozens of times. I know most of it by heart. It’s magnificent. 💛💛💛💛💛

Dinner Ladies - a masterpiece. The best script for consistant genius impact ever written. Every member of the cast has reams of top rate lines.

Never written a sit com. Hit the jackpot on the first attempt! It’s a classic. RIP The Pride of Prestwich. Victoria, Queen of Comedy. Left the stage too soon but left us a legacy to laugh at!

Absolutely brilliant series , Vic Wood was a sorely missed genius.

Such an under-rated series, wonderful script, and a wonderful cast. Rest in peace Victoria, you were one of a kind and you leave a large Vic shaped hole in English comedy.

In my opinion the undisputed queen of observational comedy! Dinner ladies was one of the greatest shows she ever did! One i regularly whatch over and over again and it always cracks me up! Some of the funniest comedy lines i have ever seen.i remeber the infamous sscene where dolly thinks shes had viagra in her tea! The way that scene builds to its climax is sheer comedy genious! What a great writter victoria wood truely was.will we ever see a comedy geniuos like her again? RIP the true queen of comedy.

Absolutely love dinnerladies! The one liners are amazing and so funny, Vic is an absolute genius ❤️👏🏼

Trouble is if it's not looking or sounding right then you have change it. Thank you all the cast. Miss Victoria ❤😞

Brilliant and beautiful lady....such very sad news today :( RIP Vic...the world just got much duller.

I love this so much as it reminds me of the places I've worked with a canteen. I have the DVD and have watched it a hundred times, and never tire of it. Great scripts, great actors, thoroughly enjoyable.

Aww I'd love to see this full documentary!

How they kept a straight face with some of the most epic lines ever written is beyond me 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

Rest sweet angel:)Brilliant actress and writer.You will be missed.Thank you for the brilliant show.

I watch this series every December, leading up to the millennium. It is part of my Christmas routine. It always feels like I'm 'going home'. Love it and I always look forward to each and every episode. I have to force myself not to watch two episodes on the same evening as I like to make the lovely warm feeling it gives me last over a couple of weeks. RIP the lovely Victoria.

I honestly think... if we add up the injustices of life... as we tend to do... the loss of Victoria Wood is high on the list. God, she was magic....

Went to see the live version of the show brilliant too

Can I just say, Victoria Wood has never been underrated. Ever.

Best series EVER. I think I know every line by now! How I wish she were still here. She's my literary hero. She was a force of Nature. What a loss for GB and for comedy worldwide. You were AWESOME, Ms. Wood. All my love and my blessings to you in the afterlife. You'll NEVER be forgotten. Xxx ❤😢❤

i think Victoria Wood is and I quote Phillipa "bloody bloody bloody bloody frigging" brilliant

The Pride of Prestwich gone too soon. RIP Victoria, Queen of Comedy.

“Is it true about the syphilitic Delius myth?” “Delia Smith’s never got syphillis!” HOW DID SHE DO THIS??

I don't know how she knew everyone i worked with. Genius.

Yes a brilliant series you can watch and watch and again a laugh all the time not many comedies are like this can put this up with fawlty towers john cleese and connie booths masterpiece

What an absolutely charming and wonderful lady. You are missed by so very many.

I have lots of Victoria's work. She was outstanding and I loved her to bits along with Peter Kay.I loved her with the camping , excercise, airport sketches. Love to all her family❤

Thanks so much for posting! I love this show and it was great to hear from the fantastic actors who made it so amazing!!

Love this

Who would have thought Julie Walters and Celia imrie were at the poppers 😉😉😉😉

And for a brief moment I forgot she had gone...

It amazes me that that giant tin of beans is what a normal tin of beans costs now!! 😱😂

Would love to see the whole programme

ok thanks :), I already have all the dinnerladies dvd;s there so funny :)

You're welcome, thanks for commenting! :)

Some interesting comments about dinner ladies in the authorised biography of Victoria Wood, "Let's do it". The cast members talked about how incredibly difficult and nerve wracking it was because of Victoria Wood's obsessive perfectionism which could make her prickly - the rewrites are mentioned here in this video. Celia Imre also mentioned how she felt somewhat bullied by Victoria at times. Victoria's perfectionism also led her to talk dinner ladies down afterwards. She said that The Royle Family's new format had made studio based sitcoms like dinner ladies obsolete. Dawn French also being somewhat polite here. She mentioned how Victoria was very difficult to work with in that sketch. She also mentioned another time when Victoria came to stay with her in Cornwall and was a bit of a nightmare. She complained a lot and apparently sulked when Dawn took her for a walk on a beach, saying she didn't like beaches. Dawn pretty much lost her rag with her. All in all, the portrayal of Victoria Wood is a massive talent but someone who had very deep scars from the way her mother neglected her (maternal neglect being a theme that runs through a lot of Victoria's work). It made her shine, but also meant that at times she could also be very surly, controlling, jealous, obsessive, bullying and somewhat narcissistic.

So dinnerladies was The office before The Office?

But both series of Dinnerladies are available in a DVD boxset.

I like how successful Winkle is, female Hamlet! Impressive.

This was actually on the TV at Christmas time. It maybe available to buy, I'm not sure.

When it was first broadcast in 1998 I was very disappointed in it. Victoria Wood was so clever with her tongue twisty type songs, 'Let's do it' for example, I was expecting something equally fast moving in her situation comedy, maybe I thought it would be equally as fast paced, a bit like 'Fawlty Towers'. How wrong was I? It was more of the pace of 'Last of the Summer Wine'. It was more of a clever word play type of thing which I did not truly appreciate and soon stopped watching it. Now as I approach 70, I am watching 'Dinner Ladies' on UK Gold and I think it is fantastic. Goes to show how your taste changes with the years.

Do you have the full documentary?

Is this available on a dvd or vhs?

too sad! Just 'discovered' her two days ago and learned today she's dead ,,,didn't waste her talent...wonderful fun..

So Tarbush was sorry he wasn't asked to be in it...... I was happy that he wasn't asked.😅

Is this available on a dvd?

Looked like a pretty big snog to me, Vic!

Jimmy Tarbuck? Flick off....