Acorn Antiques

Acorn Antiques was a parodic soap opera featured regularly on the sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, which ran from 1985 to 1987.

Cast

• Miss Babs (Celia Imrie): The overwrought owner of Acorn Antiques, who moved from one crisis to another. Was usually on the phone, being told of a disaster the budget wouldn't stretch to showing.
• Miss Berta (Victoria Wood): Miss Babs' very similar cousin, prone to nervous collapse and amnesia. She is also a partner in the business, but Miss Babs is effectively sole owner while she recovers.
• Clifford (Duncan Preston): The stolid, reliable leading man who has a doomed relationship with Miss Babs. Or possibly Miss Berta.
• Mrs Overall (Julie Walters): The elderly tealady, who believed all problems could be solved with a nice cup of tea, a macaroon, and an irrelevant story about her late husband. In one episode she is revealed to be Miss Berta's mother.
• Trixie (Rosie Collins): Known as Trixie Trouble, she is a sort of watered-down femme fatale. Revealed as Miss Babs' daughter, shortly before reforming and entering a convent.
• Derek (Kenny Ireland): The handyman, and possibly Mrs Overall's other child.
• Cousin Jerez (Peter Ellis): The villain of the series, whose unlikely plans to take over the shop are foiled in equally unlikely ways.
• Extras (Albert Welch & Michaela Welch): An elderly couple who appear at the beginning of every episode, looking at an antique and then leaving the shop.

In 2005 Acorn Antiques: The Musical opened at the Theatre Royal for a limited period. The musical featured almost all the actors from the original reprising their parts (or, strictly, the parts of the fictional actors from the spoof documentary), with the exception of Wood herself; Miss Berta was played by Sally Ann Triplett. Instead Wood alternated with Julie Walters in the part of Bo Beaumont/Mrs Overall.

Related Topics:
2005 - Theatre Royal - Sally Ann Triplett

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The musical also starred Neil Morrissey and Josie Lawrence.

Related Topics:
Neil Morrissey - Josie Lawrence

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

A routine from the show closed the 2005 BAFTA tribute to Victoria Wood.

Related Topics:
BAFTA - Victoria Wood

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~