This paper studies the basic topological properties of weighted composition operators on the weighted sequence spaces ( l^{p}(operatorname{w}) ), with ( 0<p<infty ), given by a weight sequence ( operatorname{w} ) of positive reals such as boundedness, compactness, compactness of differences of two operators, formulas for their essential norms, and description of closed range operators. Previously these properties were studied by Luan and Khoi in the case of Hilbert space ( (p=2) ). Their methods can be also applied with some minor modifications to the case of Banach spaces ( l^{p}(operatorname{w}) )