• 1984
  • 25m
Spitting Image

Summary A satire show using puppets that are caricatures of major public figures. View more details

  • 1984
  • 25m

Spitting Image

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Chris Barrie Jon Glover Kate Robbins Steve Nallon

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7.4

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Genres : Comedy

Release date : Feb 25, 1984

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : ATV Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

Production companies : Central Independent Television Fugitive Playboard Puppets

Summary A satire show using puppets that are caricatures of major public figures. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Feb 25, 1984

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : ATV Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

Production companies : Central Independent Television Fugitive Playboard Puppets

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Feb 25, 1984
Episode #1.1
We visit a nursing home for terminally bewildered ex-prime ministers, Bob Dylan performs a protest song about cheese, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi presents the award for International Terrorist of the Year, the Reverend Ian Paisley tells God what's what and there's the latest thrilling video from Michael Jackson - or is that Diana Ross?
Episode 2 • Mar 03, 1984
Episode #1.2
Mrs. Thatcher takes some neighbourly advice over the privet hedge from the gentleman at No. 9, a Herr von Wilcox (who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler), Bob Dylan sings a song about his stolen underpants, and Ronald Reagan features in the latest instalment of The President's Brain is Missing.
Episode 3 • Mar 17, 1984
Episode #1.3
Thatcher and Tebbit interrogate Nigel Lawson on his budget proposals, Mark Thatcher opens his first bank account, Prince Charles visits The Falklands and Janet Street Germ reports live from Nancy Reagan's navel.
Episode 4 • Mar 31, 1984
Episode #1.4
Shirley Williams is dragged backwards through a hedge in preparation for an appearance on Newsnight, Prince Philip has a flirty encounter with Nancy Reagan aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, David Attenborough is on the look out for an anteater and Mary Whitehouse takes an ice-cold bath.
Episode 5 • Apr 07, 1984
Royal Spitting Image
We go behind the scenes as Patrick Lichfield photographs the Queen, 'Randy Andy' Prince Andrew and Prince Charles compare fan letters and Prince Phillip introduces Charles to a secret society meeting in the Buckingham Palace laundry.
Episode 6 • Apr 14, 1984
Episode #1.6
In this episode we finally find out the whereabouts of Lord Lucan: could he have been hiding out in Cyril Smith's oversized trousers all this time? Barry Manilow's encounter with an obsessive anteater leads to a case of mistaken identity and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet prepare for nuclear war.
Episode 7 • May 12, 1984
Episode #1.7
Nancy Reagan is featured in a campaign video entitled "Da Do Run Ron" on behalf of the Republican party, Francois Mitterrand persuades Mrs. Thatcher to buy UHT milk, Norman Fowler MP is on the prowl for unsuspecting hospitals in Murder Most Fowle, and the Saatchi & Saatchi agency sets to work on Mrs. Thatcher's image.
Episode 8 • May 19, 1984
Episode #1.8
Mrs. Thatcher has a nightmare and we are on the set of It'll Be Alright On The Night with Denis Norden and a 589 egg omelette. Elsewhere in Masterclass Julian Lloyd Webber goes head to head with Henry Cooper, and there is the latest instalment of The President's Brain Is Missing.
Episode 9 • May 26, 1984
Episode #1.9
We join Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie on their world tour with a crew of hell-raising roadie nuns, That's Life and Death with Esther Rantzen chasing the ratings, and the Cabinet plot a revolt.
Episode 10 • Jun 02, 1984
Episode #1.10
The Royals sit down to a game of Monopoly but it is a foregone conclusion who is going to win! Neil Kinnock wrestles with his conscience (James Callaghan as a devil and Michael Foot as an angel on each shoulder), Brian Walden is subjected to an interrogation by Rupert Murdoch's henchmen and it's Let's Speak Afrikaans with P.W. Botha.
Episode 11 • Jun 09, 1984
Episode #1.11
There is strife on the studio floor when Robin Day refuses to give up the BBC jumper, Cecil Parkinson - the man who made just one mistake, twice a night for fourteen years - is offered the job of foreign secretary, and preparations are underway at No. 10 for Mark Thatcher's wedding.
Episode 12 • Jun 16, 1984
Episode #1.12
The two year-old Prince William blackmails Charles into abdicating, Thatcher and Kinnock go head-to-head on an edition of Call My Bluff hosted by Jim Callaghan and we look at How to be a University Student.
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