Spitting Image
- TV sketch show
- BritBox / ITV1
- 1984 - 2021
- 161 episodes (22 series)
Groundbreaking, long-running and hugely popular satirical sketch show with a cast of grotesque latex puppets. Stars Chris Emmett, Jon Glover, Phil Cool, Jan Ravens, Chris Barrie and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 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.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 4th March 1984
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Chris Emmett | Various (Voice) |
| Jon Glover (as John Glover) | Various (Voice) |
| Phil Cool | Various (Voice) |
| Steve Nallon | Various |
| Anthony Asbury | Various |
| Chris Barrie | Various |
| Kevin Bradshaw | Various |
| Alistair Fullarton | Various |
| Louise Gold | Various |
| Terry Lee | Various |
| Richard Robinson | Various |
| Richard Curtis | Writer |
| Ian Hislop (as Hislop & Newman) | Writer |
| Nick Newman (as Hislop & Newman) | Writer |
| Guy Jenkin | Writer |
| Laurie Rowley | Writer |
| Malcolm Mather (as Mather & Shuttleworth) | Writer |
| Shuttleworth (as Mather & Shuttleworth) | Writer |
| Neil MacVicar (as Neil McVicar) | Writer |
| David Kind | Writer |
| Niall Clark | Writer |
| John Cotterill | Writer |
| Colin Walker | Writer |
| Philip Casson | Director |
| Jon Blair | Producer |
| Tony Hendra | Producer |
| John Lloyd | Producer |
| Richard Holloway | Associate Producer |
| Al Pigden | Editor |
| Ken Ryan | Production Designer |
| Giovanni Guarino | Production Designer |
| Sue Gibson | Costume Designer |
| Hugh Stevenson | Lighting Designer |
| Philip Pope (as Phil Pope) | Composer |
| Brian Becker | Graphics |
| Errol Manoff | Puppeteer |