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 2, Episode 3
Margaret Thatcher is woken by the dawn chorus, Liz Taylor gorges herself with her new cookery class, Donald Sinden advertises his preferred brand of coffee and Sir John Gielgud reads an excerpt from The A-Team in the original Latin.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 20th January 1985
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jon Glover | Various (Voice) |
| Chris Barrie | Various (Voice) |
| Harry Enfield | Various (Voice) |
| Jessica Martin | Various (Voice) |
| Steve Nallon | Various (Voice) |
| Enn Reitel | Various (Voice) |
| Anthony Asbury | Various |
| Kevin Bradshaw | Various |
| Alistair Fullarton | Various |
| Louise Gold | Various |
| Terry Lee | Various |
| Nigel Plaskitt | Various |
| Francis Wright | Various |
| Mike Redway | Various (Voice) |
| Andy Roberts | Various (Voice) |
| Judy Preece | Various |
| Geoff Atkinson | Writer |
| Rob Grant | Script Editor |
| Doug Naylor | Script Editor |
| Ian Hislop (as Hislop & Newman) | Writer |
| Nick Newman (as Hislop & Newman) | Writer |
| Laurie Rowley | Writer |
| Paul Smith (as Smith & Kyan) | Writer |
| Terry Kyan (as Smith & Kyan) | Writer |
| Christopher Burman (as Burman & Purton) | Writer |
| Nigel Purton (as Burman & Purton) | Writer |
| Moray Hunter (as Hunter & Docherty) | Writer |
| Jack Docherty (as Hunter & Docherty) | Writer |
| Colin Bostock-Smith | Writer |
| Andrea Solomons | Writer |
| David Slade (as Slade Frank) | Writer |
| Frank Walsh (as Walsh David) | Writer |
| Sara Yallop | Writer |
| John Lloyd | Producer |
| Hayden J Baldwin | Editor |
| Ken Ryan | Production Designer |
| Sue Gibson | Costume Designer |
| Hugh Stevenson | Lighting Designer |
| Philip Pope (as Phil Pope) | Composer |
| Peter Brewis | Composer |
| Chris Wroe | Graphics |
Press
"And What About the Vegetables?"
I have to be honest, I didn't exactly have a rule against embedding GB News material on here. I didn't think I really needed one. What was the likelihood that I'd ever have cause to do it? Unfortunately, back on the 18th March 2024, something happened which forces me to briefly acknowledge the channel's existence. Piers Pottinger, public-affairs consultant and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, makes a bit of a twat of himself when talking about a sketch from Spitting Image which he thought happened in real life.
Dirty Feed, 30th August 2024