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 7, Episode 6
Muriel Gray looks at the future of television, there is a rendition of Kill An Estate Agent Today, Princess Di installs a satellite dish at the palace, there is a look at the popular Russian daytime soap Comrades and a warning of the privatisation of Britain's Railways. This show also closes with the epic Margaret Thatcher rendition of Frank Sinatra's (I Did It) My Way.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 11th December 1988
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jon Glover | Various (Voice) |
| Chris Barrie | Various (Voice) |
| Steve Nallon | Various (Voice) |
| Enn Reitel | Various (Voice) |
| Kate Robbins | Various (Voice) |
| Steve Coogan | Various (Voice) |
| Anthony Asbury | Various |
| Kevin Bradshaw | Various |
| Alistair Fullarton | Various |
| Nigel Plaskitt | Various |
| Richard Coombs | Various |
| Simon Buckley | Various |
| Don Austen (as Donald Austen) | Various |
| John Thirtle | Various |
| Geoff Atkinson | Writer |
| Jack Docherty (as John Docherty) | Writer |
| Ian Hislop | Writer |
| Moray Hunter | Writer |
| Nick Newman | Writer |
| Mark Burton | Writer |
| John O'Farrell | Writer |
| Paul Mayhew-Archer | Script Editor |
| Mick Shirley | Writer |
| David Haldane (as David Hadane) | Writer |
| Graham C. Williams | Director |
| Geoffrey Perkins | Producer |
| Grant Watters | Editor |
| John Baldwin | Editor |
| Phil Stone | Editor |
| Giovanni Guarino | Production Designer |
| Sue Gibson | Costume Designer |
| John Henshall | Director of Photography |
| Philip Pope | Composer |