Spitting Image
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.
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Series 3, Episode 4
In this episode, Desmond Wilcox presents his new, intrusive fly-on-the-wall documentary, Charles and Di are hounded by the press on their skiing trip and Alastair Burnet comes to blows with John Craven when he tries to steal his news. Meanwhile the Royals take a specially chartered commuter train from Balmoral and at the Tory Party conference there is a rousing chorus of Jerusalem.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 26th January 1986
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jan Ravens | Various (Voice) |
| Jon Glover | Various (Voice) |
| Chris Barrie | Various (Voice) |
| Harry Enfield | Various (Voice) |
| Steve Nallon | Various (Voice) |
| John Sessions | Various (Voice) |
| Kevin Bradshaw | Various |
| Alistair Fullarton | Various |
| Louise Gold | Various |
| Nigel Plaskitt | Various |
| Richard Coombs | Various |
| Martin Oates | Various |
| Simon Buckley | Various |
| Phil Nice | Various (Voice) |
| Geoff Atkinson | Writer |
| Ian Hislop | Writer |
| Nick Newman | Writer |
| Geoffrey Perkins | Script Editor |
| Rob Grant | Script Executive |
| Doug Naylor | Script Executive |
| Christopher Burman (as Burman & Purton) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Nigel Purton (as Burman & Purton) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Slade (as Slade & Walsh) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Walsh (as Slade & Walsh) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Eric Flitcroft | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Richard Halford | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Neil Raphael | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kostos Adenhauer | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Moray Hunter (as Hunter & Docherty) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Jack Docherty (as Hunter & Docherty) | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Richard Curtis | Writer (Additional Material) |
| David Clapperton | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Peter Harris | Director |
| John Lloyd | Producer |
| Jon Blair | Executive Producer |
| Hayden J Baldwin | Editor |
| Ken Ryan | Production Designer |
| Sue Gibson | Costume Designer |
| Philip Pope (as Phil Pope) | Composer |
| Gerry Stoddart | Lighting Designer |
| Willy Kerr | Graphics |