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 5, Episode 1
David Coleman hosts the Euro Winkle Championships from Stuttgart, Dire Straits try to corner the yuppie market with their new single and Geoffrey Howe receives his orders for what to do about South Africa in Mission:Impossible. Also, Thatcher raises the sore subject of choosing a successor and Cecil Parkinson is the guinea pig for a new male contraceptive pill.
Notes
Some sources list this as a twelfth episode of Series 3.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 28th September 1986
- 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) |
| John Sessions | Various (Voice) |
| Anthony Asbury | Various |
| Kevin Bradshaw | Various |
| Alistair Fullarton | Various |
| Nigel Plaskitt | Various |
| Richard Coombs | Various |
| Simon Buckley | Various |
| Geoff Atkinson | Writer |
| Jack Docherty (as John Docherty) | Writer |
| Moray Hunter | Writer |
| Nick Newman | Writer |
| Rob Grant | Writer |
| Doug Naylor | Writer |
| David Kind | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Clark | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Simpkin | Script Editor |
| Graham C. Williams (as Graham C Williams) | Director |
| Geoffrey Perkins | Producer |
| Jon Blair | Executive Producer |
| John Lloyd | Executive Producer |
| Al Pigden | Editor |
| Ken Ryan | Production Designer |
| Sue Gibson | Costume Designer |
| Hugh Stevenson | Lighting Designer |
| Philip Pope | Composer |
| Chris Wroe | Graphics |
| Phill Dunn | Graphics |