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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Video: Spitting Image puppets saved by Shropshire fan
Puppets from the satirical show Spitting Image have been saved by a Shropshire puppet collector along with other TV favourites. Michael Dixon, who is archivist for the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild, has 15 Spitting Image puppets from the show which ran in the 1980s and 90s.
BBC News, 3rd August 2016Archive interview: John Lloyd on Spitting Image
25 February 1984: The producer of a new satirical puppet show promises 'impertinent' humour to question the high and mighty.
Colin Shearman, The Guardian, 25th February 2016Spitting Image to return?
Spitting Image producer John Lloyd says he wants to bring back the satirical puppet format, possibly as an online show.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2015Spitting Image was satire's acceptable face
I am afraid that Spitting Image, in its early days at least, was funny, but did no more than reinforce political prejudices.
John Allison, The Guardian, 19th February 2015Spitting Image remembered: the best bits
With the news that ITV is creating new puppet-based satire Newzoids, here is a look back at the original giant Spitting Image.
The Telegraph, 11th February 2015Margaret Thatcher gets Spitting Image treatment again
It may be 20 years since the demise of ITV's Spitting Image, but the show's voice of Margaret Thatcher, Steve Nallon, can still nail the Iron Lady's particular timbre, as the trailer for Nallon's new theatre show, Dead Sheep, shows.
The Guardian, 21st January 2015Roger Law: 'I got £600 a week for Spitting Image'
Roger Law's puppets attracted 15 million viewers at their peak but the financial rewards were meagre - even the most famous puppets fetched only £10,000 when they were auctioned. He makes far more from the giant porcelain pots he makes now.
Nick McGrath, The Telegraph, 26th October 2014Spitting Image - in pictures
We take a look at Spitting image puppets creaated by Roger Law for the famous TV satire.
The Observer, 3rd August 2014How we made Spitting Image
Peter Fluck and Steve Nallon talk about Spitting Image.
Sam Rowe, The Guardian, 15th April 2014Thirty years of Spitting Image
Could it happen today? Animated copycats like 2DTV and Headcases both proved failures although Round The Bend, almost a kids' version of the show with puppets by Fluck and Law enjoyed some success in the Nineties.
Chris Hallam, , 28th February 2014