Spitting Image
1984, Series, 25 min, Comedy, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 69
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
Directed by Steve Bendelack, Peter Harris, Graham C. Williams, John Henderson, Bob Cousins, Liddy Oldroyd, John Stroud, Andy De Emmony, Richard Bradley, Gordon Elsbury, Geoffrey Sax, Sean Hardie, Beryl Richards, Philip Casson, Tom Poole, Geoffery Perkins, Steve Connelly, Matt Forrest
Cast
- Steve Nallon as Brian Walden
- Kate Robbins as Norma Major
- Chris Barrie as Michael Heseltine
- Jon Glover as Cecil Parkinson
- Steve Coogan as Jeremy Paxman
- Roger Blake as John Smith
- Alistair McGowan as Gordon Brown
- Harry Enfield as David Steel
- Enn Reitel as Cecil Parkinson
- Hugh Dennis as Frank Bruno
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