Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image was a British satirical television 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 network. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including ten BAFTA Television Awards, one for editing in 1989 and two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities prominent during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and other politicians, US president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family; the series was the first to caricature Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with a Beryl Reid voice). One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s and early 1990s, the series was a satire of politics, entertainment, sport and British culture of the era, and at its peak it was watched by 15 million people. The series was cancelled in 1996, after viewing figures declined. ITV had plans for a new series in 2006, but these were scrapped after a dispute over Ant & Dec puppets used to host Best Ever Spitting Image, which were created against Roger Law's wishes. In 2018, Law donated his entire archive – including original scripts, puppet moulds, drawings and recordings – to Cambridge University.

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1984
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Waitress:
[Thatcher is dining out with her Cabinet] Would you like to order, Sir?

Margaret Thatcher:
Steak, please.

Waitress:
How would you like it?

Margaret Thatcher:
Raw

Waitress:
And what about the vegetables?

Margaret Thatcher:
Oh? They'll have the same as me...

Brian Walden:
[Interviewing Tony Blair] Mr. Blair I put it to you if you were Prime Minister, if you are Prime Minister, what would you do?

Tony Blair:
Well under a Labour govermont of course, we would spend money on education, the health service and roads. We will also charge less money for tax and that is what the Labour Party is all about

Brian Walden:
A nice decision but how will you pay for it?

Tony Blair:
Well it will be a happy society, where pensioners are paid more, benefits are higer and we will be shinny happy people holding hand and that is what the Labour Party is all about.

Brian Walden:
Mr. Blair, I must insist how will you pay for it?

Tony Blair:
Well it will be a land of Milk and Honey, where there will be trees of plenty and a garden of paradise and that is what the Labour Party is all about.

Brian Walden:
PAY FOR IT WILL YOU HOW?

Tony Blair:
Oh, well that's an interesting question Brian there is a lot of ways we can find the money.

Brian Walden:
How?

Tony Blair:
Well we can look down the sofa for a start.

Brian Walden:
Mr. Blair I put it to you that you have nothing to back up your policies?

Tony Blair:
Well it is funny you should ask that Brian, because having nothing to back up your policies thats is...

Brian Walden:
What the Labour Party is all about.

Tony Blair:
Exactly... No!

John Major:
My Father was in the Circus, you know.

Director:
[Timothy Dalton is lying on the floor in his dressing room] What's going on here? What's the hold-up?

Make Up Artist:
It's Mr. Dalton, sir, he's collapsed. He's all stiff and lifeless.

Director:
What? Can't he move at all?

Make Up Artist:
Only his eyebrows, sir.

Director:
Oh, good God. You know what this means...

Make Up Artist:
What sir?

Director:
Roger Moore-tis has set in!

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