Spitting Image

Spitting Image satirical puppets is a British series that aired between 1984 and 1996 via ITV. Spitting Image was the brainchild of Peter Fluck and Roger Law the doll makers.



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[hide] *Concept 1  ==Concept[ Edit] == In this program were caricature puppets of the British Royal family (such as Elizabeth II, Lady Diana, Prince Charles) and politicians stepped up, such as Ronald Reagan,Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Robert Mugabe, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Ruhollah Khomeini, François Mitterrand, Saddam Hussein, George H.W. Bush and Margaret Thatcher. Except politicians were also tv figures, pop stars, sports personalities and Hollywood actors on the grain taken, such as Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Madonna, Bob Geldof, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando, John McEnroe, Leonard Nimoy, Éric Cantona and Luciano Pavarotti. ==Songs[ Edit] == In 1986 produced the show with the "The Chicken Song" a number-one hit single in the UK Singles Chart. The program was from 1985 to 1992 ten times nominated for a Bafta, whose a won in 1990.
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The music video for "Land of Confusion" by Genesis was made on the basis of the Spitting Image-dolls. =="Spitting Image" abroad[ Edit] == In 1984 brought the Netherlands on VPRO the series in the tube. Because the topical satire was often in Great Britain were broadcast episodes broadcast in Netherlands and Belgium within the same week. In each episode, one sent from Netherlands already placed one integral occasionally extra explanatory supertitles on the screen when celebrities who were less known in Netherlands . The BRT sent the series in Flanders, but not integral. They previously selected the fragments around the most famous celebrities.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The AVROprogramme "Media land" aimed, as part of their show, to a Dutch version, with dolls of Dries van Agt, Jaap van Meekren, Rinus Michels and Ruud Lubbers, voiced by Robert Paul. Also on the Flemish television one has to do this, attempts have been made at the time. In the section "Poppehan" Jan Van Rompaeys 's talk show "know for sure" there were made inter alia by the brothers Maillard dolls Guy Verhofstadt,Louis Tobback, Wilfried Martens, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem and Raymond Goethals. Dirk Denoyelle cared when the imitations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also in other countries exist/existed there own versions of "Spitting Image", as in South Africa, Australia, Germany, Portugal and the United States, France.