Spitting Image - Spitting Image Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britain's ITV Network from 1984 to 1996. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Voices 3 Writers 4 Producers 5 Similar shows elsewhere 5.1 USA 5.2 Spain 5.3 France 5.4 The Netherlands Introduction As the title (a colloquial phrase meaning a person closely resembling another) suggests, the show was not afraid to offend its viewers, or its targets. The puppets, caricaturing public figures, were designed by the cartoonists Peter Fluck and Roger Law (who sometimes spoonerized their names as 'Luck and Flaw'). They were assisted by various young caricaturists including David Stoten, Steve Bendelack, Tim Watts, Pablo Bach and Oscar da Costa and virtually every successful British impressionist of the time. Musical parodies were provided.
Kate Robbins - was released as a single and got to number two in the UK charts. She is now best known for providing almost all the female voices on the UK TV show Spitting Image in the late 80's and early 90's. She has had her own TV show with her brother Ted Robbins..
Kopspijkers - in the year 2003. It's a humoristic talkshow and stands out for it's extensive amount of cabaret. This cabaret is much like the English tv-show Spitting Image, but with real actors. Political leaders like Jan Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos and Gerrit Zalm are frequently impersonated. Kopspijkers is one of the best viewed programs in the Netherlands. The host of the tv-show is Jack Spijkerman (which is the basis for the title of the tv-show)..
Jan Ravens - British actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
John Lloyd (writer) - He also wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall. He worked as a TV producer at BBC 1979-1989 and created Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image. He also produced the Blackadder series. He co-authored the books: Not! The Nine O'Clock News Not 1982 Not 1983 Not the Royal Wedding Not the General Election The Meaning of Liff (1983, with Douglas Adams) The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990, with Douglas Adams) The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image Book Spitting Image Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 (2000, with Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson) He has been a TV commercial director since 1989 and lives in the UK. His first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a pun.
John Sessions - improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway. A gifted impresionist, who worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street..
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - couple "John and Mary", a forerunner of the relationship between Basil and Sybil later televised in Fawlty Towers. As with Round the Horne, the cast's adventures would sometimes be episodic with cliff-hanger endings each week as with the "Curse of the Flying Wombat". Christmas specials normally included a spoof of a traditional pantomime (or several combined). They had few qualms about the use of puns - old, strained or inventive - and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid 1970s. Graeme's impressions of Eddie Waring (a rugby league commentator) and John's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore (astronomer and broadcaster) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would.
Ian Hislop - comedy script writer, writing for Harry Enfield (providing the Tim Nicebutdim character) and Spitting Image. He was born in Mumbles, south Wales. Educated at Ardingly College and then Magdalen College, Oxford he graduated with a degree in English literature in 1981. He joined Private Eye in 1981 and became editor in 1986 upon the departure of Richard Ingrams. In his role as editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop has the dubious distinction of being the most sued man in British legal history. The most famous libel case he and Private Eye were involved in was when they were sued for libel by corrupt publishing magnate Robert Maxwell. After the case he quipped "I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech." Ordered to pay massive damages after being sued for.
Harry Enfield - frequently uttering the phrase "Up the Arse". His other popular character "Loadsamoney" spawned a hit single in 1988. Before that he provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. After Saturday Live, Enfield moved to the BBC where he developed his sketch show, "Harry Enfield's Television Programme", and later Harry Enfield and Chums with fellow comedians Paul Whitehouse (later of Fast Show fame) and Kathy Burke. This created more nationally recognised characters such as "Mr. and Mrs. Loadsamoney", "Tory Boy", "Wayne Slob" and "Kevin The Teenager". Two characters played by Enfield and Whitehouse, Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson appeared for several years both in the series' mock 1950s information film sketches, and in television commercials for the first of the privatised UK telephone companies, Mercury Telecommunications. (exact company name needs.
Heretics of Dune - under increasing pressure. She persists in calling the worms Shaitan, and has banned the priesthood from certain punishments, which the priesthood have had to replace with alternative ones. All this has made Sheenea widely popular among the people, and her religious mantle has spread off world as the Bene Gesserit expected. The priesthood are split into two factions led by Tuek (the High Priest) and Stiros (leader of the conservatives). Meanwhile the Mother Superior is captured and held hostage by the Honoured Matres. The Honoured Matres fake a message from her to lure Miles Teg to the ship, and so gain control of the ghola project, but Miles Teg manages to turn tables on them, rescue the Mother Superior and her party as he learns the Mother Superior had planned. Odrade.
Hellblazer - first appeared in the horror series Swamp Thing. When he first appears, John Constantine is a trenchcoated sorceror with a tendency to get on people's nerves, and who also happens to be the spitting image of the musician Sting (in fact, Alan Moore once stated that he modeled the character's appearance after Sting, and in one Swamp Thing story this is acknowledged when Constantine is observed to be rowing a boat named The Honourable Gordon Sumner, Sting's real name). The character was given his own comic book - Hellblazer - in 1988, which was initially written by Jamie Delano and illustrated by John Ridgeway, who had previously worked on the UK titles Doctor Who Monthly, Warrior and 2000 A.D. The front covers of the early issues usually featured striking semi-collage designs.
Hugh Dennis - UK actor, comedian and writer. He did voices for Spitting Image and with comedy partner Steve Punt, formed a quarter of The Mary Whitehouse Experience. He has had various TV and radio shows, including The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show. Recently guest hosted Have I Got News For You..
Galaxy Express 999 - bodies are impossibly expensive, they are supposedly given away for free on the planet Andromeda, the end of the line for the space train Galaxy Express 999. Tetsuro meets up with a beautiful woman, Maetel (sometimes translated "Maeter", both from the Latin mater for mother), who is the spitting image of his dead mother. Maetel offers him passage on 999 if he will be her traveling companion. Tetsuro agrees. Along the way, he meets many machine people, including Count Mecha himself, whom Tetsuro kills with a gun given to him by Maetel. Increasingly, Tetsuro realizes that a machine body won't fix all of his problems. In fact, most of the machine people he meets regret the decision to give up their humanity. Most pathetic of all is Crystal Clare, who works.
Geoffrey Perkins - was involved in the production of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Uncyclopaedia Of Rock, Hordes of the Things, Spitting Image, Saturday Live (UK), Norbert Smith - A Life, The Harry Enfield Television Programme, Father Ted, Radio Active, Game On and The Thin Blue Line. For many years he was a director of Hat Trick Productions, an independent television and radio production company..
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - Royal Family, with a charm and theatrical flair that marked her apart. Her signature dress of large upturned hat with netting and dresses with draped panels of fabric, created the most distinctive royal wardrobe since Queen Mary. Behind the soft charm however lay a canny intelligence and iron will, as demonstrated by the shrewd support she gave George VI, her thwarting of the ambitions of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and also by her sheer endurance. Like many of her generation, the Queen Mother held a "never complain, never explain" attitude to life, which saw her through many private sorrows and difficulties. "You think I am a nice person: I am not a nice person." she was once rumored to have warned a friend. However, like anyone in public life,.
Enn Reitel - Enn Reitel Enn Reitel is an impressionist on Spitting Image. He also starred in the UK series Mog as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital..
Doug Naylor - British comedy writer. With Rob Grant he worked on Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, and the The 10 Percenters. He was born in Manchester, England. After the sixth series of Red Dwarf, Rob Grant left Naylor to do Red Dwarf on his own, with hired help. He is to be the writer of the Red Dwarf movie in production. His collaborations with Grant have used the pseudonym: Grant Naylor..
USS Whale (SS-239) - USS Whale (SS-239) insert image here insert caption here (insert link to larger image here) Career Ordered: Laid down: 28 June 1941 Launched: 14 March 1942 Commissioned: 1 June 1942 Fate: sold for scrap Stricken: 1 March 1960 General Characteristics Displacement: 1525 tons surfaced, 2415 tons submerged Length: 311 feet 8 inches Beam: 27 feet 3 inches Draft: 15 feet 3 inches Speed: 20.25 knots surfaced, 8.75 knots submerged Complement: 80 officers and men Armament: one three-inch gun; one .50-caliber machinegun; ten 21-inch torpedo tubes USS Whale (SS-239), a Gato-class submarine, was the Nth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whale, an extremely large, aquatic mammal that is fishlike in form. Her keel was laid down on 28 June 1941 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
David Stoten - Oscar-nominated short film maker and caricaturist on TV's Spitting Image..
2DTV - satrical animated show which follows closely in the steps of Spitting Image; but instead of using puppets, it uses state-of-the-art cartoons. Lampooning anyone they get the chance to, the impressionists - Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Mark Perry and Dave Lamb (many of whom worked on Spitting Image) - get the chance to imitate politicians, royals and celebrities alike, as directed by Giles Pilgrow (also from Spitting Image). These included smiley prime minister Tony Blair, jealous chancellor Gordon Brown, a violent John Prescott, David Blunkett, slurring Robin Cook and Jack Straw. On the Tory side was a large-lipped Michael Portillo, a small William Hague and a very boring Iain Duncan Smith. Last but not least was idiotic US president George Bush Jr. and his fictional sidekick the general, who would create Professor.
