/ Lester Pigot John Gummer Queen Victoria / / Every heart you break / Sarah Brightman Other international caricatures included Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger; George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle; Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Konstantin Chernenko, Raisa Gorbachova and Boris Yeltsin. Christopher Dean Army member #2 P. W. Botha / (17 episodes, 1986), John Major He then became the party's deputy leader in 1980. / Bob Monkhouse Ian McCaskill / Kenneth Branagh Ken Dodd Corgi #1 They were joined by Jon Blair, a documentary producer. / / (3 episodes, 1984-1985), Alec Douglas-Home / Edward Heath Matt Aitken Al Gore John Motson / Michael Mates [2][3] The series features puppet caricatures of contemporary celebrities and public figures, including British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and other politicians, Ronald Reagan, and the Royal Family; the series was the first to caricature Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with a Beryl Reid voice). Former Liberal MP Cyril Smith also made a few appearances depicted as a morbidly obese giant. Brian Mawhinney / (35 episodes, 1990-1996), Queen Elizabeth II Woody Allen George Carey George H.W. Boy George / Michael Portillo / Robin Day John Spencer John Lloyd also held talks with a number of people who voiced the Spitting Image puppets, including John Sessions, Harry Enfield and Rory Bremner, with all responding positively. / / Colin Moynihan Clint Eastwood was frequently portrayed as a badass tough guy, and Sylvester Stallone nearly always appeared dressed up as John Rambo. David Icke / Retrieved 5 July 2013. / Peter Lilley Ben Elton / In 2008 ITV created a CGI version to caricature and lampoon the famous, called Headcases,[42] but it only aired for one series. Kenneth Baker Tatum O'Neil / Muammar Gaddafi / It won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video in 1987. / Robert Maxwell Hillary Clinton / Sophie Rhys-Jones Margaret Thatcher / Three new puppets were created depicting all members of Genesis (including a less exaggerated version of Collins), which also appear on the sleeve of the 45 (and later CD) single. David Bowie / / / Jason Donovan / Neil Tennant / Next to his bed were red buttons labelled 'Nuke' and 'Nurse'. / Andrew Ridgeley Boy George Princess Anne The plot involved a conspiracy to replace Ronald Reagan with a double (actually actor Dustin Hoffman in disguise). / / Lester Piggott had to be subtitled. David Icke Nicholas Parsons He then became the party's deputy leader in 1980. / David Attenborough / / Glenys Kinnock Mel Smith Cher Mel Smith Richard Branson John Patten Bette Midler / / Barbara Bush Shirley Williams Peter Hall No need to register, buy now! was released in 1992 by Surprise Video, compiling material from 1990–1991. He died on October 3, 2015 in Alfriston, Sussex, England. / / Austrian public broadcaster ORF broadcast Spitting Image in English with German subtitles late on Friday nights in approximately four-week intervals in the late 1980s and early 1990s, introducing it to the German-speaking world (where foreign programming is usually dubbed into German). Michael Heseltine It did, however, receive great praise from critics and it was followed by several more television specials: The Ronnie & Nancy Show (also satirising the Reagans), The 1987 Movie Awards (sending up the Academy Awards), Bumbledown: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan (a quasi-documentary about the President), and The Sound of Maggie (satirising Thatcher and parodying several musicals such as Oliver!, West Side Story and many others). / / English comedy writer and National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra, was brought in as a writer; Fluck and Law had met him while they were working in the US. / / Jimmy Greeves George Best / Prince Edward Robert Maclennan In Spitting image who was the puppet with massive eyebrows? / Laurence Olivier (4 episodes, 1987), Human Thug / (2015) and This Question of Pressures (1969). / Anthony Meyer John Prescott / Prince Harry All carried a 15 certificate and were reissued in 1988, also as a box set. / / (2015) and This Question of Pressures (1969). Barry Norman / (uncredited) / / John Gielgud / Frank Bruno Joely Richardson / / Jack Straw / Prince Phillip Satan Sandy Gall Satirical puppets finally returned to ITV in 2015, in Newzoids. / In 2011, the network dedicated an entire month to broadcasting all episodes of the show, from 10:00 pm until 6:00 am, including the 2006 clipshow special and the American specials, which they called "Spitting Image 24/7". / George H. W. Bush Bob Geldof Jonathan Darlington / David Coleman Helmut Kohl Brian Clough / 1 Transcripts 2 Election Special 3 Characters 4 Cast 5 Crew Alastair Burnet: And there we have it, the predicted results: Conservatives 359 seats, Labour 243 seats, and … / / / / Prince William He was an actor, known for The Wizard of Oz (1977), Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? / Melvyn Bragg Geoffrey Howe The video was depicted as a nightmare Reagan was having, which left him completely immersed in sweat from worrying. / Chico Marx / Denis Thatcher / David Vine / Christopher Martin-Jenkins Lester Piggott (1 episode, 1986) Phil Nice. Mikhail Gorbachev Ian Botham Emma Thompson / / Availablity Edit. Max Clifford / Ernesto Samper He was an actor, known for The Wizard of Oz (1977), Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? / / Xenophobia Jones' girl During the late summer, when viewership was traditionally low and the networks aired reruns of the previous season, NBC broke the special into two half-hour episodes and slotted them into its schedule on 30 August and 6 September of that year, following reruns of The Golden Girls. Tony Benn / Yitzhak Shamir often appeared wearing a hard hat with the Star of David on it, holding a brick and referring to building on a 'legitimate Israeli Settlement' (referring to the practice of building houses on the West Bank for Israeli people). / Peter Snow / Jimmy Greaves David Icke Kenneth Williams was depicted with a large nose and big teeth, and Harry Secombe was depicted as overly religious. Enoch Powell Terry Wogan / Doctor Geoffrey Howe Harold Angryperson / / Nelson Mandela / / / Christopher Wren / / / Ian Bothan In the autumn of 1992 Thatcher was diagnosed with prostate cancer but it was caught early. Dustin Hoffman / P. W. Botha was shown as a racist cleverly disguising his views (once he had a badge "anti-anti-apartheid"). Michael Jackson Pete Townshend Other musical parodies featured Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, The Monkees, Pulp, Brett Anderson of Suede, Pet Shop Boys, R.E.M., Björk, East 17, Elvis Presley, Oasis, ZZ Top, Prince and Barbra Streisand.[2]. George H. W. Bush / / / Every Irish wake Harold Macmillan John Cole Nicholas Ridley / / Michael Winner / John Redwood In 1986, a compilation LP "Spit In Your Ear" was produced, featuring some of their sketches over time along with a few of their songs, followed in 1990 by "20 Great Golden Gobs", a songs-only collection from the 1986–1990 series. / Graham Taylor UNDER CONSTRUCTION. / / / Denis Healey, one of Labour's most important post-war figures, dies aged 98, prompting tributes from across the political world. Every one you've killed He is best known for his tenure on Spitting Image, and he was the longest-running impressionist throughout the entire series, contributing to every series. Raisa Gorbachova Kevin Whately William Shatner Desc: Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, FRSL was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of … Ian Paisley Rodney King / Oliver North Ian McCaskill Moira Stewart David Steel Peter Sissons's Mother Ken Livingstone Alastair Burnet Eric Cantona Mark Phillips Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn.First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network. In 1986 he appeared in series one of Saturday Live. This running gag was used when Ashdown's extramarital affair was revealed, and his puppet commented that "I didn't touch her on the left leg, or the right leg, but somewhere in-between." Nigel Lawson was another one that came to mind but I was not sure if that was his bushy hair, so I will stick with one first guess of Denis. [45] DVD releases do not include any of the specials made. Cliff Richard / / Prince Andrew Denis Healey David Gower / Cherie Blair Matthew Bannister Gerald Kaufman / Noel Edmonds Oral J. Jimson Sting / / Alan Bennett Peter Snow The Spitting Image team unmercilessly lampooned all major British political figures and a few from further afield, notably Russia and the U.S.A. Paul McCartney Development was funded by Clive Sinclair. / John Cole The first episode of Spitting Image, in 1984, aired with a laugh track, apparently at the insistence of Central Television. Kenneth Williams P.C. / / John Thaw / Andrew Lloyd Webber (2 episodes, 1990), Andrew Lloyd Webber / / Annie Nightingale George Harrison (36 episodes, 1989-1992), Jeremy Paxman Nicholas Witchell / John McEnroe / Anonymous. Lord Lucan / Tony Benn Mary Whitehouse / Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Gerarld Kaufman John Motson Denis Healey was born on August 30, 1917 in Mottingham, Kent, England as Denis Winston Healey. / Tony Hancock Mick Rathbone Esther Rantez Trevor McDonald F. W. de Klerk Lv 7. / [10], Martin Lambie-Nairn proposed a satirical television show featuring caricature puppets created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law. Henry Sandon Princess Anne Clive James / Phil Collins / / "Is Nothing Sacred?" / Denis Healey (centre) at the International Socialists’ Congress in Vienna in 1948. Michael Foot / / Bob Geldoff Nick Ross Madonna / / Robin Cook / Steve Davis / / Not Finished Yet. John Gummer / / / / Upon his appointment to Prime Minister, Major was initially portrayed as robotic with a spinning antenna on his head (it was explained in a sketch that Thatcher used it to control Major, standing behind Thatcher in the crowd of sycophantic cabinet members, eager to repeat whatever the Thatcher puppet screeched). Ronnie Corbett Linda Bellos Cecil Parkinson Ben Elton / / / / Steve Nallon (b. November 8, 1960 in Leeds, England) is a British impressionist. / / / / [32] The song pastiches Hello magazine, in satire of post-Big Bang UK consumerist culture. In an attempt to crack the American market, there were some attempts to produce a US version of the show. / / / / / John Birt / / / / Richard Branson / / / Jonathan Powell / / Albert Reynolds Mark Thatcher was portrayed as a tiny and child-like opportunist (similar in size to the puppet of Steel) who benefit from the government via his mother, including through blackmailing his mother with his father. Denis Healey Barry Took / Sergent Clarkson / / Chris Patten / / Police Commisioner / / Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life – among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. Press Pig #1 Spitting images, a satirical puppet show which ran on TV in the U.K. from 1984 until 1996 concentrated on Healey's eyebrows and reinforced the silly-billy phrase. / Les Aspin / / Hugh Laurie / / / / Pierce Brosnan / / David Waddington Roy Jenkins Bill Beaumont / Richard Ingrams 1989 saw the release by Central Video of two complete specials, Bumbledown: The Life & Times Of Ronald Reagan and The Sound Of Maggie and was also released in the US by BFS Video. Rolf Harris Howard Donald / / Every job you take / / / / William Rees-Mogg was portrayed as a censorship-crazy person with eyes that would frequently pop out of the socket. / / Thatcher: "Oh, they'll [The Cabinet] have the same as me".[24]. / / Norman Lamont The cover of the single featured Reagan as a biker with Nancy riding pillion. / / / David Mellor Media moguls Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch were also on the show, the latter depicted as an extremely flatulent individual encouraging obscenity in his mass media. / Denis Norden Vicar Esther Rantzen always had a permanent grin, whilst Cilla Black had large teeth and a thick Scouse accent. George Younger / / June Brown John Prescott / P.W. Turgut Özal / Nigel Lawson / May 9, 2016 - Peer served as defence secretary in Labour government of 1964-1970 and chancellor in Labour government of 1974-1979 and was famed for his bushy eyebrows Joanna Lumley Referencoj ^ "House of Lords, Official Website - Lord Healey". / / Jaber III The Ronald Reagan song "Da Do Run Ron" featured in a straight to video release called Rockin' Ronnie (1986), an otherwise unrelated compilation of movie clips released by ATI Video. / Michael Jackson Ray Cooney John Lloyd The Opposition (Labour Party) politicians included: Arthur Scargill, who was a member of the Labour Party until 1997, appeared as head of the National Union of Mineworkers, and was portrayed as a big-nosed egotist who was ignorant about mining. Hugh Laurie "Reviewing the Situation" is the third song from the Spitting Image special The Sound of Maggie!, and is a parody of "Reviewing the Situation" by Lionel Bart from the 1960 musical Oliver! Michael Grade [8][9] The revived series debuted on 3 October 2020 on BritBox, and features Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. / / / What was unique though about SPITTING IMAGE was the ability of the SPITTING IMAGE world of the puppets to interact with our real world of people. Paul Gascoigne / Len Murray Princess Diana Paul Gascoigne Spitting Image, as ITV's primary satirical programme, was succeeded by 2DTV, a cartoon format that had five series between 2001 and 2004. Michael Grade Home Secretary Kenneth Baker was a slug. / Jean-Paul Gaultier / / John Sessions / / (unknown episodes), Roland Rat The Queen Mother Norman Fowler / / / The first single from Spitting Image, released in 1984, was a rework of the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron". / Jimmy Hill John Birt / / Terry Venable / / / Brian Clough (10 episodes, 1993), Kenneth Clarke / / / Prince Edward / Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. Jack Nicholson / Bernie Mac Donald Regan / / Ronald Reagan Jimmy Savile In 1996 FA to Fairplay was released on VHS, later reissued on DVD in 2005. / Richard Attenborough Rupert Murdoch / / I'll be watching you[2]. / Arthur Scargill Margaret Thatcher Michael Jackson Nicholas Ridley Mark Knopfler Russell Harty David Owen Kenneth Kendall P.C. / Michael Buerk Graham Taylor David Dimbleby / / / / Princess Michael of Kent Pope John Paul II / Made specially for video, it provided an alternative look at the 1996 European football championship held in England. There was a worry the puppets would somehow because less real when put alongside humans. It is an extraordinary political and historical record. / / / (1 episode, 1986), Puppetry and Voice (1984-1985) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani David Coleman / Bill Clinton Brian Johnston / Missing so far is the granddaddy of them all, Mike Yarwood. / Michael Foot / / Translater Paul Daniels External links. The Labour politician first served in Number 11 during the 1974-79 government. Bruce Forsyth (6 episodes, 1996), John Major / Find professional John Healey videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. (72 episodes, 1984-1991), Prince Philip Chris Patten Michael Hutchence The TV version of this song (featured in the second ever episode) was heavily censored by Central Television on broadcast but presented uncut on vinyl. / / Prince Harry / thanks to whoever helps! / Bill Clinton Alec Douglas-Home / / Michael Portillo Broucher guy / / / / Robert Maxwell Tony Benn David Steel / (11 episodes, 1984-1985), Jamie Spencer-Churchill Winnie Mandela / / / / Anneka Rice / Kenneth Clarke / In 1986, the Spitting Image puppets had a number one hit in the UK charts with "The Chicken Song", parodying "Agadoo" by Black Lace – one of several parodies to have featured in the programme, mimicking moronic holiday songs with an annoyingly unforgettable tune and completely nonsensical lyrics. Moira Stuart Prince Charles Spitting Image lampooned US President Ronald Reagan as a bumbling, nuke-obsessed fool in comparison with his advisors Edwin Meese and Caspar Weinberger. / Director Denis Thatcher / (unknown episodes), Bob Dylan / Rupert Murdoch Leon Brittan / / / / Denis Healey was born on August 30, 1917 in Mottingham, Kent, England as Denis Winston Healey. Mark Thatcher / / He hates the Warsaw Pact". Boy George / / / Jimmy Greaves Stan Laurel Trouvez les Denis Healey images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. (uncredited) François Mitterrand / Denis Healey, Actor: The Wizard of Oz. Harpo Marx Joseph Bidet [4], One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s, Spitting Image satirised politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era. / / / / George H.W. / Aneka Rice Ian Hislop There were no extractor fans; it was quite Dickensian. Queen Elizabeth II UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Colin Moyniham / Norman Tebbit / / Kenneth Branagh Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ (10 May 1915 – 26 June 2003) was an English businessman. / Norman Fowler / Nigel Lawson / Nanette Newman / Ruhollah Khomeini / Michael Grade / Richie Benaud Michael Parkinson / His catchphrase was "I'M THE LEADER" in reference to his attempt to lead the Labour Party. / Patrick Mayhew / Brigitte Nielsen Snooker player Steve Davis was boring, upset because he had no nickname, but thought himself interesting. Egon Krenz Keith Richards Jean-Bernard Mérimée Princess Diana Gordon Brown John Hunt / Cecil Parkinson Winston Churchill / / We need some way of winning votes! John Smith Various / Spitting Image had a short-running dispute with the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in 1985, over the use of subliminal images. / Nanny Michael Cain Ian McCaskill Rebecca Rogers / Robin Day Stephen Fry / / Emlyn Hughes was portrayed with a high pitched and annoying voice. Denis Thatcher Bill Beaumont / John Smith / John Sessions / Peter Lilley By 1986, under their supervision, Spitting Image had become popular, producing a number one song on the UK Singles Chart ("The Chicken Song"). / John Major was entirely painted in grey. / Phil Collins / / Jeffrey Archer Primary sources. / / May 9, 2016 - Peer served as defence secretary in Labour government of 1964-1970 and chancellor in Labour government of 1974-1979 and was famed for his bushy eyebrows / David Baddiel / Roy Jenkins / / Li Peng Former chancellor Lord Denis Healey has died aged 98, his family said. He lowered income tax, Yeah! Some more politicians - Dennis Healey, John Prescott and Roy Hattersley Tony Blair The scenes were all reinstated in later episodes. [43] Roger Law stated that the pilot for the new series had been filmed and that talks were in progress with US networks to take the show to a larger, global audience. / James Callaghan / The programme was first released on video in 1986 in a series of three collections, each a compilation of material from the first two series: Spit – With Polish!, A Floppy Mass Of Blubber & Rubber Thingies. David Steel Woody Allen Self (1 episode, 1984) Mike Redway (1 episode, 1985) Carl Wayne (1 episode, 1985) Jeffrey Holland. / Archbishop Robert Runcie, Mary Whitehouse and Cliff Richard were portrayed as Christian censors. Queen Mother / / / / Driving me crazy, i think this its the man 2.14 in on the chicken in the air video. / News reporters were also depicted: Alastair Burnet was sycophantic towards the Royal Family and with a nose that inflated; Sandy Gall was effeminate, always worrying what coat he would wear; John Cole was incomprehensible and had to be dragged off-screen when he talked for too long; Nicholas Witchell was always turning up during a strike to work rather than report; Kate Adie was a thrill-seeker, and BBC Head of Bravery. / Oliver Hardy Prince Andrew Des Lynam / / Judy Finnigan Francis Pym / Alec Guinness Derek Jameson Mark Philips (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Gandhi And Kinnock : News Photo. / Steve Davis Julio Iglesias Michael Heseltine Cyril Smith Pope John Paul II Clive Anderson Dot Cotton Mick Jagger Richard Attenborough / / / / / Bruce Springsteen Michael Caine 1 Transcripts 2 Election Special 3 Characters 4 Cast 5 Crew Alastair Burnet: And there we have it, the predicted results: Conservatives 359 seats, Labour 243 seats, and … / Jeremy Clarkson / / / / Erasure / / The series was produced by ‘Spitting Image Productions’ for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network. / Ted Kennedy Ian Botham / Paul Channon This article is about the original television series 1984–1996. Yasser Arafat Spitting Image was also briefly shown in France on the private TV channel M6 in English with French subtitles. / Frank Bough / / David Owen / David Young / Frank Sinatra / Pope John Paul II Peter Sissons / Robin Cook Hafez al-Assad Full Cast & Crew: Spitting Image (1984–1996) ... Denis Healey. / / Elvis Presley In 1986, the Spitting Image team experienced some real musical success when they created the video for "Land of Confusion" by Genesis, a song which implied that Thatcher and Reagan were about to bring the world to a nuclear war. / / / / / / Arthur Scargill / It wasn’t though until we went on THE TUBE, an 80s music show mixing pop and anarchic comedy, that the true potential was realised. / / / / In the song, a Jacinda Ardern puppet dressed as Mary Poppins serenades with the Spitting Image original song, “Super-Kiwi-socialistic-extra-nice-Jacinda,” a play on Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. West Midland's Police Sergent Q Alastair Burnet Jayne Torvill / Joan Rivers German Soilder Günter Grass / Denis Healey - who has died at the age of 98 - was the last of the great post-war generation of political "big beasts" who dominated British government in the 1960s and 70s. / Prince Harry Kylie Minogue was depicted as a vain robot; Luciano Pavarotti was hugely overweight and ate everything he saw; Matt and Luke Goss of the band Bros were depicted as children wanting to grow up. / Sandy Gall Norman Fowler / Norman Tebbit Salman Rushdie Charles Kennedy [29] In the television series he was shown surrounded by various famous women including Joan Collins, Mary Whitehouse and Linda McCartney. Virginia Bottomley M Mr Lloyd commented, "There's enormous enthusiasm from ITV to do it. / / Linda McCartney / / / / / / / Phil Collins / / Ronnie Corbett Richard Whiteley Malcolm Rifkind / Nicholas Parsons Watch some of the best of Spitting Image on Thatcher: Spitting Image lampoons Thatcher. / / / John MacGregor / / / Richard Attenborough Alastair Burnet OJ Simpson / Björk / Groucho Marx / Paul Gascoigne / / Charles Bronson / John Cole / / / Terry Venables Bill Clinton Ian MacGregor Not Finished Yet. 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Simon Jones The closing music for series 8 episode 3 featured an ensemble of characters performing "We All Hate Jeremy Beadle", in reference to the light entertainment host of that name. / / Billy Graham / / / Julian Clary Selina Scott In the first series, Former Prime Ministers Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home were depicted as living in a highly restrictive retirement home named Exchequers, where they were frequently abused by Queen Victoria. / / In September 2019, the show was confirmed to be returning twenty-three years after it originally ended, with the unveiling of the puppets of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Mark Zuckerberg, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. / Michael Barrymore Douglas Hurd / Mikhail Gorbachev Jonathan Miller Prince Andrew / Princess Anne / / He's also portrayed in another skit as dumb with his mother playing fetch with him like if he was a dog.[20]. Robin Cook In a series 5 episode, Labour leader Neil Kinnock is portrayed singing a self-parody to the tune "My eyes are fully open" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, supported by members of his shadow cabinet. / Rod Stewart / / / Bruce Forsyth / / In the first series, Thatcher sought advice from her enraptured neighbour Herr Jeremy Von Wilcox (who is actually an elderly Adolf Hitler, living at 9 Downing Street) about the unions and the unemployed. Gerry Adams Leon Brittan Ian Botham was a violent drug addict, while Mike Gatting spoke with a high voice. / Michael Grade / Kate Adie David Vine Ted, President Reagan's bodyguard They then hired Muppet puppeteer Louise Gold. Tony Blair Nick Ross / / Queen Mother Fido Rupert Murdoch Paul Gascoigne / Jeremy Beadle I'll be watching you / / Edited episodes from Series 1–3 and 7 were on Granada Plus from 2001 to 2003. / Richard Whitley / / / Carol Barnes Jeremy Paxman / Max Bygraves / Pete Townsend Dimbleby' Dimbleby Paddy Ashdown / (49 episodes, 1991-1996), Denis Thatcher / When Margaret Thatcher resigned as both Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990, her successor was Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major. / Sandy Gall / Prince William / Richard Branson Colin Moynihan Norman Lamont Danny Baker / Roger Cook Beatie Chris Tarrant The series was cancelled in 1996 after viewing figures declined. / Kenneth Branagh Oliver Hardy / / / Victoria Principal / / Robin Cook / John Gielgud / / / Paddy Ashdown Frank Bruno Denis Healey / John Cleese / John Birt Peter Imbert Comedy Spitting Image on TV to a preview audience before transmission in late 1993 best of Image. 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