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When it was first screened in 1984, Spitting Image's cruel satire and painfully accurate latex caricatures provoked public condemnation and angry letters from its many victims. ... No one escaped the writers' biting satire and it was said that the puppets could make or break politicians' careers.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/politicians-beware-spitting-image-set-to-return-467177.html
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When the political satire show Spitting Image was in its TV heyday in the late Eighties and early Nineties, I believe only two politicians really liked their puppets: Michael Heseltine, who was cast as a charismatic, wild-haired Tarzan, and myself. ... Lookalike: Lord Tebbit in the original Spitting Image...
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-557953/Who-needs-new-S...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-557953/Who-needs-new-Spitting-Image-These-days-ALL-politicians-puppets-says-Lord-Tebbit.html
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Lloyd said that the kind of celebrities featured in the new show, such as Helen Mirren, who is one of ITV's most marketable faces, would not be given a tough ride in the way that Spitting Image gave politicians a grilling.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-455589/Spitting-Image-...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-455589/Spitting-Image-creator-blasts-modern-version-featuring-generated-puppets.html
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Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on Britain's ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. The programme was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central. ... The puppets, caricaturing public figures often including British and American politicians and celebrities, were designed by the cartoonists...
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www.tvrage.com/shows/id-482
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Politicians will come to dread Sunday nights again when ITV reinvents Spitting Image as a computer-animated show with a fresh mandate to be merciless.
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainm...
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3635789.ece
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Topical satire enacted in latex, featuring a grotesque cast of politicians, royals and assorted public figures. ... In the mid-1970s, the pair began producing puppet caricatures for magazines like Time, Germany's Stern and The Sunday Times, which eventually led to the creation of Spitting Image.
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www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/521377/index.html
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For 12 years Spitting Image flew the flag for satire at ITV, with Fluck and Law's rubber caricatures brought to life by skilful puppeteers and made eerily real by masterful voice artists. ... did Spitting Image have anything to do with what subsequently happened to them, with the kind of downgrading of them?
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www.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/spitting-image.html
www.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/spitting-image.html
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Spitting Image was an extremely funny show. It stopped at nothing & ridiculed everyone, from politicians to royal rivalry. It is a pity it ended & didn't get the chance to parody Blair, Prescott & Buyers, i am sure they would have had a great time coming up with sketches as good as the thatcher era.
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In some cases, Mauger had recorded the same image of women on multiple occasions. Advocate McKerrell said Mauger must have known what he was doing because only the key bits he must have wanted had been singled out.
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www.spitting-image.net/archives/000137.html
www.spitting-image.net/archives/000137.html
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