Category: Spitting Image

  • Spitting Hot Metal
    Spitting Hot Metal

    I’ve just started watching Hot Metal, the mid-80s sitcom about the newspaper business, written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick for LWT. I have a vague memory of watching it at the time, though it may have only been a snippet of one episode. A week after the first series finished, a new series of…

  • Sporting Memories With Spitting Image
    Sporting Memories With Spitting Image

    Here’s a nice clip from the LWT Sporting Memories. This was 1998, a good two years after Spitting Image came to an end. I’m amazed the puppet was still in any sort of working order. And it was bugging me who was doing the voice, because it clearly wasn’t any of the Spitting Image impersonators…

  • Splitting Images
    Splitting Images

    The curious case of Norris McWhirter and the explicit flash frames. On the 24th February 1985, viewers tuning in to Spitting Image on ITV were treated to a comedy song. Norris McWhirter didn’t see this song, but his nephew did, in excruciating detail, and three frames of the video would end up being argued over…

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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