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What series have you seen?

posted 18 years ago by w-thomson
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I want to know if anyone out here on IMDB has seen every episode of Spitting Image. With me I have seen quite a lot.

I have seen

The Complete Series 1 (1984)
The Complete Series 2 (1984)
9 out 11 of Series 3 (1985)
5 out 6 of Series 4 (1986)
The Complete Series 5 (1986)
The Complete Series 6 (1986)
The Complete Series 7 (1987)
The Complete Series 8 (1988)
The Complete Series 9 (1989)
5 out 6 of Series 10 (1989)
The Complete Series 11 (1990)
The Complete Series 12 (1990)
The Complete Series 13 (1991)
The Complete Series 14 (1991)
The Complete Series 15 (1992)
The Complete Series 16 (1992)
4 out 6 of Series 17 (1993)
3 out 6 of Series 18 (1993)
The Complete Series 19 (1994)
0 out 7 of Series 20 (1994)
1 out 6 of Series 21 (1996)

The Specials I have seen

Comic Relief Short (1986) Not Seen
Down and Out In The White House (1986) Not Seen
Movie Awards (1987) Seen It
Election Special (1987) Seen It
Christmas Special (1987) Seen It
A Question Of Sport (Comic Relief) (1988) Not Seen
The Ronnie and Nancy Show (1988) Seen It (Saw it on YouTube.com!!!)
ITV Telethon (Short) (1988) Not Seen
The Life and Times Of Ronald Regan (1988) Seen It
The Sound Of Maggie (1989) Seen It
ITV Telethon (Short) (1990) Not Seen
Election Special (1992) Seen It
ITV Telethon (Short) (1992) Not Seen
Pantomime (1993) Not Seen
Ye Olde Spitting Image (1995) Not Seen

A Total Of 116 Out Of 136 Episodes & Specials! Anyone here who can beat that?

[–] kamik4ze 18 years ago

What season was it when Blondeman was introduced? It was also the one where Hesaltine sings GOODBYE to Thatcher and GO NOW

[–] w-thomson 18 years ago

Think it was series 11 or series 12. Even though last time I watched that episode was about 2 years ago.

[–] talktoal 18 years ago

I believe I already cleared up that little mess

'Yo. Like I said before, it's all about the evolution of the POKEMON!'

[–] talktoal 18 years ago

I think it turned to be 11, not 10 as you might have thought. Common mistake to make once I called my friend Joe Jul EMBARRASSING OR WHAT!

'Yo. Like I said before, it's all about the evolution of the POKEMON!'

[–] hrhfish 11 years ago

Blondeman shows up in season 7 and he sings go now to Maggie in season 8. Just recently watched the boxed set. I knew there was more than 8 series. I got the boxed set and it's all with Maggie from 1-8. I remember Major as an android and then they just did him Grey so he looked like Al Lewis from the Munsters. I remember a series of sketches of John and Norma eating peas. Was looking for my fave sketch when the royals are evicted for not paying their poll tax and that was not in the first 8 seasons. Still the 1st 8 seasons were the best 'cos of Maggie. The show suffered a little bit when Maggie retired from office.

[–] StormSworder 11 years ago

The sketch with the royals being evicted was in the Spring 1991 series (or Series 10 as it would have been called had Network released it). I think anyone who wants to see the rest of the shows released on DVD should e-mail Network.

[–] StormSworder 11 years ago

All of the series except Series 14 (Autumn 1991) and the first three episodes of Series 17 (Spring 1993).

Of the specials I've seen Down And Out in the White House (saw it on TV, haven't got a recording of it or seen it since unfortunately), Movie Awards, Election Specials from 1987 and 1992, 1987 Christmas Special, The Ronnie & Nancy show (on Youtube), the Life & Times of Ronald Regan, Sound of Maggie, Pantomime, Ye Olde Spitting Image.

By the way, there was also a series called "Spitting Back" in 1993. It showed highlights from Spitting Image Series 14 and 15. Didn't see all of these but one of the ones I saw at least had some clips from Series 14. There are newly-recorded bits in Spitting Back where the Queen (accompanied by a different member of her household in each episode) appears every now and again to introduce the clips.

Do you have Series 14 and 17 on video or DVD? Would it be possible to copy them? I was hoping Network would release all the Spitting Image series but they seemed to have stopped at Series 11 (or Series 8 as they confusingly called it).

[–] Critical_Beatdown 10 years ago

A Total Of 116 Out Of 136 Episodes & Specials! Anyone here who can beat that?

There were actually 131 episodes in all the series plus 10 specials making the total number of transmissions 141 not 136 and there were 18 series, not 21.

Series 1 1984 26 February - 17 June 12 episodes
Series 2 1985 6 January - 24 March 11 episodes
Series 3 1986 6 January - 2 November 18 episodes
Series 4 1987 1 November - 6 December 6 episodes
Series 5 1988 6 November - 11 December 6 episodes
Series 6 1989 11 June - 9 July 5 episodes
Series 7 1989 12 November - 17 December 6 episodes
Series 8 1990 13 May - 24 June 6 episodes
Series 9 1990 11 November - 16 December 6 episodes
Series 10 1991 14 April - 19 May 6 episodes
Series 11 1991 10 November - 15 December 6 episodes
Series 12 1992 12 April - 17 May 6 episodes
Series 13 1992 4 October - 8 November 6 episodes
Series 14 1993 16 May - 20 June 6 episodes
Series 15 1993 7 November - 12 December 6 episodes
Series 16 1994 1 May - 5 June 6 episodes
Series 17 1994 6 November - 18 December 7 episodes
Series 18 1996 14 January - 18 February 6 episodes

Specials
Down And Out In The White House 1986 14 September
The Spitting Image 1987 Movie Awards 1987 4 April
Election Special 1987 11 June
A Non-Denominational Spitting Image Holiday Special 1987 27 December
The Ronnie And Nancy Show 1988 17 April
Bumbledown - The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan 1988 29 October
The Sound Of Maggie 1989 6 May
Election Special 1992 8 April
The Spitting Image Pantomime 1993 26 December
Ye Olde Spitting Image 1995 1 January

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