The 12-inch A-and B-sides also ostensibly featured voice parts by Reagan, as played by actor Chris Barrie, who also voiced the character on Spitting Image.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

He also provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

This ban was lampooned in cartoons and satirical TV shows, such as Spitting Image, and in The Day Today and was criticised by freedom of speech organisations and British media personalities, including BBC Director General John Birt and BBC foreign editor John Simpson.

* Terence Dackombe, writer Spitting Image ; actor The Krays, Cockneys vs. Zombies

Her habits were often parodied ( with relative affection ) by the satirical 1980s television programme Spitting Image – which portrayed her with a Birmingham accent ( modelled on actress Beryl Reid ) and an ever-present copy of the Racing Post.

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Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

* Spitting Image

The most notable satirical comedies are the ground-breaking 1960s series That Was The Week That Was and ITV's controversial puppet show Spitting Image.

Its graduates include Syd Barrett and Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Spitting Image Creators Peter Fluck and Roger Law and Creator of St Trinian's Ronald Searle.

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

* Before he was taken hostage, the satirical programme, Spitting Image, featured a puppet of Waite returning from his foreign trips laden with duty-free goods which he would bring surreptitiously to an eagerly waiting Robert Runcie.

Bremner contributed to Spitting Image and Week Ending and by 1987 he had his own BBC Two show: Now-Something Else.

He first achieved success as a vocal impressionist, notably in the ITV sketch show Spitting Image.

The television programme Spitting Image parodied the Video Nasties with their sketch of a sickeningly nice, low-budget film, entitled a video " nicie ".

Newcomers working on the production included puppeteer Anthony Asbury, who had previously worked on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image.

* In 1989, he wrote and presented eighteen episodes of Buy-gones for Club X on Channel 4, and contributed scripts for Central's Spitting Image

In 1985 he launched an unsuccessful defamation case against the Independent Broadcasting Authority for the TV programme Spitting Image, which had inserted a subliminal image of McWhirter's face imposed on the body of a naked woman.

Nallon, a graduate of the University of Birmingham, began his career as a stand-up performer on the northern club circuit, before joining the Spitting Image team in 1984.

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996.

It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television.

By 1986, under their supervision, Spitting Image had become popular, producing a Number 1 hit but the pair left to create Red Dwarf for BBC2.

It was at these latter facilities that Spitting Image Productions were based.

The 1992 Election Special was the first time Spitting Image had been performed to a studio audience.

At the time he wrote The Spitting Image he had not found a single media report to support the claims of spitting.

The relationship was also mercilessly satirised by Spitting Image which portrayed Steel as a squeaky voiced midget, literally in the pocket of Owen.

The first main production of Perkins was Spitting Image where he met Ben Elton, and Harry Enfield whom he got to develop the character of Douglas Hurd by suggesting he adapt it along the lines of Frank Oz's character Fozzie Bear.

* " Spitting Games ", a 2003 and 2004 single released by Snow Patrol

Fenton-Stevens was also a cast member on Spitting Image and later sang lead on their UK number one hit, " The Chicken Song ", also co-written and produced by Pope.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions.

While an impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and appeared with Punt as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.

The popular satire puppet show Spitting Image also parodied Kylie Minogue, depicting the Australian singer as being brought to life by a big headed scientist.

The covers, which feature various cartoon scenes starring caricatures of Stephen Fry and regular QI panellists, are produced by David Stoten ( one of Roger Law's Spitting Image team ), who also contributed to the annuals ' contents.

During this time Baker, who dressed his hair with brylcreem, had come to be portrayed by the satirical programme Spitting Image as an oily snail.

The song was written by John Lloyd for the satirical British TV series, Spitting Image.

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by

* Spitting on the Troops: Old Myth, New Rumors by Jerry Lembcke

He has been parodied by the satirical comedy show Spitting Image, and by impersonator Rory Bremner, amongst others.

The " Mr. Loverman " video was parodied on the satirical ITV1 puppet show Spitting Image and by Marlon Wayans of In Living Color ( an American comedy television series ) in a video called " Mr. Uglyman ," which played upon the opinion that Shabba is somewhat unprepossessing.

The label also owns New American Dream Records, which released music by the Icarus Line, Discount, Kind of Like Spitting, and Ink & Dagger.

Sinden was spoofed on Spitting Image, the British satirical television programme in which famous people were lampooned by caricatured latex puppets.

* The Spitting Image, a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke