Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
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This show features the LazyTown characters in short, humourous sketches whilst Ziggy visits the UK to encourage healthy eating and getting active.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
That's My Bush! is an American comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central from April 4 to May 23, 2001. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, best known for also creating South Park, the series centers on the fictitious personal life of President George W. Bush, as played by Timothy Bottoms. Carrie Quinn Dolin played Laura Bush, and Kurt Fuller played Karl Rove. Despite the political overtones, the show itself was actually a broad lampoon of American sitcoms, including lame jokes, a laugh track, and stock characters such as klutzy bimbo secretary Princess, know-it-all maid Maggie, and supposedly helpful "wacky" next-door neighbor Larry.
Three adolescent boys, Ed, Edd "Double D", and Eddy, collectively known as "the Eds", constantly invent schemes to make money from their peers to purchase their favorite confectionery, jawbreakers. Their plans usually fail though, leaving them in various predicaments.
Bo' Selecta! is a British sketch show written and performed by Leigh Francis, which lampoons popular culture and is known for its often surreal, abstract toilet humour.
A sketch comedy series starring and hosted by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. The pair introduce most episodes as heightened versions of themselves before transitioning to a mixture of live sketches and pre-taped segments.
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
A sketch comedy show featuring some of Britain's great comedic talents of the 1980s and 1990s in one of their earliest TV appearances.
Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a partially musical comic retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, placing Maid Marian in the role of leader of the Merry Men, and reducing Robin to an incompetent ex-tailor. The programme was much appreciated by children and adults alike, and has been likened to Blackadder, not only for its historical setting and the presence of Tony Robinson, but also for its comic style. It is more surreal than Blackadder, however, and drops even more anachronisms. Many of the show's cast such as Howard Lew Lewis, Forbes Collins, Ramsay Gilderdale and Patsy Byrne had previously appeared in various episodes of Blackadder alongside Robinson. Like many British children's programmes, there is a lot of social commentary sneakily inserted, as well as witty asides about the Royal family, buses running on time, etc. Many of the plots spoofed or referenced film and television shows including other incarnations of Robin Hood in those mediums.
Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC2. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of Catterick, though he may produce a spin-off centring on the DI Fowler character. Catterick is arguably Vic and Bob's darkest and most bizarre programme to date, balancing their typically odd, idiosyncratic comedy with some genuinely dark scenes. It plays like a darkly comic road movie, albeit full of Vic and Bob's bizarre, often inscrutable and frequently silly humour. Catterick is probably Vic and Bob's most uncompromising show since their notorious and frequently baffling 1999 sketch series Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, from which most of the characters are taken. It is in some ways stylistically similar to their short film The Weekenders first broadcast in 1992 on British television as part of Channel 4's "Bunch of Five" series. The series is named after Catterick in North Yorkshire, Britain's largest army base. It is about 10 miles away from Darlington where Vic Reeves grew up. It is also about 20 miles away from Middlesbrough where Bob Mortimer grew up.
The big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular characters
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.
Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show.
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn’t and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran, their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group’s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
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12 episodes • 1984
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Feb 26, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Mar 4, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Mar 18, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Apr 1, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Apr 8, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Apr 15, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | May 13, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | May 20, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | May 27, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Jun 3, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | Jun 10, 1984 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Episode 12 | Jun 17, 1984 | 0.0 |
11 episodes • 1985
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Jun 1, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jan 13, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jan 20, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Jan 27, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Feb 3, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Feb 10, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Feb 24, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | Mar 3, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | Mar 10, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Mar 17, 1985 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | Mar 24, 1985 | 0.0 |
17 episodes • 1986
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Jan 12, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jan 19, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jan 26, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Feb 2, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Feb 9, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Feb 9, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Apr 6, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Episode 8 | Apr 13, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Episode 9 | Apr 20, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Episode 10 | Apr 27, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Episode 11 | May 4, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Episode 12 | Sep 28, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Episode 13 | Oct 5, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Episode 14 | Oct 12, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Episode 15 | Oct 19, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Episode 16 | Oct 26, 1986 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Episode 17 | Nov 2, 1986 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1987
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 1, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 8, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 15, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Nov 22, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Nov 29, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 6, 1987 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1988
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 6, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 13, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 20, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Nov 27, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 4, 1988 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 11, 1988 | 0.0 |
5 episodes • 1989
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Jun 11, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jun 18, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jun 25, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Jul 2, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Jul 9, 1989 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1989
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 12, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 19, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 26, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Dec 3, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 10, 1989 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 17, 1989 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1990
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | May 13, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | May 20, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jun 3, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Jun 10, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Jun 17, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Jun 24, 1990 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1990
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 11, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 18, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 25, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Dec 2, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 9, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 16, 1990 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1991
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Apr 14, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Apr 21, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Apr 28, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | May 5, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | May 12, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | May 19, 1991 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1991
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 10, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 17, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 24, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Dec 1, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 8, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 15, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | TBA | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1992
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Apr 12, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Apr 19, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Apr 26, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | May 3, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | May 10, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | May 17, 1992 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1992
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Oct 4, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Oct 11, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Oct 18, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episdoe 4 | Oct 25, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Nov 1, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Nov 8, 1992 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1993
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | May 16, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | May 23, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | May 30, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Jun 6, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Jun 13, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Jun 20, 1993 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1993
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 7, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 14, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 21, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Nov 28, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 5, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 12, 1993 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1994
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | May 1, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | May 8, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | May 15, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | May 22, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | May 29, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Jun 5, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Jun 12, 1994 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1994
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Nov 6, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Nov 13, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Nov 20, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Nov 27, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Dec 4, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Dec 11, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | Dec 18, 1994 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1996
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | Jan 14, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | Jan 21, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | Jan 28, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Episode 4 | Feb 4, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Episode 5 | Feb 11, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Episode 6 | Feb 18, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Episode 7 | TBA | 0.0 |