Scope and Contents A portfolio containing caricature drawings, mostly on detail paper, produced by the Spitting Image Workshop, as part of their work for the British satirical television series, Spitting Image. The contents of this portfolio have been subdivided into four bundles: British sports figures; British media and establishment figures; members of the British royal family and the British religious establishment; and British female political figures.Also present are...

Scope and Contents A box containing sub-files holding contracts and accompanying letters and other documents for commissioned writers, who worked on some or all of the first six series of Spitting Image, between 1984 and 1989, along with the special episodes produced in that period. Some of these writers were also contracted to work on various merchandise items, such as The Giant Komic Book publication in 1988; these contracts are also present. There are...

Scope and Contents Seven boxes with numerous sleeves of 63mm and 35mm photographic transparencies and slides, along with a small amount of photographs, the vast majority of which contain images of Spitting Image puppets. These images have been produced for Spitting Image publications and merchandise, commissioned work from external publications and companies, for general use by the media, and for other purposes. There are also transparencies and related...

Scope and Contents A Spitting Image Productions Limited proposal pack for a six-episode television adaptation of Jonathan Swift's book, Gulliver's Travels (SI/983). The pack contains a treatment [a written summary for a television show idea] and the script for episode 4, both written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman; a budget, and a bound booklet of illustrations and 'inspirational' sketches. Also accompanying the pack is a bundle of research photographs. This project did not...