Legacy and Repeats
From October 1996 to January 1998, Spitting Image Series 1-11 were on UK Gold, repeated on UK Gold from January to September 1998 but shown three times per week. Edited episodes from Series 1-3 and 7 were on Granada Plus from 2001-2003.
Most of the puppets were sold online at an auction hosted by Sotheby's, including a puppet of Osama Bin Laden never used in the series.
On 25 June 2006, ITV transmitted Best Ever Spitting Image. Speculation that a new series would follow was dismissed.
In February 2008, Comedy Central Extra started showing regular repeats of Spitting Image from 9pm on Tuesday evenings, with a whole weekend's worth of evenings devoted to the first two series.
From 2001 to 2004 the ITV series 2DTV had a similar style, but using computer animation instead of puppets.
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