Drama/Comedy
Blair was co-founder and co-creator of Spitting Image, acting as Producer and then Executive Producer until mid 1987. He was also Executive Producer of all Spitting Image Specials for NBC and HBO in the USA. In his time at Spitting Image as Producer or Executive Producer the programme won two Emmies, a Banff comedy award, and numerous other international awards. Blair produced Dunrulin' for BBC1, a satirical comedy based on his own idea featuring the Thatcher family in retirement starring Angela Thorne and John Wells. He also made The Stone Age by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman for BBC1 and starring Trevor Eve. Other comedy productions include Packing Them In and Blue Heaven, both starring Frank Skinner and both for Channel Four. There was also the light hearted dramatised documentary, Sindy Hits Thirty, with Sandi Toksvig for Channel Four.
In 1991 Blair produced and his company made its first feature, Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray's sequel to Swimming to Cambodia.
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