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In this episode, Desmond Wilcox presents his new, intrusive fly-on-the-wall documentary, Charles and Di are hounded by the press on their skiing trip and Alastair Burnet comes to blows with John Craven when he tries to steal his news. Meanwhile the Royals take a specially chartered commuter train from Balmoral and at the Tory Party conference there is a rousing chorus of Jerusalem.
Sketches
| Picture | Sketch |
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Maggie Intro |
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Series 3 Opening Theme |
| Printers say no to Murdoch | |
| Films | |
| Andrew Webber interview | |
| The Voyer | |
| John Cole at Westminster | |
| Botha Addresses Westminster | |
| SDP Liberal Alliance Meet | |
| Nippon | |
| Instant Publicity | |
| A Royal Skiing Trip | |
| Soccer ball | |
| John Craven Newsround | |
| Alisdair Mine Sketch | |
| News at Ten | |
| Jerusalem Hymn | |
| Labour Party bar | |
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End of Part One |
| Start of Part Two | |
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Japanese sketch |
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Max Bygraves visits a hospital |
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Number 10 |
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Royal Family train |
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Fowler and Lawson |
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Hatton and PC Dimbleby |
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David Coleman |
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White House |
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Aisles of Sainsbury's |
| Credits | |
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David Coleman |
Characters
Main
- Margaret Thatcher
- David Young
- Press Pigs
- Generic Spitting Image Classic Puppets
- Rupert Murdoch
- Barry Norman
- Melvin Bragg
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Desmond Wilcox
- John Cole
- P.W. Botha
- Shirley Williams
- David Owen
- David Steel
- Roy Jenkins
- Bob Geldof
- Jimmy Hill
- George Best (debut)
- John Craven (debut)
- Alistair Burnett
- Roland Rat
- Michael Grade
- Alisdair Milne
- Lord Lucan
- Arthur Scargill
- Queen Victoria
- Willie Whitelaw
- Cecil Parkinson
- Harold Wilson
- Roy Hattersley
- Eric Heffer
- Neil Kinnock
- Gerald Kaufman
- Peter Shore
- Max Bygraves (debut)
- Nigel Lawson
- Geoffrey Howe
- Douglas Hurd
- Norman Fowler
- Tom King
- Kenneth Williams
- Michael Heseltine
- Princess Anne
- Mark Philips
- Princess Diana
- Princess Michael
- Prince William
- Prince Harry
- Princess Michael
- Horse
- Prince Edward
- Queen Mother
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Prince Charles
- Donald Sinden
- P.C Dimbleby
- Derek Hatton
- Ronnie Hazlehurst (debut)
- David Coleman
- Ronald Reagan
- Caspar Weinberg
- Donald Regan
- David Gergen (debut)
- Mark Thatcher
- Denis Thatcher
Background
- Turkey
- Peter Walker
- Leon Brittan
- George Younger
- Francis Pym
- Harold Macmillan (pictured)
- Prince Andrew
- Prince Philip