Bob Spiers

Directing

Bob Spiers

Born 1945-09-27 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Robert Alexander "Bob" Spiers (27 September 1945 – 8 December 2008) was a director. He is particularly noted as the director of the early series of Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2001), the musical comedy Spiceworld, and of the second series of Fawlty Towers (1979). He also worked with Steven Moffat on Press Gang and Joking Apart. Spiers won a BAFTA Award twice for his work as a television comedy director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Spice World poster
4.9

World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

Spice World

1997

Spice World poster
4.9

World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

Spice World

1997

That Darn Cat poster
5.0

While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enlists skeptical law enforcement help to find the victim before it's too late.

That Darn Cat

1997

Up Line poster
NR

Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.

Up Line

1987

Chilly Dogs poster
5.5

A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.

Chilly Dogs

2001

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout poster
7.3

Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is proposed to by her stuffy, upper-class boyfriend, Paolo. Eddy hits the slopes and has a near death experience where God appears to her and tells her it's not yet her time. When Eddy comes to, she waits for a sign that she should get involved in Saffy's wedding. As she returns to the house, it appears all hell has broken loose- relatives piling up, practically squatting, and Saffy about to lose her mind. Eddy calms her by throwing money at her as they bond together, planning Saffy's dream wedding. What could go wrong?

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

1996

Gino: Full Story and Pics poster
NR

A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol poster
NR

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders reprise some of their favourite characters for a yuletide airing, while Charles Dickens and the Oscar-winning film The Piano feel the lash of their satirical humour.

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

1994

Susie poster
NR

In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former pop star Garry Dreadful, who has moved to the village to start a traditional farm and asks her to live with him.

Susie

1984

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88 poster
NR

Parodies of Christmas movies, hair gel ads, and Bananarama.

French And Saunders - Christmas Special '88

1988

Didn't You Kill My Brother? poster
NR

Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

1988

Five Go Mad on Mescalin poster
NR

On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm they're appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire, Mr Budweiser, and his spoilt son, Willy. Julian and Dick are so incensed, they sleep outdoors where they spy 2 heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love Island, where they discover Uncle Quentin and his boyfriend Toby.

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983

The Beat Generation poster
NR

In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal existence in a large villa overlooking the sea. Dumped by his girlfriend Jeremy is anxious to be part of their circle until two girls from the outside world and a wild party open his eyes to what really matters.

The Beat Generation

1983

Five Go Mad in Dorset poster
NR

In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Timmy and their brothers Dick and Julian, whose relationship seems to be more than fraternal, go on a cycling holiday in Dorset where their flair for detection - plus their snobbery and xenophobia - gets a whole string of suspicious characters arrested.

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques poster
7.0

Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

1984

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous poster
7.0

Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

1995

War poster
10.0

1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.

War

1983

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life poster
7.7

During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There, she reminisces about the people and events which have made her what she is today.

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

1998

The Fast Show Live poster
7.6

Recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo in 1998, The Fast Show Live features all of the original cast of the highly successful sketch series (Caroline Aherne excepted) including Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Arabella Weir and practically all of their myriad characters and catchphrases.

The Fast Show Live

1998

The Best of French & Saunders poster
NR

A compilation of all the best sketches from Britain's favourite female comedy double-act. They are all here - the music numbers, Hollywood spoofs, the uncannily perceptive mickey-taking of our various - and particularly female - obsessions, and much, much more.

The Best of French & Saunders

2002