Career
His voice and puppetry talents have appeared on television shows such as Pipkins (for which he provided the narration, as well as voicing and operating the characters of Hartley Hare and Tortoise), Spitting Image and Gerry Anderson"s New Captain Scarlet. He has also contributed to films, such as Muppet Treasure Island and The Hitchhiker"s Guide to the Galaxy. Plaskitt appeared as Unstoffe in the four-part Doctor Who science-fiction serial The Ribos Operation in 1978.
(Something to look out for in Participant Two of this particular story is the scene where Unstoffe poses as a Shrieve guard, during which Plaskitt is heard to use a variation on his "Tortoise" voice from Pipkins)
In British television advertisements, Plaskitt appeared as the character Malcolm, a young man suffering from a heavy cold, in a series of commercials for Vicks Sinex nasal spray during the mid-1970s and again during the 1990s.
He was also the puppeteer behind the Independent Television Digital/Procter and Gamble Tips Monkey. He also narrated The Review
West. Awdry"s letter to Christopher at the beginning of some United Kingdom and United States broadcasts of Thomas and Friends. He also was involved with the Gorillaz Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House on November 1–5, 2005, as a Pennsylvania for the puppets of Murdoc and 2D when they came out in the beginning of the show.
The puppets of Murdoc and 2-Doctorate reappeared after the Main Secretariat was over when the curtains fell after their choral outro, Demon Days, and they edged on the audience for an encore and the curtains then rose to an encore of Hong Kong and Latin Simone.
