Topics covered include: financial collapses; industrial relations; Geoffrey Palmer as Prime Minister; Tomorrow's Schools; cigarettes; leadership of the National Party; traffic officers and violence; Air New Zealand advertising; All Black tour of Wales; local body elections' Government spending cuts; Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) television advertising; race relations; World war Two television season; law and order; Telecom advertising; safer sex; Tampon advertising; so-called 'computer nerds'; and the sharemarket crash.
Inspired by the British series, Spitting Image, Public Eye uses latex puppets to caricature topical personalities, mostly drawn from the world of politics.