Rainbow S8E35 (1979) - FULL EPISODE

[@gsf5882]

Geoffrey's all constant smiles and beaming face and cheerfulness. It's all still new and fresh at this point. The years of stress of looking after them, dealing with Bungle's stupidity and clumsiness and Zippy being a pain in the bum and dealing with their bickering is still ahead of him.

[@jamesbedford3774]

This comment made me laugh more than it should have. Absolutely spot on.

[@jameswalker7459]

I was 7 when this episode was aired..am 49 now still watching and loving the days events in the rainbow house.... bring back The rainbow house our children would love to watch this on milkshake instead of ten episodes of pepper pig..

[@mickeydodds1]

Infinitely more intelligent, entertaining and meaningful than 'Loose Women'.

[@glennhoddle10]

Spot on.

[@racheldoesacrylic4089]

i remember watching this when i was a kid with my sister when mum and dad were at work after school// heck where did the years go ?

[@zekeedwards7904]

When I was a kid my dad used to shout " that bloody hippos a bender" which even for 1983 was inappropriate 😂

[@bencoleman8350]

I think bungle was a bender he would walk around all day with nothing gone then wear pyjamas in bed

[@iwithoutam9391]

This appears to be "Going Abroad: Vienna", first broadcast in January 1979 (although probably a later repeat), and not "Trip 4:By Plane". At that time, Rainbow was shown on 5 days a week, and what appears to be the following day's edition (available elsewhere online) starts with Geoffrey recalling that, yesterday, Bungle was pretending to be an aeroplane, and then goes on to explore Vienna further. I can still remember these "Vienna" programmes when they were shown on television (probably when they got repeated in the early '80s).

[@VideotapeFTW]

Good point, well made - you are absolutely right. Thank you so much for pointing this out! After a bit more digging, it's definitely this one: collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150565160 I think I've corrected everything that needed to be.

[@chloethesqueakfan2K4]

Yeah

[@jameswalker7459]

The drawings and sounds werr so strange!wish rainbow was on five days a week today!

[@rafiqadarr6217]

George is so cute!! Just got to laugh, the innocence of programmes in those days. A different world now. RIP Geoffrey Hayes, we miss you.

[@CaptainSiCo]

The earliest episodes of Rainbow I can remember were like this, with Zippy and George outside looking through the windows. Never struck me as odd back then….

[@VideotapeFTW]

You raise a good point! Now I'm trying to remember if they ever did it the _right_ way round, i.e. Zippy and George inside looking out through the window...

[@CaptainSiCo]

Not that I remember, but it was a long time ago! Maybe if an episode or scene was set in the garden? Later they were shown looking over the garden wall.. which means they were “standing” in next door’s garden!

[@VideotapeFTW]

@@CaptainSiCo Ah, yes - I definitely remember the confusing garden wall logistics!

[@psychedelicelvis-777]

@@CaptainSiCo Zippy was a neighbour in early episodes with a dog called Duffy that was replaced by George the Hippo! Later episodes had them moved into the Rainbow house!

[@CaptainSiCo]

I never knew that! Perhaps weren’t comfortable moving in because the earliest Bungle was so scary!! Never struck me as odd until later that Zippy and George only had one arm each! When they were required to do a task that needed two hands, they sometimes announced “We’re going to do this together!”

[@AshtonArcher]

Aircraft is a McDonald Douglas DC-9 I believe.

[@billymyers9268]

George just picked the first place he could see in the holiday brochure without consulting with anyone about where they'd like to go on holiday. Why didn't Zippy, Geoffrey and Bungle say where they'd like to go? Then, they could have had a vote. Surely that would be a more democratic way of doing things.

[@billymyers9268]

Where did George's case come from? And that holiday brochure?

[@billymyers9268]

"This boy's going to fly to Austria..." On his own? Where are his parents? "Excuse me, young man, but I'm afraid you can't get on this flight without a parent or guardian..."

[@mosquitor81]

One of them should have responded to the suggestion of Vienna with "This means nothing to me..."

[@fretboardmaster70]

The thing was. Ultravox had never been to Vienna and neither was the video shot there… so it meant absolutely nothing to Midge. It was even kept off the top spot by Joe Dolce …

[@zippygeorgebungleandgeoffr5511]

We were talking about Viena

[@thehoobs9788]

Bungle became an airplane

[@leighbennett1961]

Is Geoffrey wearing flares?

[@linndrumfan1959]

Yep...and a few years after they had been in fashion 😂

[@chloethesqueakfan2K4]

Yeah

[@Mike-vd7ee]

Good days.

[@markgreet3543]

If only custom were like this lol

[@billymyers9268]

When they introduce the story, the storyteller just says, "Hello" and goes straight into the story. That's it! There's no, "I'm so-and-so" or "Are you sitting comfortably? Then, I'll begin..." That would have been better. It's more personable. He didn't even smile when he said "Hello".

[@chloethesqueakfan2K4]

The boy going to Austria

[@ScottHindle-qv6mq]

The guy with the beard looks like he's from ABBA.

[@jameswalker7459]

Look how skinny Jeffrey Hayes was in this episode

[@Thelaughingfrauditor]

Zippy appears to have grown an extra arm :-D

[@VideotapeFTW]

Hmmm. But does that one on the window sill ever actually move throughout the episode...? ;-)

[@fraserkatie]

Never actually seen an episode with Roger in instead of Freddy!

[@linndrumfan1959]

@@fraserkatie First time for everything. 😉

[@chloethesqueakfan2K4]

Bungle was pretending to be an aeroplane

[@zippygeorgebungleandgeoffr5511]

Yay

[@andrewriches3349]

I’d only be one :)

[@fretboardmaster70]

This show was full of double entendres and sexual references galore or is it just my overactive imagination? Jeffery was an Acid head in the 70s.