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  E1A Trip to Spain

  Sep 13, 1991

  It's a hot day and Zippy and George wish that they could be on holiday so everyone pretends that they're going on a trip to Spain. Geoffrey pretends to sell ice cream and then everyone goes to a restaurant where Dawn is the waitress. George, Zippy and Bungle learn some Spanish words and everyone sings "Viva La Espana".

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  E2Something to Care For

  Sep 20, 1991

  Geoffrey, Zippy, George and Bungle have just got back from the zoo and Zippy wants a real elephant for a pet. Geoffrey goes to the pet shop and buys a guinea pig which Zippy calls Gilbert. Zippy wants to look after Gilbert for the first week and take good care of him. George gives Zippy some carrots to give to Gilbert and Bungles collected some newspapers for the hutch, but Zippy's more interested in playing with his toy car. Zippy cant be bothered to clean out Gilbert's hutch or give him any food or change his water, so Geoffrey decides to teaches him a lesson. Geoffrey gives everyone lunch apart from Zippy, so when Zippy asks why Geoffrey says he's been far too busy watching TV. Zippy then gets mad and goes to his room to read his comics, but then complains about how messy it is. Geoffrey then tells Zippy off for not looking after Gilbert, so Zippy goes to clean his hutch and takes him some food. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Alby All Alone'.

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  E3Getting in a Muddle

  Sep 27, 1991

  Geoffrey's talking to Dawn's sister Annette on the phone about finding things for the jumble sale, but a kite has got stuck up in a tree and Zippy ends up getting tangled up when he climbs up to get it. Bungle can't unravel it, but George manages to. Geoffrey's sorting out clothes for the jumble sale, but Bungle mishears him and thinks Geoffrey's taking them to the jungle and taking a net. Zippy thinks he's going to give all the old clothes to the animals and Bungle goes to put them all in a suitcase. Everyone's just about to leave to go to the jumble sale when Annette rings Geoffrey and he tells her the lovely things he's found for the jumble sale, lots of bits of old newspaper, bits of straw and some chewed carrot, but that's not right so he speaks with Zippy, George and Bungle. Bungle then realizes they're going to the jumble and not the jungle and Dawn's sister Annette is coming and not a net. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Monty's Muddled Monday'. Then he tells Zippy, Bungle and George that they're going to see Aunty Jean tomorrow, but Bungle thinks they're going to sea in a submarine.

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  E4The Seaside Show

  Oct 4, 1991

  Everyone's come back from the seaside and Bungle suggests that they should all put on their own seaside show. Dawn plays the music, Zippy and George do a balancing act, Bungle does a song and dance and Geoffrey performs some magic tricks.

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  E5Without a Voice

  Oct 11, 1991

  Geoffrey, George and Bungle are getting ready for a boat trip across the river, but Zippy's not very well and has lost his voice, so they all decide to go on a pretend boat trip instead. Zippy pretends to be the captain of the boat, but as he can't speak Geoffrey gives the orders for him. Bungle pretends to swim in the water and then they get shipwrecked on a desert island. Everyone has a picnic and then Geoffrey reads a story called 'Chirp Finds His Voice'. Geoffrey gives Zippy some medicine and then he falls asleep.

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  E6Geoffrey's Big Occasion

  Oct 18, 1991

  Geoffrey recieves an invite to a royal garden party.

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  E7I'm the King of the Castle

  Oct 25, 1991

  Geoffrey tells the gang a bedtime story. The handsome Prince George goes to find the beautiful princess Zippelina.

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  E8Naughty Zippy

  Nov 1, 1991

  Zippy's being very naughty and knocks down Bungle's tower he's made from building blocks, so Geoffrey, George and Bungle decide to do something about it. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Bossy Billy'.

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  E9Safety First

  Nov 8, 1991

  Geoffrey needs to mend a swing in the garden and tells Zippy, George and Bungle not to use it, but Bungle goes on it and ends up falling over hurting himself and Geoffrey's not best pleased. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Fetch A Pail Of Water'. Geoffrey, Zippy, George and Bungle make a first aid box. Geoffrey's finished mending the swing, so he asks if Bungle wants to go on it, but Bungle plays a trick on Geoffrey.

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  E10Surprise Surprise

  Nov 15, 1991

  Zippy, George and Geoffrey can hear Bungle making noise upstairs, but Bungle won't tell them what's going on. However he tells Zippy and George that he's tidying up their bedroom as a surprise for Geoffrey, but Zippy accidentally lets it slip, so Geoffrey pretends he doesn't know a thing. Geoffrey decides that he, Zippy and Bungle should make a surprise for Bungle, but George has to make sure Zippy doesn't let their secret slip. Bungle shows Geoffrey the new room and he's very impressed, but then Bungle finds out he knew already what was happening. Bungle loves the mobiles Geoffrey, Zippy and George made for the room. Geoffrey reads a story called 'A Big Surprise For Bertie'. Then Zippy gets a surprise as Geoffrey and George made him a model house and he loves it.

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  E11Sing Song

  Nov 22, 1991

  Zippy wants to listen to his records, George wants to listen to the radio and Geoffrey would rather watch TV, so they ask Bungle to choose what to do and he decides they should have a sing song.

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  E12Zippy Sets Them Up

  Nov 29, 1991

  Zippy's being unusually helpful today and offers to help George find some leaves, do the washing up for Geoffrey and help tidy the loft for Bungle. Geoffrey reds Bungle a story called 'Tat The Cat Helping Out'. Geoffrey then finds out Zippy only said he'd help out so he could win a big picnic hamper in the local newspaper's competition.

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  E13Taking Turns

  Dec 6, 1991

  Geoffrey and Bungle take turns dancing with Dawn, while Zippy wantt to play a trick on Geoffrey using his toy spider, but things don't turn out as he expects. There's one chocolate cake left, so Geoffrey cuts it in to four pieces for Zippy, George, Bungle and himself. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Helping Humpty and then everyone sings "London's Burning".

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  E14Snow

  Dec 13, 1991

  It's snowing outside and Bungle gets covered in snow. Geoffrey makes some paper snowflakes. Geoffrey makes some snowballs from cotton wool and Bungle builds a snowman. It's also snowing in Swallow Street where Grandma Bricks lives.

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  E15Treasure Hunt

  Dec 20, 1991

  Bungle dreams about looking for treasure in a magic jungle and meet some unusual charcters along the way including the Jungle Jinx and a talking tree.

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  E16The Zippybread Man

  Jan 10, 1992

  It's raining so the rainbow gang can't go to the park. Dawn brings round some gingerbread men biscuits she's baked. Geoffrey tells the story of the gingerbread man. Zippy ends up eating all the biscuits and needs to lie down and dreams about a Zippybread Man. The story of the Gingerbread Boy comes to life. Can the fox catch him? Geoffrey plays a little old man and Dawn plays his wife, George plays a cow and Bungle plays a fox who wants to eat the little Zippybread man.

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  E17Auntie Pays a Visit

  Jan 17, 1992

  Auntie Patsy comes to visit quite unexpectedly, but Bungle, Zippy and George are not very happy when she has to have their bedroom for the night. Auntie gives Bungle, George and Zippy some gifts, but they are very disappointed with the things she has bought them. Geoffrey reads the story "A Very Special Visitor". Later, before bedtime, Bungle, Zippy and George get some pillows from the bedroom and notice Auntie's vanishing cream and they think it is for making her invisible. That night they become curious to know if Auntie has vanished, so Bungle, Zippy and George creep into the room where Auntie is sleeping to check whether she is still there or not. They wake Auntie up, but luckily she finds it funny when they explain about them thinking the vanishing cream was to make her invisible.

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  E18Ice and Water

  Jan 24, 1992
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  E19Getting Organised

  Jan 31, 1992

  Bungle can't find his farm animals puzzle and is making a mess while looking for them. So Zippy decides it's time to get organised and sort all the toys out but will Zippy's organizing go to plan?

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  E20The Invitation

  Feb 7, 1992
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  E21Back Tracking

  Feb 14, 1992

  Right after Zippy helps Dawn pack her shopping basket the TV remote goes missing, everyone thinks back and tries to remember when they last saw it.

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  E22Noise

  Feb 21, 1992
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  E23Let's Play a Game

  Feb 28, 1992
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  E24If Only We Hadn'tFinale

  Mar 6, 1992

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  E1Planting Seeds

  Aug 31, 1990

  Everyone's planting seeds in the garden, but the birds are trying to eat everyone's seeds. Geoffrey reads a story called 'The Mouse And The Miller'. Bungle thinks singing will scare away the birds, but Zippy thinks making a windmill is a better idea. George makes a scarecrow of Zippy looking angry and it scares the birds away, but Geoffrey thinks if they give the birds some bird seeds in a pot it will stop the birds stealing their plant seeds.

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  E2Friends

  Sep 7, 1990

  Two of Geoffrey's old friends, Terry Hall and Lenny the Lion visit the Rainbow house. Bungle and George are a little anxious about meeting a lion, but they soon discover that Lennie is a very friendly lion and they get along with their new friend very well. But Zippy gets jealous of Bungle, George and their new friends Lennie and Terry and thinks nobody wants to be friends with him anymore. Rod, Jane and Freddy sing "New Friends". Geoffrey goes to find Zippy to cheer him up and then Zippy joins the others where they all listen to Terry read a story called "Alby All Alone".

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  E3The Wall

  Sep 14, 1990

  Geoffrey's busy building a wall, while Bungle builds a bridge out of building blocks. Zippy, George and Bungle act out the story of the 'Three Little Pigs' with Dawn playing the music and Geoffrey playing The Big Bad Wolf.

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  E4Keeping Tidy

  Sep 21, 1990
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  E5Changes

  Sep 28, 1990
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  E6Things Aren't Always What They Seem

  Oct 5, 1990

  Zippy, George, Bungle and Geoffrey are looking at distorting mirrors which makes them look different and they all laugh at how each other looks. They make Bungle look thin and Geoffrey look short which Zippy finds very amusing. Bungle thinks it was funny seeing Zippy with a great big head. Then everyone makes different shadows. An old lady visits Zippy, Bungle and George and brings them some presents, but they find out it's Geoffrey in disguise. They open all the gifts and Geoffrey reads a story called 'Things Aren't Always What They Seem'.

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  E7How Does Your Garden Grow

  Oct 12, 1990

  Everyone's doing some gardening today and Bungle's watering some flowers, whilst Geoffrey and Dawn plant some flowers. Geoffrey shows everyone different types of seeds you can plant. Zippy, George and Zippy look at all the seeds they've planted. Zippy's hungry so dreams about cream cakes, but ends up eating too many. Everyone sings a song called "Little Bean Will Grow".

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  E8Streets

  Oct 19, 1990

  Everyone's bored so Geoffrey tells them about some different things that they can see and do. George dreams he's a shop worker. Geoffrey and Bungle paint the window outside the Rainbow house. Geoffrey reads a story called 'The Street That Moaned and Groaned'.

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  E9Kitchen Art

  Oct 26, 1990

  Geoffrey shows Zippy, George and Bungle how to make kitchen art. Everyone makes models from dough which include a snake and a mouse. Everyone makes different shapes from dough including a star, a dog, a rabbit and a duck. George feels itchy and thinks he has a flea on him, but it turns out to be feather. Whilst the models are cooking, Geoffrey plays a song on tape about a king who had a flea.

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  E10Sports Day

  Nov 2, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle have a Sports day in the garden. They split in to two teams with Bungle, George and Jane on the blue team, and Zippy, Rod and Freddy on the red team. Rod, Jane and Freddy sing "Our Big Sports Day". Zippy and George have an egg and spoon race and then everyone plays Tug of War.

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  E11Safari Park

  Nov 9, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle pretend they're going to a Safari park in their coach, with Bungle as their driver. Zippy, George and Bungle receive a letter from their friends Charlotte and Victoria, so Geoffrey tells them about the girl's visit to a Safari Park. Geoffrey, Zippy, Bungle and George talk about all the different animals that you find at a Safari Park such as deer and giraffes.

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  E12Shops

  Nov 16, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle are bored as there's nothing to do. Geoffrey suggests playing a game of eye spy or doing a jigsaw puzzle, but they're fed up and want to do something else, so Geoffrey suggests a day out at the shops. Everyone gets ready to go out, but it starts raining, so they cant go. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Reggie The Pillar Box'. It's still raining so Geoffrey suggests that everyone can have a day in the shops inside. Zippy pretends to open up his own supermarket called Zippy's, Bungle pretends to have a charity shop called Bungles Charity Shop and George pretends to have a music shop selling tapes and records called Georges Mega Music Store. Geoffrey goes to each of their shops and buys things and then he pretends to open up a fast food shop. Zippy, George and Bungle want to buy some of his food, though Zippy wants lots of food as he's very hungry.

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  E13Going Places

  Nov 23, 1990

  Geoffrey's late coming home from his holiday so whilst their waiting Zippy, George, Bungle and Dawn sing "Ride A Cock Horse". Zippy wants to pretend their going somewhere and George suggest the sea so everyone pretends to be going there by coach with Geoffrey as the driver. Then everyone pretends to be traveling by train, but Zippy doesn't know what way he wants to travel. Bungles pretends to travel in different ways such as riding a horse, a motorbike and a boat. Then everyone sings "Down By The Station".

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  E14Why Did You Do That

  Nov 30, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle are a bit grumpy today. George knocks down Zippy's house of cards and Zippy messes up George's paper hat. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Zoe's Zoo'. Geoffrey accidently knocks down Zippy's house of cards, Zippy accidently throws a glass of water at Geoffrey and ruins his shirt and Geoffrey accidently squashes Bungle's model flat. Christopher comes in and Bungle accidently gets paint on Christopher's face. Christopher sings "Why Did You Do That? and cheers everyone up.

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  E15Time

  Dec 7, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle don't feel like getting up, but go to eat breakfast. Geoffrey receives a parcel in the post and it's a cuckoo clock. He shows Zippy, George, Bungle how the cuckoo clock works and they also look at other clocks to see how they work, but then all the clocks go off together.

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  E16New for Old

  Dec 14, 1990

  Zippy decides he doesn't want any old books anymore and only likes new things. Geoffrey finds an old toy theatre and John comes round and tells everyone about it. Zippy dreams about being in the theatre. John performs a puppet play for everyone. Then Zippy realizes old things can just be as good as new things.

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  E17Chitter Chatter

  Dec 21, 1990

  Zippy, George and Bungle are making lots of noise so Geoffrey tells them all to be quiet. Zippy dreams about the phone, clock and Rainbow storybook coming to life. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Ichabod and the Birthday Cake' and then tells Zippy, George and Bungle about the play he's going to see called The School for Scandal. Zippy, George, Bungle and Geoffrey act out a play with Geoffrey as Sir Geoffrey Laugh-A-Lot, Bungle as Mr Fibber, George as Lady Chitter Chatter and Zippy as her husband.

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  E18A Lazy Day

  Jan 11, 1991

  Everyone in the Rainbow house is having a lazy day, Bungle even refuses to get out of bed.

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  E19Exercise is Fun

  Jan 25, 1991

  Bungle is doing lots of running in the garden as he wants to get fit, but Zippy and George are eating biscuits. Bungle ends up overdoing his running and gets very tired. Then everyone has lunch but Bungle only has a few peas on his plate and thinks he needs to go on a diet. Geoffrey convinces him to eat more food and wants Zippy and George not to eat too many sugary foods. ippy and George feel sick as they've eaten too much and Bungle's hungry. Bungle then does some more exercise, but struggles weightlifting. Geoffrey does some exercises such as weightlifting and press ups but struggles doing them. Bungle and Geoffrey play ball which makes Zippy and George tired. Then they have to join in their exercises.

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  E20Playing the Game

  Feb 1, 1991
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  E21Who Done It

  Feb 8, 1991

  Geoffrey's going to write some letters, but can't find his pen. Zippy thinks he could be a good detective and George helps him look for the missing pen. They dress in different disguises and try to solve the case of the missing pen, starting by looking in the bedroom. Zippy and George want to borrow Geoffrey's magnifying glass to find the clues to solve the mystery of the missing pen. Zippy thinks Geoffrey took the pen so they look downstairs for it and they find it under the storybook. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Mr Snoozer's Parrot' Geoffrey's going to write his letters, but can't find his writing pad so it looks like another case for Detective Zippy, until Bungle finds it!

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  E22Rain and Water

  Feb 22, 1991

  It's raining and Zippy, George and Bungle are singing songs about the rain. Geoffrey talks about rain and how you must not waste water. Zippy, George and Bungle put objects into a tray of water and Bungle's rubber duck and Geoffrey's boat float, but George's lump of plasticine sinks. Then Zippy asks Geoffrey to make a man for the boat, but it sinks. Geoffrey reads a story called 'Bessie Bundle's Sinking Feeling'.

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  E23The Birthday Cake

  Mar 1, 1991

  'The Birthday Cake' In this episode of Rainbow It's Zippy's Birthday! Zippy gets upset when he believes Geoffrey hasn't got him a birthday cake, but Bungle, George and Geoffrey have a little surprise!

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  E24Shaping UpFinale

  Mar 8, 1991

  Dawn's making a jumper for Geoffrey whilst George is cutting out different shapes to make a mobile. Bungle draws around everyone's hands and Zippy's curious to why, but it's a surprise. Everyone sings "Shapes Around". Zippy and George have to guess what objects wrapped up in fabric. Bungle shows everyone what's he's made from drawing around everyone's hands.

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  E1Family Get Together

  Sep 8, 1989

  Zippy, George, Bungle and Geoffrey are going to go for a picnic but it's rains so they decide to have their picnic inside. Zippy and George perform a show for Bungle and Geoffrey and sing "Three Blind Mice". Geoffrey reads a story called 'Home is Best'. Bungle sings "London's Burning" and Zippy, George and Geoffrey join in and they all have their picnic.

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  E2Bungling Bungle

  Sep 15, 1989

  Geoffrey decides to decorate with Bungle's help but things don't go to plan when Bungle wallpapers over the door.

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  E3Rejected/Neglected

  Sep 22, 1989

  Zippy is trying to write a song for a talent contest . He refuses help from Bungle George and Geoffrey but finds it's more difficult to do than he realised.

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  E4Family in the Garden

  Sep 29, 1989

  Geoffrey knocks down Zippy and George's skittles over and then falls over into Bungle's paddling pool. He then goes to sit down but sits on Bungle's lemonade and isn't best pleased. Geoffrey decides that everyone should have their own piece of the garden so that he can have his own quiet corner, Zippy can grow things to eat, George can grow flowers and Bungle wants to have animals on his piece of garden. Bungle and Geoffrey measure the garden whilst Zippy and George design a plan. Zippy and George show Geoffrey their plan for the garden, but they've put everyone in the same part of the garden. Auntie comes round and reads everyone a story called 'Thomas The Gardener'. Then everyone has their own piece of garden and Bungle brings a donkey into the garden so children can ride him.

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  E5Geoffrey Babysits

  Oct 6, 1989

  Geoffrey tells Zippy, Bungle and George about Bobby who's moved in next door, but Geoffrey seems to spend most of the time with Bobby leaving Zippy, George and Bungle very unhappy until they find out why. Geoffrey read a story called 'Hot Dog, Shaggy Dog'.

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  E6Neighbours

  Oct 13, 1989

  Zippy, George and Bungle, mistaking a sikh turban for a crown, think a King and Queen have moved in next door.

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  E7Misbehaving

  Oct 20, 1989

  When Zippy, George and Bungle are misbehaving, Geoffrey gets so fed up that he goes out for the day- and gets his extremely strict grumpy Uncle Bill to come and look after the misbehaving trio.

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  E8Zipman and Bobbin

  Oct 27, 1989

  Zippy is building his own Batmobile out of cardboard. Then he and George pretend to be Zip Man and Bobbin the Boy Blunder. Together they stop Geoffrey the Joker from getting rid of the worlds laughter.

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  E9Zippy Wants to be a Comedian

  Nov 3, 1989

  When watching Ernie Wise on the TV, Zippy develops aspirations to be a comedian himself, but no-one will laugh at his jokes. That night he has a dream in which he meets Ernie Wise, thus imbuing him with the talent he needs to become a master comedian.

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  E10Worried/Weary

  Nov 10, 1989

  George is collecting money for the local hospital. Gabrielle makes lots of paper animals to sell at the jumble sale and shows everyone how to make them. The Rainbow gang have a jumble sale in the garden.

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  E11Our Common Land

  Nov 17, 1989

  Geoffrey, Zippy George and Bungle find out that the council want to build houses on the Rainbow woodland.

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  E12Time/Space

  Nov 24, 1989

  Geoffrey has forgotten he had to make a rocket for a children's party, so Gabrielle Bradshaw comes round to help him.

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  E13Night Out

  Dec 1, 1989

  Zippy, George and Bungle camp out in the garden for the night but not everything goes to plan.

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  E14Borrowing 2

  Dec 8, 1989

  Everyone is borrowing things, but they forget to give them back. Zippy's taken George's basket and moved his shells, Bungle's taken Geoffrey's ruler, George has taken Bungle's scissors and Geoffrey's borrowed the paints and forgotten to put them back. Gabrielle shows everyone her game that's she made.

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  E15Same/Different

  Dec 15, 1989

  Zippy's cousin Zippo comes to stay but Zippy gets annoyed when Geoffrey's 'friend' Jenny keeps getting them mixed up.

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  E16The Toymaker

  Dec 22, 1989
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  E17Super Bungle

  Jan 12, 1990

  Super Bungle helps George get his doll from Zipoid and Mr Geoffrey who live on the planet of too many toys.

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  E18George and Germs

  Jan 19, 1990
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  E19Geoffrey Learns French

  Jan 26, 1990
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  E20Family Pressure

  Feb 2, 1990
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  E21Practice Makes Perfect

  Feb 9, 1990

  Bungle is learning to play his keyboard, but he never stops playing it which annoys everyone. Geoffrey comes up with an idea to help improve his playing and asks Jessica to gives him some piano lessons.

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  E22The VIP

  Feb 16, 1990

  Someone very special is coming for dinner, a VIP.

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  E23Wrong Day

  Feb 23, 1990
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  E24No Accounting for GeorgeFinale

  Mar 2, 1990

  Zippy wants to buy a new model car and Bungle wants to buy a comic, so George lends them some money, but then he realises he hasn't got as much money in his money box as he thought he had. Geoffrey reads a story called 'The More The Merrier'. Geoffrey gives George some chores to do to earn extra pocket money so he can buy a xylophone.

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Freddy Marks replaces Roger Walker, creating the best remembered line up of the "Rainbow" Singers 'Rod, Jane and Freddy'.

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Roger Walker replaces Matthew Corbett who leaves the show to continue presenting 'The Sooty Show' for his father.

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A new group of singers, husband and wife team Rod and Jane join the cast along with Matthew Corbett.

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The first Season with the Best known presenter of the show Geoffrey Hayes, and the more familiar characterisation of Bungle.

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Roy Skelton joins the cast as the voice of Zippy and George.

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