For fans of Rainbow, the UK kids TV show

Is this a real episode ? It doesn't look faked.

http://www.focus.demon.co.uk/rainbow.avi (4Mb, warning - contains suggestive innuendo)

P.S. If you have never heard of the Rainbox kids TV show, don't bother to download it

WTF? Maybe they had some spare film stock and decided to do a spoof of their own show...

Or maybe this was the pilot episode?

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/4330

From the FAQ at this website

RUDE RAINBOW?

We're often asked about the so called rude Rainbow, clips of which have been shown on the Channel Four programmes, TV Unzipped and TV Offal. Although often introduced as the unaired pilot, this episode was actually specially made by the team at Thames Television. Geoffrey Hayes told us, "The VT department of each ITV company, every Christmas had a competition to enter all the outtakes from their particular companies programme out put, and see which ones were the funniest. But ours wasn’t an outtake, we specially did it. It was specially scripted and we did it and I never saw it! We did it and Thames won it, but what they actually won, I don’t know. But I never saw the video. I can’t remember much about it except for Zippy with a banana." The script was written by the voice of Zippy and George; Roy Skelton. Sadly, we don't have a copy, so don't ask!!

I haven't watched the clip yet, but reading between the lines, I guess this is it.

Edit - oops, didn't read right to the bottom of the link Roger posted, where it says more or less the same thing

Ah yes, I've shown that to a few people and it's hilarious if you know the show and watched it as a kid. I didn't know the story behind it but suspected it was for the "Christmas tape" or something.

Gareth

Andy, is that your site that's hosting the file, can it handle being linked in a bunch of places? I've got a friend that wants to post it in his blog...

It is some free webspace on an ISP account, so no it can't handle lots of random links. I had to get it slimmed down from 16Mb to 4Mb so that I could post it here, as my daily allowance maxes out at 150Mb.

I linked it via a redirect from my home server, so that I can keep a rough track on how many downloads are going on, as the ISP whose server it is on only provides basic logs and only at the end of the day. Coming up to 40 downloads so far today, so I should just about avoid getting my webspace pulled today... (I only use this webspace for files like this to stop my DSL line getting caned)

Feel free to copy it somewhere else, I don't know where it came from originally. If you want the 16Mb version let me know.

Email me privately, I want you to send me the 16 meg version.

You've got a PM...

Oh, and if you have somewhere with some bandwidth to host it properly, let me know where it ends up and I'll edit my post to link to it.

Ok, I've actually downloaded it now because I was assuming it was the same as the one I saw - it's much longer actually - very good!

The one I have seen is here. You can also see some "clean" examples of the show which ran from 1972 to 1992.

OMG!!! I was just reading the IMDB entry (to get the dates above) and saw that the guy who did Zippy and George's voices (Roy Skelton) was the voice of the Daleks! Exterrrrminaaaate!

Gareth

Heh, I *thought* that voice was familiar!

Okay, I missed this thread first time around.

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If you want the 16Mb version let me know.

Yes, please, if you still have it available!

Cheers