Rainbow is back!!

Rainbow is making a return to your screens after a 13 year absence! From tomorrow you can catch it every day on Nick Jr in the Classics section at 8pm!

Oh happy memories!

And before you ask... no you can't play with my twanger!

But Jane and I have been banging away all night!

Well, I can't find my balls, so I'm playing with a friend's.

Some people quote being 13 years being the time that it was last shown on Thames but UK Gold did also repeat the show on the channels launch at 6am every weekday morning. Not sure how many months it eventually was transmitted for?

That's great news, I am going to try and tune in

everybody "la la la lalala la lala"

I have the full theme song to Rainbow somewhere and I still have the Thames VHS of the Rainbow Christmas Pantomime where Geoffrey starred as Widow Tw.a.n.key!

"Its a banana snowman..." "A banana snowman Zippy? - there's no such thing" I have a good memory for quotes, I haven't watched it since I was 10....honest.

I used to love Rainbow as a kid. Lunchtimes on ITV, just before the ITN Lunchtime News. It was either Rainbow, Allsorts or some seperate show Rod, Jane and Freddy did.

Isn't Geoffrey hard up for cash these days? How much is a repeat fee worth these days?

Which episodes are they playing anyway? The only DVD releases and episodes played on TV at all in the last decade or so have been the later ones, i demand earlier ones lol

They're from 1982- so exactally slap bang in the middle of the run.

isn't geoffery runny a cab firm or something

i heard the guy who played bungle hated children so much we wouldn't do guest appearances so they had to get a stand in to wear the costume

of course the stand in couldn't talk as he'd sound nothing like bungle so there were a kids upset because they'd seen bungle at a fete or something and he wouldn't say hello to them

I remember towards the end of Rainbow's run (the proper version with Geoffrey, not that blue cat thing), Bungle's voice did change.

The Zippy and George puppets which are currently used for PA's also don't look right. Zippy's become more yellow, and George is way too fluffy.

Yes, I seem to remember Bungle's voice changing. He became more posh. The original actor also voiced K-9 from Dr Who.

His head also changed over the years... http://www.widdy.demon.co.uk/rainbow/head.htm