Rainbow Funny?

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A good story, and one that comes back every now and then. It's a shame to spoil it but it never went out, nor was it intended to. It was a bit of good dirty fun put together by the cast for the benefit of the Christmas compilation put together by the engineers.

From the official "Rainbow" 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. The clip can now be found on the web, without too much effort. 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 out-takes from their particular companies programme output, and see which ones were the funniest. But ours wasn’t an out-take, 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.
 
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