#14: Rainbow's first Christmas

1972 was Rainbow's first year, with a cast including David Cook (who went on to write the acclaimed novel and Channel 4 adaptation Walter) as house human, cutaways featuring intended early stars Sunshine and Moony, Telltale as the house band, no George and the nightmare fuel of original Bungle, with John 'K9' Leeson inside. A week of festive fun alights on food, singing, Christmas post and trees, including appearances by semi-regular characters that have not a single online reference, Zippy's gruff dog Duffy and stop-motion aided storytellers Bramble and Logan. There's also a couple of storytellers, and in the first programme Zippy does his own zip up at one point, which begs the question of why he was later never able to unzip himself when Geoffrey forced his mouth shut.

2018 EDIT: These disappeared from YouTube at some point this year but we found these three elsewhere. Not sure if the self-zipping is in any of them, but it definitely existed.