Rainbow: Season 21
Season 21 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rainbow Season 20.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 21 Progress Shield
Family 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 a
Bungling 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.
Rejected/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.
Family 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 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
Neighbours
Oct 13, 1989
Zippy, George and Bungle, mistaking a sikh turban for a crown, think a King and Queen have moved in next door.
Misbehaving
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 misb
Zipman 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
Zippy 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,
Worried/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 jum
Our Common Land
Nov 17, 1989
Geoffrey, Zippy George and Bungle find out that the council want to build houses on the Rainbow woodland.
Time/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.
Night Out
Dec 1, 1989
Zippy, George and Bungle camp out in the garden for the night but not everything goes to plan.
Borrowing 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 scis
Same/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.
Super 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.
Practice 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 h
No Accounting for George
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