Zig Zag: Danger Detectors

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started20th May 1996

ended10th Jun 1996

last rpt23rd Sep 1998

4 school years

episodes3

duration20 mins

subject ⚖️CitizenshipSafety

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

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Danger Detectors is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s, covering safety for primary school pupils.

Encouraging children to think about health and safety, the presenter meets the 'danger detector' part of his brain and discusses various potentially dangerous situations with him, and encourages children to think about their own 'danger detectors' when cooking, crossing the road, visiting a farm or near water.

This unit was originally envisaged with the title Healthy Bodies on the general topic of health and safety.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Safety Inside	#1996-05-20-00-00-0020 May 1996
2.	Safety Outside	#1996-06-03-00-00-003 Jun 1996
3.	Safety Further Afield	#1996-06-10-00-00-0010 Jun 1996

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Channel
1995-96	Summer 1996	Monday, 11:05am		Wednesday, 1:20pm		BBC2
1996-97	Summer 1997		Tuesday, 1:40pm		Thursday, 11:15am	BBC2
1997-98	Summer 1998	Monday, 11:20am			Thursday, 11:15am	BBC2

Learning Zone

The unit was also broadcast overnight in the Learning Zone on BBC2, from 2:40am on Wednesday 23rd September in Autumn 1998.

Credits

Presenter	Kevin Duala
Consultant	Child Accident Prevention Trust
Writer & director	Kate Stonham
Series Producer	Peter M. Evans

Resources

There were teacher's notes available.

Zig Zag (1983-2000)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Greece (1996) • The Anglo-Saxons (1992) • The Arabs (1984) • Art (1997) • Canada (1987) • Cathedrals (1989) • The Channel Tunnel (1987) • Computers (1983) • Danger Detectors (1996) • The Eskimos (1985) • Food and Farming (1995) • France (2000) • Gardens and Growth (1985) • Geography UK (1995) • Getting About (1988) • The Greeks (1986) • Hungry Times (1983) • Invaders (1997) • Kenya (1994-96) • Let's Face It (1990) • Making It Work (1997) • Mapmakers! (1993) • Mordicus (1986) • The Normans (1983) • The Odyssey (1990) • The Olympics (1984-92) • Over to You (1985-89) • Roman Britain (1993) • Rush, The Fallow Deer (1987) • The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair (1987) • Snapshots: Children in the Second World War (2000) • Space (1984-88) • Spaceship Earth (1986) • Tales from Europe (1992) • Tales from Europe (2000) • Technology (1991) • Topical Programmes (1985-89) • Trees (1993) • Trees and Man (1991) • Tudor Life (1998) • The Vikings (1987) • Village, Town, City (1997) • A Walk Through Time (1999) • Water (1990) • Water, Air, Land (1998) • Weather (1999) • Where You Live, Where I Live (1994) • Wildlife Safari (1989-91) • Winter Festival (1986) • World of Work (1989) • You and the Media (1986)

See also: Zig Zag Shorts • Landmarks • Primary Geography • Primary History

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