Zig Zag: Over to You

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started18th Nov 1985

ended13th Nov 1989

last rpt29th Jun 1990

5 school years

episodes5

duration20 mins

subject 🏫Miscellany

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

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Over to You is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s & 1990s, covering Miscellany for Primary pupils.

Encouraging viewing pupils to make their own puppet shows, cameras and animated films by talking about the history of existing methods and showing schools at work on projects.

Three autumn term programmes suggesting different ideas were followed by a follow-up programme at the end of the school year showcasing some of the animation work done by schools in response. A further episode on making videos was added to later repeats.

Over to You programmes, showing school projects underway to inspire viewers to undertake their own projects, were a popular feature of the BBC's junior TV series in the 1980s, with others appearing in Now and Then and especially Landmarks.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	DIY Puppetry	#1985-11-18-00-00-0018 Nov 1985
2.	DIY Photography	#1985-11-25-00-00-0025 Nov 1985
3.	DIY Animation	#1985-12-02-00-00-002 Dec 1985
4.	Festival of Animation	#1986-06-09-00-00-009 Jun 1986
5.	DIY Video	#1989-11-13-00-00-0013 Nov 1989

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Fri	Channel	Details
1985-86	Autumn 1985	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 2:40pm		BBC2	from 18 Nov
	Summer 1986	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 2:40pm		BBC2	9/11 June
	Summer 1986		Tuesday, 2:20pm		Friday, 10:15am	BBC2	22/25 April, Subtitle Slot
1989-90	Autumn 1989	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm		BBC2	from 30 Oct
1989-90	Summer 1990	Monday, 8:55am			Friday, 1:00pm	BBC2	25 & 29 June

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey Paul Coia
Producer	Chris Ellis

Resources

As usual, there were teacher's notes available.

Related programmes

Zig Zag: World of WorkA pair of 1990s Zig Zag programmes showing school mini enterprises underway to encourage other pupils to take up the mantle.

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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