Zig Zag: Let's Face It

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📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started30th Apr 1990

ended14th May 1990

last rpt16th May 1990

1 school year

episodes3

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceBiology

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

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Let's Face It is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s, covering biology for primary school pupils.

A set of programme about the face, including police photofit identification, communicating emotions through facial expressions, and the history of portrait painting. The final episode includes a look at the puppet charicatures from the Spitting Image TV programme.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	The Face	#1990-04-30-00-00-0030 Apr 1990
2.	The Message	#1990-05-09-00-00-009 May 1990
3.	The Portrait	#1990-05-14-00-00-0014 May 1990

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1989-90	Summer 1990	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2

Credits

Presenters	Paul Coia Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer	Tom Stanier

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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