Zig Zag: Rush, The Fallow Deer

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	Movement

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started23rd Nov 1987

ended30th Nov 1987

last rpt27th Jun 1990

3 school years

episodes2

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceNature

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

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Rush, The Fallow Deer is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s & 1990s, covering nature for primary school pupils.

A BBC wildlife film by John and Simon King following the life of a deer born in the New Forest, originally shown for adults on Christmas Eve 1985 and serialised for Zig Zag.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Rush the Deer 1	#1987-11-23-00-00-0023 Nov 1987
2.	Rush the Deer 2	#1987-11-30-00-00-0030 Nov 1987

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1987-88	Autumn 1987	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:38pm			BBC2
1989-90	Summer 1990	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2

Credits

Zig Zag Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey
Rush, The Fallow Deer film by	John & Simon King

Resources

There were teacher's notes available.

Related programmes

Zig Zag: MordicusAnother Simon King nature film shown on Zig Zag in the 1980s.

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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