"What is the character ""George"" from the UK TV series ""Rainbow""?"
George (Rainbow) George (Rainbow) George is an effeminate anthropomorphic pink Hippo and a character of the popular children's television programme "Rainbow", voiced by Roy Skelton and operated by Malcolm Lord, Tony Holtham and later Craig Crane. Sporting long eyelashes, George often appeared to be initially outwitted by the more extrovert and egotistical Zippy. However in the manner of The Tortoise and the Hare, George normally won through in the end. George was noted for his fondness of stories from the Rainbow book. George's "catchphrase" was his own delayed and elongated goodbye at the end of the show, i.e. Geoffrey, Zippy, Bungle, Rod,
Rainbow (TV series) ran to only one series of 12 episodes. Both were produced in association with HTV. A comic based on the latter series, also titled "Rainbow Days", ran for a handful of issues in 1997. Episodes of the original "Rainbow", dating from the early 1980s, were shown sporadically on the UK satellite TV channel Nick Jr. (and/or its sister channel, Nick Jr. 2) in the late 2000s as part of its Nick Jr. Classics re-runs. A previous repeat run took place on UK Gold (now Gold) from its launch in November 1992 to 1994; these were mostly from the last three