Zippy was a character on the British children's tv series Rainbow. The TV show ran from October 16th, 1972 until March 6th, 1992. It was created by Pamela Lonsdale.
Roy Skelton, the voice of Zippy from 1973 â?? 2011, in one interview was asked about the kind of animal Zippy was based on. He never revealed the answer.
Rainbow
One of the first times (if not THE first time) she calls Alan "Zippy" she refers to "Zippy the Chimp". "Zippy" was a chimpanzee television/shorts character from the late 50s and early 60s. He was featured as a sort of "near human" character, rather than as an animal, in a series of shorts used as fillers on television and at movie theaters. He was treated as an equal by his child co-actors. he sort of filled the role of the main character in the shorts (ala "Spanky" in "Our Gang") but typically closed out the feature by doing something extraordinarily foolish - thus proving himself to be only a monkey (ala Alan Harper).
Shows did Zac Efron NOT Appear?
The Ed Sullivan Show
GLEE
The Ed Sullivan Show.
It wasn't a game show, it was Laugh-In, a TV show.
zippy
No.
Louis Who ?
Yes he did appear on the Fox TV show "Cops" several times in 2000.