Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)

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Zig Zag
Genre Children's show
Starring Terry David Mulligan
Susanne McLellan
Valri Bromfield
Mairlyn Smith
Bill Reiter
Rick Ducommun
Country of origin Canada
Original release
Network BCTV
Release1979 (1979) 
1988 (1988)

Zig Zag was a Canadian children's television series. [1] [2]

It was produced by BCTV (now Global BC) in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1979-1988. Among the hosts of the series were Terry David Mulligan, Susanne McLellan, Valri Bromfield, Mairlyn Smith, Bill Reiter, and Rick Ducommun. Norm Grohmann, Nicola Cavendish, and Ryan Stiles also made regular appearances on the show.

One segment of the show was The Biff and Bart Show, which originally started out only as a two-minute "filler" segment, but as the years went by it ultimately took over the whole program.[ citation needed ]

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