Zoom

I remember watching this show as a grade-schooler in Pitcairn, PA. I really enjoyed it. My only disappointment was they never did teach me how to fly. 😏

I loved this show, too. I'm glad that they brought it back for the next generation but I'm just not in to the new show. It seems more rehearsed than the old one did which was a lot more spontaneous. Kids were just kids on the old show, feeling free to do whatever they wanted, including doing the show in bare feet (which I thought was so cool, since I went barefoot all the time as a kid...still do). It's hard for me to believe that the new cast of kids honestly chooses to wear shoes and socks instead of going barefoot. Bare feet was the show's trademark, giving it a unique feel that I haven't seen any other shows have. It was a really cool thing to come home from school to.

I have been trying for years to locate the original series on DVD or tape (including Ebay). I was only able to come upon the tape "Zoom best of the 70's" which is not that great, but better than nothing. Does anybody know why they haven't released the old ones on DVD? By the way,they have released old "Electric company" and "Sesame Street" episodes. Are there some legal problem that have prohibited the release of Zoom? I'm sure there are enough adults born between 1965-1970 who would buy them up in a flash. Thats the problem-we are the post baby boomers/pre-genxer's so we always kind of get the boot cause we are small in numbers compared to the other groups.

We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-ah-zoom, we're gonna zoomah zoomah zoomah--zoom. I think that was how it went. I loved that show, I would love to watch it with my little boy. I didn't remember it being on as long as it was. It seemed that I must have lost interest around 4th grade in 1977. I remember watching it in school though. It's amazing to me that some of the people who wrote comments remember particular characters. I don't remember them but I do remember them reminding viewers that they mustn't forget "the SASEY." I see some of the shows that my 4 year old daughter watched and I felt so sorry for her. Blues clues comes as close to being as "cool" as the shows that I watched when I was 4.

I started watching this during junior high school. I was probably a little older than the "target" group, but the kids on the show were about my age. At first a few of my cool friends laughed at me, but pretty soon they were hooked and we all watched it together. It was like a secret society. But it still appealed to us, as the features and segments were interesting and well-done, educational but not boring and preachy. It worked because the creators did not treat kids as morons and had respect for their audience's intelligence.