The premiere episode featured a boy building a boat by making a ring of brush and covering it with a tarp. Another language game, 'Fannee Doolee,' centered around a character who likes any person, place, thing or concept with double letters in it but hates its non-double-lettered equivalent, e.g., 'Fannee Doolee likes sweets but hates candy.'Įach show had a 'ZOOMguest' sequence, a short film documentary about a child with a special talent for singing, piano-playing, tap-dancing, instrument-making, performing in the Ice Capades, etc. The program also had various language games, including Ubbi-Dubbi, where the syllable 'ub' was added before each vowel sound in each syllable of each word ('H-ub-i, fr-ub-iends,' etc.).

The exhortation was spoken, but the ZIP code was sung. The mail-in request became a pop culture reference for its music exhortation to 'Write ZOOM, Z-Double-O-M, Box 3-5-0, Boston, Mass 0-2-1-3-4: send it to ZOOM!'. These activities were introduced by such titles as ZOOMovie, ZOOM Play of the Week, ZOOMrap (later ZOOMchat), ZOOMgame, ZOOMdo, ZOOMgoody, ZOOMphenomenon, etc.

ZOOM encouraged children to 'turn off the TV and do it!' On the show, a cast of (usually) seven kids (known as ZOOMers) present or perform various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes, songs, movies, science experiments, and informal chats on such subjects such as hospitals, prejudice, etc., all suggested by viewer contributions. ZOOM is a half-hour educational television program, created almost entirely by children, which aired on PBS originally from Januto March 24, 1978.

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