ZOOM, Series I; 104

- Transcript
. Hi, this week's show has some segments that were in earlier Zoom shows and that you were asked to see again. In a few weeks, some new Zoomers will be coming, and they'll need your help the same as we needed it. So keep on writing, and now, on with the show. Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, I'll Zoom. You gotta Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, I'll Zoom. Everybody's doing it, everybody's moving it Everybody's having a ball, yeah
So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, ah, zoom Come on in, zoom, ah, zoom, ah, zoom I'm Joe I'm Nina I'm Kenny My name's Tracy I'm Tommy I'm Nancy. Oh, I'm John. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. We'll be right back. Thank you.
It's a play, but it's a very short one. It's sent in by Vicki H-A-A-S, whatever it is, of Asheville NC, whatever that stands for. It says, one day there were two boys and one's name was Trouble and the others was shut up. They went to the store, Trouble went in, Trouble went in and shut up waited outside. A policeman asked, shut up, what is your name? Shut up, he said. Little boy, little boy, what is your name? Shut up. What is your name? Shut up. Little boy, are you looking for trouble? No, he's in the store.
That's the end. Here's a good one from Peter Nobilly, or something like that, Nobill, from Newton, Mass. How many letters are in the alphabet? 26. in the alphabet. Eleven. T-H-E. A and so forth. Um, why do people use beetle soap? Beetle. Beetle soap. I don't know. Why? To wash away... The Ringoes. Yeah, to wash away the Ringoes. This is a good one from Darlene McLaurin of Washington, D.C., and she says, what is the best thing to take down when one is run down? I don't know. The license number of the car. I read that one. Look, here's one from Joanne Schreger again, or whatever her name is, from Elmhurst, Illinois.
Okay. Hmm, what is a twack? A twack is what a twain runs on. Oh, yeah, I missed it. Good. Oh, um, here's a good one from Shirley, Shirley Copland, Hanford, N.C., I don't know. Um, where, oh, what day is good for cooking? Sunday. Friday. Oh, yeah. And now it's Mary Mack time again, and this one's from Guy Latorno of Andover, Massachusetts. Oh, Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, sat on a tack, tack, tack, and yelled, oh, my, my, my, and hit the sky, sky, sky, fell on a sack, sack, sack, and broke her back, back, back, began to cry, cry, cry, and thought she'd die, die, die. But that's a lie, lie, lie.
Thanks, Guy. If you have a Merry Mac, send it in, and then we can show other people. And now a Zoom movie sent in by Ben Winship of lincoln massachusetts i'm ben winch and i wrote a poem on pollution i decided to make a film using my poem for the soundtrack the problem with pollution is people they don't care they just let it get worse and worse and worse worse and worse and worse and worse Once there was a town that was very, very
clean once there was a town that was all nice and green but then the people started getting mean and then the clean green town was not so clean And then cars and trucks and planes really started raising cane. And then the town turned into a city. And for the people who live there, I give pity. city is the grossest place i'd rather live in outer space your eyes turn red when you're out in the air and water pollution is everywhere
the factories started pouring out smoke and all the little fishes they started to croak The clean, green town was such a nice place. Don't you think this is a disgrace? If you have a movie which you think is good, send it to Zoom.
It could be on TV for the whole country to see. Write Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass, 02134. Roundabout now, thought you'd like to know how to cook things up to make a show. We start with the best and it comes from you. They're the things you say you want to see or do. We take your suggestions from A to Z and sort them out so they're easy to see. We pick your letters when they're ready and right. And blend them together till the recipe is right. With something old and something new, add a bright idea and your point of view. Remember when you drop us a line to add these items before you sign. Your name, address, along with a stamp, we'll send you a Zoom card as quick as we can. Write Zoom, C-double-O-N, Fox-3-5-0, Boston, Mass-4-2-1-3-4. Zoom, Zoom. Zoom, Zoom.
Zoom, Zoom. Zoom, Zoom. Zoom, Zoom. Zoom, Zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom! This is a Zoom game called Buzz Fizz. Buzz Fizz. Like all other games, it has rules. But we're not going to tell you what the rules are. So, see if you can figure them out as we play Buzz, Fizz. One. Two. Fizz. Four. Buzz. Fizz. Seven. Eight. Fizz. Buzz. Eleven. Fizz.
Thirteen. Fourteen. Fizz, Buzz. 16. 17. Fizz. 19. Buzz. 21. You're up. She's young. She doesn't know. 22. Yes, I do, too. She just said... Fizz. Buzz. 26. Fizz. 28. 29. Buzz. You're up. Fizzbuzz. Yes. Oh. Oh. 31. 32. Uh... Fizz. 34. Buzz.
Fizz. 37. 38. again. Oh, Odipane. All right, duh. No. All right. Don't, I always get this one, my 39. Oh, come on. I'm gonna fuck you. Could you figure out the rules to BuzzFizz? Write and tell us. If you enclose an envelope with your name, address, and a stamp on it, we'll send you a Zoom card with the rules to BuzzFizz. If you want to know what this means, stay tuned to Zoom.
Yay! Oh, yeah! Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I'd guess first the chicken. An egg. I don't know. The chicken? The egg. The chicken. God produced the egg. Chicken. Then the egg hatched and made a chicken and that chicken made more eggs. It wasn't that it had to be in the summertime because it has to keep warm. The egg came first. I think it was the chicken. I heard that on a program. I was thinking about it. I've been thinking about it for a long time and I couldn't, but I think it's a chicken. I think the chicken did.
The egg came first. Egg. Oh, chicken. Chicken. Because an egg has to hatch to make a chicken. A chicken just can't appear. The egg. It's a wonder the dinosaurs didn't trample over it. I mean, one little egg. Poor egg. Well, I think the chicken, because some kind of a dinosaur may have had, like, an egg which turned into a chicken. It's a freak. Eggs? Of the chickens, I don't know. Egg. They came from Iowa and we picked them up at the airport and there were 27 in this little box about foot by a foot. And we had made a brooder before, and we brought them home
and we put them in the brooder. One half has a light bulb in it, and it has a cloth wall to keep in the heat. And then the other half, it's colder, and it has water in it. When you get the chickens out of the package, you should teach them how to drink. what are the names of different kinds of chicken um no not really I think they're Chilean chickens that lay colored eggs what do you mean by different names well Well, a rooster, turkey, and a chicken. Hens, roosters, uh, chicken, um, and chickadee, I don't know. I don't know, I just can't think of the name of chicken.
This is a ghostly pearl leghorn, and they're bred for their egg laying. They come from the south and are the very best type of egg layers. This is an anaconda, and they're bred for a barnyard chicken because they can run around fast and fly well. This is a white-crested black Polish. They were bred for beauty and for fighting in a ring. They have a V-shaped comb. They are all right egg layers. This is Hercules, he's a rooster, he's a silver-laced wyandard, he's bred for being a meat bird, he grows very quickly, like he just lays by the feet of his knees. What's a pecking order? I don't know, I don't know, nope, not really, something that pecks. I think it's like a woodpecker.
Kind of chicken? Not sure. Packing order? Order of pecking. A pecking order is when the chickens, one chicken's atop and nobody can peck him. And then there's a second chicken. He can peck anybody except the first guy. And then there's a third that can peck everybody underneath him and nobody can peck him. except the three top one, and that goes right on down the line until the last one who gets pecked by everybody and can't peck anybody. And here is probably the very last bird. You can see the blood on her head. How can you tell when a head's ready to lay an egg? Gets fat. Stomach gets real fat. Starts going crazy. It eats a lot. Well, I don't really know, but I think they like sit still and they don't make much noise. It starts making a lot of noise or something. when his behavior gets different she gets all upset just sitting around you know i've never seen a chicken when it's gonna lay an egg the way you tell they're laying eggs is
well these are pullets so it isn't too good yet because they haven't fully developed but in the eye around the black spot in the eye it should be whitish and the beak which is starting to turn white, should be white too. The comb should be a very, very red comb. The legs are supposed to be white too and they're starting to turn white. And another way you can tell is that if you can put two fingers between the pelvic bones, then you know they're good at egg layers. But Keith and Kenny, you still haven't told us which did come first, the chicken or the egg. Well, you need an egg to get a chicken, but you also need a chicken to get the egg. And the chicken comes from the egg, so you need an egg to get the chicken. Gee, I wonder which really did come first. Zoom!
Now, the moment you've all been waiting for. This means this backwards. Okay, let's play. Come on, play. Two. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What is Darth Vader 45? Fizz and what is Buzz? Fizz is... This is three. Don't tell everybody. I'm sorry. You can't get it out of me. I'm sorry. Blast that. Nancy, you suck. One. Two. Fizz. Four. Buzz. Uh...
Uh... Fizz. Seven. Eight. Fizz. Buzz. Eleven. Fizz. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fizz, buzz. Sixteen. Seventeen. Uh, fizz. Nineteen. Buzz. Twenty-one. You're up. I'm not. You're out. Twenty-one is fizz. Oh, sorry. Fizz. You just told... quiet please
quiet please quiet please Uh, Alice, as the newest member of our little tea party, why don't you sing a song for us? But I don't know any songs. You don't even know Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat? I think I remember something. Good. Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder where you're at. Up above the world you fly Like a tea tray in the sky Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder where you're at Now! It goes like this Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at Up above the world you fly Like a tea tray In the sky, a twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder where you're at. Animal, you're wrong. It goes like this. Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder where you're at. Up above the world you fly like a tea drink in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little bet How I wonder where you're at Look, it's the Cheshire Cat Hi, Cheshire I know how it goes Twinkle, twinkle, little, little bet How often I wonder
just where you are at up far up above the ordinary world oh how high you fly like kind of a tea tray a phone in the deep blue sky And when you twinkle, twiggle Little, little. How, oh, how I wonder Just where you are at. See you later. Hey, hey, swing it up. Whoa! Tickle, trickle, trickle a little bit. Trickle, trickle a little bit. How I wonder where you're at. Up and up, up and up and down. Like a Elizam punk competition in the sky. Trickle, trickle, trickle a little bit. How I wonder where you're at. How I wonder where you're at.
Wake up, come on. How I wonder where you're at. Oh. Now I remember how it goes! How? How? You know where you're at! Oh! Ah! Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder where you're at Let's do it! Up above the road you fly Like a tea tray in the sky Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder where you're at Oh, yeah. I'll twinkle little bat, how I wonder where you're at. Up above the world you fly, like a tea train in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little bat, how I wonder where you're at.
I got a good idea! What is it? It's stuck the dorm house in the teapot! Good idea! Here we go! Who is this man? I'm a zombie. Roundabout now, thought you'd like to know How to cook things up to make a show We start with the best and it comes from you They're the things you say you want to see or do
We take your suggestions from A to Z and sort them out so they're easy to see. We pick your letters when they're ready and right and blend them together till the recipe is right. There's something old and something new and a bright idea and your point of view. Remember when you drop us a line to add these items before you sign. Your name, address, along with a stamp, we'll send you a Zoom card as quick as we can. Right zoom, C-double-O-M, Fox 3-5-0, Boston, Mass 4-2-1-3-4. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a, zoom-a-zoom. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just one. We're gonna teach you to fly high. Come on and zoom. We'll be right back.
Thank you.
- Series
- ZOOM, Series I
- Episode Number
- 104
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-407wmdtq
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- Description
- Series Description
- "ZOOM is a children's show comprised of weekly half-hour episodes which showed what youngsters do and think. Seven ZOOMers hosted each episdoe, and the cast changed over run of series. ZOOM premiered locally as ""Summer-Do"" in 1970, and premiered nationally in January 1972. ZOOMers played games, told jokes, riddles (called Fannee Doolees) and stories and did crafts projects...and invited ideas from their audience. The result was an avalanche of ZOOMmail - in the first season, over 200,000 letters. Additionally, the Ubbi Dubbi language was invented by ZOOM."
- Date
- 1972-00-00
- Genres
- Children’s
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:28:43
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: Media Library and Archives
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 308371 (WGBH Barcode)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:30
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- Citations
- Chicago: “ZOOM, Series I; 104,” 1972-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 7, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-407wmdtq.
- MLA: “ZOOM, Series I; 104.” 1972-00-00. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 7, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-407wmdtq>.
- APA: ZOOM, Series I; 104. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-407wmdtq