![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by educational shows like Sesame Street and Electric Company, but designed to give the kids who watched it a voice without adults on screen, it was, for the most part, unscripted. It was originated and produced by WGBH-TV in Boston. Zoom is a half-hour educational television program, created almost entirely by children, which aired on PBS originally from January 9, 1972, to February 10, 1978. I wish I was able to find better video clips of it, there just doesn’t seem to be much available. So much so that when picking out my clothes for kindergarten, I chose several different colored striped shirts from the Sears catalog. Forty-eight years ago today, the public television show Zoom premiered. ![]()
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