Okay, having written this I will search around on the internet and see what extra information I can find out about the ZOOM television program, who starred in it and what has happened to them since that time (over 46 years ago!).

My husband has never heard of Zoom (and he’s only one year older than me).I absolutely can’t recall any specific act or skit that was done on this show – oh, just ONE has now popped into my head, and only one: they used to sometimes sing a take-off on the song “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” called “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat” (how I wonder where you’re at).I think there was some matching “ZOOM” t-shirt action on this show some of the time (maybe during songs?).I really just mean different to *me* – a young Californian who at that time had never been farther out of California than Tijuana.) I can’t remember any of their names. I think the kids who starred in this were around the ages of eight up to about thirteen/fourteen and had, in my memory, odd accents – Boston, perhaps? (I mean “odd” in a good way, by the way.ZOOM was a sort of street kid, funky version of the Mickey Mouse Club – it was a variety show with skits and songs starring a group of regular kids that seemed more like real children you would see on any street in any town, rather than slicked-up professional child performers.

I have rarely seen or heard anything about Zoom since that time either. In my pre-teen years during the early 1970’s I loved a TV show called “ZOOM” – but, other than the fact that I once loved this show, I don’t remember all that much about it.

Zoom tv show 1972