Zoom (partially lost revival of PBS children's series; 1999-2005) (2024)

Zoom was a live-action children's series that aired from January 4th, 1999 to May 6th, 2005, produced by WGBH (now GBH) that aired on PBS. It was a revival of another live-action series of the same name that aired from 1972-1978. The show is in the same vain as other popular children's shows that aired on PBS like Sesame Street and The Electric Company, but its cast is made up of kids ages 8 and up and perform various activities like games, plays, poems, songs, and would occasionally start conversations on various topics like prejudice and hospitals, with most topics being submitted by the home audience. The revival became a ratings winner for PBS and switched to the channel's children's block "PBS Kids" halfway through the show's first season. The revival lasted 7 seasons with 200 episodes (outliving its precursor in episode length), ending in May 2005 due to poor ratings.^[1]

Availability

The revival only saw four home media releases in the form of four VHS tapes that were released between 1999 and 2002. After PBS Kids stopped rerunning the show in 2007, a large majority of the show's run has never been seen since and is mostly lost.

As of November 2024, all episodes from seasons 2-7 and 34 episodes from season 1 have been found and uploaded online. 14 episodes from the first season were uploaded onto YouTube by user ZOOMFan1, 7 additional episodes by Evan's Media Archive and 11 more onto Facebook by George Herrera.

As of November 2024, the missing episodes from season 1 are 113, 116, 119, 124, 129, 131 and 133.

GBH Boston currently doesn’t have the rights to share or release the episodes, meaning the only chance of finding them is on VHS recordings from when they aired on TV. And despite the best efforts of fans, recordings of these episodes have proven virtually impossible to find. (This is likely in part due to the fact that they were last broadcast in early 2002.)

Clips from some of the episodes have been found, however. Below is a list of known found and lost segments from the missing 7 episodes.

ZOOMsci

ZOOMdo

Café ZOOM

ZOOMalong

ZOOMgames

Zingers

ZOOMplayhouse

Ubbi Dubbi Skits

ZMails

Gallery

Stills (Season 1)

• Alisa introducing The Flying Trick (129)

• Bubble Race (129)

• Pablo making Calzone (129)

• Pablo eating Calzone (129)

• Zoe in Group Juggling (129) (?)

• David in Group Juggling (129) (?)

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• The bus ride play

Behind the Scenes (Season 1)

• Waterwheel (124) (?)

• Ubbi Dubbi Weather Update: Sun (124) (?)

• Pablo making Bagel Faces (131) (?)

• Bagel Faces (131) (?)

• Pablo trying to eat Bagel Faces (131) (?)

• Run, Rabbit, Run (131) (?)

• The Greek gods play (131) (?)

• Ubbi Dubbi Chef: Chocolate Milk (133)

• Alisa messing up in Apple Triangles (unaired)

• Alisa messing up in Pinwheel Cookies (unaired)

• Draw Your Name on Your Forehead (most likely unaired)

• Name 10 Body Parts Using 3 Letters (most likely unaired)

• An unknown clapping game

• Fish Joke

• Row, Row, Row Your Boat in Ubbi Dubbi

Pictures (Season 1)

• Color Symphony (113)

• Peanut Butter Treats (124)

• Waterwheel (124) (?)

• Calzone (129)

• Bagel Faces (131) (?)

• Yarn Doll (133)

• Pile Up

• Apple Triangles (unaired)

• Comic Book File Box (unaired)

• Glamorous Glitter Eggs (unaired)

• Lemon Slush (unaired)

• Magazine Beads (unaired)

• Marshmallow Mountain (unaired)

• Pinwheel Cookies (unaired)

• Serpent Tie Creature (unaired)

• Stained Glass Cookies (unaired)

• Straw Weaving (unaired)

• Worry Doll (unaired)

• The website image for zebra cake (likely taken from a different cafe, as Zoe didn’t make the zebra cake)

Stills (Season 2)

• Purple Cow (version 2) (unaired)

Behind the Scenes (Season 2)

• Season 1 and 2 Cast (239)

Stills (Season 5)

• Great Moments in Ubbi Dubbi History: Cave People

Behind the Scenes (Season 5)

• Great Moments in Ubbi Dubbi History: Cave People

See Also

Zoom

• Zoom (found pilot of revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1995)

Bumpers

• Bookworm Bunch (partially found interstitials from PBS Kids channel block; 2000-2001)
• PBS Kids (partially lost schedule bumpers and interstitial material of TV channel block; 1999-present)
• PBS Kids Vote-A-Rama (lost bumpers of "Arthur" themed marathon; 2002)
• Someday School (partially found PBS Kids channel block; 1998-2000)

PBS

• Adventures with Kanga Roddy (partially found PBS children's series; 1998-2000)
• Backyard Safari (found PBS children's educational series; 1997)
• Barney & Friends "Season 9" (partially found alternative version of PBS children's series; 2004-2005)
• Christmastime with Mister Rogers (found holiday special of PBS children's educational series; 1977)
• Feeling Good (lost PBS health series; 1974-1975)
• Lamb Chop's Play-Along (partially lost PBS children's puppet series; 1992-1995)
• Mister Rogers Talks About Conflict (found episode arc of PBS children's educational series; 1983)
• The Puzzle Place (partially found PBS puppet series; 1994-1998)
• Reading Rainbow (found Johnny Kemp opening sequence for PBS children's educational series; 1999)
• Shining Time Station (found season one intro of PBS series; 1989-1990)
• Springtime with Mister Rogers (found primetime special for PBS children's educational series; 1979)
• Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)
• Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Auld Lang Gone" (non-existent episode of PBS children's game show; 1992)

PBS Kids

• The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (partially lost PBS Kids "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" spin-off series; 1998-1999)
• Curious George (lost test pilot of PBS Kids animated series based on books; existence unconfirmed; 2004/2005)
• Cyberchase "The Poddleville Case" (found test pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; 1999)
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids animated musical series; 2006-2008)
• Dragon Tales "One Small Step for Cassie" and "Circle of Friends" (lost pilots of PBS Kids animated series; 1999)
• Dragon Tales Live! (partially found footage of live stage shows; 2001-2006)
• The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2005-2006)
• The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017)
• Jet Propulsion (partially found pitch pilot of "Ready Jet Go!" PBS Kids CGI-animated series; 2013)
• Kratts' Creatures (found PBS children's educational series; 1996)
• The Let's Go Show (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2007-2008)
• Make Way for Noddy (partially found PBS Kids version of British children's TV series; 2005)
• Molly of Denali (partially found pitch pilot of PBS Kids animated series; 2018)
• Nature Cat (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; early 2010s)
• Peg + Cat (partially lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; 2011)
• Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
• Seven Little Monsters (found episodes of PBS Kids animated series; 2000-2004)
• Space Race (partially found PBS Kids web series; 2011)
• The Sunny Side Up Show (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2007-2017)
• Super Why! (partially found British dub of PBS Kids CGI animated series; late 2000s-2010s)
• Super Why! (lost second pitch pilot of PBS Kids CGI-animated series; 2004-2006)
• What's The Big Idea? (non-existent pitch pilot of "Sid The Science Kid" PBS Kids CGI animated series; 2007)
• WordGirl (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
• WordWorld (found test pilot of PBS Kids CGI animated educational series; 2005)

References

Categories:

• Lost TV
• Partially lost media