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Season 5 (1976-1977)
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00:00Come on and zoom, there's room for all. We're gonna sing and dance and have our ball.
00:19Everybody's having fun, everybody's number one, everybody's writing the show.
00:24So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom.
00:31I'm Chris. I'm Jennifer. I'm Juan. I'm Macario. I'm Karen. I'm Cabell. I'm Nell.
00:54Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you.
01:09Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom.
01:15I'm gonna give it a try. We're gonna reach for the skies. You can help us to fly high.
01:25Come on and zoom, come on and zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom.
01:35Come on and zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom.
01:39Yeah, yeah, yeah! Come on, come on!
01:43I don't know why everybody's making such a fuss about 25 cents.
01:49What are you talking about?
01:51Everybody keeps on shouting, get the quarterback, get the quarterback!
01:55Get that quarterback! Get that quarterback! Get that quarterback!
02:00back. This is a riddle sent in by Kathleen Dillon of Staten Island, New York. What should
02:10you do if you break your toe? Step on the elevator. Give up? Yeah. Call a tow truck.
02:19Dear Zoom, you ask kids what they think about skateboarding. I think the bad part is when
02:33you get hurt. The good part is knowing how to ride safely and obeying the rules. If
02:38you want to skateboard, keep trying. You can do it even if you're a girl. And that's
02:43what I am. From Mishoya, Smiley, Chicago, Illinois. I want to try the skateboarding. I tried it
02:52once. I tried it once. It kills when you fall off. Dear Zoom, you had a rap about parents
03:00getting divorced. And some of the Zoomers thought it was bad for kids to choose which parent
03:05to live with. My parents were separated seven and a half years before they got a divorce.
03:10My brother and I chose to live with our father after living with our mother during most of
03:15the separation. We adjusted very well and are happy about our decision. Thanks for being
03:20available to Air My Feelings. From Justin Robinson, Coconut Group, Florida. I like that. Here's
03:28a poem sent in by Barbara Engler of South Bend, Indiana. I wish I were a grapefruit, and here's
03:34the reason why. When you come and eat me, I'd squirt you in the eyes.
03:38Chrissy Eno of Tucson, Arizona sent us this letter. Dear Zoom, please read this to the
03:50public. I care about Zoom, and I hope you do too. So now's the time to send your idea,
03:56game, story, or poem to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass, 02134. Thanks, Chrissy.
04:02How many envelopes? Send us two. A big one for Zoom, and a small one for you. Put your name
04:11on the small one, your house and your street, and your city and state. Hey, that's neat. But
04:17where's the stamp? You almost forgot. That's very important. Yeah, thanks a lot. The bigger
04:24one's easy. You know what to do. Stuff everything in it, and then rush it to...
04:312, Zoom, C-double, O-M-5-3-5-0, Boston, Mass, 02134. Send it to Zoom!
04:403, Zoom, C-double, O-M-5-0, Boston, Mass, 02134.
04:474, Zoom, C-double, O-M-5-0, Boston, Mass, 02134.
04:53Cornea Moraine. I'm Eric. Transaropa. What time is she due at the pilot station? Very good,
04:59we'll be there. Billy, get the Ellen ready. Give me a tooth when you're set.
05:09My name is Billy Fournier, and I'm 11 years old. In the summertime and on weekends, I
05:14work with my father on tugboats.
05:29To someone who was first looking at an engine in tug, it'll look real complicated. But once
05:39you get the hang of it, it's real easy. Took me about three years to learn how to start
05:44the engine.
05:59I started working on tugboats when I was about five years old, and now I pretty much get
06:07to do anything my father does.
06:09That ship is coming out of the fog right now off a speck. He's right about at buoy eight.
06:16It's like the size, but a little bit bigger than an express.
06:19Yeah, she's about 500 and, I think she's 520 feet long. He'll take a coast pilot from Boston
06:25to New York.
06:26One of the things that our tugboats do is dock ships when they come into the Boston
06:30Harbor.
06:32Is that the Boston pilot?
06:33Yep.
06:40Often we have to take the pilot out to the ship. The pilot is the person who knows the
06:45Boston Harbor real good. He can guide the ship safely without any rucks.
06:52He's got a thruster on his bow. It's like a tug forward.
06:55Me and my father have been doing this so long that it seems like it's easy.
06:59Come on to the other quarter. Put up a line.
07:01Okay, Billy, hold this. We'll just stare alongside the ship. I'm going down to get a cup of coffee.
07:06Let me out of here.
07:06Yeah.
07:07You feel like you're really strong and everything, that you're staring a big tug like that by yourself.
07:18Well, when the ship gets near the dock, it's the tugboat's job to make sure you don't hit too hard, or if you don't hit at all, we have to push him in so he's right in his own berth.
07:35Very good. Okay, Billy, come up here with me now.
07:40It takes a lot of skill for the tugboat to push the ship into the dock gently.
07:4420 degrees right in, don't keep it square.
07:49As he keeps increasing his headway, you'll have to put in a little bit more rudder. That's it.
07:53The pilot and the captain have to have a lot of teamwork to get the ship in safely.
07:58The captain of the tugboat has to really be like on his toes.
08:23If you don't take care of your tugboats, they can sink right away, but if you take care of them, you can keep them for centuries.
08:39I really like the guys that I work with.
08:50It must have a wheel like the Peggy. I ain't a big guy. Don't go...
08:53Those Atlas, those Atlas are big engines, they turn slow, they have big props. Take the one in the Hudson, which is as big as the wheel.
08:59I'm aware that I'm a lot younger than most of the guys, but we still have a good relationship.
09:05Besides going out in the tugboats, there's a lot of other things I can do when I'm here.
09:09We got a lot of equipment around the yard, and most of it I know how to drive.
09:16Now heel it! Bring it back level!
09:21Okay.
09:33Pushy's the smallest tug we have, and sometimes I get to drive it by myself.
09:39Pushy's the Megail Bridge.
09:41This is Megail Bridge, back to the pushy.
09:43I'll have a metropolitan call. Opening, please.
09:47Okay, Captain Billy, we'll go right up in two minutes.
09:51Thanks for the opening, Tony.
10:15Thanks for the opening, Tony.
10:19When I get older, I want to be a hockey player, but if I don't, I want to work on the tugboats.
10:35Once there was a frog by the name of Freddy.
10:38Freddy had a big problem.
10:40He was the smallest animal in the jungle.
10:43I'll never get any bigger.
10:47Maybe Oval Owl can help me.
10:50Finally, Freddy got to Oval's house.
10:54Oval, will you please help me?
10:57I know you can do something to make me bigger.
11:03Freddy, I can't make you a bigger frog, but I could make you a different animal.
11:09Any animal you want to be.
11:11What would you like to be?
11:13Well, I'd like to be a full Tony Tiger.
11:17That is what you shall be.
11:21Oh, I don't like being a Tony Tiger.
11:27Well then, what else would you like to be?
11:31I would like to be King of the Jungle.
11:34A Leo Lion.
11:36Well, okay.
11:38If that's the way you want it.
11:41A few hours later, Freddy came back.
11:46I don't like being an Alice-y Elephant.
11:49Well, I'm sorry.
11:51I don't like being an Alice-y Elephant.
11:53I hate being a Leo Lion.
11:55Okay.
11:56What else would you like to be?
11:57I would like to be an Alice-y Elephant.
12:00Are you sure?
12:01Puzzle Tim.
12:03A few days later, Freddy came back.
12:08I don't like being an Alice-y Elephant.
12:13Well, I'm sorry.
12:15I can't change you back now.
12:18But please, you have to.
12:21I promise I will never ask to be any other animal but myself.
12:27So, Oval-Owl changed Elsie Elephant back to Freddy Frog.
12:31And from that day on, Freddy said,
12:34You should always be yourself.
12:45I want to read it.
12:46I want to read it.
12:47I want to read it.
12:48I never miss your show.
12:49But sometimes I miss some of my favorite parts because I'm too busy fighting with my brother.
13:01Why do brothers and sisters fight?
13:04Well, I guess sort of because they get mad at each other and you get tired of living with the same person all the time.
13:10It would be little minor things. It would be over something like a little piece of cake.
13:14Like a brother or sister takes something that doesn't belong to them and I think they start to fight.
13:20They're probably jealous or upset at each other. I don't know.
13:23Sometimes they tease you or they tell on you and you get really mad at them.
13:30Because they have disagreements.
13:31They live with each other so long and they get sick of each other.
13:34Because they get on each other's nerves.
13:36I guess because they love each other.
13:39Where do the bugs go in the winter?
13:41Search me.
13:43No, thanks. I just wanted to know.
13:54Chris! Chris! You've got to taste these cookies I just baked.
13:58Hey, these are great!
14:01Oh, we better stop eating so much before we get sick.
14:10Yeah.
14:11Let's just have one more and then start.
14:16We need will power.
14:18Yeah.
14:26There. Now we won't eat any more cookies.
14:29Yeah.
14:30We could open the box.
14:31True.
14:50There. Now we won't eat any more.
14:54Yeah.
14:55We could take the spring off and open the box.
14:57True again.
14:59True.
15:00True.
15:01True.
15:02True.
15:03True.
15:04True.
15:05There must be a way to resist temptation.
15:06Hey, everybody! Go and go and go and go and go and go and go and go and go and go and go and eat.
15:09Yeah, we could.
15:13Clive the ladder.
15:15Take the box down.
15:17I'm tired of the drink.
15:20And do the little things.
15:21True.
15:23True.
15:25True.
15:26There must be a way to resist temptation.
15:31Hey, everybody.
15:33Go and go.
15:33Go and go.
15:35Go and go.
15:35What are you doing?
15:36The cookies.
15:37The cookies.
15:38What are you doing?
15:40Yeah.
15:41Now we have lots of willpower.
15:45Great.
15:45Yeah, it's great.
15:47But we'll have one more cookie left.
15:51One more cookie.
16:02Break up the bike.
16:04Break up the bike.
16:06Hello.
16:07Livingston, Livingston, Livingston, Livingston, Attorneys at Law.
16:11May I help you?
16:12Yes.
16:13I'll let you speak to Mr. Livingston.
16:15I'm sorry.
16:16He's in court.
16:17Well, then, is Mr. Livingston in?
16:19Sorry.
16:19He's in conference.
16:21How about Mr. Livingston?
16:22On vacation.
16:24Then please connect with Mr. Livingston.
16:27Speaking.
16:27Speaking.
16:27I think that some people take it for granted that they can hear.
16:46My name is Alberta.
16:52We sort of have a special situation in my family because my mother and my father are deaf.
16:58My sister and I have normal hearing.
17:00It's the only time that you throw trying to start at the same place and throw the same way every time.
17:08The reason why most people feel sorry for deaf people is because they think that they are cut off from all the world and they can't communicate with anybody.
17:17From what I've learned as I've grown up and lived around deaf people, deaf people can communicate just as good as hearing people.
17:26Usually the way we communicate is we just sign with our hands like that, not under, try to keep it under, that's the right way, keep it, go like that.
17:48Very good.
17:52Lock the door.
17:56I learned sign language before I learned to speak.
18:08How I learned to talk was probably around some of my friends and also from school.
18:16Enough?
18:18Then wait.
18:23That's 28 cents.
18:26Chicken neck.
18:29I've got some responsibilities that some other kids don't have.
18:34When I'm out with my parents, sometimes hearing people can't understand what my mother or my father is saying, so I have to interpret for them.
18:44Dad, I have a fist to cut off.
18:49She wants to know if she can have it cut up.
18:52Sure.
18:52Would you like it cut up?
18:54Okay.
18:54It's easier for deaf people to communicate now.
19:09We have a special phone that my mother and father have to talk with other deaf people.
19:15With the telephone, they type instead of talking.
19:18Good.
19:24Okay.
19:26My wife is so small.
19:27Why would you start chzhie munis?
19:29Okay.
19:30I need to know him.
19:31Careful with the girls.
19:32My eyes are watering already.
19:51One more thing, one more thing, and they'll start to cry.
19:57What can I do to help it?
19:59You can run it, water, onion under water.
20:06Okay.
20:10In Lebanon, reports say this has been the deadliest day of the Civil War, with 300 people killed in 24 hours.
20:19Another 600 are listed as wounded, and hospitals in the Muslim sector are reported to be short of oxygen, drugs, and doctors.
20:26How's it going?
20:30Pretty good.
20:30Pretty good.
20:32My eyes are watering again.
20:35I'm feeling sorry about that.
20:37Oh, I feel so sorry for you.
20:39Now you know how Mommy feels having to do this all the time.
20:42Hi!
20:53Long time, OC.
20:56Hey!
20:57We have a lot of good friends that have deaf people and hearing people in their family.
21:04Usually we get together around once a month to have a potluck supper.
21:10Potlucks are really lively because you see all these hands flashing in the air
21:15and then people making noises and things like that.
21:18I think that a lot of times that when people are talking to each other,
21:22they're not really communicating because they're not really listening or looking at each other.
21:28And that's why I think with deaf people, they're not really cut off
21:31because they have to look at each other, and that's real communication.
21:39Think this line up next year?
21:41Hope so.
21:42I feel kind of lucky to have deaf parents and be able to learn all about it.
21:49I think that I'll probably work with deaf people when I grow up
21:53because I really think I'd like to share some of what I've learned with some other people too.
21:59Yeah, see ya.
22:00See ya, Jane.
22:01See ya, Mariette.
22:02See ya, Andrew.
22:03See ya, Kim.
22:04See ya, Tim.
22:05Bye!
22:07Wouldn't you like to learn sign language too?
22:10These are some of the signs I use every day.
22:14Hello.
22:15How are you?
22:17Good morning.
22:18Good night.
22:19I love you.
22:20And goodbye.
22:23That's great.
22:24I wish I could learn all those signs.
22:25We can.
22:26They're on a Zoom card.
22:27Try some C-double-O-M-C-O-X-3-5-0.
22:32Boston, that's all who wants me home.
22:37Eureka!
22:38I just invented the telephone!
22:41Goody!
22:42Let's call someone!
22:43We can't.
22:45I only invented one.
22:48We're gonna roll out the barrel
22:51And to find out what's inside too late.
22:55This barrel is called Toe Writer.
22:58It was sent in by Kelly Long of Santa Barbara, California.
23:03Put a pen between your toes and write your name on a piece of paper.
23:07Using your foot, not your hand.
23:10Oh, let's try this one.
23:12I'm trying.
23:13Don't take the baby.
23:15Okay.
23:16Oh.
23:23Oh.
23:25Oh, no.
23:33Oh, Karen is really nice.
23:35Yeah.
23:35I'm doing pretty good over here.
24:04Oh, that is good.
24:11That is good.
24:18Do-do-do-bee, do-do-do-bee, do-do-do-bee-do-boo.
24:24Sing.
24:26Sing a song.
24:28Sing out loud.
24:30Sing out strong.
24:34Sing of good things, not bad.
24:41Sing of happy, not sad.
24:45Sing.
24:47Sing a song.
24:49Do-do-do-bee, do-do-bee, do-do-bee-do-bee, do-do-do-bee-do-bee-do-boo.
25:01Sing.
25:02Sing my song.
25:05Do-do-do-bee, do-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-boo.
25:12Nobody can tell you.
25:14Do-do-do-bee, do-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee-do-bee.
25:16There's only one song worth singing.
25:18They may try and sell you.
25:21Yes, it hangs them up to see someone like you.
25:26But you gotta make your own kind of music.
25:31Sing your own special song.
25:34Make your own kind of music.
25:37Even if nobody else sings along.
25:43You're gonna be nowhere.
25:46The loneliest kind of lonely.
25:50It may be rough going just to do your things.
25:54The hardest thing to do.
25:57But you gotta make your own kind of music.
26:01Sing your own special song.
26:05Make your own kind of music.
26:07Even if nobody else sings along.
26:13You gotta make your own kind of music.
26:16Sing your own special song.
26:19Make your own kind of music.
26:22Come on, let's everyone else sing along.
26:27You gotta make your own kind of music.
26:30Come on, give it a try.
26:32You gotta sing your own special song.
26:36We're gonna reach for the sky.
26:38You gotta make your own kind of music.
26:42You can help us to fly high.
26:45Come on, let's everyone else sing along.
26:47Come on, let's everyone else sing along.
26:48Come on, let's everyone else sing along.
26:51You gotta make your own kind of music.
26:54Come on, give it a try.
26:56You gotta sing your own special song.
27:00We're gonna reach for the sky.
27:02You gotta make your own kind of music.
27:06You can help us to fly high.
27:09Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.
27:12You gotta make your own kind of music.
27:18Come on, give it a try.
27:20You gotta sing your own special song.
27:23special song. We're gonna reach the sky. You gotta make your own private music. You can help us to fly.
27:33Hi! Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. You gotta make your own private music. Come on, give it a try.
27:44You gotta sing your own special song. We're gonna reach the sky. You gotta make your own kind of music. You can help us to fly.
27:56Hi! Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.
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