
These colorful cardboard pamphlets provided information about the topics discussed on the show and covered issues from baking cookies to protecting the environment. Viewers were encouraged to write letters to the cast that might be read on the show, or could write in to request "ZOOM cards". Targeted at elementary school aged kids, "ZOOM" featured young boys and girls in orange and brown striped rugby shirts learning about art and science in a way that made them fun.

Just as the first generation on "Sesame Street" fans became too old for Big Bird, "ZOOM" hit the scene.

"ZOOM" was a daily television program that came along in the nick of time.
