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...Zoom (PBS) is a children's show produced by kids who want to stay on their own side of the generation gap, thank you. Virtually all the material is by children and is selected by the seven-member cast (ages nine through 13). The kids sing, dance, play games, talk in "Ubbi-Dubbi"-a catchy code language reminiscent of past generations' pig Latin-show home movies and give laconic instructions in all manner of skills. The first show featured a filmed demonstration of how to build a raft from tree limbs, leaves and an old tarpaulin...
Most endangered species worth preserving: THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE (PBS...
Most vital dramatic program ming: HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION THEATER (PBS...
...brightest of PBS's established series, The Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil...
Most other major public networks in the free world are guaranteed their funding and are therefore more independent of their governments than PBS so far has been. If its bureaucratized and politicized management continues to bow meekly to pressure, as it did last week, PBS might as well give up its bold new logo and perhaps adopt something like a plucked version of the old NBC peacock. That is, a chicken...