New Zoo Revue - Season 1
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Brand: BCI ECLIPSE LLCCreator: Barbara Atlas
Creator: Doug Momary
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1440 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Brentwood Home Video
Movie Reviews of New Zoo Revue - Season 1
Movie Review: Dated look, but the Messages are still just as Relevant
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not quite sure what to say about The New Zoo Review. Unusual? Bizarre? Unique? All of the preceeding and more. It's so squeaky clean you feel like you need a shower after watching an episode. It's The Brady Bunch of pre-school TV. On the surface it's painfully cutesy yet at the same time if, as an adult, you peel off the cutesy layer and really listen to the messages, it's a truly great teaching/learning tool for the 4-7 year old age group. Unlike so many supposedly 'educational' kids shows, the underlying purpose of New Zoo is explaining values - what is and isn't important in life. New Zoo is all about values and morals and making the right decisions. Basic values and morals never go out of style ( or at least they shouldn't, though sadly... but thats another, much longer discussion ). New Zoo finds ways to make the value the message of each episode. In that it succeeds brilliantly.
The New Zoo Review is not for every child. Some kids have a different sense of what 'works' for them, just as some kids love a teacher that other kids simply can't stand. The same principle applies to most everything in life. My gut feeling is that New Zoo works better for the quiet, introspective, bookish child. There is relatively little physical action. Instead there is constant inter-action between the characters - conversation and song woven through situational skits about a single value or concept per episode.
One thing very few people are aware of is that the two human characters, Doug Momary (the shows co-creator) and Emily (Emmy Jo) Peden, are married in real life, were during the programs run and have been for nearly 40 years. They still work together behind the scenes in a TV production company.
In short, The New Zoo Review was aimed at the 4-7 year olds of a very different era than the one we live in today, but the messages and values it taught are still just as important now as they were then. It also had another huge fan base... 11-15 year old boys who lusted after Emmy Jo with their bedroom doors shut. For both age groups it was, in its way, very educational...
Summary of New Zoo Revue - Season 1
NEW ZOO REVUESeason 1...Coming Right At YouThis 6 DVD Set contains an unprecedented 59 Episodes from the Award-Winning first season of this ground-breaking children's show.Watch Henrietta Hippo Freddie the Frog Charlie the Owl and the Gang spark the imagination through song and dance with hilarious hijinks that they share with the help of Doug and Emmy Jo!A WAY OF LIFE THROUH MUSICThe Emmy award-winning NEW ZOO REVUE debuted in syndication in the U.S. in 1971 and has reached more than 100 million viewers. The musical show is known for teaching values as a way of life for young people with episodes having such titles as "Fairness" "Manners" "Courage" and "Imagination" while inspiring children to become more caring and constructive.Today after 30 years after it premiered New Zoo Revue can still be seen in almost 60% of the country. Parents who grew up watching the show themselves are now watching it again with their children. Now a second generation is getting the chance to enjoy educational programming that teaches positive messages and entertaining life lessons that are as important today as they were thirty years ago...if not more so!System Requirements:Cast: Emily Peden Doug Momary. Copyright 2004 BCI.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 787364565399Similar DVD Movies
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