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Children's Zoo

Episode Number: 7    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday October 11, 1985    Prod Code: n/a
A little girl's parents are always fighting and screaming at each other. She takes them to the Children's Zoo with a special invitation and she gets something very special, something her parents could not even imagine.

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Writer: Gerrit Graham, Chris Hubbell
Director: Robert Downey
Star: Charles Aidman (Narrator (1985-1987))
Guest Star: Kerry Slattery (Caged Woman #1),  Sandy Brown Wyeth (Caged Woman #2),  Pamela Brown (Caged Woman #3),  Virginia Morris (Caged Woman #4),  Lorna Luft (Sheila Cunningham),  Steven Keats (Martin Cunningham),  Jaclyn Bernstein (Debbie Cunningham),  Sydney Walsh (Melody),  Don Paul (Caged Man #2),  Al Alu (Caged Man #4),  Jack Taloe (Caged Man #3),  Wes Craven (Caged Man)

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No ending or opening narration. (edit)
Wes Craven, who directed the premiere episode "Shatterday," has a cameo as one of the prisoners. (edit)
This episode is only 8 minutes. (edit)

Quotes

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Mother: How about I teach you a new word. You ready? Here's your new word: comb. As in comb you hair. Try it sometime.
Father: Do you expect me to look like James Bond or somebody. I'm in construction, for crying out loud!
Mother: I'm not asking for James Bond, just something closer to the human race.
Father: Burp! How's that?
Mother: You're grotesque! (edit)
Father: If you don't want to be a couple of legs dangling from the ceiling, you'd better plug that tv back in right now. (edit)
Mother: How do you expect me to keep nice nails with all the work I have to do around here?
Father: For the work you do your nails should be perfect. (edit)
Mother: Ow! You broke my fingernail
Father: Now it will match the other nine. (edit)
Invitation: An invitation/The children's Zoo/Congratulations! As bearer of this special invitation, you are entitled to one child's admission to the Children's Zoo. You will be offered all the special privileges described by the other... girl who passed this... (edit)

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7.0
Good
Children's Zoo
"Alternate reality"
Child with not so good parents (like most of us) dumps them and find new ones.
Continue » Posted Nov 24, 2006 6:53 am PST

mikegarrigan
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8.0
Great
Children's Zoo
"Series classic"
Child trades in her neglecting parents for better ones.
Continue » Posted Dec 26, 2005 12:21 pm PST
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Episode: Children's Zoo
Season Number: 1
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