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Zoo Parade
Zoo Parade is an American television program broadcast from 1950 to 1957 that featured animals from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The program's host was Marlin Perkins, the Zoo's director. Perkins went on to host the program "Wild Kingdom". Jim Wehmeyer has described the show: "A precursor of sorts to the regularly featured animal segments on "The Tonight Show" and other late-night talk shows, "Zoo Parade" was a location-bound production (filmed in the reptile house basement
by Channel 4, they barely made a ripple in the ratings.
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On 30 November 2002, "Brookside" quietly transferred to its new 'graveyard' Saturday afternoon slot, typically starting at around 4:00pm, and the programme was optimistically retooled to fit the new 90 minute daytime only slot. With an obviously significantly reduced budget, storylines would now revolve around only a handful of characters, often in just one location, giving the programme a much slower pace. "Brookside Parade" was phased out