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'Romper Room' host Mary Ann King dies at 82
L A Times ^ | 06/18/2016

Posted on 06/18/2016 5:28:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin

King locally hosted “Romper Room” from 1966 to 1976. The program aired worldwide with different hosts in each locale.

During the show, King played learning games with children and urged them to be “Do Bees” who behaved well, not “Don't Bees” who played in the street or failed to clean their plates.

Each episode ended with King holding up a mirror-like frame and looking through it to name child viewers.

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TOPICS: Local News; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; obituary; romperroom; television
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To: lilypad

Romper, bomper, stomper, boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, have all my friends had fun at play?


61 posted on 06/18/2016 7:40:30 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: pollyshy

How can you forget the Billy Barty Show?


62 posted on 06/18/2016 7:47:23 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

Heh heh heh...sorry!


63 posted on 06/18/2016 7:50:41 PM PDT by pollyshy
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To: BenLurkin

I had a picture I drew shown.


64 posted on 06/18/2016 7:54:42 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: BenLurkin

I was on Romper Room in Columbus OH when I was about 5 years old. I remember being so disappointed when I saw how the magic mirror actually worked. Don’t know how my parents got me on the show for that week, tho.


65 posted on 06/18/2016 8:00:21 PM PDT by RightField
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To: BenLurkin

I was just humming the tum-tum-tum song the other day. No one got it.


66 posted on 06/18/2016 8:07:13 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7Z0sdIRck


67 posted on 06/18/2016 8:16:04 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I don’t think they ever said my name, either. It’s sort of popular now, but then was only just beginning to be bequethed frequently.

I still often can’t get my exact name on those little trinkets, especially in the spelling.


68 posted on 06/18/2016 8:46:22 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Miss Sally. Baltimore.

Loved Romper Room. “Oh and there’s Mike...and Nancy...and David...!”
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I’m from Metro Detroit, and for kids growing up in the 1970s in the Detroit area, it was also Miss Sally.


69 posted on 06/18/2016 8:56:09 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2016!)
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To: Charles Martel

Diver Dan is alive and well on YouTube. The barracuda was the bad guy and had a Russian accent. His evil side kick fish had the cigs,


70 posted on 06/18/2016 8:57:26 PM PDT by MNMom
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To: csvset

“...they recited the Pledge of Allegiance and said a prayer when they had their snack. Imagine a children’s TV show trying that now.”

It could be done, but nobody’s doing it, simply because we’ve lost our resolve. Parents would tune in and companies would sponsor it.

There could be a home school channel, too. No Marxist spin, just reading, arithmetic, science, geography.


71 posted on 06/18/2016 9:00:34 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Charles Martel

I believe the barracuda was named Baron Barracuda. My dad used to make up bedtime stories about Diver Dan to tell my brother and I. That was a better era.


72 posted on 06/18/2016 9:41:04 PM PDT by KaiserofKrunch
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To: BenLurkin

Romper Room was actually a franchise. One of the few that I can even think of in TV. There were actually many different Romper Room shows around the country and even some in foreign countries. They all had different hosts. Mary Ann King was an L.A. host.


73 posted on 06/18/2016 10:02:29 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

Miss Nancy was OUR host.
(San Francisco Bay Area)


74 posted on 06/18/2016 10:07:01 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Okay, San Fran. then, not L.A. My point was, she was not someone I would have had occasion to see. I may have come across Romper Room while I was channel surfing, but never actually watched it to my memory.


75 posted on 06/18/2016 10:12:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Larry Lucido

invading our privacy

I would watch the Magic Mirror segment horrified that she might finger ME as a nose picker, or worse...


76 posted on 06/19/2016 5:22:43 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: pollyshy

I remember getting in trouble for drawing on the television in crayon because I didn’t have the Winky Dink magic screen ( aka Saran Wrap).


77 posted on 06/19/2016 7:16:00 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: BenLurkin
In the Philly area we had,Sally Starr,Gene London,Captain Noah,Pixann,Chief Halftown,and Wee Willy Weber.
78 posted on 06/19/2016 7:18:41 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (We have leaped off the cliff toward madness and we are still falling...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Ranger Rick.


79 posted on 06/19/2016 7:40:01 AM PDT by KosmicKitty
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To: thecodont

Miss Rita was the person I remember.(Rochester NY)


80 posted on 06/19/2016 9:46:45 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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