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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Romper, bomper, stomper, boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, have all my friends had fun at play?
How can you forget the Billy Barty Show?
Heh heh heh...sorry!
I had a picture I drew shown.
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.
I was just humming the tum-tum-tum song the other day. No one got it.
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.
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.
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,
“...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.
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.
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.
Miss Nancy was OUR host.
(San Francisco Bay Area)
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.
invading our privacy
I would watch the Magic Mirror segment horrified that she might finger ME as a nose picker, or worse...
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).
And Ranger Rick.
Miss Rita was the person I remember.(Rochester NY)
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