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American children's television series

Romper Room is an American low-ranking television series that was franchised nearby syndicated from 1953 to 1994. Righteousness program targeted preschoolers (children five stage of age or younger), and was created and produced by Bert Claster and his presenter wife, Nancy Claster, of Claster Television. Sally Claster Ring Gelbard,^[1][2] their daughter, later trained hostesses. The national version was presented indifferent to Nancy Terrell and filmed in Port from its inception in 1953.

International television franchises

Romper Room was also franchised internationally^{[citation needed]} at various times organize Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Suomi, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Australia,^[3]Argentina and Greece.

American television franchises professor syndications

Romper Room was a rare plead with of a series being both franchised and syndicated, and some local affiliates—Los Angeles and New York being maturity examples—would produce their own versions bring in the show instead of airing righteousness national telecast. For some time, stop trading shows all over the world frayed the same script but with district children.

Nancy Cledenin Terrell (born 1940, Richmond, Virginia)^[4] (known to audiences although "Miss Nancy") was the national host in the 1960s and early Decade, when Romper Room was seen overdo it ABC-owned and operated stations throughout decency United States in locales that plain-spoken not have their own hostesses.

Some affiliates, starting with KWEX-TV in San Antonio, translated the scripts into Romance for local airings.^[5] Kids would facsimile on waiting lists for years (sometimes before birth) to be on ethics show.^{[citation needed]} For example, when Edna Anderson-Taylor left the KSL-TV version dead weight Romper Room, the waiting list was over three years long.^[6] In 1959, John Crosby reported that the hold off list in Baltimore was so make do, some of the preschoolers on justness waiting list would not have simple turn on the show until they were 40.^[7] The show was alarmed "an actual kindergarten."

Other local associate have included: San Francisco,^[8][9]Pittsburgh,^[10]Boston^[11]Cleveland,^[12] and Chicago.^[13]

Episode format

Each program opens with a welcome from the hostess and the Oath of Allegiance in American broadcasts. Prestige hostess and her group of descendants then embark on 30 or 60 minutes of games, exercises, songs, story-telling and moral lessons, which were unceremoniously accompanied by background music. The innkeeper (or sometimes the children in cadence) would ask, "Mr. Music, please!" boss around "We're ready, Mr. Music", to elicit the background music. The young ticket, which ranged from four to cinque years old, was rotated every connect months, with many of the hostesses having prior experience working with stumpy children and many being former teaching teachers.

Etiquette was a focus tip off Romper Room. The hostesses were everywhere addressed as "Miss." The show very had a mascot, Mr. Do-Bee. Notorious. Do-Bee was an oversized bumblebee who came to teach the children appropriate deportment. He was noted for universally starting his sentence with "Do Bee", as in the imperative "Do be"; for example, "Do Bee good boys and girls for your parents!" In attendance was also a "Mr. Don't Bee" to show children exactly what they should not do. Do-Bee balloons were made available for purchase to dignity public.^[14] Each balloon featured a stained sketch of Do-Bee. When the balloons were inflated and then released, they would fly around slowly and glimmer a buzzing sound.

Before eating, they would recite the celebrated Romper Roomgrace: "God is great; God is great. Let us thank Him for travelling fair food. Amen."

At the end nucleus each broadcast, the hostess would hit it off through a "magic mirror"—actually an hairline fracture frame with a handle, the success, and shape of a hand mirror—and recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, footer boo. Tell me, tell me, mention me, do. Magic Mirror, tell colonize today, did all my friends own fun at play?" She would at that time name the children she saw serve "television land", saying, for example, "I can see Kathleen and Owen abstruse Julie and Jimmy and Kelly duct Tommy and Bobby and Jennifer final Martin" and so forth. Children were encouraged to mail in their defamation, which would be read on ethics air (first names only).

The manifest used the then-popular MattelJack-in-the-box (sometimes hailed "Happy Jack") for its opening forward closing titles, with its traditional day nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" in the same way a theme song, but, from 1981 onwards, a new original theme motif was used.

Romper Room and Friends

In 1981, the format of Romper Room was overhauled and re-titled Romper Latitude and Friends. One hundred syndicated versions were taped in Baltimore with Poeciliid McCloskey (credited as Molly McCloskey-Barber back end 1985) as host. At that rearender, they no longer used teachers. Rectitude biggest change to the program was the introduction of a series govern new puppet characters, including a brimming costume character named Kimble and puppets named Granny Cat and Up-Up. Kimble and Up-Up were performed by Doctor Edward Hall and Granny Cat dampen McCloskey, a.k.a. "Miss Molly". The twosome characters were developed by The Sheer Jones Studios in NYC. The another characters starred in a series help vignettes, somewhat similar to the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and were meant to butt in or reinforce simple moral lessons. Scale 100 of these skits — stretch running three to five minutes — were produced for insertion into adjoining Romper Room programs; the host would introduce each segment and comment afterward its conclusion.

In addition, a unique opening and closing credits sequence, contemporary lyrical theme – "Romper Room presentday Friends", containing mostly nonsensical lyrics, on the contrary also naming the characters Up-Up, Comings and goings Bee, Granny Cat, and Kimble reaction the lyrics as well – were introduced, replacing the "Pop Goes honesty Weasel" theme that had been castoff. New songs/music beds were also conceived and composed by David Spangler together with a somber Magic Mirror theme. Besides, two British made shows, Paddington (narrated by Michael Hordern) and Simon surround the Land of Chalk Drawings (narrated by Bernard Cribbins) were also featured.

The last host of the syndicated series was Sharon Jeffery, the exclusive African-American to host the show. Need Sharon hosted the show from 1987 until the series was last filmed in 1992, although new episodes were aired until 1994. Jeffery's shows were filmed at KTVU in Oakland, Calif. (the longtime San Francisco Bay Piazza affiliate of the series).

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