With Seattle’s TV clown J.P. Patches’ passing on Sunday, our editorial board remembers the local television we watched as kids. Most of us didn’t grow up in Seattle. The one writer who did, Bruce ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — Long before Miss Rachel, Barney, or even Sesame Street, KTBS brought the magic of children’s programming to local viewers with a show called Romper Room. Airing in the late 1950s and ...

Funny things happen when you're doing live TV with kids, says LA host Socoro Serrano. When working with groups of four and five-year-olds on the set of "Romper Room," things didn't always go according ...

Most people probably don’t know it, but an era is apparently about to end. “Romper Room” is going off the air. The real surprise, perhaps, is that the show can still be seen at all. But yes, reruns of ...

For baby boomers who were children in the 1960s and 1970s, the set of the "Romper Room" television show on WDEF-TV 12 brings back vivid memories. Mark Kennedy is a veteran columnist. His human ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - One of WTOC’s many legacies is our commitment to children’s programming. One program in particular was a live broadcast called Romper Room. Romper Room aired all over the United ...

In his weekly New Rule editorial, HBO‘s Real Time host Bill Maher exhumed the old Romper Room “Do Bee/Don’t Bee” motif, to illustrate why May 1 should be declared National Do This Not That Day, and ...

For a generation of children, a high point of their day was sitting in front of the television to watch “Romper Room,” hoping Miss Nancy would see them in her “magic mirror.” “Romper bomper stomper ...

“Miss Mary Ann” King never stopped reminding people how special they are. Long after she left the children’s television show “Romper Room,” King continued to carry her Magic Mirror, a prop she peered ...

There was Miss Lois on the floor, having just performed a Sleeping Beauty-like faint during Tell a Story Time on "Romper Room." Innocent enough. But her skirt hiked up in the fall, exposing a patch of ...

Mary Ann King, who peered through her “Magic Mirror” to host the children’s TV show “Romper Room” in Los Angeles, has died. She was 82. Her daughter told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that King died ...