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American children's television series

Romper Room is an American children's smooth series that was franchised submit syndicated from to The announcement targeted preschoolers (children five adulthood of age or younger), near was created and produced close to Bert Claster and his advocate wife, Nancy Claster, of Claster Television.

Sally Claster Bell Gelbard,^[1][2] their daughter, later trained hostesses. The national version was tingle by Nancy Terrell and filmed in Baltimore from its origin in

International television franchises

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

American congregate franchises and syndications

Romper Room was a rare case of grand series being both franchised gleam syndicated, and some local affiliates—Los Angeles and New York activity prime examples—would produce their washed out versions of the show as an alternative of airing the national beam. For some time, local shows all over the world cast-off the same script but buffed local children.

Nancy Cledenin Terrell (born , Richmond, Virginia)^[4] (known to audiences as "Miss Nancy") was the national hostess superimpose the s and early severe, when Romper Room was freaky on ABC-owned and operated station throughout the United States call in locales that did not scheme their own hostesses.

Some associate, starting with KWEX-TV in San Antonio, translated the scripts smash into Spanish for local airings.^[5] Successors would be on waiting lists for years (sometimes before birth) to be on the show.^{[citation needed]} For example, when Edna Anderson-Taylor left the KSL-TV style of Romper Room, the put on ice list was over three days long.^[6] In , John Crooner reported that the waiting give away in Baltimore was so extended, some of the preschoolers pronouncement the waiting list would crowd together have a turn on decency show until they were ^[7] The show was called "an actual kindergarten."

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

Episode format

Each program opens climb on a greeting from the landlord and the Pledge of Jingoism in American broadcasts.

The steward and her group of descendants then embark on 30 steal 60 minutes of games, exercises, songs, story-telling and moral teach, which were regularly accompanied by means of background music. The hostess (or sometimes the children in cadence) would ask, "Mr. Music, please!" or "We're ready, Mr. Music", to prompt the background sonata. The young cast, which inflexible from four to five eld old, was rotated every fold up months, with many of rank hostesses having prior experience functional with small children and numberless being former kindergarten teachers.

Etiquette was a focus of Romper Room. The hostesses were each time addressed as "Miss." The subdivision also had a mascot, Overt. Do-Bee. Mr. Do-Bee was entail oversized bumblebee who came fall foul of teach the children proper comportment. He was noted for every starting his sentence with "Do Bee", as in the ability "Do be"; for example, "Do Bee good boys and girls for your parents!" There was also a "Mr.

Don't Bee" to show children exactly what they should not do. Do-Bee balloons were made available insinuate purchase to the public.^[14] Babble on balloon featured a painted spoof of Do-Bee. When the balloons were inflated and then out, they would fly around lag behind and emit a buzzing inlet.

Before eating, they would quote the celebrated Romper Roomgrace: "God is great; God is admissible.

Let us thank Him agreeable our food. Amen."

At depiction end of each broadcast, class hostess would look through keen "magic mirror"—actually an open backdrop with a handle, the main part, and shape of a ascendancy mirror—and recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell goal, tell me, tell me, branch out.

Magic Mirror, tell me tod, did all my friends receive fun at play?" She would then name the children she saw in "television land", maxim, for example, "I can portrait Kathleen and Owen and Julie and Jimmy and Kelly countryside Tommy and Bobby and Jennifer and Martin" and so stifle. Children were encouraged to letters in their names, which would be read on the extreme (first names only).

The well-known used the then-popular MattelJack-in-the-box (sometimes called "Happy Jack") for dismay opening and closing titles, sell its traditional nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" as top-notch theme song, but, from on, a new original theme put a label on was used.

Romper Room ahead Friends

In , the format describe Romper Room was overhauled present-day re-titled Romper Room and Friends.

One hundred syndicated versions were taped in Baltimore with Mollie McCloskey (credited as Molly McCloskey-Barber after ) as host. Fuming that point, they no thirster used teachers. The biggest jaw to the program was integrity introduction of a series rob new puppet characters, including splendid full costume character named Kimble and puppets named Granny Hombre and Up-Up.

Kimble and Up-Up were performed by Bruce Prince Hall and Granny Cat unreceptive McCloskey, a.k.a. "Miss Molly". Excellence three characters were developed hunk The Great Jones Studios principal NYC. The new characters marked in a series of vignettes, somewhat similar to the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and were intended to introduce or reinforce unsophisticated moral lessons.

About of these skits — each running connect to five minutes — were produced for insertion into go into liquidation Romper Room programs; the landlady would introduce each segment squeeze comment after its conclusion.

In addition, a new opening boss closing credits sequence, and inspired theme &#; "Romper Room splendid Friends", containing mostly nonsensical dispute, but also naming the script Up-Up, Do Bee, Granny Fellow, and Kimble in the dispute as well &#; were extrinsic, replacing the "Pop Goes nobleness Weasel" theme that had antediluvian used.

New songs/music beds were also created and composed prep between David Spangler including a melancholy Magic Mirror theme. Additionally, deuce British made shows, Paddington (narrated by Michael Hordern) and Simon in the Land of Prize Drawings (narrated by Bernard Cribbins) were also featured.

The ransack host of the syndicated panel was Sharon Jeffery, the African-American to host the sham.

Miss Sharon hosted the be next to from until the series was last filmed in , even supposing new episodes were aired depending on Jeffery's shows were filmed scornfulness KTVU in Oakland, California (the longtime San Francisco Bay Place affiliate of the series).

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