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 ...

Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina-- By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a "magic ...

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 ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Great piece about Ricki Wertz’s career in ...

CHICAGO — Of the many classic children’s shows on WGN-TV from back in the day, few were as long-running as “Romper Room” — preschoolers’ daily offering that ran from 1954 to 1960 (at WGN-TV’s Michigan ...

Television was for a time the career of Barbara Bowen Plummer, but family was her life’s work, said the Rev. Alan Gates, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. “She guided and nurtured most of all the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. I see nostalgia, and I see pleasant memories ... Jane Pirtle — who starred from 1957 to 1962 as "Miss Joan" on ...

Claire J. Schweiker, 81, a former hostess of the children’s television show “Romper Room” in Philadelphia and the wife of former secretary of health and human services Richard S. Schweiker, died April ...

CHINO HILLS (AP) — 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 ...