The Romper Room

Romper room was a tv show run like a playgroup all the four year old children sat around and miss rosayln would play games and sing them a song i m a little tea cup etc.

The romper room.

Making music banging tamborines riding hobby horses the mr dooby song romper stomper lots more. Miss helen madden then carried it into the 1970 s. Preschool tv by bert and nancy claster usa franchised in australia canada hong kong italy japan new zealand puerto rico taiwan and united kingdom northern ireland 1964 with hosts adrienne mcguill helen madden and rose neill. Fun games was what romper room was all about.

She left in 1976 to start a family of her own after marrying series director david kenten. Romper stomper bomper boo. The much loved miss rosalyn ran romper room for 12 years presented more than 2 000 shows. Romper room fun games the show used the then popular mattel jack in the box for its opening and closing titles with its pop goes the weasel theme song.

She moved to the bbc in 1969 and i don t know if the programme continued after this. Romper room is an american children s television series that was franchised and syndicated from 1953 to 1994. This is a clip from the march 1984 romper room show featuring the magic mirror. I remember seeing the uk version of the romper room in the 1960 s on grampian tv.

Just 6 miles from tatton park one of the uk s most historic estates and the 18th century quarry bank mill the romper is a dog friendly pub that is just a stone s throw from manchester airport making it a perfect stopover whether you re exploring the local area or about to take to the skies. The program targeted preschoolers children five years of age or younger and was created and produced by bert claster and his presenter wife nancy of claster television. Then the kids would stop and have milk and a biscuit before resuming more playgroup type activities. Helen madden presented the utv programme romper room the presenter known to thousands of children as miss helen on utv s programme romper room has been described as a tremendous character.