“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 ...

Like most preschool or elementary school teachers, she brought joy, a love of learning, kindling wonder, and imagination in the lives of her students, some of them in Vacaville in later years. But to ...

Before Sesame Street, the Muppets and Nickelodeon, there was The Romper Room. Franchised across American TV stations, the program was localized in each market. Brenda Bachrack was chosen to host the ...

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 ...

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 ...