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 ...

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 ...

Jean (Dallaire) Durkee, beloved by all her good DoBees; Miss Jean of TV's Romper Room in Boston, MA from 1958 to 1972, died peacefully in Naples, FL on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at the age of 90. Jean was ...

But 50 years ago, Lois Whitmeyer notes, that flickering, black-and-white TV show was cutting edge. And in a time when a Do-Bee meant something altogether different than today, Whitmeyer was one of a ...

Romper Room was a long running children's television series that ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as internationally at various times in Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, ...

OMAHA (AP) - Sharon Anderson, who starred in Omaha's version of the "Romper Room" TV show in the 1960s and early 1970s, died Monday of cancer, said her husband, Howard Anderson. She was 64.