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Romper Room
WJZ (WABC) Ch. 7 was the first NYC based TV station to bring 'The Romper Room Classroom' to young TV viewers, seen weekday mornings on Ch. 7 from Monday, February 28, 1955 to Friday, December 14, 1956.
During the fall of 1957, WNEW brought Romper Room to it's weekday morning schedule. The show was seen weekday mornings on Ch. 5 from Monday, October 25, 1957 to Friday, August 25, 1966.
Ms. Redfield taught her RR students in between her plugs for RR items and the reruns of The Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Paul Terry 'Terry Tunes' movie cartoons.
Ms. McClocsky would not only host Romper Room weekday mornings on WOR Ch. 9, she would also MC the series in national syndication well into the 1990's. Ms. McClocsky would also manipulate a series of hand puppets: Up Up (an obnoxious Jack In The Box like wiseacre), Kimbell (a fightened Muppet like clone) and Granny (a wise Grandmother Cat Puppet). The show would continue to inform and entertain in between the reruns of Abbott & Costello, Simon In The Magic Land Of Chalk Drawings TV cartoons and Paddyington Bear puppet films until Ch. 9 closed down the Romper Room classroom on Friday, September 18, 1987. For a time, WCBS Ch. 2 in NYC reran WOR's Romper Room (retitled 'Romper Room & Friends') on Saturday mornings during the early 1990's. "I was just perusing your website, ( love early TV) and happened upon the, "Romper Room" show which my kids used to watch back in New York. And, truth be known, I used to watch with them because, well, Miss Mary Ann was rather easy on the eyes. "Be that as it may, I gave Mary Ann a call and she was kind enough to invite us down to the studio to watch the show live. I am pleased to say she was kind and gracious as she was attractive. I could however see she was under a lot of stress in dealing with a plethora of problem children and a rather demanding staff!" - Best always, -THE GABER- SEE ALSO: Romper Room History Romper Room Memories Romper Room Around the USA Romper Room in Spokane, WA Romper Room in LA Romper Room in New York City Romper Room in Chesterfield, MO Romper Room in Charlotte, NC Romper Room in Baltimore Romper Room in Evansville Indiana Romper Room in Pittsburgh Romper Room in Chicago Romper Room in Virginia
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"BEFORE Miss Louise took over RR, there was another hostess named Miss Barbara. She was a blonde. "She left the show unexpectedly and Miss Louise took over. I vividly recall this as her departure was quite the topic of the day." - Thanks, Greg
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Romper
Room
Gloria
Flood was the first host, those who were attending class in the WJZ-TV
studios and those who were watching at home were engaged in games,
songs, stories, craftmaking, educational segements and interviews
with guest performers and personalities in between the plugs for Romper
Room toys, educational items and old movie cartoons. 
Joan
Thayer (right) entertained and informed her students in the studio
and at home for a numbers of years before she was replaced by Lousie
Redfield. 
When
the show moved to it's last location, WOR TV Ch. 9 on Monday, August
28, 1966, Ms. Louise Redfield continued to serve as the show's resident
school teacher until she was replaced by 
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