![]() A nation-wide program that ran during the 1980s on CTV was produced at CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario and was hosted by "Miss Fran" (Fran Pappert), "Miss Jean" (Jeanette Moffat) and "Miss Betty" (Betty Thompson). Another version ran from CFCF in Montreal during the 1960's. Another version was also produced at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario. This program (The CJCH version) along with its host "Miss Ann" (Ann Wilson) moved to CHSJ-TV in Saint John, New Brunswick during the 1970s. Besides Windsor, CJCH-TV in Halifax, Nova Scotia also produced a local version during the 1960s. Localities could buy the show and produce their own version of it.įrom Wikipedia: In Canada, the first station to start airing the locally produced version of Romper Room was CKLW-TV in Windsor, Ontario, which at the time was serving the Detroit, Michigan television market, in 1954, the year the station signed on. I actually thought Romper Room was a Canadian show, but it turns out it was actually an American franchise. If you're like me, with a common first name, you remember how awesome it was when the hostess looked through her magic mirror and saw you. I hope you will find me just as interesting as I do you! Hop aboard for the ride.Another retro gem shared by Retrontario got me thinking about Romper Room this morning. So here I am, wanting to read about you and at the same time bringing you along with me to mine. My youngest is the lead singer/songwriter of the Grammy nominated band, Tonic, Emerson Hart. ![]() I am married and have three grown children who are interested in breeding horses, flying and creating. The only order to it is life itself as lived. I muse about my life and thoughts and just about everything under the sun. I am now over 50 and have the freedom to get back to expressing myself through writing. First as a Romper Room Teacher, then in television series and movies where writing took a backstage place in my life. Welcome to my world! I have always loved to write, but I have spent most of my adult life in front of either a television or film camera. She lives in New Jersey and South Beach with her husband and is “Nana” to four fantastic grandchildren.) Sandra of the children’s television program Romper Room and is a working actress, award-winning author of “Behind The Magic Mirror” and “Places Within My Heart”and is a motivational speaker and blogger. I see YOU!”Įxcerpt from Read Between My Lines by Sandra Hart © I’ve been looking for you all these years. Magic Mirror, tell me today did all my friends have fun at play? I see Michelle and John and Bill and…oh, there you are. So if you are reading this and I didn’t say your name, please forgive me. When I explain to them that I tried my very best to name each and every one I could in the short time allotted at the end of the show to ‘see’ all of my Do Bees, but because of the volumes of mail I received each day, I couldn’t acknowledge as many as I would have liked, they pretend to understand, but they are still not satisfied. Some of these wonderful men and women I have met at my son’s concerts, either thank me, or admonish me for not saying their name in my Magic Mirror. Since then I have been forced to account for my sins. I was dragged from underneath the rock I had been hiding since the 70’s. When the Januissue of Rolling Stone revealed to the world that my son, Emerson Hart, lead vocalist and songwriter of the band Tonic, had a mother who was the Romper Room lady, I could no longer hide in anonymity. “Why didn’t you say my name in your Magic Mirror?” But they all have the Big Question for me when I am lucky enough to meet one of them. writers, rock stars and CEO’s of corporations. The are now the bankers, brokers, directors. Those who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s are today’s power brokers of influence. It seems as though in the last few years all those terribly terrific children who grew up with us on Romper Room are now ruling the world and moving and shaking in all-important circles of life. Never realized there were so many Romper Room fans out there!) Don’t know where they got the picture, but that posting reminded me of an article I wrote several years ago for an Internet magazine that has been reprinted over 5 thousand times. The Do You Remember site posted a picture of me while doing a Romper Room Show back in the 70’s. To add to this resurgence of Romper Room thought, last week on my Facebook feed there I was with 176, 602 thousand likes and growing by the minute. ![]() At the time I had no idea the impact the TV show Romper Room would have on the 60’s and 70’s children. At the end of my visit he looked at me and smiled, “When you looked into that Magic Mirror and said my name, bet you didn’t know you were making your doctor happy!” Honestly he was right. (Yesterday I went for my annual checkup with my primary physician.
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