Romper Room

Romper Room was a children's television series which ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994. The program was targeted at pre-schoolers (children five years of age or younger).

Romper Room and Friends

In 1981, the name of the program was changed to Romper Room and Friends, and new characters were introduced: a large puppet named Kimble, Granny Cat, and a clown puppet called Up-Up. The new format of the series allowed these new characters to be seen in vignettes on the stations that still ran their own versions of Romper Room.

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The new incarnation of the series aired over 100 episodes, which were rerun into the next decade (shows were frequently recycled as the audience to which the show was geared "grew out" of the show within two or three years, not unlike skits reused on Sesame Street).

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