Barbara Plummer, host of WEWS morning show, enthralled youngsters in 1960s with Magic Mirror, Do Bee, Don’t Bee and other ...

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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina-- By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a "magic ...

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 ...

Miss Betty on "Romper Room" was a wildly popular TV host watched by legions of Twin Cities kids in the 1960s. Mary Betty Douglass of Minneapolis, the pretend teacher who would hold up her Magic Mirror ...

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 ...