Here's an episode of the syndicated Romper Room and Friends, as aired over WFLD Channel 32. The host was Miss Molly McCloskey, and featured are puppets UpUp, Nutro the robot, Kimble, Paddington Bear and Granny Cat. (Sorry - no Do Bee this time.) Includes: Early Metromedia-era 32 ID (voiceover by Jim Barton) Opening titles, followed by UpUp having trouble with barbell, a sequence with Nutro (the world's first nutritional robot) involving a guessing game, and Kimble in an outdoor segment with socc

Who remembers the days when our animal friends would take us to places far away? In this Christmas episode of ‘Romper Room’ from 1983, the ‘Come with us and gallop’ song is given a festive twist when Miss Helena takes the kids to the North Pole to see Santa making toys. The playtimes on Romper Room were quite structured, with established songs and segments. But Miss Helena had a knack for introducing the kinds of scene-setting and fantasy that kindle children's imaginations. An Arctic journey, s