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

Today, we revisit the gentle world of ‘Romper Room’, which mesmerised pre-schoolers in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Miss Helena was one of a series of beloved female hosts who took their tiny charges through a series of kindy-style activities, learning good behaviour from Mr Doo Bee, drinking their milk and, of course, singing the hits: ‘Oh Come With Us and Gallop’, ‘Punch a Ball’ and ‘Bend and Stretch’. One segment that hasn’t aged so well is ‘The Posture Basket Song’. In this rendition of it, we