Most people probably don’t know it, but an era is apparently about to end. “Romper Room” is going off the air. The real surprise, perhaps, is that the show can still be seen at all. But yes, reruns of ...

The show ran 15 years on local television. With a classroom for a set and in-studio audience of six children, it taught educational, moral and behavioral lessons. June Hurley Young, “Miss June” to her ...

TAMPA, Fla. — June Hurley Young, host of the Tampa Bay Area edition of the hit children's television show "Romper Room," has passed away at the age of 87. Young hosted the show from 1965 to 1980. Her ...

There was Miss Lois on the floor, having just performed a Sleeping Beauty-like faint during Tell a Story Time on "Romper Room." Innocent enough. But her skirt hiked up in the fall, exposing a patch of ...

Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...