Romper Room was a long running children's television series that ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as internationally at various times in Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, ...

We can’t let the week pass without a nod to the lasting legacy of Jean Durkee, who was Miss Jean on the classic children’s show “Romper Room.” For kindergartners of a certain age – those now well into ...

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 ...