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Line 38: | picture_format = | audio_format = | first_aired = {{start date| | last_aired = {{end date| | website = | website_title = Line 87: ===Baton Rouge, Louisiana=== [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]'s version of ''Romper Room'' was hosted by Miss Pat Evans and began on January 7, 1957. Local NBC and ABC affiliate [[WBRZ-TV]] aired the program from 10 am to 11 am until 1959. From 1959 until 1961, a replacement program airing on Saturdays called ''Kiddie Kottage'' took its place but was still hosted by Miss Pat. With the success of [[WAFB|WAFB-TV]]'s rival program ''Storyland'', WBRZ reintroduced ''Romper Room'' on May 21, 1961, to compete with [[WAFB|WAFB-TV]]'s ''Storyland''. Unable to compete, ''Romper Room'' was cancelled February 1962. ===Biloxi, Mississippi=== Line 99: ===Cleveland=== [[Cleveland]] hostess "Miss Barbara" (full name: Barbara R. (Bowen) Plummer), born in [[Norwalk, Ohio|Norwalk]] on February 13, 1930, hosted the local version of ''Romper Room'' on [[WEWS]] Channel 5 from 1958 until 1971. She was also a weather presenter on Channel 5 and appeared on ''[[Captain Penny]]''. She was a survivor of breast cancer in 1978, and lung cancer in 1996. She resided in [[South Euclid, Ohio|South Euclid]] and died on March 20, 2010, at the age of 80 from cancer and [[pneumonia]]-related complications. She was survived by husband Gordon and two children.<ref>{{cite web|author=Grant Segall|title="Miss Barbara" Plummer led Cleveland's "Romper Room"|url=http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2016/03/miss_barbara_plummer_led_cleve.html|date=March 25, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.norwalkreflector.com/news/2010/07/26/Norwalk-native-and-039-Romper-Room-039-legend-039-miss-barbara-039-dies|title=Norwalk native and 'Romper Room' legend 'Miss Barbara' dies|publisher=Norwalk Reflector}}</ref> ===Denver=== "Miss Genie" (Eugenie deLuise) hosted the [[Denver]] area ''Romper Room'' between 1962 and 1972 on [[KWGN-TV]] (which was KCTO prior to 1966).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=CTR19650708-01.2.35&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------0-|title=Colorado Transcript, Volume 99, Number 40, Page 7, July 8, 1965|author=Annette|date=July 8, 1965|work=Colorado Transcript|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>Reckler, J. (February 23, 1964). Education is Fun on 'Romper Room'. The Rocky Mountain News TV DIAL, pp. Cover and 12-13.</ref><ref>Hollis, Tim (2001). Hi There, Boys and Girls!: America's Local Children's TV Shows. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 62. {{ISBN|978-1-60473-819-3}}. Retrieved May 5, 2015.</ref> Denver's Miss Genie deLuise was also the ''Romper Room'' hostess in [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] from fall of 1957 to March 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.library.nau.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cpa/id/3294|title=Babbitt's Thriftway, February 2, 1958. [Miss Genie of Romper Room, KVAR TV, Channel 12.] :: Colorado Plateau Archives|website=archive.library.nau.edu|access-date= ===Detroit=== Line 114: === Grand Rapids === "Miss Jean" (Jeannie Moore) hosted the [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] ''Romper Room'' on [[WOOD-TV]], channel 8, from 1955 to 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gvnews.com/archives/romper-room-s-miss-jean/article_5743868b-db7c-5da6-9e3d-e5f70d3f409d.html|title=Romper Room's Miss Jean|last=Weinert|first=Lois|website=Green Valley News|language=en|access-date= ===Greenville-Greenwood, Mississippi=== Line 163: ===Minneapolis-St. Paul=== The show aired on [[KARE (TV)|WTCN]] channel 11 (1955–62) and then on [[KMSP-TV|KMSP]] channel 9 (1962–74) hosted by Mary Betty Douglass ("Miss Betty") among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/232212181.html |title=Obituary: Mary Betty Douglass entertained kids as Miss Betty on TV's 'Romper Room' |publisher=StarTribune.com |date= [http://mnkidvid.com/main/?page_id=491] Line 217: ===Seattle/Tacoma, Washington=== The initial host in the late 1950s and mid-1960s was Miss Elaine Schafer, a native of Decatur, Illinois who moved to the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 1958. Starting on Monday, June 28, 1965, Shafer retired and was replaced by was Miss Margaret, who was played by Margaret L. Lloyd, a former kindergarten teacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFNf_vK7ng |title=Romper Room Miss Margaret's Backstory |publisher=YouTube |date= ===St. Louis, Missouri=== Line 234: ===Miss Sherri=== In 1962, the hostess of the [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] franchise of ''Romper Room'' linked her own name with that of the ongoing controversies over [[abortion]]. [[Sherri Chessen]], known to television viewers as "Miss Sherri", sought hospital approval for abortion on the ground that she had been taking [[thalidomide]] and believed her child would be born deformed. Chessen made a public announcement about the dangers of thalidomide, and the hospital refused to allow an abortion, apparently because of her announcement and its own fear of publicity. Chessen traveled to Sweden for the abortion. Upon completion, it was confirmed that the fetus had no legs and only one arm. The incident became a [[made-for-TV movie]] in 1992, ''[[A Private Matter]]'', with [[Sissy Spacek]] as Chessen.<ref>C*Span3 American History TV – Lectures In History June 2 ===Action For Children's Television=== Line 274: ===New Zealand=== In New Zealand, a local version of ''Romper Room'' aired on [[South Pacific Television]] from 1975 until 1980, when the channel became part of [[Television New Zealand]]. Among the presenters were Miss Yvonne (Yvonne Moore), the wife of [[Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)|Mike Moore]] who served briefly as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand|prime minister]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/romper-room-1975/series |title=Romper Room |website=NZOnScreen |access-date= ===Paraguay=== | |||