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Showing my age, but here goes...

 

kids shows:

 

Romper Room

New Zoo Revue

Electric Company

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Please tell me what the heck is Romper Room.I hear alot of people (in their 40's most of the time )refer to that show.In the context of a bunch of people messing around or something :huh

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QUOTE(zimne piwo @ Feb 26, 2008 -> 03:00 AM)
Showing my age, but here goes...

 

kids shows:

 

Romper Room

New Zoo Revue

Electric Company

Zoom

 

Please tell me what the heck is Romper Room.I hear alot of people (in their 40's most of the time )refer to that show.In the context of a bunch of people messing around or something :huh

 

 

Romper Room was pretty much a kindergarten/preschool class on television. The host (teacher) I remember most was Miss Elizabeth and there were about 10 or so kids on each show. There was a cartoon mascot of sorts named "Doo-Bee" and they would have lessons such as "Doo-Bee... a good friend, Don't-Bee... a bully", etc. I remember them also doing safety lessons where the kids would run around the room in cut-away cardboard boxes painted with fire engines on them (they would pretend to be driving the fire trucks), then one of the children would pretend to be the "fire chief" and would go up to a person's door and say "you know, you're not supposed to play with matches", etc. Hasbro also marketed a bunch of preschool toys back then that came from the show, including Romper Stompers (consisting of a couple of plastic yellow cups reminiscent of mini-margarine tubs, tied to green string that children would step on and walk around with) and also a toy that used a plastic ball and two scoops used to toss and catch (sort of like a "kiddie jai-alai" game). They also had a juice and cookies break (grace was "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, Ah-men") and the end of the show was "Magic Mirror" time... Miss Elizabeth would hold up a mirror and we would see some swirling kaleidoscoic images while she recited:

 

"Romper Bomper Stomper Boo,

Tell me, tell me, tell me, do,

Magic Mirror, tell me today,

Did all my friends have fun at play?"

 

We would then see Miss Elizabeth once again, looking through the Magic Mirror (which was not without the "glass" in it, so she could look right through it) then read off a random list of children's names ("I see Susie, and Kevin, and Tricia, and Lori, and Adam..." then concluding with "and I see You!!! See you again tomorrow, in Romper Room school!"

 

 

Aren't you glad you asked?

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From a little kid, till about 13-15ish..

 

Ren n Stimpy (was the s***)

Doug (Killer Tofu!!)

Hey Arnold

Power Rangers

Boy Meets World

Sanford n Son

The Smurfs

Scooby Doo

Tom n Jerry

Tales From The Cript

Batman (and Beyond)

Jackie Chan Cartoon Series

Woody Woodpecker

Teanage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Beavis n Butthead

Anamainiacs (sp?)

Dragonball Z (:))

Pokemon

 

s***load of others, need more time. :D

 

Refuse to name movies. Soooooo many of them, but I like most of Rex's list in this thread though.

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QUOTE(zimne piwo @ Feb 26, 2008 -> 02:00 AM)
Showing my age, but here goes...

 

Now we're talkin'.

 

Growing up in the 50's I used to love the old serials. Especially Flash Gordon but also Buck Rogers, Commando Cody, Zombies of the Stratosphere, to name a few.

Shock Theater was a must on Saturday night. To this day I still love the old Universal horror movies.

Superman with George Reeves.

The Whirlybirds

Sky King

Lone Ranger

Sea Hunt

American Bandstand

The Three Stooges

Our Gang comedies which became known as The Little Rascals

The Mickey Mouse Club

A bit later Rocky and Bullwinkle

 

Prime time...

Wanted Dead Or Alive

Have Gun Will Travel

The Honeymooners

I Love Lucy

One Step Beyond and later Thriller (hosted by Boris Karlof)

Leave It To Beaver

Father Knows Best

Ozzie and Harriet

 

Prime time....later

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Silents Please (an old tv show that would show old silent movies)

Batman

The Outer Limits

The Twilight Zone

The Monkees

The Adams Family

The Munsters

Combat

The Fugitive

F Troop

Dick Van Dyke Show

Ed Sullivan if only to catch The Beatles or Rolling Stones or Dave Clark Five, etc.

Shindig!

Hullabaloo

Mission Impossible

The Prisoner

The Smothers Brothers

 

I'm sure there's plenty I forgot, afterall at my age the mind is going..

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