Happy Birthday, Romper Room!

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Happy Birthday, Romper Room!

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Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1965

Date

Production 31/12/1965

Length

39sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

It’s the Romper Room’s birthday and Tufty from ROSPA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) has sent a lovely birthday cake. Miss Adrienne and the children all sing ‘Happy Birthday’ and blow out the candle. 

Notes

One of the earliest children's television programmes produced for a Northern Irish audience, a generation grew up with The Romper Room in the 1960s and 1970s. The daily show was hosted first by Miss Adrienne and then, Miss Helen. 

At the end of each episode, children would wait expectantly, hoping that Miss would see them through the mirror she held up: "I can see Peter, I can see Rebecca, I can see Joseph..." 

Tufty was the symbol of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’s children’s road safety campaign. He first appeared in the early 1950s and is still going today. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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