Due to the sheer number of episodes produced, coupled with the high cost of videotape in the early days, very few episodes of the show have survived. According to the book "TV Party", many of the "franchise" producers of the series would erase their tapes after only 24 hours in order to reuse the tapes for new shows.
Leonardo DiCaprio's first work. The episode he starred in was episode 27 in 1979.
The show originated in Baltimore in the early 1950s. By the late 1950s, more than 100 stations aired either the national program or locally-produced versions of the show; at one point, the show's producers offered to train Romper Room hosts (which were female in many of the markets).
Margaret Jones, who hosted the Little Rock, Arkansas Romper Room as "Miss Peggy" between 1963 and 1966, went on to sing and to play tabla and keyboards for the psychedelic rock band called Lavender Circus. The sextet group sold 2,000 copies statewide of their single, "I Have No Time for Time"/"Mr. N. Bourbaki's Multicoloured Jam."
Romper is a name for "a piece of comfortable clothing for babies and small children that is made of one piece of material and covers their whole body."