Buffalo Bob Smith’s opening welcome, “Hey, kids, what time is it?” produced the response “It’s Howdy Doody time!” from the Peanut Gallery, as the studio audience was known. The children were a vital ...

“It’s Howdy Doody Time!” Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle the Clown burst on the American television screen on the NBC network as “The Howdy Doody Show” in 1947 and captured the hearts of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is one of the three original ...

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — This month’s Cool Spaces is a detached backyard garage in Livingston on Livingston Court. The claim to fame of this garage is that one of the past owners, Scott Brinker, lived ...

For a lot of little Americans over the past 13 years, the characters of Dickens, Milne and Grimm have been less familiar than a TV puppet named Howdy Doody. After giving more performances than any ...

First in a three-part series. If there were such a thing as “appointment television” for children during the late 1940s and ’50s, it was “The Howdy Doody Show.” Local youngsters could watch the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This toy Howdy Doody puppet was made ...