A UPA adaptation of the television series (1947-1960) dummy-cowboy, Howdy Doody. Filmed in both 35 and 16mm (for immediate television use in the event theatre exhibitors balked at showcasing a ...

Memories drift a long way back. I was 8 years old when I first heard (and saw) this question: “Hey kids, what time is it?” The answer for those who were not around then — or forgot — was “It’s Howdy ...

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 ...

“No comments from the peanut gallery!” For many Americans who were born in the 1940s or 1950s, this phrase conjures up fond memories of the “Howdy Doody” show. It launched in 1947 as one of the first ...

Howdy Doody, NBC’s popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared. A month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy’s builder ...

Barring further legal action Howdy Doody may soon be freed from his confinement in a Rhode Island bank vault and brought out in a grand unveiling at the Detroit Institute of Arts. After a two-year ...

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 ...

Second of a three-part series. When Frank Paris stormed out of the NBC television studio with the original Howdy Doody puppet in tow, he created a huge problem. It was 1948, and “The Hoody Doody Show” ...

NEW YORK - A former NBC star and offbeat candidate for president soon will be saluted on COZI TV . No, not Donald Trump. It's Howdy Doody, the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette born at the dawn of ...

Many of us can recall meeting a celebrity as a child, a memory we rarely forget. I was about 8 when I was with my folks in Boston and met Rocky Marciano in an elevator. I even got his autograph, but I ...