Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell...
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Photo Doody is one of the three original Howdy Doody 1940s marionettes. He is the Howdy figure that was used in Howdy Doody still photo sessions for the...
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Buffalo Bob Smith (section The Howdy Doody show)
and presenter; he was well known as the host of the children's show Howdy Doody. Smith was born in Buffalo, New York, as Robert Emil Schmidt. He attended...
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Allen Swift (section Howdy Doody)
television star who began his career by replacing Buffalo Bob Smith on The Howdy Doody Show while Smith was recovering from a heart attack. At various times...
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Tyler's acting career began as a teenager, with regular appearances on Howdy Doody as Princess Summerfall Winterspring from 1950 to 1953. Like her mother...
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character who was part of the main cast on the 1947–1960 series The Howdy Doody Show. Clarabell, who wore a baggy, striped costume, communicated through...
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Edward Kean (section Howdy Doody)
was an American television pioneer and writer who helped create The Howdy Doody Show and wrote over 2,000 episodes of the program. Kean was born in 1924...
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Dictionary and others. In 1943 the Howdy Doody children's radio show adopted the name for its live audience of children. Howdy Doody is most remembered for its...
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shows. He was the creator and executive producer of children's program Howdy Doody, which ran from 1947 until 1960. Muir was born in Alberta, Canada, on...
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customer draw. Howdy Beefburgers was inspired by The Howdy Doody Show that had run on television from 1947 to 1960, and even adapted Howdy Doody as its mascot...
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John Lasseter's Casper pull-string doll he had as a kid, as well as the Howdy Doody puppets from the 1950s show. Woody is named after Woody Strode, a character...
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story about a marionette. In 1947, Howdy Doody introduced marionettes to children's television, with Howdy Doody (the main character) being a marionette...
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program of its day. He also played the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program. Bob Keeshan was born to Irish parents in Lynbrook...
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Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on NBC's The Howdy Doody Show during the network's early years. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure...
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Mitchell J Doody (born 1999), American entrepreneur and philanthropist the title puppet character of Howdy Doody, an American children's TV series Doody Cubee...
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the theme song to the mid-20th century United States television show Howdy Doody. The song's authorship was disputed for some years. It was originally...
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another one. The second episode, Gumby on the Moon, became a huge hit on Howdy Doody, so Sarnoff ordered a series in 1955 titled The Gumby Show. In 1955 and...
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Ted Brown (radio) (section Howdy Doody Show)
was hired to temporarily replace the ailing Bob Smith on the daily The Howdy Doody Show, playing Bison Bill, after Bob Smith had suffered a heart attack...
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in the controversial New Museum exhibition, including Jeff Koons as Howdy Doody, which Edward Winkleman remarked is ironic considering how much Powhida's...
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(1885–1993), American educator Clarabell the Clown, character from The Howdy Doody Show Clarabelle C. B. Lansing (1929/1930–1988), flight attendant and...
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Tomorrow, Opportunity Knocks, Juliette, and the Canadian version of Howdy Doody in which he starred as Trapper Pierre opposite William Shatner. From...
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photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker Martin Stone, producer of Howdy Doody and owner of WVIP Radio Jessica Tandy, long-time resident and actress...
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known for creating Howdy Doody marionettes for the Howdy Doody Show. Dawson built only two classic Howdy Doody marionettes (Howdy and The Inspector John...
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0306-80917-6. Pg. 81–83 Holz, Jo (2017). Kids' TV Grows Up: The Path from Howdy Doody to SpongeBob. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. pp. 81–85, 124–126. ISBN 978-1-4766-6874-1...
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fans as the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 1960. He famously spoke Clarabell's only line on the...
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Giver. Its B-Side, "Pow Wow", was actually a song called "Bring Back Howdy Doody" deliberately pressed backwards as a way of deterring radio stations...
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listening. Early children's shows included Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947), Howdy Doody, and Captain Kangaroo. Another show, Ding Dong School, aired from 1952...
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television show Howdy Doody and as Suzy in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (1955). Tyler took a three-month leave of absence from Howdy Doody to shoot the...
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the United States, the first episode of the series originally aired on Howdy Doody in 1955. The series was revived multiple times, with the last episode...
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red hair and freckles, he bore a resemblance to Howdy Doody (as noted in the episode "The Howdy Doody Show"). Occasionally, he got into trouble in schemes...
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