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 ...

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 ...

Edward Kean, the original head writer for the "Howdy Doody Show," the pioneering NBC children's television program for which he also created characters and wrote songs, died Aug. 13 of complications ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Promotional Howdy Doody spoon made and distributed as a premium for the Welch Grape Juice Company. The silverplate spoon has a handle cast in the shape of Howdy Doody and dates to around 1952-1954, ...