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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

N E W   H A V E N, Conn. Jan. 26 -- Hey, kids! Howdy Doody is headed forDetroit! The original freckle-faced marionette belongs to the DetroitInstitute of Arts, a federal judge said in a ruling ...

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 ...