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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 freckle-faced marionette born at the dawn of television. He will star ...