HOWDY DOODY TIME we as baby boomers were sitting in the peanut gallery listening to Howdy and Buffalo Bob, while the Atom Bomb was a threat and bomb shelters in our back yard. radio and TV commercials selling us kids cigarettes. shampoo, cereal, financing, bombs, war and much more to scare us kids to death. I love Howdy Doody and what the program did, but they sold us and programed us from 5 year olds as to the commercial advertising of today. public domain footage www.mlsprovideos.com

Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Smith bookend this 1950s animated commercial for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, one the sponsors of the popluar HOWDT DOODY televsion show. Rice Krispies were first test marketed in 1927 and then offered to consumers at large in 1928. Thei famous “snap – crackle – and pop” sound is the result of the crisped rice grains (–a process which inlcudes baking, drying and toasting leavining each individual grain a hollow, puffed shell –) collapsing whenever milk is added. To …

Here’s a never-before-seen outtake from Barry Mitchell’s afternoon with Howdy Doody Show creator and host, Buffalo Bob Smith. Even in retirement, Smith was a consummate showman, and played to the camera with mesmerizing effect. Recorded for ABC News in Flat Rock, NC in 1997.

Scene from the Howdy Doody Show in which Buffalo Bob creates a ice cream soda machine!