Buffalo Bob Smith (birth name Robert Emil Schmidt) joins the “Buffalo Bee” puppet to give a pitch for Hostess Twinkies on an episode of HOWDY DOODY. Smith was an enormously talented musician and a popular radio personality before co-creating the HOWDY DOODY show, which combined puppets, music and a live-action cast. It soon became one of the highest-rated shows on on television and, perhaps, the most fondly remembered children’s television show of the 1950s. So in demand was Smith that he …