XmasFlix.com ► http The Howdy Doody Show ( tr.im ) was one of the first and easily the most popular children’s television show in the 1950s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination, and business realities associated with early television. While Howdy and his friends entertained American children, they also sold television sets to American parents and demonstrated the potential of the new medium to advertisers. The idea for Howdy Doody began on the NBC New York radio affiliate …
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Howdy Doody Christmas (1957) Classic TV Puppet Show
Friday, December 11th, 2009HOWDY DOODY RICE KRISPIES COMMERCIAL 1950s
Monday, August 24th, 2009Howdy 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 …
HOWDY DOODY HOSTESS TWINKIES COMMERCIAL 1950s
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Beloved Buffalo Bob Smith (birth name Richard Schmidt) gives 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 appeared on additinal radio and …
