Posts Tagged ‘retro’

HOWDY DOODY Flicker Rings Tv Commercial 1960

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Free Howdy Doody Flicker rings in Nabisco Rice and Wheat Honeys cereal 1960

Howdy Doody 40th Anniversary promo 1987

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Promo for “It’s Howdy Doody Time” 40th Anniversary show 1987. Watch hundreds of other classic commercials on my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/mrclassicads!

HOWDY DOODY THREE MUSKETEERS CANDY COMMERCIAL

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown extoll the mertits of Mars’ Three Musketeers candy bar to the members of the Peanut Gallery and the viewres at home in this “live” commercial from the mid 1950s. Three Musketeers was introduced in 1932 and was the third candy confection from the family-owned Mars, Inc., following Milky Way (1923) — orginally advertsed as a “chocolate malted milk in a candy bar” — and Snickers (1930), which was named after one of the Mars’ family’s …

HOWDY DOODY NABISCO WHEAT HONEYS COMMERCIAL

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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 …

HOWDY DOODY RICE KRISPIES COMMERCIAL 1950s

Monday, August 24th, 2009

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 …

HOWDY DOODY HOSTESS TWINKIES COMMERCIAL 1950s

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Beloved 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 …