Due to popular demand, here’s the complete final episode of the long-running Howdy Doody Show. Part Four features some comedy bits with Clarabell and then an old NBC “station identification” bumper. (It also has some very early bluescreen / chromakey effects that look pretty bad by today’s standards, but must have amazed the kids back then.)
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The Howdy Doody Show – Last Episode (Part 4 of 8) – 9/24/1960
Thursday, August 13th, 2009The Howdy Doody Show – Last Episode (Part 3 of 8) – 9/24/1960
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Due to popular demand, here’s the complete final episode of the long-running Howdy Doody Show. Part Three features the animals of Doodyville saying goodbye (and like any good kiddie show, they sing it!)
The Howdy Doody Show – Last Episode (Part 2 of 8) – 9/24/1960
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Due to popular demand, here’s the complete final episode of the long-running Howdy Doody Show. Part Two has the cast packing up, reminsicing about the “Howdy Doody for President of the kids” campaign of 1948, as well as a commercial for Nabisco’s Rice Honeys & Wheat Honeys (the commercial is B&W).
Howdy Doody Buffalo Bob Smith final TV appearance part 1 / 5
Friday, August 7th, 2009This was Boffalo Bob Smith’s last TV appearance. It aired live on Friday, July 3rd, 1998 on the QVC shopping channel. Buffalo Bob passed away at the end of the month. I believe this was his last TV appearance. Sorry I’m missing the first couple of minutes.
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 …
Howdy Doody Christmas
Wednesday, July 29th, 20091950′s Howdy Doody Christmas
Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009The first big time TV show for kids…Howdy Doody….Clara Belle..the Peanut Gallery and Buffalo Bob…..HUGE among children from 1947 to 1960…..Major cultural force for chidlren raised in those days…..He was full life…..I talked to him in the early 90′s he died in 1998 he was 80 and died from cancer..survived a heart attack in 1954….TV hall of Famer and pioneer…great guy!
Howdy Doody
Monday, July 27th, 2009The Howdy Doody Show was one of the first and by far the most popular children’s television shows in the 1950′s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination and business realities associated with early television. www.millcreekent.com
Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob make Ice Cream Sodas!
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Scene from the Howdy Doody Show in which Buffalo Bob creates a ice cream soda machine!
The Howdy Doody Show – Last Episode (Part 1 of 8) – 9/24/1960
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Due to popular demand, here’s the complete final episode of the long-running Howdy Doody Show. Part One has the opening (with the original NBC Peacock), the kids singing the Howdy Doody song, plus the cast trying to get the kiddies to buy cereal (the long-gone Rice Honeys & Wheat Honeys from Nabisco).
