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Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell [1] and E. Roger Muir. [2] It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer of children's programming and set ...
Ernest Roger Muir (December 16, 1918 – October 23, 2008) was a Canadian-born American television producer who created several television programs and game shows. He was the creator and executive producer of children's program Howdy Doody, which ran from 1947 until 1960.
WRCA/WNBT/WNBC-TV: Howdy Doody Show (original puppet) (with Frank Paris) WABD/WNEW-TV (now WNYW): J. Fred Muggs Show; WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV): The Johnny Andrews Show (with Johnny Andrews, Paul Ashley and Chuck McCann) WABC-TV: Jolly Gene and His Fun Machine (with Bill Britten) WPIX: Joya's Fun School
In 2007, the batch of restored versions were made available to view and/or download on various Internet video sites. Most of them were first made available for free viewing on AOL's In2TV, while later a select few became available on YouTube. [18] These episodes were also made available to purchase through Amazon's video-on-demand service ...
The Canadian Howdy Doody Show: Ranger Bob 1955 Encounter: Lucky / Billy Budd: 2 episodes 1957 Studio One: Dr. David Coleman / Kenneth Preston / Dr. Franck 5 episodes, including The Defender: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Jim Whitely Season 3 Episode 1: "The Glass Eye" 1958 A Town Has Turned to Dust: Jerry Paul Playhouse 90 television play by Rod ...
In 1947, NBC's first major children's program was Howdy Doody, one of the era's first breakthrough television programs.The series, which ran for 13 years until it ended in 1960, featured a myriad of characters led by a freckle-faced marionette voiced by the show's host, "Buffalo" Bob Smith.
As a part of a 1987 Howdy Doody 40th-anniversary retrospective special, Monty Hall and Buffalo Bob Smith imagined, as a way to celebrate Howdy Doody's birthday, a spoof of "This Is Your Life" called "Your Happiest Days". The WWE spoofed This Is Your Life three times with Mick Foley as the host. The purpose of these segments was to bring out ...
In addition, he developed a humorous audience greeting which became his catch-cry, "Howdy-doody, boys and girls and mums and dads and bald-headed babies". [2] Ellen also played the naughty schoolboy role of "Conkers" in the slapstick series Take That (1957-59) for Crawford Productions, which reputedly could have been Australia's first TV sitcom ...