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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...
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    Photo Doody is one of the three original Howdy Doody 1940s marionettes. He is the Howdy figure that was used in Howdy Doody still photo sessions for the...
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    and presenter; he was well known as the host of the children's show Howdy Doody. Born in Buffalo, New York, as Robert Emil Schmidt, he attended Masten...
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  • television star who began his career by replacing Buffalo Bob Smith on The Howdy Doody Show while Smith was recovering from a heart attack. At various times...
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  • was an American television pioneer and writer who helped create The Howdy Doody Show and wrote over 2,000 episodes of the program. Kean was born in 1924...
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    character who was part of the main cast on the 1947–1960 series The Howdy Doody Show. Clarabell, who wore a baggy, striped costume, communicated through...
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    Dictionary and others. In 1943 the Howdy Doody children's radio show adopted the name for its live audience of children. Howdy Doody is most remembered for its...
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  • John Lasseter's Casper pull-string doll he had as a kid, as well as the Howdy Doody puppets from the 1950s show. Woody is named after Woody Strode, a character...
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  • customer draw. Howdy Beefburgers was inspired by The Howdy Doody Show that had run on television from 1947 to 1960, and even adapted Howdy Doody as its mascot...
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    story about a marionette. In 1947, Howdy Doody introduced marionettes to children's television, with Howdy Doody (the main character) being a marionette...
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    program of its day. He also played the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program. Bob Keeshan was born to Irish parents in Lynbrook...
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  • shows. He was the creator and executive producer of children's program Howdy Doody, which ran from 1947 until 1960. Muir was born in Alberta, Canada, on...
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    Tyler's acting career began as a teenager, with regular appearances on Howdy Doody as Princess Summerfall Winterspring from 1950 to 1953. Like her mother...
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    Tomorrow, Opportunity Knocks, Juliette, and the Canadian version of Howdy Doody in which he starred as Trapper Pierre opposite William Shatner. From...
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    was hired to temporarily replace the ailing Bob Smith on the daily The Howdy Doody Show, playing Bison Bill, after Bob Smith had suffered a heart attack...
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    the theme song to the mid-20th century United States television show Howdy Doody. The song's authorship was disputed for some years. It was originally...
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    Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on NBC's The Howdy Doody Show during the network's early years. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure...
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  • character of Howdy Doody, an American children's TV series Doody Cubee, the orange female Cubee from the British children’s show, Cubeez Doody, a character...
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  • in the controversial New Museum exhibition, including Jeff Koons as Howdy Doody, which Edward Winkleman remarked is ironic considering how much Powhida's...
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    another one. The second episode, Gumby on the Moon, became a huge hit on Howdy Doody, so Sarnoff ordered a series in 1955 titled The Gumby Show. In 1955 and...
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  • 0306-80917-6. Pg. 81–83 Holz, Jo (2017). Kids' TV Grows Up: The Path from Howdy Doody to SpongeBob. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. pp. 81–85, 124–126. ISBN 978-1-4766-6874-1...
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  • known for creating Howdy Doody marionettes for the Howdy Doody Show. Dawson built only two classic Howdy Doody marionettes (Howdy and The Inspector John...
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  • you're ever down in Texas look me up Everybody's gonna holler, Howdy doody! Howdy doody! Everybody there's gonna ask, how are you? How ya all? We raise...
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  • Giver. Its B-Side, "Pow Wow", was actually a song called "Bring Back Howdy Doody" deliberately pressed backwards as a way of deterring radio stations...
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    of Police). In 1952, he portrayed Big Ben on the children's TV series Howdy Doody. and made his film debut in Crime Against Joe as Red Waller four years...
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  • fans as the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 1960. He famously spoke Clarabell's only line on the...
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    red hair and freckles, he bore a resemblance to Howdy Doody (as noted in the episode "The Howdy Doody Show"). Occasionally, he got into trouble in schemes...
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    photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker Martin Stone, producer of Howdy Doody and owner of WVIP Radio Jessica Tandy, long-time resident and actress...
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  • the United States, the first episode of the series originally aired on Howdy Doody in 1955. The series was revived multiple times, with the last episode...
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  • request of Bob Smith (who Nicholson had worked with in Buffalo), for The Howdy Doody Show, formerly known as "Puppet Playhouse". Nicholson played various...
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