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Howdy Doody (1947)

Howdy Doody poster
Genre
children's television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 1 episode
Rating
8.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Howdy Doody is a children's television show that blends circus fun with Western themes. It features a cast of characters including a freckle-faced puppet and his human friends. The program was one of the first to be broadcast in color and helped shape kids TV for years to come.

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What happens

Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. 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 the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it pioneered color production in 1956 and NBC (then owned by RCA Television) used the show to promote color television sets in the late 1950s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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