Memories drift a long way back. I was 8 years old when I first heard (and saw) this question: “Hey kids, what time is it?” The answer for those who were not around then — or forgot — was “It’s Howdy ...

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Did you have a 1950s American childhood? Then you probably remember “It’s Howdy Doody Time,” the theme song of "The Howdy Doody Show," a children’s TV show that ran from 1947 to 1960. I was born in ...

Edward Kean, headwriter of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” died Aug. 13 in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., of complications of emphysema, family ...

Breathes there a Boomer who doesn’t know the answer to that question? If it was Buffalo Bob Smith asking, and it was a weekday afternoon on NBC in the 1950’s, it was most definitely “Howdy Doody time.

Buffalo Bob Smith’s opening welcome, “Hey, kids, what time is it?” produced the response “It’s Howdy Doody time!” from the Peanut Gallery, as the studio audience was known. The children were a vital ...

Sometimes, once really is enough. You'd like to see your childhood Saturday morning shows. You're curious whether a vintage sitcom holds up. You remember some short-lived crime drama. But a season set ...

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Edward Kean, primary writer of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” has died at the age of 85, family friend Del ...

NEW YORK - A former NBC star and offbeat candidate for president soon will be saluted on COZI TV . No, not Donald Trump. It's Howdy Doody, the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette born at the dawn of ...