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 ...

Edward Kean, the original head writer for the "Howdy Doody Show," the pioneering NBC children's television program for which he also created characters and wrote songs, died Aug. 13 of complications ...

Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947 until September 24, ...

LOS ANGELES — Edward Kean, the original head writer for “The Howdy Doody Show,” the pioneer NBC children’s TV program for which he also created characters and wrote the songs, has died. He was 85.

Here’s the plot: "Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947 ...