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, 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 ...

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 ...

SHOREWOOD - For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber didn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDWARD KEAN, who helped create America's beloved HOWDY DOODY SHOW, has died at the age of 85. Kean passed away at a nursing care facility in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan on 13 August (10). He ...