SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — 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 ...

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 ...

“It’s Howdy Doody Time!” Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle the Clown burst on the American television screen on the NBC network as “The Howdy Doody Show” in 1947 and captured the hearts of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever seen a bull ride shotgun? Well, this week photos went viral of a bull standing in a Ford Crown Victoria after the driver was pulled over by police, according to the Associated Press.

For a lot of little Americans over the past 13 years, the characters of Dickens, Milne and Grimm have been less familiar than a TV puppet named Howdy Doody. After giving more performances than any ...

Barring further legal action Howdy Doody may soon be freed from his confinement in a Rhode Island bank vault and brought out in a grand unveiling at the Detroit Institute of Arts. After a two-year ...

Lew Anderson, whose antics as Clarabell the Clown alongside Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody on one of television’s first children’s shows made an indelible impression on baby boomers, has died. He ...

N E W   H A V E N, Conn. Jan. 26 -- Hey, kids! Howdy Doody is headed forDetroit! The original freckle-faced marionette belongs to the DetroitInstitute of Arts, a federal judge said in a ruling ...

It’s been 20 long years, but Kermit the Frog is coming back. On Friday, the green charmer from “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show” will go on display in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ puppet cases ...