Artistic Masterpiece: ''Howdy Doody'' - 1 April (1952)
1952 · Television · 29 min
Synopsis
A 1952 episode of Howdy Doody opening with a practical joke, with talk of the election and commercials for Colgate Dental Cream and Kellogg's cereal.
Synopsis, reviewed
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- Running time
- 29 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Howdy Doody- the invasion of TV into Americana · Noah 8-? · 2009-08-05
There's actually a book out there that really educates us to the phenomenon of tube stare-ing written by the son of one of the show's staffers. Things you may not know about the Howdy Doody show from the book . . . . To get into the 'Peanut Gallery' - you hadda know somebody - and have LOTTA OF REAL PULL ! ! ! These were the proginy of legislators, BIG Executives, Royalty, Sponsors' OWNERS, Board Chairs... and VERY BIG MOO000LA ! ! Rehearsals for the show were kept secret not to preserve the spontinaity of the program but because those participants were a REALLY Bawdy Bunch. Buffalo Bob was…