April Fools Day on the Howdy Doody Show (April 1, 1952)
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- Did You Know??? Clarabell the Clown never spoke on camera until the very last episode. While large amounts of money were offered by advertisers to have him say the sponsor's name or product, all offers were refused. After the closing credits of the very last episode, a drumroll was played, and Clarabell, holding back tears, softly said, "Goodbye, kids."
The Howdy Doody Show was the first nationally televised children's television show and was also the first NBC show to air five days a week. In addition, it was the first show ever to air more than 1,000 continuous episodes.
In addition to Howdy Doody, the cast of marionettes included:
Flub-a-Dub, a creature made up of seven animals in one, whose favorite food was meatballs and spaghetti;
Dilly Dally, a baseball-capped boy who could wiggle his ears;
Mister Bluster, villainous mayor of Doodyville (the fictional location of the show);
Inspector Fadoozle, forever peering through his magnifying glass, who billed himself as "America's number one private eye".
On 11 August 2009 the US Postal Service issued a pane of twenty 44¢ commemorative postage stamps honoring early USA television programs. A booklet with 20 picture postal cards was also issued. The stamp honoring "The Howdy Doody Show" (which began as "Puppet Playhouse") has a picture of Howdy Doody's head. - Zábava
My Uncle Bob, Robert Nicholson played Clarabell/Cornelius Cobb the store keeper. I also remember visiting the Howdy Doody Show with my family. I can remember Buffalo Bob caring me around the studio to see the puppets. Buffalo Bob was such a nice man. I'm so happy to have know him.
I can see the family resemblance! So awesome!
I was IN the "Peanut Gallery!" I remember being lined up in a hallway holding the Howdy Doody flag and a tiny box of Kellogs Frosted Flakes; they told us if we didn't behave they'd take our stuff away. "They can't do that!" 7-year old me thought, "they already gave it to us!"
What really surprised me was the performing was taking place on a stage a distance away perpendicular to us, instead of facing us head-on - I just assumed it would be like watching a TV show right in front of us, like a movie.
For some reason my folks took me to just about every NYC TV show that had a kids' audience back in those mid/late 50's days; might be part of the reason I wound up working in TV for real.
Wow that sounds so cool, I'd love to hear more about what it was like being on the show
So glad these vintage shows are available. I loved the Howdy Doody Show. We got our TV in 1954 and I became a loyal fan of Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob was great. Loved the entire cast of the show. I wanted to be Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring.
Never missed a show. Saw Buffalo Bob many times in New Rochelle. Memories.
Ever get to go to Rob and Lora Petrie's home..LOL
I was doing a report on my great grandmother but she had passed away. And she said this was her favorite show when she was a kid so I wanted to watch it, now I know why she liked it. It definitely put a smile on my face.
I can still sing this from memory, that's how important it was. I was supposed to go with my cousin to be in the peanut gallery on the show. But I got chicken pox and couldn't go. Man was I upset, especially when I saw my cousin in the peanut gallery and I was at home with calamine lotion all over me.
was born in 1947 as a kid me and my brothers use to watch this all the time
You're judging it by today's standards and not with the eyes of a child who lived in the far simpler times of 60 years ago.
That show was so popular and an icon that the NBC test pattern featured Howdy as the center graphic, similar as the one shown at the beginning of this show.
I used to watch Kukla Fran and Ollie too and loved it. I knew they were all puppets and marionettes on Howdy Doody but the suspension of disbelief is greater when you're a kid so you easily can accept it as real anyway.
I HATED Kukla Fran and Ollie! LOL I don't know why, but they just creeped me out.
In a TV camera from the 1950s there is an "image tube" that's kind of like the picture tube in an old TV. It scans an electron beam across a light-sensitive plate, there are electromagnetic coils that steer the beam, and those coils are adjustable to align the picture on the screen. If you "adjust" the coils to be upside down on the tube, the picture will be upside down.
I watched that final show with Clarabell's goodbye. Replaced by the Shari Lewis show which was excellent.
..and incidentally, the stage manager (whose name wasn't properly credited) was Domenick Dunne, who later became a best-selling author and investigative journalist...
Did you notice in the end credits the name Bobby Keeshan?
He played Clarabell the Clown... and went on to become Captain Kangaroo!
I was in the Peanut Gallery in about 1950-- it was a BIG DEAL! I remember the "goody bag" we all got-- a jar of Ovaltine, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a box of Kellogg's cereal (Rice Krispies?) and who know what else! Indeed a different time as far as advertising to kids!
Can you please tell me more of your time in the peanut gallery?
@@lavinduweragala4995 Not much more to tell. The show was recorded in a studio in the NBC building in New York-. Same building where Saturday Night Live, Tonight Show and Nightly News are recorded. If you’ve never been, it’s awesome, even now. Extraordinary Art Deco design and execution. In some ways a “deflating” experience. We were in place probably a half hour before air time- seeing the set with the puppets (marionettes) just hanging there-floppy and lifeless. (I think it was my first foray into atheism!)
This was one of the daily {Monday through Friday} shows [5:30-6pm(et)], sponsored "this afternoon" by Kellogg's (they also sponsored "WILD BILL HICKOK", starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine, featured on their Sugar Corn Pops boxes, and co-sponsored NBC's "ALL STAR REVUE", featuring Ed Wynn and Jimmy Durante), with a word from "tomorrow's sponsor", Colgate Dental Cream, at the end of the show. Doc Whipple is at the organ; Bob Keeshan is "Clarabell"....
Unfortunately, I remember most of these episodes. We got our first tv in 53. I was just 6 at the time. This, Buster Brown, The Honeymooners. Pinky Lee, Soupy Sales They were great. And of course The Micky Mouse Club
Ahh, the Mickey Mouse Club! Everyone was in love with Annette, but I preferred Karen.
I remember some of these shows, but I was born in 1952, so I was still pretty young.
I do remember Clarabell the Clown. After seeing this show all these years later, I didn't realise how creepy Clarabell looked. LOL
Thanks for some great memories, when life was simple.
If you thought Clarabell was creepy, you probably didn't like Captain Kangaroo either because he was played by the same guy, Bob Keeshan.
Born in '46 and watched it daily. Have a HD bobble head on my desk which my sister, born in '39, found on line. Wondering about origin of word dilly dally.
Watched this show as a young boy.Then was amazed when the show was televised in Color.Remember it as if it were yesterday.The early 50s were a special time to grow up as a child.Thanks to all.
My second birthday was on 4/12/1952 and how long did it take us kids to realize Buffalo Bob and Howdy talked exactly alike! Never missed a show.
Wow what a treat!!..."little" Bobby Keeshan as Clarabelle...of course you all know the very famous kid's show that starred Mr. Keeshan some years later.
Bob Keeshan was fired from Howdy Doody in December,1952. For a while he was unemployed-but he did star in the series Time for Fun as Carny the Clown(who talked)and then Tinker's Workshop as Tinker the Toymaker. Beginning in October of 1955,he was Captain Kangaroo...until December,1984.
Back to the future 3 brought me here
Me too.
"Great Scott! Howdy Doody Time?"
My father fitted Clarabell for a hearing aide...must of been all of the horn blowing!!!!
Back to the future brought me here lol
this was aired 3 days before i was born !
no way! really?
The only TV show I was ever on. I think I was five or six! 1952-53
I'm watching this on inauguration day, 2013. This would have been BETTER!
What a classic.
Goodness this is just a commercial disguised as a children's TV show!
Gg
@@abcz2578 -- Gg ??
I hear Thurl Ravenscroft (voice of Tony the Tiger for over 50 years) in the Kelloggs commercial.
Mickey McGuire was, in fact, young Mickey Rooney.
It was good fun for kids!
I remember that for some reason my kid brain had gotten the thot that Buffalo Bob was a pro wrestler as well, but now that I see him again..he could have passed as one. What great memories anyway..thanks for posting this vid! Really fun!
Loved it as a kid; remember all the songs; but boy is it annoying to watch and listen to 71 years later!
My dad was born in 1962!!! He missed the show!
This is absolutely terrifying.
I wonder now what I was so fascinated about watching this. Most likely saw this episode. Didn't remember how much they were brainwashing the future generation with products. Happy to say not one of them did I use once through with childhood.
Thanks for this blast into the past.
Really, never had one of those cereals, not even Snap, Crackle, and Pop, or Sugar Pops?
Not all the products were trash. Colgate Toothpaste with Happy Tooth and Mr. Tooth Decay...Wonder Bread with the red, yellow and blue balloons printed on the wrapper that helped build your body eight ways. Hostess Cup Cakes....these were all sponsors.
eat your toothpaste kids !
This show came along before mr Rogers neighborhood came on tv and Sesame Street
Obviously the writers didn't know the U. of Nebraska fight song.
I do know Clarabell said that, I heard him as a child.
+burt2481 I knew that,too.I was in First Grade when the last Howdy Doody show aired in September,1960. It was a special hour-show but I always remembered Clarabell's final farewell.
+Richard Ranke didn't he look into the camera and say "Bye, Kids"? the only time he talked?
+kberken True
@@richardranke7878 That was Episode 2,344
Love the boy behind Buffalo Bob at 11:00
I was Bron 1978 it was in my day
Howdy Doody Rachel!!
hahaha different times. I actually find it a bit refreshing when comparing it to today's kid shows.
what my dad used to watch!love this. but Howdy.. Wisconsin sucks! lol
love you howdy
I was 7 months old then!
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April FOOOLS! XD
Buffalo Bob the human host also provided the voice for Howdy. Pep Flakes was the Kellogg's cereal meant to compete with Wheaties. It is no longer around today. Thanks for posting an entire show.
PA and a. If the person
Great Scott! Howdy Doody time? Sunday, November 13, 1955, 7:01 a.m. Last night's time travel experiment was apparently a complete success. Lightning struck the clock tower at 10:04 p.m... ...sending the necessary 1.21 gigawatts... ...into the time vehicle, which vanished in a flash of light... ...leaving a pair of fire trails behind. I assumed Marty and the time vehicle... ...were transported forward through time to the year 1985. After that, I can't recall what happened. In fact, I don't even remember how I got home. Perhaps the gigawatt discharge and the temporal displacement field... ...generated by the vehicle caused a disruption of my own brain waves... ...resulting in a condition of momentary amnesia. I now recall that moments after the time vehicle disappeared... ...into the future... ...I saw a vision of Marty saying he had come back from the future.
I was 8 years old when I seen this.
THIS IS CORNY NOW (smile) I can't believe I watched this AS A KID.
How did they do that amazing upside down camera trick!?
Chris Lewis by turning the camera upside down.
rocket science
HaShem is the only god forever. I am going to vaporize with laughter lololololo :)
awesome! Kelloggs PEP . Bran Flakes will get you going in the morning!
Colgate Dental Cream... NOT toothpaste.
Back then they were still selling Tooth Powder.
Howdy is part of the early NSA!
The 1950's the age of TV when it was great , it is all thrash now .
+Kickingtheirbasstv : Trash?
FamilyMann oh shut up granny
Wow they had real crappy cereals back then. Lol
Such a shame it is upside down!
It's Tim Kaine!!! I swear!! lol
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While large amounts of money were offered by advertisers to have him say the sponsor's name or product, all offers were refused.
You're forgetting "Phud! (Also a mild detergent.) I WANNIT! I WANNIT! I WANNIT! I WANNIT! I WANNIT! "
and my own grandmother thought it was stupid. thats why its not on anymore and lasted a couple of episodes.
A couple of episodes? Where do you get your information? I have a DVD that has 200 episodes.
Stop this, he's a troll.
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The monster he sees reminds me of catdog
why is it backwards???
@MrBilly I guess you're right, I was lucky not to have to suffer the traumatic destruction of my childhood illusions like you obviously did. We had a Admiral too, probably a 15 inch screen in a blonde wood cabinet. You know the type. We waited to get a TV because my uncle had a Dumont with a 6 inch screen that they had to put a big magnifier over (they sold them in stores just for that purpose). Obviously on the lousy TV of the day we didn't see the strings and the phony stage set up.
every body doesn't like the plubidub they all love howdy
How scary. o.e
You would have...
The greediest generation that had ever sucked oxygen.
it's not April fool's...and you are risking
Indiana jones 4 brought me here
All hail Anthony Hobbs.
Creepy
Where is princess summer-fall-winter-spring? VaVaVoom
Howdy Doody is CREEPY!!
OMG. I was brainwashed by this nonsense as a kid. I just looked this up because I remembered the Howdy Doody song.
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The Jewish kids did not clap or seem engaged in this episode. Only the Italians and Whites seemed happy.
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THE NEWER HOWDY DOODY IS IN THE DOLL MAKER MAP (minecraft)
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Jesus Christ!! Nightmare fuel, Straight Up!!!
WTF!
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I highly doubt it. There's no comedy or entertainment, just advertisement.
Because you were, obviously, never a child. I su[ppose there's no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny either?
Ya know, people like you are really, really sad.
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Dilly Dally...Daron, false god / blasphemer now
President Trump's lawyers are very very good...
but can they prevent impeachment?
hahaha it most certainly did not have that many episodes or if it did then it would be the longest show with the most episodes in history. The simpsons is the only one in history and that doesnt even have that many. power rangers, general hospital all have this crap beat
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Hahahahaha dont beleive anything u read on google.google is wrong 90% of the time. shit on google is put up from ppl like u that think they know everything. Howdy doody had 40 episodes only. My decision is final.......... power rangers, general hospital, and the simpsons are the only tv shows with the most amount of episodes in tv history. Jesus Christ were the hell do u people come from?
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