When Smith made an appearance on NBC's television program Puppet Playhouse on December 27, 1947, the reception for the character was great enough to begin a demand for a visual character for television. At that time, Howdy Doody was only a voice Smith performed on the radio. Howdy Doody views the results of his 'plastic surgery.'īuffalo Bob Smith created Howdy Doody during his days as a radio announcer on WNBC.
Huff and Eustis, who appeared only for a short time on a Saturday edition of the Puppet Playhouse show. The original Howdy is immediately to Smith's left. Story On the air with the first Howdy Doody puppet. One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it pioneered color production in 1956 and NBC (then owned by RCA Television) used the show to promote color television sets in the late 1950s.
It was a pioneer of children's programming and set the pattern for many similar shows.
It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F.
