Buffalo Bob Smith, the television pioneer whose question "Say kids! What time is it?" was greeted with the joyous "It's Howdy Doody time!" during 13 years of live broadcasts, died Thursday of ...

If it was Buffalo Bob Smith asking, and it was a weekday afternoon on NBC in the 1950’s, it was most definitely “Howdy Doody time.” Boomers remember “The Howdy Doody Show” as much for ...

So, 60 years after I appeared on the "Howdy Doody" show, I'd like to offer a qualified thanks to Howdy, Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Big Chief Thunderthud, Mr. Bluster, all of them, for wising me up ...

it`s a good bet that you grew up watching Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, Clarabell and all of the other denizens of Doodyville. From its beginnings in the late 1940s until a decade or so later ...

Printed on the round, red, platform base is: “Howdy Doody / No. 180 / Patent No. 2,421,278 / A Kohner Product / (c) Bob Smith.” Howdy Doody is standing in front of an NBC microphone.

"Say, kids! What time is it?" Buffalo Bob would call out at the top of each show, to which the kids would scream in response, "It's 'Howdy Doody' time!" Among its supporting cast was, famously ...

Howdy Doody, a 27 1/2-inch tall marionette and Baby ... Rose’s heirs and the emcee of the old show, the late Buffalo Bob Smith, had agreed to try to auction the historic marionette, raising ...

Bluster and others, including host Buffalo Bob Smith. At the beginning of each show, Smith would ask: "What time isit?" "It's Howdy Doody time!" the kiddie studio audience and babyboomers around ...

Enter Gruber's apartment at HarborChase of Shorewood assisted living and right there is the Howdy Doody automaton. Play it, and you hear the voice of Buffalo Bob Smith, the host of the Howdy Doody ...

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 ...