WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Edward Kean, primary writer of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” has died at the age of 85, family friend Del ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edward Kean, the original head writer for the "Howdy Doody Show," the pioneering NBC children's television program for which he also created characters and wrote songs, died Aug. 13 of complications ...

Edward Kean, headwriter of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” died Aug. 13 in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., of complications of emphysema, family ...

Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947 until September 24, ...

All lives feel like they're lived in exile from something, because they are. That's the way it is, boys and girls. So, 60 years after I appeared on the "Howdy Doody" show, I'd like to offer a ...