Howdy Doody - Remember When - Buffalo Bob Smith

[@lindagomez4006]

I am now 80 years old and I remember watching Howdy Doody. I loved the show and never missed a day. This brings back memories of the good old days

[@earlyaugie]

I was a kid who got to watch this show so grateful what a time to live

[@iasimov5960]

After years of watching Howdy Doody, I recall the shock and thrill I felt when Clarabelle actually spoke.

[@viewome]

Oh yeah I remember that time too.

[@bigfootbillunknown9511]

I'm gonna go get my Howdy Doody Puppet outta storage & play this video for my Grandchildren. They have never seen the best Live Children's show ever. "What time is it Kids?" "Its Howdy Doody Time!" 😉

[@larrydewein5078]

I grew up with Howdy Doody! My parents bought a TV in 1947 and I was 7 yrs. old and watched every day (Mon. - Fri) at 5:PM. It was like a running drama whereby you couldn't wait until the next day to see what's going to happen! I feel sorry for kids today who have nothing but cartoon junk with nastiness and violence to watch.

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

THIS ^^^

[@tylerlozano9849]

@@ivanthevaluable2559I am a millennial know about Movie and Television History I know who Howdy Doody is Sherry Lewis Lamb Chop Captain Kangaroo Adventures of Superman George Reeves I am an Actor The Little Rascals TCM is my favorite network.

[@carl77242]

I was born in 42 remember watching this show when i a kid every one said that look like him 😢

[@beverlylooper3927]

It's hard for me to believe there used to be a kids show that taught kids how to be good. It seems like so many of them just teach kids how to be rebellious disrespectful smart alecs. I wish I could have lived then.💘

[@bobbyslater1198]

I saw that last show when it aired. It was quite emotional.

[@davidseals352]

Bobby Slater Clairbell spoke for the first and last time on that last show and I watched it too

[@hedylamarr8652]

SHUT UP YA SAP

[@hedylamarr8652]

@@davidseals352 I WHEN SNOW BLIND

[@davidseals352]

Hedy LAMARR say what?

[@hedylamarr8652]

@@davidseals352 say what? YO MOTHER WHAT!

[@SpellboundWolf]

Those people in the background at the live show are funny with how some of them were allowed to stand really close to the camera during the interview. XD My daddy & his siblings are Babyboomers, but I didn't ever learn about Howdy Doody until I met a therapist in my teens (born 1988) that was in his age group. Daddy grew up on a farm with no TV, so he had books & music records in his youth instead. I remember my therapist told me he had lots of freckles & big teeth when he was a child, so people would call him Howdy Doody as a nickname. I think it's really nice that Pixar made Woody's Round-Up as a kind of tribute to the show. I can tell that this series is beloved & that makes me smile. I have a fondness for puppets & marionettes, growing up with Jim Henson's creations. Big Bird & Oscar are my top favorites.

[@madkittyjoey70]

I know this was way before my time, but I love vintage things and Howdy Doody is just so cute!!!

[@alicat4sythe]

I was not alive in the 50's but I love all things in the 50's and this is cool to me

[@hedylamarr8652]

SHUT UP YA SAP

[@davidrivas2679]

Same

[@MrJgohde]

I was born in 1950. Howdy Doody was one of my favorite shows. I found this program very informative.

[@edwardvelez6764]

I love Howdy Doody. I am now 72 years old now.

[@Brace67]

I used to watch Howdy Doody all the time as a small boy in Detroit. My sister and I had full size marionettes of Flub a Dub and Mr. Bluster. Loved the show and always looked forward to seeing it. One of the other puppets seen in this video but not mentioned (I don't think) was Dilly Dally. I had forgotten the tragic fate of Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring.

[@mcfrdmn]

Excellent episode of Howdy Doody - Remember When - Buffalo Bob Smith

[@hedylamarr8652]

WEAR WAZ CRIS ROCK AT?

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

It's the 2,344th Howdy Doody Show starring Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Smith!

[@michaelsorrells4649]

R.I.P Buffalo Bob Smith

[@maryneth6383]

Thank you it brought back great memories

[@shigsho]

I won't forget Bob Smith and Howdy. Great for lonely kids.

[@danieldutton4519]

I enjoyed this very much thank you

[@hedylamarr8652]

I DIDN'T AND U STUPID

[@getx1265]

Wow! What a childhood I had!

[@witheringi9492]

big part of my early childhood. I seem to remember they had a contest where they gave away Schwinn bikes? Some with radios?

[@mikegriffith4896]

I remember Captain Kangaroo giving away Schwinn bikes ,

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Thank you for posting this.

[@Dimes4DaDevil]

Neat guys thanks for the fun in the 50-60’s

[@WimGrundy]

Your newest subscriber-for-life thanks you for your channel!

[@sailordude2094]

I bet if I was a kid watching Clarabelle speak on live TV then, I would remember that like I remember dramatic events like 9/11 now. Interesting early TV history, thanks! After watching clips of Paul Winchell's show, the kids in the audience were more diverse in color but I guess it was during the 1950s not the 1940s like these clips seem to be.

[@55pilot]

I was in high school at the time (1956) and I remember it well.

[@lavinduweragala4995]

How would you compare highschool kids of the 50s to the highschool kids of the 70s,80s,90s, or today?

[@RobertSilvestri86]

Was my daily after school must. 1950-1956.

[@lavinduweragala4995]

How old were you back then?

[@uptojoy]

Thank you.

[@Boomboom1001]

Hello. I will allways love all you do

[@TheBee87bee]

Politics did not exist in these shows;you could be a Democrat ,Republican, or anything else and still be enchanted by the wholesome humor on this shpw .No politics or bigotry on this show! Thank you ,Bob Smith and Howdy Doody, I miss you both!!!

[@sandracarter4207]

If there was no racist bigotry then where are the Children of different races?

[@lavinduweragala4995]

@@sandracarter4207 I believe in a 1953 episode there was one child of Asian origin I believe in the audience, so I wouldn't presume it was that strict about the type of kids admitted to the peanut gallery. Although I could be wrong 😅

[@johneastmond9092]

I was watching the last episode when Clarabelle says "Goodbye kids." You can actually hear the sobbing from the peanut gallery! It was loud enough to be picked up from the boom mic!

[@wadeolder7193]

Life was simple then. Today? Sad what the children are fed from TV, Hollywood, the record industry, and violent video games. Yes. Good by "kids".

[@hisroyalness2]

The kids were wearing white shirts and ties or suit jackets. Those were times before our schools and society in general were invaded by Lefties, and liberals.

[@biteme9486]

Wasn’t there also a lot of racism?

[@hedylamarr8652]

YO MIND IZZ SIMPLE

[@hedylamarr8652]

@@hisroyalness2 YEAH BEFORE WHITE FLIGHT

[@annek1226]

I was on the Howdy Doody show and sat in the Peanut Gallery as a kid! All was not as it seemed! At that time there were no adults allowed on set. No crying children were tolerated! If a child started to cry they were picked up and rushed off the stage! They traumatized a few that way!

[@lavinduweragala4995]

I would love to hear your story with show, how you got to be in it and what was the atmosphere like in the studio. And any interesting facts about being on the show

[@JPSmith1123]

I Am Howdy Doody - Remember When - Buffalo Bob Smith Old!❤️😊📺

[@peterceppos7105]

You do not look like Howdy Doody to me

[@hedylamarr8652]

SHUT UP YA SAP

[@StevClifSylv]

There needs to be a Kids React video for Howdy Doody!

[@hedylamarr8652]

YO MOTHER

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

@@hedylamarr8652 YOURS

[@michaelsorrells4649]

And wishes but it was in my day

[@debbutcher9087]

I know it’s just me, but when the camera gets closer and closer to Clairibell’s face and he whispers “goodbye kids” there’s something scary about it.

[@peterwilson2591]

It was scary and kind of startling because Clarabell never talked before until he said "goodbye kids" at the end of the last show. The recording on this version is a rough kinescope (film from a TV monitor) but the original, color videotape has been located and is available on DVD (the show was pre-taped in color the last two years). The DVD title is "Clarabell's Big Surprise".

[@tylerlozano9849]

Goodbye kids would not be the last and only words by Clarabelle the clown one one interview on Good Morning America on Thanksgiving Clarabelle would say Happy Thanksgiving

[@alissunwolf8249]

Was Howdy Doody the prototype for Alfred E. Neumann?

[@hedylamarr8652]

NO YO MOTHER

[@oso0504]

Hermoso....

[@vendetta1306]

Amazing :)

[@hedylamarr8652]

SHUT UP YA SAP

[@SteveBarnett-i7s]

Check out Ernie Kovac’s Howdy Deedy for the perfect send up and Clarabell’s downfall.

[@michaelcase8574]

It's funny that Clara Belle is a girls name. Bob Smith was a very talented guy. I loved them all.

[@richard00langdon]

Howdy Doody lives on.... his name is now Andrew Scheer

[@ConnieMadden]

Thinking of going to our party as Princess Summerfall Winterspring - she's UPBEAT, like, in Greys' Anatomy when the nasty girl says "Is she ALWAYS like this? Rainbows and Unicorns coming out your ass?" Well, the Princess definitely has that territory down. The '50's were all about being polite and well mannered. Like Canadians?

[@TomBarrister]

Bob Smith bequeathed the original Howdy Doody marionette to the Detroit Institute of Arts, where (after a lengthy court battle with heirs following Smith's death), it now resides.

[@muppetsstoogesfan1]

James Comisar president and founder of the Museum of Television has one of Buffalo Bob's original shirts. He has one of the largest collections of tv memorabilia in the world. He has Skipper and Gilligan's hats, Maxwell Smart's shoephone, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show set, the Cheers bar and Frasier's apartment, and the All in the Family living room.

[@hisroyalness2]

I wish he would've gotten to the David Letterman set before they pitched it into a dumpster the very next morning after the show ended.

[@peterceppos7105]

You don't look like Howdy Doody but thanks for trying

[@bagelfart8985]

11/22/63

[@henrymockingbird9645]

8:13

[@flaco.antonio]

7:58 wtf

[@jrnumex9286]

sports car? history pics some big ole Buick or what. t- boned in wyoming after her driver over reacted/ corrected into oncoming.

[@johnmcglothin5418]

that clarabelle scene was creepy but beautiful it could be made into a creepypasta

[@bobbyslater1198]

Creepypasta - an Italian ghoul's dinner.

[@layna8924]

THE FACT THAT THE CLOWN WAS CALLED 'CLARABELLE' I FIND REALLY DISTURBING...THE CLOWN IS A 'MALE' F.C.O.L.!...GENDER-BENDING IT SEEMED STARTED WAY BACK WHEN?...ANYONE ASK THEMSELVES WHY A MALE CLOWN WAS CALLED 'CLARABELLE'?...;)

[@MickLBrad]

Layna8 No, I never did!

[@joejohnson3891]

please no, making it a creepypasta will take the magic out of it and just give it testicular cancer...

[@dawnslater1065]

So what? Bimbo was a male, not a female.

[@sob5372]

Howdy Doody had wooden balls

[@curtissylvester6347]

howdy doody is Alfred e nauman are cousin s

[@toonman361]

I had read that the original Howdy puppet was soon retired because he looked scary.

[@haleytakamura6772]

I only came her to find out the character from Jordan Peterson's book 😀

[@eugenesonger9426]

I even liked Howdy Dowdy better than the mickey mouse show

[@PC.NickRowan]

Huh, so it was the parents of the 50s who created the culture of obnoxious parents dictating what's appropriate and inappropriate for television.

[@shadykitty7493]

wow i thought my generation was stupid