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 ...

Edward Kean, the original head writer for “The Howdy Doody Show,” the pioneer NBC children’s TV program for which he also created characters and wrote the songs, has died. He was 85. Kean died Aug. 13 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you have a 1950s American childhood? Then you probably remember “It’s Howdy Doody Time,” the theme song of "The Howdy Doody Show," a children’s TV show that ran from 1947 to 1960. I was born in ...

In the days when television sets were rare and children gathered each afternoon at the neighborhood house in which one of those big, boxy black-and-white sets stood, “The Howdy Doody Show” was one of ...

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 ...

Edward Kean, the original head writer for “The Howdy Doody Show,” the pioneer NBC children’s TV program for which he also created characters and wrote the songs, has died. He was 85. Kean died Aug. 13 ...