Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mathew Gruber created the Howdy Doody puppet that was part of the famous children's television show of the same name in the 1950's ...

The puppet of 1950s TV fame is caught in a legal dispute between a museum and the family of its creator. Howdy Doody, the freckle-faced puppet that entertained millions of American children in the ...

mint; black and white television stills with gold border designed to look like a 1950s television; Early TV Memories; Howdy Doody; verso of pane says, "Howdy Doody / Featuring live-action characters ...

If you were a kid in the late 1950s, you lived for Saturday morning television. The top show of the morning was Howdy Doody, a marionette puppet with red hair, freckles and a human buddy named Buffalo ...

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 ...

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — 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 ...