Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for April 23, 2015

I remember watching the last Howdy Doody Show (1960), and cried afterwards.

Come back! He’s so lonely!

This current thread is really making me feel my age! I remember watching Howdy Doody on weekdays and by the time it moved to Saturdays only I had out grown it! LOL!!!

I never got to watch Howdy Doody because my family had no television. :(

I always wonder as I got older did the adults on the show(Bufflo Bill, Clarabell, Princess SummerSpringWinterFall, etc toke a joint of get an alchol buzz on before working with the kids/puppets???

I remember Flubadub, Clarabelle (Bob Keeshan – later Captain Kangaroo), Princess SummerFallWinterSpring and her father, Big Chief Thunderthud. There were more characters, but I can’t remember names off hand.

I always remember a show from El Paso (probably because I was on it once) called “Red Brown and Annalee”.

I never realized how much Jimmy Carter resembled Howdy Doody.

I remember watching the original Mouseketeers in syndication on some Chicago station. Howdy Doody, too, but I have no idea if it was the original or “The New Howdy Doody Show”.

That was a long long time ago. I remember with a lot of fondness.

@IGoPogo4No, I remember that it was a battle between my brother and I as to what to watch since I liked Howdy Doody and he liked Shari Lewis, and they were both on at the same time.

The Shari Lewis Show began on NBC the week after the last Howdy Doody aired, so they were never opposite each other. However, she had already done a number of local shows before that, so I suppose one of them might have run opposite Howdy Doody in some markets, on either Saturday or weekdays.

For a while in the early 50s, Howdy Doody and Milton Berle were the only shows on television actually making a profit.

Bob Smith did a lot of shows at colleges, etc., after the show went off the air, and in the 70s there was an actual syndicated revival. But the entire budget was about $500 per episode, and it showed.

I actually made it to the Peanut Gallery in 1955. That was unusual for a kid from Maine, but my grandmother was the receptionist at the New York office of the Motion Picture Association, so she knew almost everybody in East Coast show business.

As Howdy Doody ended I started watching Captain Kangaroo.Anyone remember the segment on the Captains show of “Tom Terrific?,,,or Rollo the Hippo?”

I remember the tears in Clarabelle’s eyes at the end of the last show, as he said “Goodbye, kids.” It was the first and only time he spoke.

Those were the days my friends. We thought they’d never end.

Ah yes, Buffalo Bob, Dilly Dally, Mayor Bluster, Clarabell and the Flubadub.

I’m guessing the artist of this strip doesn’t watch Disney XD or Cartoon Network.

Captain Kangaroo, your up!