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WHAT: An original production Howdy Doody marionette associated with the 1950s TV show featuring the red-haired figure sold for $15,860 recently in an antique toy auction at Pook & Pook. While it is an ...

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 ...

Second of a three-part series. When Frank Paris stormed out of the NBC television studio with the original Howdy Doody puppet in tow, he created a huge problem. It was 1948, and “The Hoody Doody Show” ...

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 ...

Despite the fact that it has since been discontinued, this once-popular vintage children's TV show found great success with ...

DETROIT - Two iconic puppets are about to go on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts. A Kermit the Frog puppet created by Jim Henson himself and the original Howdy Doody puppet from the late 1940s ...