Editing Howdy Doody (section)

{{short description|American children's television series (1947–1960)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox television
| image                = Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody.jpg
| caption              = [[Buffalo Bob Smith]] and Howdy Doody in 1972
| genre                = [[Children's television series]]
| runtime              = {{Plainlist|
* 60 minutes (1947–1948, 1960)
* 30 minutes (1948–1960)
}}
| creator              = [[E. Roger Muir]]
| producer             = [[E. Roger Muir]] and Nick Nicholson
| presenter            = {{Plainlist|
*  [[Buffalo Bob Smith]]
* Howdy Doody
}}
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
*  [[Bob Keeshan]]
* [[Lew Anderson]]
* [[Bobby Nicholson]]
}}
| country              = United States
| network              = [[NBC]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1947|12|27}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1960|9|24}}
}}

'''''Howdy Doody''''' is an American [[Children's television series|children's television program]] (with [[circus]] and [[Western (genre)|Western frontier]] themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell<ref name="NYTObits">[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/01/archives/victor-f-campbell.html "Victor F Campbell"], ''The New York Times'', Dec 1 1973. Retrieved August 21, 2021</ref> and [[E. Roger Muir]].<ref name="NYTObit">Hevesi, Dennis. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/television/28muir.html "E. Roger Muir, 89, Dies; Backed Howdy Doody"], ''The New York Times'', October 28, 2008. Retrieved October 28, 2008.</ref> It was broadcast on the [[NBC]] television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer of children's programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC in [[Rockefeller Center]], in Studio 3A,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tibbetts |first1=John C. |title=Those Who Made It: Speaking with the Legends of Hollywood |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1137541918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTPeCgAAQBAJ&q=%22howdy+doody%22+%22studio+3a%22&pg=PT60 |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> it pioneered color production in 1956 and NBC (then owned by [[RCA]] Television) used the show to promote [[color television]] sets in the late 1950s.