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Lew
Anderson Started portraying Clarabell on March 16, 1955
Aunt
Hazel, Mr. Bluster’s Aunt visited DoodyVille; spring 1953
Carl
Bernstein, co-author of “All the Presidents Men” winner of a
Howdy Doody look alike contest.
Beat
Benny, substituted foe Buffalo Bob During vacations.
Bison
Bill, played by Ted Brown, replaced Buffalo Bob while he recuperated
from a heart attack from September 27, 1954 to July 29, 1955.
Pady
Blackwood, master puppeteer manipulated Howdy Doody in the 1976
revival programs and again in the 1987 40th Anniversary
show.
Bluster
Bounce, Dance created by Mr. Bluster; January 1955.
Bluster
National Bank, the bank owned by Phineas T. Bluster that held
the mortgage on DoodyVille
Phineas
T. Bluster, named after P.T. Barnum, conceived by Edward Kean,
named by Roger Muir, designed by Milt Neil, built by Scott Brinker
and the voice of Dayton Allen until 1952.
Thaddeus
Bluster; Ancestor of Phineas T. Bluster. Chief Thunderthud found
him in prison after the chief used the Time-A-Tub time machine;
April 1955.
Hamilton
Bone; Phantom of DoodyVille Theater and foreign spy; January
1959.
Bim
Bam Boom; a hard-of-hearing judge for the Noise Abatement Week.
Lee
Bristol; Stage manager for the Howdy Doody show and son of the
founder of Bristol-Myers, Inc.
Buffalo
Bob Smith Day; August 1, 1952, in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo
Bob was played by Robert E. Smith.
Chief
Bungathud; A founder of DoodyVille; ancestor of Chief Thunderthud.
Bunyip:
Animal that is part Kangaroo and part Teddy Bear.
Caboose
Cabbage; A vegetable and the only cure for Diesel Measles.
Cadbury’s
Howdy Doody Bar; 1951 – 1954 Candy distributed in Canada;
had 8 butterscotch centered pieces. Sold for $.10.
Calvin
Henry; Played Big Ben in 1952. 1957 – 1959 he played Sgt. Garcia
in the Walt Disney TV Show Zorro.
Byrne
Muriel, Buffalo Bob's secretary from 1947 – 1954.
Clarabell
song was written by Edward Kean.
Clown
Town; birth place of Clarabell Hornblow
Clarabus;
A golf cart like vehicle that Clarabell rode in1955 and used as
a taxi in December 1955.
Clownstretche;
Invented by Ed Kean to aid the viewers make the transition from
a heavy Bob Keeshan Clarabell to a thin Gil Lamb Clarabell in 1952.
Jasper
Cornelius Cobb; Played by Nick Nicholson, later by Allen Swift
and then again by Nicholson.
Captain
Cog; Leader of the Xenon spaceman that captured Dilly and Howdy.
Cowabunga;
A greeting and exclamation used by Chief Thunderthud. The Oxford
English Dictionary has accepted Cowabunga as a word.
Dilly
Dally; Introduced on the 400 show. Manipulated and voiced by
Milt LeCornec.
Jacky
Davis; Singer. Organist and conductor of the DoodyVille Doodlers
in the 1976 revival series.
Thelma
Dawson; Princess Summerfall Winterspring’s counterpoint on
the Spanish version of Howdy Doody.
Jacquin
Professor DeBox; Passed through DoodyVille in April 1958 with
his invention “Electickle”.
Diesel
Measles; Disease infecting Flub-A-Dub in September 1959. cured only with Caboose Cabbage.
King
Do Do; The Martian King in 1955,
October.
Do
Nothing Machine; An invention of Flub-A-Dub.
Doughface
Dobbins; A 1955 character that wanted to take Hobby, the pony,
from DoodyVille
Timmy
Dobbrinska; Winner of the 1955 Milwaukee, WI. Howdy Doody
Look-A- Like contest.
Linda
Dolan; 1952 I’d like Clarabell to visit contest. Clarabell
visited in September.
Doodle;
Dr. Doodle invented the anti-gravity ray in 1956.
Dandy
Doodle; A 1955 Howdy Doody double
that tried to have everyone move from DoodyVille to DandyVille
Doody
Dime-A-Day Deputy; 1955 March of dimes Campaign that
raised over 300,000 dimes.
Double
Doody; Duplicate of Howdy Doody made by Scott Brinker in 1948
that is in the Smithsonian Institute.
Grandpa
Doody; One of Doodyville’s oldest citizens made by Margo Rose,
Voice was Bob Smith.
Heidi
Doody; Built by Margo Rose and voice by Arlene Dalton. Heidi
was introduces as a stranger that saved Buffalo Bob’s life in
Africa.
Howdy
Doody; #1 The Frank Paris Howdy(January
– May 1948) # 2 The Velma Dawson/Scott Binker Howdy(1948 – 1960)
# 3 the revival Howdy(1976).
Photo
Doody; Built by Rufus Rose in 1952 he was a duplicate of Howdy
with ball joints and was used for publicity photos.
DoodyVille
Bird Club; met in1958 to hear Professor Whipporill speak.
DoodyVille
Bugle; 1955 Newspaper started by Howdy and edited by Buffalo
Bob.
DoodyVille
Laws: Featured Law #1:"anyone absent from DoodyVille for
more then 10 days would not be allowed back."
Signore
DoRaMiFaSoLaTiDo; Played in 1953 by bill LeCornec; He was
an Italian singer.
Jack
Drury; Public relations man that helped develop
the shows revival in 1976.
El
Bandito; Came to DoodyVille on March 26, 1960 to kill Buffalo
Bob; he was caught by Howdy and Clarabell;.
El
Pupetero; Aided E- Bandito in trying to kill Buffalo Bob.
Elephant
Bob; Buffalo Bob’s rival in Dandyville.
Elmer;
Original name of the Howdy Doody character.
Elmer always addressed the kids with “Howdy Doody” created for
$500.00
Eustace;
A Frank Paris puppet and the predecessor of Dilly Dally.
Errol
Falcon; The Director of Howdy Doody(1976
– 1977).
Farmer
Wibbet; Carrot Farmer
Fat
Vat; A machine used to reduce Buffalo Bobs weight in February
1958.
Jimmy
Faust; in May of 1950 Chosen as the” Midwest Howdy Doody Boy”
Chief
Featherman; Played by Bob Keeshan.
John
J. Fedoozile; The inspector who specialized in finding 2 types
of people, those that are missing and those that
need to be found.
Happy
Fenton; Took charge of DoodyVille for the first week after Buffalo
Bob’s heart attack,
Reank
Fice; Produced the Canadian Version of Howdy Doody.
Professor
Fitznoodle; Came to DoodyVille, in August 1955, to make ink
out of water so the DoodyVille Bugle can be printed.
Five
L’s; Stood for “The Lucky Left Leg of the Lima Llama.”
Flapdoodle;
The 1949 device that gave everyone everything
they wanted as long as it was good.
Flub-A-Dub;
Found in South America by Buffalo Bob, preformed by Dayton
Allen through 1952 Preformed by Larry
Mann in the Canadian version starting in 1954.
Fly-Away-Machine;
1955 Chief Thunderthud invention so he could soar over DoodyVille
Monsieur
Fontainebleau; He was an artist played by Allen Swift in 1953
Professor
Fortissmo; The world’s greatest entertainer,
came to DoodyVille in May of 1956.
Fun
House; A gallery of 8 boys and girls for the Puppet Playhouse,
the earliest Peanut Gallery.
Frown Contest; Created by Mr. Bluster to
compete with the smile contest.
Gus
Gasbag; Maker of balloon animals in 1960. Clarabell broke
them
Gaudschmidt
Brothers; A Vaudeville act with poodles on the first Puppet
Playhouse on December 27, 1947.
Gina
Genardi; Replacement for Judy Tyler as Princess Summerfall
Winterspring.
George
Foster Peabody Award; Awarded to Buffalo Bob for the Howdy Doody
Show, voted the outstanding children’s show on TV and Radio in 1948.
Gnik;
A peddler on the 1960 show who gave Peppi Mint magic mirror.
The
Goodbye Song; Written by Edward Kean,1950,
to close each week’s programs.
Goola-Goola
Bear; A prehistoric bear that Howdy Brings back from the North
Poll.
Good
Deeds Pills; Invented by Buffalo Bob
Robert
Goulet; Occasionally played Timber Tom, The Buffalo Bob counterpart
on the Canadian Version of Howdy Doody.
Ben
Grauer; Announcer for the NBC Toscanini Conducted Symphony
Orchestra and in 1949 he swore Howdy in as President of all the
kids in the United States.
Great
Grandfather Gravity Loser; Mr. Bluster’s anti-gravity invention.
Gumby;
first introduced on Howdy Doody in June
1956.
Gumbyland;
Where Gumby lived. Buffalo Bob visited in 1957.
Princess
Haida; Played by Caryl McBain. She was the Canadian version
of Princess Summerfall Winterspring.
Happy
Harmony; A DoodyVille School teacher, played by Marilyn Patch
during the 1976 series.
George
“Gabby” Hayes; Substituted for Buffalo Bob and a frequent
guest.
Judith
Hess; Professional Name Judy Tyler Was the first Princess Summerfall
Winterspring, of the Tinka-Tonka Tribe. She died in an
auto accident at the age of 23.
Princess
Hilda; Played by Maxine Miller.
Miss
Hickenlooper; Howdy’s schoolteacher Appeared at the end of
1954.
Sky
Highcheif; the puppeteer who manipulated the bandaged Howdy
after Fran Paris withdrew his puppet from the show.
Hobby;
A pony bought to DoodyVille by the princess.
Honkadoodle;
A Howdy Doody invention for mother goose. When the goose quacked
into it would type out the words in English.
Clarabell
Hornblower; created in 1948. played
by Bob Keeshan 1948 – 1952, Gil Lamb 1952, Robert Nicholson 1952
– 1955 and Lou Anderson 1955 – Present. Played by Alfie Scopp
in the Canadian Version from November 1954.
Harvey
Hotplate; A generous stranger in a May 1955 show.
The
Howdy Doodlers; June 1954 musical Group.
Mr.
Huff; Predecessor of Mr. Bluster,
Managed the circus starting in February 1948.
It’s
Howdy Doody Time; Theme song words by Edward Kearn and Bob
Smith. Played to the tune of Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay.
Edward
Kean; First writer of the show. Created the Buffalo Bob name
and story. Created Chief Featherman, Mr. Bluster, Dilly Dally,
Princess Summerspring Winterfall and other characters. He was
liaison for the Canadian and Cuban Howdy Doody shows.
Pat
Kennedy; Stage manager of Howdy Doody and sister to the late
president, married to Peter Lawford.
Freckles;
Howdy Doody has 48 freckles. One for each of the 48 States, when
the show first went on the air.
The
Original Howdy Doody show: produces 2543 shows between 1947
and September 24 1960. 130 New shows were produced in1976.
Robert
Schmidt; AKA Robert Smith AKA Buffalo
Bob. November 11, 1917 to July 30, 1998.
Polaroid;
Howdy Doody's first sponsor in July of 1947.
United
States Patent Office: issued patent
# 156,687 for Howdy Doody.
First
Show; was on the radio in 1947 on WEAS radio and called ”Triple
B Ranch”
Clarabell
speaks; on September 24, 1960 during the last of the original
shows he said,” Goodbye Kids”.
U.S.
District Court; Judge Christopher F. Droney ruled “The Detroit
Institute of Arts” is the rightful owner of the original Howdy
Doody.
Kowachecken;
Greeting used by Chief Thunderchicken.
La
Hora De Jaudi Dudi; The name of the 1953 Mexican version of
Howdy Doody.
Lanky
Lou; 1949-1952 a character played by Dayton Allen. An extremely
talkative cowboy.
Lanky
Lulu; the name used by Dayton Allen’s Mother during a 1949
guest appearance.
King
Lazee; He turned Mr. Bluster in to stone on January 1956.
Bill
Lecornec; Operator and the voice of Dilly Dally in 1949,
also played Chief Thunderthud.
Stan
Lee; Drew the syndicated Howdy Doody strip for several months
in 1949, then went on to Spiderman and the Hulk. Chairman of the
board of Marvel comics.
Pincus
Leff AKA Pinkie Lee; Appeared as a substitute for Buffalo
Bob after he suffered a heart attack.
Letter-Getter;
A mailbox used on the show from 1948 – July 1955.
Liona;
Heidi’s jungle girlfriend.
Mad
Magazine; printed a parody of Howdy Doody in December 1954.
Mademoiselle
From Aremtieres; music score used
for the Clarabell theme song.
Quentin
MacClean; played the organ on the 1954 Canadian Howdy Doody.
Conrad
Mann; Known as the shows Con Man.
Larry
D. Mann; Voice of Flub-A-Dub and the live character
Capt. Scuttlebutt in the Canadian Version of Howdy Doody.
Marbles;
A DoodyVille unit of currency.
Linda
Marsh; Briefly played Princess Summerfall Winterspring.
Meatballs
and Spaghetti; song written by Edward Kean.
Prince
Mendez; A magician and actor on the first show.
Millie
Smith; Buffalo Bobs wife.
Roger
Muir; Executive Producer of the Howdy Doody Show and the producer
of the Gumby Show.
The
New Howdy Doody Show; name of the 130 show 1976 revival series.
Ooragnak;
Chief Thunderthuds tribe. Spells Kangaroo backwards.
Marilyn
Patch; Played Happy Harmony on the 1976 revival
Peanut
Gallery; Sat 8 for the first show then grew to 40 and increased
to 250 during the 1976 Revival.
Peppi
Mint; played by Marti Barris in December 1956.
Pioneer
Village; Name of studio built in Bob Smiths
house in 1954 to film show from January 17, 1955 to September 7,
1955 while he recovered from a myocardial infraction.
$600.00;
the estimated production cost for the first December 27,1947 show.
$2,000.00;
The estimated production cost for the 1951 shows
$6,800.00;
the estimated production cost for the 1952 shows.
$4,170.00;
the estimated production cost for the 1954 shows.
$16,500.00
the estimated production cost for each of the revival shows.
Puppet
Playhouse; the original shows name. The name was changed in
1948.
Puppet
Theater; Incorrectly listed in the NY Times on December 27,
1947
Rockefeller
Center; Howdy, Buffalo Bob and Clarabell light
the Christmas Tree in 1953.
Sarabell;
a female Clarabell played by Lee Carney.
Alfie
Scopp; Played Clarabell in the Canadian version of Howdy Doody.
Mel
Shaw; Original co-inventor and co-designer with Robert Allen
of Howdy Doody.
Sigafoos;
Indian tribe Buffalo Bob and Buffalo Tom were descended.
Buffalo
Emma; The name used by Bob Smiths Mother when she made an
appearance on the show in 1949.
Buffalo
Tom; Buffalo Bobs Grandfather and a member of the Sigafoose Tribe.
Buffalo
Vic; Victor Smith, Brother of Bob Smith.
Dick
Smith; Created Clarabells make-up and won an Academy Award
for Amadeus.
Chief
Thunderthud; played originally and conceived by Bill LeCornec
as a rival to Chief Featherman.
Ronald
Wayne; Co-Produced the revival Series 1976
- 1978, filmed in Miami, Florida. He also produced the Jackie Gleason
show.
William
Morris Agency; Contracted Bob Smith for
NBC.
Bud
Yorkin; Stage Manger for Howdy Doody in 1949 and later the
producer for All in The Family.
Dorothy
Zuconic; Created the bandaged Howdy puppet to replace the Elmer(#1
Howdy) version when Frank Paris withdraw the peppet in 1948
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