The show took place in Doodyville, a fictitious circus town, which had both puppet and human inhabitants. “The Howdy Doody Show” had an abundance of great characters, not the least of which was Clarabell, the clown that drove Buffalo Bob crazy with surprise blasts from his seltzer bottle.

Where did Howdy Doody originate?

One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early color production as NBC (at the time owned by TV maker RCA) used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.

Who invented Howdy?

Howdy is an informal greeting, originally a shortened form of the greeting How do ye? It originated in South England dialect in 1563/87.