Edward Kean, headwriter of the “Howdy Doody Show” and who is credited with creating the exclamation, “kowabunga,” died Aug. 13 in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., of complications of emphysema, family ...

E. Roger Muir, who helped create and was executive producer of The Howdy Doody Show, the puppet-and-people program that first hooked millions of kids on television in its early days. Muir died ...

N E W   H A V E N, Conn. Jan. 26 -- Hey, kids! Howdy Doody is headed forDetroit! The original freckle-faced marionette belongs to the DetroitInstitute of Arts, a federal judge said in a ruling ...

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber ...