[78-L] Gene Deitch & Howdy-Doody + ME

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> I actually listened to the Howdy Doody radio show when the CBC ran it 
> around 1953. In retrospect, it sounded as if a lot of bits and pieces were 
> supplied and someone flung them together to fill the time, but maybe that 
> was how the CBC got it (someone may have had to remove commercials). Soon 
> after, the CBC began its own radio version of Howdy Doody, which was 
> mercifully short-lived (I think my dad was asked to audition for it). 
> CBC's TV version of Howdy Doody started a little while later and ran for 
> years, depriving Canadians away from border cities of the real thing.
>
Back when I was VERY young (9 or 10) I used to go down to our downstairs
neighbours' apartment to watch "Howdy Doody" (and then "Captain Video"
which followed it). This was when I was still living in Chicago...we left 
there
in mid-1954...!

Steven C. Barr