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

[David Lennick]

From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:11:31 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gene Deitch & Howdy-Doody + ME
> 
> 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

 

I watched only the American program (sorry, Alfie Scopp and any other Canadian cast members still living). And on Buffalo's WBEN it was followed immediately by an order to "Saddle up your pintos, buckaroos, and let's ride The Sagebrush Trail!" (Theme: On The Trail)

 

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