Say Kids.. What Time is It?

"It's Howdy Doody Time!" is a 6-DVD box set chronicling the popular 50s children's show which aired on NBC from 1947-1960. The set includes a half-hour featurette with many of the Archive's interviewees, including "Buffalo" Bob Smith, the show's host, Bob Keeshan, who played Clarabell the Clown and Chief Featherman, & E Roger Muir, the show's producer.

Other interviewees who talked about the show include Dominick Dunne (his first job was as a stage manager on the show!), Eddie Kean (writer/ composer), Bill Persky (wrote the "Pigloo" storyline), Heino Ripp (technical director), Herbert Schlosser (Executive at NBC), Ira Skutch (director at NBC), Dick Smith (makeup artist), Denniz Franz (who remembered watching the show as a kid), Ron Howard (who talked about Smith appearing on an episode of "Happy Days"), and Dick Wolf, who as a child was a member of the Howdy Doody peanut gallery!

The DVD is available through Mill Creek Entertainment.