{"id":39361,"date":"2016-12-30T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=39361"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:05:41","slug":"the-early-history-howdy-doody-televisions-first-hit-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=39361","title":{"rendered":"The Early History of Howdy Doody&#8230;Television&#8217;s First Hit Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe Howdy Doody Show\u201d wasn\u2019t just early television \u2014 it <\/em><em><strong>defined<\/strong><\/em><em> it. As network TV\u2019s first daily program and later the first daily show broadcast in color, it set the pace for everything that followed. With the help of Howdy historian Burt Dubrow, I\u2019ve pulled together a 41\u2011page deep dive filled with rare photos, firsthand accounts, and hard\u2011to\u2011find details from my interviews with the people who were there. The result is a clearer picture of just how groundbreaking this show was \u2014 on the air, behind the scenes, and even in the way television learned to advertise.<\/em> <strong>\u2013 Bobby Ellerbee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[pdf-embedder url=&#8221;https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Early-History-Howdy-Doody.Televisions-First-Hit-Show-Revised-May-2026.pdf&#8221; title=&#8221;The Early History Howdy Doody&#8230;Television&#8217;s First Hit Show, Revised May 2026&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Howdy Doody Show\u201d wasn\u2019t just early television \u2014 it defined it. As network TV\u2019s first daily program and later the first daily show broadcast in color, it set the pace for everything that followed. With the help of Howdy historian Burt Dubrow, I\u2019ve pulled together a 41\u2011page deep dive filled with rare photos, firsthand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[677,724,787,680,806],"class_list":["post-39361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-cast","tag-net","tag-people","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81546,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361\/revisions\/81546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}