(price-clipped) [nice copy, minor wear and light soiling to bottom edges of covers; jacket shows minor bumping at a couple of corners, spine slightly faded]. (B&W photographs) "The first backstage history of The Howdy Doody Show, which transfixed children of the American Baby Boom between 1947 and 1960. [The author] provides an authoritative look at the glamorous early days of television in New York and the improbable cast that populated Doodyville -- Buffalo Bob, Princess Summerfall Winterspring, Clarabell, and Chief Thunderthud -- whose daily on-camera adventures are indelibly branded on the consciousness of a generation." (Includes a 5x7 photo of the author, indicating that this was probably a review copy.) I'm somewhat happy to say that HD missed indelibly branding me, thanks partly to chronological happenstance and partly to inadequate network TV penetration in my hometown. But don't get me started on Captain Kangaroo.

Nostalgia Fifties Children's Television Live Television