SHOREWOOD - For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber didn ...

Like the original, it was a puppet-based variety show aimed at young viewers. The show followed Howdy Doody, a red-headed puppet cowboy who interacted with a colorful cast of puppets and humans.

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"Having Howdy Doody come to the museum completes our collection," said Larry Baranski, curator of the DIA's 800-piece puppet collection, which specializes in American theatrical puppetry from 1850 ...

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around.

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber ...