To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing.

where his act—originally a cheeky sendup of fifties children’s TV shows like “Howdy Doody”—became an actual children’s show, albeit a gleefully strange and subversive one. As Reubens ...

He had a foot-long tube of some sort sticking out of his mouth and was holding a Howdy Doody puppet in one hand and a can of Hershey’s Syrup in the other. The technique was pretty good (though ...

Doody Ben Doody, managing editor at digital sports information service Heavy and longtime leader at several Connecticut newsrooms, is slated to assume leadership of the Omaha World-Herald newsroom ...

Madigan Burke is one of the members of the Chicago Puppet Lab presenting their work at this weekend's showcase. Credit: Courtesy Chicago Puppet Lab The annual Chicago International Puppet Theater ...

the Rat Pack and Albert Einstein and the Lone Ranger and Howdy Doody.” He laughs. “It's like a trip through my childhood!" ...

Reubens was a product of TV. He grew up transformed by shows like Howdy Doody, The Mickey Mouse Club and, later, I Love Lucy. “I wanted to jump into my TV and live in that world,” he says. Part of the ...

Cattywampus Puppet Council has brought big puppet magic to the city for over a decade. In addition to bringing its puppets to events around town, the nonprofit also offers a UT course, hosts ...

announce the arrival of Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart), routinely described as “the most beautiful woman in Puppet Land.” Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on ...

S EPATHA MERKERSON: "Captain Kangaroo," "Soupy Sales," "Howdy Doody," you know, in none of those shows did I see myself reflected. So that I had the opportunity to be a part of a show that young ...

Pee–wee might cause a raised eyebrow or two in Puppet Land. (In the documentary, actress S. Epatha Merkerson observes that her character, Reba the Mail Lady, was the only person who didn't quite ...