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The Gumby Show is an American clay animation television series developed by Art Clokey. In the United States, the first episode of the series originally aired on Howdy Doody in 1955. The series was revived multiple times, with the last episode airing on December 31, 1988.
WRCA/WNBT/WNBC-TV: Howdy Doody Show (original puppet) (with Frank Paris) WABD/WNEW-TV (now WNYW): J. Fred Muggs Show; WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV): The Johnny Andrews Show (with Johnny Andrews, Paul Ashley and Chuck McCann) WABC-TV: Jolly Gene and His Fun Machine (with Bill Britten) WPIX: Joya's Fun School
The Howdy Doody show's various marionettes were created and built by puppeteers Dawson, Scott Brinker (the show's prop man), and Rufus Rose throughout the show's run. [9] The redheaded Howdy marionette on the original show was operated with 11 strings: two heads, one mouth, one eye, two shoulders, one back, two hands and two knees.
The 1955–56 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1955 to August 1956. Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap ...
The second episode, Gumby on the Moon, became a huge hit on Howdy Doody, so Sarnoff ordered a series in 1955 titled The Gumby Show. [17] In 1955 and 1956, 25 11-minute episodes aired on NBC. [18] In early episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston, until 1957, when Dallas McKennon ...
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In 1947, NBC's first major children's program was Howdy Doody, one of the era's first breakthrough television programs.The series, which ran for 13 years until it ended in 1960, featured a myriad of characters led by a freckle-faced marionette voiced by the show's host, "Buffalo" Bob Smith.
In 1956, the Howdy Doody show aired the first Gumby clay animated cartoon from creator Art Clokey. Sam Singer earned a certain degree of infamy for his efforts at television animation, which included an animated adaptation of The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican (which may or may not have made it to air) and the original series Bucky and Pepito ...