“Howdy Doody was television’s point man, the one who went out first on patrol. NBC used Howdy to inaugurate all sorts of new TV technology — the split screen, matte effects, strange fades. (Later Howdy would introduce color television, videotape and chroma-key painting as well.)…
"Howdy was the first network show to have a run of a thousand performances…” — Stephen Davis, Say Kids! What Time Is It? Notes from the Peanut Gallery (1987).
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