Howdy Doody - Clarabell's Big Surprise
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2013
- Broadcasted on September 24, 1960.
The hour-long episode was mostly a fond look-back at all the highlights of the show's past, but in the midst of it all, Clarabell reveals he has a big surprise for everyone. 
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Howdy Doody was a few years before my time, but Clarabell's signoff brought a tear even to MY eye all these years later.. You'd have to have a heart of stone to not feel the emotion of those final few moments..
Should be included in the best moments in TV history.
Agree!
It frequently makes top 50 type lists.
First time seeing Clarabell since hearing his voice that day...and I'm crying again...
I actually remember being in tears at this moment.
Me too.
I, too was there in 1960 watching the shows original airing. I can't say I didn't cry back then, even if I was nine at the time.
I'm in tears right now.
My dad was 19 when the show ended. I was talking about it with him and mentioned he was probably too old then to care the show got cancelled. The sad look on his face said every thing I needed to know.
I never saw or knew of this last show. I had already been married for 2 years and started my family. Howdy Doody was the very first tv show I ever watched. We did not have one at our house, and all the neighbor kids went to one friend’s home that had a big screen tv for that time. Here I am at 79 years old finding this tonight by chance. My own children enjoyed Captain Kangaroo a few years later. I love my I-pad. I am reliving many happy memories with it.❤️
thank you for this message!
Isn’t it wonderful to have all of these memories at your fingertips?
I shed some tears 😭 on the last show myself. I was 14 years old then and had watched Howdy every Saturday morning from 1951 until the last show in 1960. Thanks for posting them here.
The show was on weekday afternoons most of the 1950's .
When this was first broadcast I had just entered first grade-and had been watching Howdy Doody for about a year.If there's one thing I remember about this program, it is Clarabelle's final farewell.
One of the saddest scenes in television history. Clarabelle had tears in his eyes as he said goodbye. They immediately stopped filming. You can hear the children crying in the background before they cut away.
jb I couldn’t hear them
Use headphones and put high. You hear a couple right after he says it.
I heard it
I remember this, and I
I remember this last episode, but my tears remained in their ducts and refused to be jerked.
You could actually hear kids start to cry after Clarabell spoke.
hobossuck2 Yes, but barely!
@@jadsi Have you ever seen Jim Henson’s Animal Jam?
I was born in 1950. The last show & Clarabelle being able to speak must have been a traumatic event in my young life, as I have remembered it all these years. I especially like how you had let the TV roll on NBC even to the point about a movie advertisement.
John, no one had home vcr machines back in 1960. This was low band two inch quad color videotape from NBC Television itself. The entire program was pre-recorded, so that it could also be played back to the West Coast later that same day it aired on the East Coast. It held remarkably well for almost 58 or so years. I too remember watching this program that Saturday morning in 1960, when I was 8 years old. NBC moved it from weekday afternoons a few years before, when it was on from Monday-Friday, and in black and white.
I think NATIONAL VELVET referenced at the episode's end was for the new Sunday night NBC-TV show starring Lori Martin, not the movie starring Elizabeth Taylor. NBC premiered the show on Sunday, Sept. 18, 1960, so the following day's show would've been the 2nd episode.
One of the most memorable moments in the entire history of television.
They played that moment on many anniversary specials, and while I was NOT around for this moment, this is just heartbreaking.
4:36
*sniff* Goodbye Clarabell. *sob* *sniff*
The three actors who played Clarabell on a regular basis were. The first was Bob Keeshan, who later became Captain Kangaroo. Keeshan was succeeded by Robert "Nick" Nicholson,[1] who also played the character of J. Cornelius Cobb on The Howdy Doody Show. Lew Anderson[2] was the third and last person to play Clarabell.
I was six and I remember this
Wow you can actually see a tear in Clarabell's right eye at the end.
Howdy Doody was one of the first TV shows I watched when my mom bought aTV around 1949 or 50. It was a good kids show and I ran home from school every day so I wouldn't miss the show!
My father's household was one of the only houses in the neighborhood which had a TV set-so a lot of children came over in the afternoon to see Howdy Doody.
i was born way after this show ended but this still made me crY-
Oh my the kids were crying. You can hear them. So sad.
Touching way to say goodbye to 13 years. Good television.
Looking at it today, it was almost a message to say goodbye to your childhood. That's why I think that it had --- and still has -- a big impact on baby boomers.
You are so right. I'm in my late 70's and the end of this TV show was a watershed moment in my life as a child. The simple innocence of that age is so clear, and so poignant. If I had a Time Machine...I would go back to the 50's in a flash. Thank you for your post. 🙂
I'm here because of Jim Cornette on a recent podcast. I've never seen this show, but I now know why it was used as a reference... I can (will) not put into words the emotional gravitas this scene had on me, to keep my online ego where it is. Thanks for the upload.
It did come back from 1976-78 as the "New Howdy Doody Show". Comes on Sunday at 9am CST on COZY tv.
They played auld lang syne at the end as a farewell song. It was even sadder.
Definitely, a priceless piece of television history, and the end of an era - for sure.
I was born years after this show went off the air. I knew about it from an old Happy Days rerun so I knew it was a show. I knew Clerabelle never talked. Seeing this scene brought tears to my eyes. I guess some things are just universal.
I heard about this finale on a great episode of Andy Daly’s great podcast “bananas for bonanza”. It was really amazing to hear it on the podcast and then see it on youtube.
I could barely hear the sobbing during the credits
Jasaiah Messner Messner no
Edit: by the way, I wasn’t even born then!
Later, in 1976, the show has been revived, but ended months later, and then in 2002, Justin Fletcher influenced us as Mr. Tumble for CBeebies.
That was how it happened.
Jeez....... that was good tv........ no wonder I watch most stuff online nowadays. they don't broadcast stuff like that anymore........
I Here Jack Parr Who Is Talking About The Last Howdy Doody Show
On NBC's 60th Anniversary Celebration
On May 12, 1986
Too bad NBC didn't' remember that for their 90th.
Holy shit. Howdy Doody was replaced by Lamb Chop? But I remember Lamb Chop!
I had no idea it was on for so long...
Bob and Larry: *sobbing* THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!
Why am I crying?
Ah, there's my bowl of onions
Clarabelle was played by three different men but a someone who watched the show, every afternoon, when I was a kid I heard both Howdy and Buffalo Bob refer to her as "she".
4:42 - Hell with Howdy, that's one helluva solo CELESTE arrangement! Not easy to play, those things are nutcrackers.
Great collection of moments from the last episode. Can anyone name the announcer heard at the end promoting Shari Lewis & National Velvet?
1947 - 1960
This is spooky now. Thank you IT! Lol
A baby boomer metaphor if there ever was one.
You don't think we Gen-Xers felt the same way when Jim Henson and Mr. Rogers left us? Or Millennials feel about "Spongebob" creator Stephen Hillenberg?
That is like super sad. There must have been a lot of crying toddlers. The kids must have been like; "F*** YOU SHERRY LOUIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
This part at 2:01 was later sampled by Coldcut entitled "Say Kids, What Time Is It?"
And so does 4:35.
MTN Productions it was also sampled by the Tool Time Girl on Home Improvement. What Time is It? Tool Time!
R I p Lew Anderson 😊
2:25 what's the music there it's so nice :D
"Mademoiselle from Armentieres", in this case though "The Clarabell Song".
Stage Manager Joe Dicso held the same job 15 years later on SNL.
What is the name of the ending song?
auld lang syne
LOL DoodyVille ;)
Wait A Minute Did I Hear Someone Crying In The Peanut Gallery
This show randomly appeared in my DVR. Creepy.
Why did the howdy doody show get cancelled in 1960 did the show have enough ratings back then
In 1960 the television executives realized that cartoon shows were less expensive to broadcast than live-action shows and so off went Howdy Doody-until the mid-70s short-lived revival.
Richard Ranke really
2:25 Who's the voice-over.
Dude......
Wow :( sad but it's in color
(4:39) Very sad.
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i remember the show but not that ending so the person said it scarred us for life really ???
wow...kind of sad in a creepy kind of way
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Was the show canceled?
Bob Sewvello Yes. Until 1956, Howdy Doody ran five days a week, M-F at 5:30 p.m. but sagging ratings and newer, more "appealing" programming (i.e. The Mickey Mouse Club) pushed Howdy Doody to Saturdays at 10 a.m. for its final 4 seasons. Also, they lost most of their sponsors as the show was considered terribly outdated.
+Kelly02895 plus the original "Peanut Gallery" kids had progressed to AMerican Bandstand
The reason why the show ended, because "Mighty Mouse Playhouse" was on CBS and it has been on the air for 5 years, and the show that put Mighty Mouse top billing.
Sufferin' Sucotash! Always in competition with a mouse!
😥😭😭
Clarabell might have found it easier to talk without Buffalo Bob trying to feel him up.
I never watched Howdy Doody, ever. I did, however, watch its replacement, The Shari Show. It was great, funny, had original cartoons, and I loved Lamb Chop and Hush Puppy.
+senorkaboom
Shari Lewis later said,"In television,there's no tradition. Just as I replaced Howdy Doody on Saturdays,cartoons like Underdog replaced me."
+Richard Ranke
Yep. Very true. But her show is more memorable to me than Howdy Dooit.
0:07 was that Barney the dinosaur???
No
@@jadsi I thought it was
It's actually more creepy than sad.
you may think so, but i don’t.
jesus, go out on a downer why don't yez?
Why did it play the new year song at the end? Did the final episode first air on December 31, 1960? Just wondering.
I was scared of that clown
Wow that was alil creepy
Clarabell is what Pennywise the Clown was supposed to look like in Stephen King's book It
Off topic comments are usually mean and this is one of those comments.
Did Woody Toy Story inspired Howdy Doody?
At least the credits wasn't that creepy!
SAD.
How to completely destroy a child in a few seconds. Creepy, disturbing, overly emotional and filled with pathos. Just soul crushing for no reason whatsoever
Isn't Clarabell supposed to be a female clown?
Yeah. Is it?
This has to be the biggest dick move in children's television. It COULD have ended off on something positive for the ages like "Be good, kids.", but I guess the producers of the show had to mentally scar a whole generation to get back at those people that cancelled the show. And then later all those kids would grow up and we had what we had happen in the 60's. Coincidence?
One of the few TV shows to openly acknowledge that it was a TV show and you want it to stop acknowledging its artificiality for some contrived optimism?
"Goodbye, kids" is pretty damn optimistic. A plea to move on and take what you've learned from the past 13 years in two words.
out of sync
that's terrible, man. jesus