Today....years ago It’s Howdy Doody Time! On December 27, 1947, Howdy Doody premiered. It is an American children's television program with circus and Western frontier themes that was telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer in children's television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early