Though I am too young to have grown up with the old kiddie TV shows, the fact that they introduced a whole generation of movie lovers to silent comedies and classic cartoons endears them to me in a way. Along with all the fun with popular puppet characters, a mute clown and more, Howdy Doody (one of the most popular of these shows often showed clips of various silent comedies. These comedies included those from silent comedy producers Mack Sennett, Joe Rock and Al and Charles Christie as well as some from Educational Pictures and elsewhere. Harry Langdon, Mickey McGuire (a series of comedy shorts starring Mickey Rooney). The Smith Family (a silent series from the Sennett studio) are among some of the silent comedy shorts that appeared on the show.
The following is a short 1948 article from Radio and Television Mirror about Howdy Doody. If you have trouble reading it click on the pages below and use your touch screen to zoom in. If you don't have touch screen, click here.
Here is an episode of the show dated March 8, 1949 and featuring a silent Mickey McGuire.
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