Buster Keaton "Francis". His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, who owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. According to a frequently repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname "Buster" at about 18 months of age. Keaton told interviewer Fletcher Markle that Houdini was present one day when the young Keaton took a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury. After the infant sat up and shook off his experience, Houdini remarked, "That was a real buster!" According to Keaton,
The Buster Keaton Show the original commercials for Studebaker cars. (This was an era where television shows typically had a single sponsor, with "The Buster Keaton Show" having three commercial breaks, each for Studebaker.) This was Keaton's second foray into the new medium of television. It followed the 1949 one-off "The Buster Keaton Comedy Show". Broadcast live, no record of that first program remains and it was not seen by viewers outside California, as it was not filmed in kinescope nor was there a coaxial cable linking the coasts at that time. The Buster Keaton Show The Buster Keaton Show was a television series