The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show

ROCKY & BULLWINKLE FIRST APPEARED ON T.V.ON THE ROCKY & FRIENDS SHOW ON NOVEMBER 19, 1959 ON ABC.
CREATED BY JAY WARD & BILL SCOTT (WHO ALSO PROVIDED THE VOICE OF BULLWINKLE)
IT'S STARS, ROCKY & BULLWINKLE WERE INFLUENCED BY JAY WARD'S ORIGINAL CARTOON CHARACTERS, CRUSADER RABBIT & RAGLAND T. TIGER. ROCKY WAS THE SMART SHORT ONE & BULLWINKLE WAS THE TALL DUMB ONE.
AS ALWAYS, THE BADGUYS ARE MY FAVORITE PART. BORIS BADENOV (VOICED BY VETERAN VOICE-ARTIST PAUL FREES) & NATASHA FATALE (VOICED BY VETERAN VOICE-ARTIST JUNE FORAY, WHO ALSO VOICED ROCKY) TRIED EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK TO MAKE LIFE A LIVING HELL FOR OUR HEROES.

ALTHOUGH IT NEVER WAS A BIG HIT, IT HAD IT'S DEDICATED FOLLOWERS. WHATEVER CRUSADER RABBIT WAS, THE ROCKY SHOW WAS 100 FOLD. IT'S PLOTS & PUNS WERE WAY OVER THE LINE.
ONCE, THEY HAD A EPISODE DEALING WITH AN ARTIFACT CALLED THE
"KERWARD DERBY".
WELL, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, THERE WAS A MAN NAMED "DERWARD KIRBY" WHO HOSTED CANDID CAMERA WITH ALLEN FUNT.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, DERWARD WAS NOT TOO HAPPY WITH THIS. HE THREATENED TO SUE.
JAY WARD'S ANSWER, "PLEASE DO! WE COULD USE THE PUBLICITY!"
ANOTHER FACT ABOUT DERWARD WAS THAT HE WAS COMEDIAN GARRY MOORE'S ANNOUNCER & CO-HOST ON HIS SHOW WHICH RAN FROM SEPT. 1958 TO JAN. 1967. (THANKS TO DUSTY BAKER FOR THE INFO.)

THE ANIMATION ON THE SHOW WAS TERRIBLE BUT, THE SHOW WAS BASED ON IT'S GREAT WRITING. IN MY OPINION, IT IS THE BEST WRITING FOR AN ANIMATED SHOW EVER.

THE FIRST 3 SEASONS ARE AVAILABLE ON DVD, ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE THE LAST SEASONS WILL NOT BE RELEASED.

PICTURES
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THE SHOW CONSISTED OF 2 (SOMETIMES 3) ROCKY & BULLWINKLE SHORT SEGMENTS AS WELL AS A SHORT OF PEABODY & SHERMAN (ABOUT A DOG & HIS BOY TRAVELING THROUGH TIME), THE CANADIAN MOUNTIE DUDLEY DO-RIGHT, AESOP & SON OR FRACTURED FAIRY TALES.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM CRUSADER RABBIT, JAY WARD'S ORIGINAL SERIES

EPISODE GUIDE (ROCKY & BULLWINKLE)

Jet Fuel Formula (40 segments)
Box Top Robbery (12 segments)
Upsidaisium (36 segments)
Metal Munching Mice (16 segments)
Greenprint Oogle (12 segments)
Rue Britannia (8 segments)
Buried Treasure (14 segments)
The Last Angry Moose (4 segments)
Wailing Whale (14 segments)
The Three Moosketeers (8 segments)
Lazy Jay Ranch (18 segments)
Missouri Mish Mash (26 segments
Topsy Turvy World (14 segments)
Painting Theft (6 segments)
The Guns Of Abalone (4 segments)
The Treasure Of Mote Zoom (8 segments)
Goof Gas Attack (8 segments)
Banana Formula (12 segments)
Bumbling Brothers Circus (10 segments)
Mucho Loma (6 segments)
Pottsylvania Creeper (6 segments)
Moosylvania (4 segments)
The Ruby Yacht (6 segments)
Bull's Testimonial Dinner (6 segments)
The Weather Lady (6 segments)
Louse On 92nd Street (6 segments)
Wassamotto U. (12 segments)
Moosylvania Saved (4 segments)