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Fractured Fairy Tales

Rocky and His Friends
The Bullwinkle Show
Rocky and Bullwinkle intro.jpg
Rocky and Bullwinkle intro card from the official DVDs
Also known as Rocky & His Friends (ABC)
The Bullwinkle Show (NBC)
The Rocky Show (Syndication)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends (DVDs, international broadcast)
Bullwinkle's Moose-A-Rama (Nickelodeon)
Genre Comedy
Adventure
Satire
Variety
Science fiction
Created by Jay Ward
Alex Anderson
Bill Scott
Voices of June Foray
Bill Scott
Paul Frees
Daws Butler
Edward Everett Horton
Walter Tetley
Charles Ruggles
Hans Conried
Narrated by William Conrad, Paul Frees & Edward Everett Horton
Theme music composer (Season 1–2)
Fred Steiner (Season 3–5)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 163 (326 Rocky & Bullwinkle segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E
Producer(s) Jay Ward
Bill Scott
Running time 23 minutes
Production company(s) Jay Ward Productions
Gamma Productions
Producers Associates of Television, Inc. (P.A.T.)
Distributor The Program Exchange
NBCUniversal Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network ABC (1959–61)
NBC (1961–64)
Picture format black and white (1959–61)
Color (1961–64)
Audio format Mono
Original release November 19, 1959 – June 27, 1964

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (known as Rocky and His Friends during the first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the last three seasons) is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the two Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody's Improbable History (a dog named Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.

Rocky and Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time, yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.


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