The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

Rocky and His Friends The Bullwinkle Show
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.