Friday, March 28, 2014

Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

Rocky and Bullwinkle is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959 to June 27, 1964 on 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 a flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. The cartoon series takes place in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.

Supporting characters that are in the series including Dudley Do-Right, Crusader Rabbit from his own series in 1949, Gidney and Cloyd the little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns, Captain Peter Peachfuzz the captain of the S.S. Andalusia, and Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the boy and the dog who first appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and then the full-length animated movie released on March 7th, 2014, directed by Rob Minkoff, the director of The Lion King. And for Rocky and Bullwinkle as a live action/animation movie, it was released on June 30, 2000 starring June Foray once again as Rocky, and Keith Scott as Bullwinkle after the original voice died in 1985.

The cartoon series features the voices of June Foray as Rocky. Bill Scott as Bullwinkle, Mr. Big, Mr. Peabody, Gidney and Cloyd. Lucille Bliss as Crusader Rabbit. Walter Tetley as Sherman. And Paul Frees as Captain Peter Peachfuzz.

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