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 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 and his pet boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic
fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.