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Jay Ward
[1920-1989]
and 'Rocky & Bullwinkle'
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 | "The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, A Flying Squirrel & A Talking Moose" [2000] by Keith Scott Griffin 9x6¼ pb [11/2001] for $11.87 St. Martin 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2000] out of print/used |
Jay Ward Productions, Inc. Personnel
Jay Ward [1920-89]
Jay Ward credits at Internet Movie Database
Jay Ward entry at Wikipedia
co-creator Alexander Anderson [1920-2010]
In 1996, he reached an out-of-court settlement with Jay Ward Productions over the rights
to Bullwinkle, Rocky, and Dudley-Do-Right
credits at IMDb •
Wikipedia
Bill Scott [1920-85]
Bill Scott credits at Internet Movie Database
Bill Scott entry at Wikipedia
served in the U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit during WWII
he was NOT on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s {correction by Scott's son, 12/2021}
voice actor Daws Butler [1916-88]: credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
actor William Conrad [1920-94]: credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
actor Hans Conried [1917-82] {'Fractured Flickers'}
credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
voice actor June Foray [b. 1917]: credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
voice actor Paul Frees [1920-1986]: credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
actor Edward Everett Horton [1886-1970] {'Fractured Fairy Tales'}
credits at IMDb • Wikipedia
Animated Television Series
official Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends website
"Crusader Rabbit" [1949-52]
series credits at IMDb •
Wikipedia
 | "Crusader Rabbit and Friends" on DVD [undated] this one-hour product is a sloppy transfer, with only 14 of 15 story segments East West Ent. b&w 60-minute DVD [4/94] for $68.80 |
 | "Crusader Rabbit: Collectors Edition" DVD Boxed Set [undated] "over ten hours on three DVDs"; includes 11 cartoons, with DVD menus for easy navi-gation: The Belly Acres Mystery; Crooks Tour; Crusader Rabbit vs. The Pirates; Crusader Rabbit vs. The State of Texas; The Great Baseball Mystery; Gullible's Travels; Hare Today Gone Tomorrow; Mine Your Own Busi-ness; Thar's Gold In Them Thar Fills; There's No Place Like Rome; and West We Forget color/b&w DVD-R [undated] 3 disks for $15.99 - SOLD OUT! |
 | Rocky & Bullwinkle - 163 episodes
"Rocky & His Friends" [1959-61 on ABC]
"The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show" |
'Frostbite Falls' fansite
browse 14+ videos
 | "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book" [1996] by Louis Chunovic Bantam hardcover [10/96] out of print/many used |
 | "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" on DVD [2003-2010]
"The Complete First Season" [1959-60]: Sony color DVD [8/2003] 26 episodes on 4 disks for $12.99 "The Complete Second Season" [1960-61]: Sony color DVD [8/2004] 56 episodes on 4 disks for $11.49 "The Complete Third Season" [1961-62]: Sony color DVD [9/2005] 26 episodes on 4 disks for $11.49 "The Complete Fourth Season" [1962-63]: Sony color DVD [8/2010] 19 episodes on 2 disks for $17.49 "The Complete Fifth Season" [1963-64]: Vivendi Ent. color DVD [3/2011] 33 episodes on 4 disks for $24.99 |
 | "100% Complete Bull: Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends Complete Series" DVD Box Set [2011] includes Season 5; extras include classic commercials & promos, June Foray interview, audio outtakes from voice recording sessions, six featurettes, and an 80-page commemorative booklet Vivendi Ent. color DVD [1/2011] 18 disks - SOLD OUT ! |
"The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle"
feature film [Tribeca/Universal June 2000]
 | A combination of live action and animation. The Iron Curtain has fallen in Pottsylvania, and Boris & Natasha & Fearless Leader conspire with a Hollywood producer to make a Rocky & Bullwinkle movie. The three cartoon villains are let loose in the real world, so the F.B.I. brings Rocky & Bullwinkle out of retirement to thwart them. The DVD includes cast & crew bios, trailers, and a "Making of ..." documentary • Co-produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal & Tiffany Ward; directed by Des McAnuff; written by Kenneth Lonergan; starring Robert De Niro, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid & Janeane Garofalo
Universal widescreen color DVD [9/2003] for $9.99 Universal color VHS [6/2001] for $9.48 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" streaming video series 
[DreamWorks/Amazon Prime May 2018]
 | Moose and Squirrel Are Back! • Different animation style, different voices, but the promo IS funny Exec produced by Scott Fellows & (Jay's daughter) Tiffany Ward; voice cast includes Daran Norris as the Narrator, Tara Strong as Rocky, Brad Norman as Bullwinkle, Ben Diskin as Boris, Rachel Butera as Natasha, Piotr Michael as Fearless Leader DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2018 official trailer [1:35] at YouTube |
"Fractured Fairy Tales" [NBC-TV & ABC-TV 1959-64]
| The 'Fractured Fairy Tales' were short animated satirical versions of standard children's stories broadcast as segments within the animated "Rocky & Friends" TV series produced by Jay Ward [1920-89]; according to the 'Rocky & Bullwinkle' fansite, Season 1 was 20 cartoon shorts, Season 2 was 35 cartoon shorts, Season 3 was 22 cartoon shorts, and Season 4 was 14 cartoon shorts - for a total of 91 Narrated by Edward Everett Horton, with voices by June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and Daws Butler incomplete series credits at IMDb (shows only 5 episodes) list of 'Fractured Fairy Tales' episodes at the 'Rocky & Bullwinkle' fansite "The Best of Fractured Fairy Tales, Volume 1" {there is no Volume 2} 90-minute Classic Media color DVD [9/2005] 15 shorts - out of prodn/used 114-minute color DVD [10/2010] 19 shorts for $18.97 "Fractured Fairy Tales Jay Ward VHS Tape Kids Klassics color VHS [undated] 10 shorts - out of prodn/used "Fractured Fairy Tales" [25 stories 1997] 'as told by' A.J. Jacobs
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"King Midas" episode • watch color cartoon segment [9/2012 upload; 5:31] online at YouTube
"Sir Galahad" episode • watch color cartoon segment [8/2013 upload; 5:37] online at YouTube
"Sleeping Beauty" episode • watch color cartoon segment [8/2013 upload; 5:35] online at YouTube
"Snow White" episode • watch color cartoon segment [8/2013 upload; 5:36] online at YouTube
"Fractured Flickers" [1963-64]
26-episode half-hour series of 'Fractured Flickers' tales based on old silent comedy films and narrated by Hans Conreid [1917-82].
series credits at IMDb •
Wikipedia
watch episode opening [3/2017 upload; 0:59] online at YouTube
 | "Fractured Flickers: The Complete Collection" on DVD [2004] all 26 half-hour episodes; hosted by Hans Conreid, voices by Paul Frees & June Foray VCI Ent. b&w DVD [8/2004] 3 disks for $18.01 |
"George of The Jungle" [1967 TV series]
"The Dudley Do-Right Show" [1969 TV series]
"Mr. Peabody & Sherman" [since 1959]
The bespectacled genius dog Mr. Peabody and his adopted pet boy Sherman were introduced in 1959 in a series of short segments as part of
the “The Rocky and Bullwinkle” TV shows; in 91 adventures, they jumped into Peabody’s 'WABAC Machine' to travel back in time.
full credits [1959-63] at IMDb •
Hector J. Peabody entry at Wikipedia
"Mr. Peabody and Robin Hood" [1959]
After Robin Hood bumps his head, he becomes dazed and inept at robbery and archery.
watch full cartoon [truncated at 4:29] online at YouTube
 | "Mr. Peabody & Sherman: The Complete Collection" on DVD [2014] "includes all 91 tail-wagging episodes" • voices of Bill Scott {as Mr. Peabody}, Walter Tetley {as Sherman}, Daws Butler, William Conrad, Paul Frees, June Foray, Dorothy Scott, Ed Wynn Universal Pictures Home Ent. color DVD [5/2019] 2 disks for $11.01 Classic Media color DVD [10/2014] 2 disks for $16.26 |
"The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman" TV series [1959-62] /tt2652864/
five episodes of three stories each
"Mr. Peabody and Sherman" animated feature [DreamWorks Animation March 2014]
Animated feature under development since 2006; Alex Schwartz will exec produce; Rob Minkoff will direct; script by Jeffrey Ventimilia & Joshua Sternin; as-of 3/2012,
Robert Downey, Jr. was replaced as the voice of Mr. Peabody by Ty Burrell will voice Mr. Peabody and Max Charles will voice Sherman • latest info at IMDb
"The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show" TV series [2015] /tt5021206/
Other Works
The Statue
 | The headquarters building for Jay Ward's company was/is on the eastern end of the Sunset Strip, in West Hollywood, California. Lots of tourist traffic passes by, especially on weekends. so advertising billboards in the area are prime real estate. Around 1961, the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada put up a billboard directly across the street from Jay Ward's offices, and included a revolving statue of a showgirl in a bathing suit holding her cowgirl hat in the air. Practical joker Jay Ward naturally responded by erecting a statue of Bullwinkle in an old-style bathing suit holding Rocky in the air; the Bullwinkle statue also revolved, and whenever the cowgirl's costume changed, the Bullwinkle statue was repainted to match. The Rocky and Bullwinkle statue was last seen on the Strip in 2013; the original artist is unknown, but it was restored by Ric Scozzari in 2014. Later that year, the restored statue was unveiled as the center piece of “The Jay Ward Legacy Exhibit” at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. The restored art installation was donated in 2015 by the Jay Ward Family for City of West Hollywood’s Urban Art Collection. |
 | The spinning 14-foot, 700-pound statue of Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose has come back to the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood after being away for about 7 years, and now stands prominently on the corner where Sunset Boulevard splits into Holloway Drive; it was quickly covered from public view in preparation for a proper unveiling ceremony at the end of March 2020 installation local news story |
"Boris and Natasha" live action feature film [1992]
Directed by Charles Martin Smith http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101500/
"George of The Jungle" live action feature film [1997]
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0119190/
"Dudley Do-Right" live action feature film [1999]
Directed by Hugh Wilson; starring Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina,
Eric Idle & Robert Prosky
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0160236/
"George of The Jungle II" live action feature on DVD [2004]
L i n k s
official Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends website
company entry at Wikipedia
Rocky & Bullwinkle entry at Wikipedia
"Hokey Smoke! Rocky & Bullwinkle" fansite
'Frostbite Falls' fansite
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