This Was Television On November 19
1959: The first appearances of Moose and Squirrel
Rocky and his Friends, as the beloved cartoon series was known in its first two seasons, premiered on ABC. Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose played out globe-trotting serial adventures and comic skits. They frequently (and usually inadvertently) pitted against their Cold War-archetype adversaries, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, a pair of inept Pottsylvanian spies. Other recurring sketches featured indelible characters such as Dudley Do-Right, Sherman and Peabody, and Aesop with his “Fractured Fairy Tales.” The show moved to NBC for its final three seasons, renamed The Bullwinkle Show. -A.D.
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