Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert

Name: Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert
Released: 1959-12-24

TV Flash files “Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert” as hour 29 of 308 in the TV Flash guide — The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964) on ABC/NBC, season 1, episode 29, aired 1959-12-24, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S01E29: listed hour 29 of 308 in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide, hour 29 of 130 in season 1. It aired 1959-12-24 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Bullwinkle's Corner - I Love Little Pussy” (S01E28). Next is “Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (12) - Ace Is Wild or The Flying Casket” (S01E30).

No original recap on file. TV Flash does not invent plots for missing hours. Title, airdate, and the hour filing above are the magazine record for this leaf.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert sit in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide?

S01E29 is listed hour 29 of 308 — hour 29 of 130 in season 1, season 1 episode 29.

When did The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show S01E29 air?

Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert aired 1959-12-24 and is listed at 30 minutes.

Where should I start?

A moose-and-squirrel serial plus a Fractured Fairy Tale and a Peabody short is the full Ward mix. Cold War villains Boris and Natasha are the spy-parody wing.

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Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch · Show package

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show packed Cold War spies, puns, and fractured fairy tales into Jay Ward's cheap-looking, expensive-witted cartoons. Moose, squirrel, Boris, Natasha, and Mr. Peabody talked past the kids in the room. Adult satire hiding in limited animation — the opposite of Hanna-Barbera smoothness, and still funnier than most live-action spy spoofs of the same years.

Cheap-looking, expensive-witted, and talking past the children on purpose. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show packed Cold War spies, puns, and fractured fairy tales into Jay Ward's cartoons — flying squirrel Rocky and moose Bullwinkle stumbling through spy plots while Boris, Natasha, and Mr. Peabody addressed the adults in the room. Also known as Rocky and His Friends / The Bullwinkle Show, 1959–1964, ABC and NBC. June Foray, Bill Scott, and Paul Frees did the vocal damage. Alex Anderson and Bill Scott were among the…

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June Foray as Rocky / Natasha
June Foray packed a flying squirrel and a spy-voiced femme fatale into the same throat for Jay Ward’s Rocky and His Friends, then kept the Cold War giggle going on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Natasha’s purr, Rocky’s pep — limited…
Bill Scott as Bullwinkle
Bill Scott’s Bullwinkle — and Dudley Do-Right — made Rocky and His Friends a Cold War pun factory — 1950s catalog limited animation with expensive wit, then The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show keeping the moose talking past the kids in the…
Paul Frees as Boris Badenov
Paul Frees’s Boris Badenov hissed “moose and squirrel” into Jay Ward’s Cold War kids’ hour — Rocky and His Friends at decade’s end, then The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show’s puns and fractured fairy tales. Limited animation, expensive wit, a…

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