The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
The Three Moosketeers: Parts 7-8
TV Flash files “The Three Moosketeers: Parts 7-8” as hour 255 of 308 in the TV Flash guide — The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964) on ABC/NBC, season 3, episode 4, aired 1961-10-15, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E04: listed hour 255 of 308 in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide, hour 4 of 33 in season 3. It aired 1961-10-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Three Moosketeers: Parts 5-6” (S03E03). Next is “Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 1-2” (S03E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Three Moosketeers" Part 7, Aesop and Son "Son of the Masked Clock", Peabody's Improbable History "The First Caveman", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Three Moosketeers" Part 8.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Three Moosketeers: Parts 7-8 sit in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide?
S03E04 is listed hour 255 of 308 — hour 4 of 33 in season 3, season 3 episode 4.
When did The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show S03E04 air?
The Three Moosketeers: Parts 7-8 aired 1961-10-15 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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…