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''The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show'' (known as ''Rocky & 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.〔 ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time. Yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.〔(Hogan's Interview | Business partner Alex Anderson interview )〕 The show was shuffled around several times (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning timeslots), but was influential to other animated series from ''The Simpsons'' to ''Rocko's Modern Life''. Segments from the series were later recycled in the ''Hoppity Hooper'' show. There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the series' various segments, such as the 2000 film ''The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'' which blended live-action and computer animation〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle -- Rotten Tomatoes )〕 and the 1999 live-action film ''Dudley Do-Right'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dudley_doright/ )〕 which both received poor reviews and were financially unsuccessful. By contrast, an animated feature film adaptation of the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, ''Mr. Peabody & Sherman'', was released to good reviews in 2014. Mr. Peabody will star in a new reboot series picked up for 13-episodes. In 2013, ''Rocky and His Friends'' and ''The Bullwinkle Show'' were ranked the sixth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time by ''TV Guide''.〔(TV Guide Magazine's 60 Greatest Cartoons of All Time )〕 ==Background== The idea for the series came from Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, who previously collaborated on ''Crusader Rabbit'', based upon the original property ''The Frostbite Falls Revue''. This original show never got beyond the proposal stage. It featured a group of forest animals running a television station. The group included Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky), Oski Bear, Canadian Moose (Bullwinkle), Sylvester Fox, Blackstone Crow, and Floral Fauna. The show in this form was created by Alex Anderson. Bullwinkle's name came from the name of a car dealership in Berkeley, California called Bullwinkel Motors. Mr. Anderson changed the spelling of the name and gave it to his moose, and an unforgettable cartoon character was born.〔(Alex Anderson, creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, dies at 90 – washingtonpost.com )〕 Ward wanted to produce the show in Los Angeles; however, Anderson lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and did not want to relocate. As a result, Ward hired Bill Scott as head writer and co-producer at Jay Ward Productions, and who wrote the ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' features. Ward was joined by writers Chris Hayward and Allan Burns; the latter eventually became head writer for MTM Enterprises. In a 1982 interview, Scott said, "I got a call from Jay asking if I’d be interested in writing another series, an adventure script with a moose and a squirrel. I said, 'Sure.' I didn’t know if I could write an adventure with a moose and a squirrel, but I never turned down a job."〔(''Bullwinkle Speaks! An Interview With Bill Scott'', Hogan's Alley #17, 2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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