PREVIOUSLY JUST “Rocky and his Friends”, this original wisecracking Ward cartoonery lined up helmeted, jet-packed squirrel of the title with Bullwinkle, the dumb slacker moose of legend and shish-kebab swordsman of note. Other characters included Boris Badenov, Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, and Professor Peabody. A lot of punchlines written up in big letters on the screen, a neat side-effect of animating for crap quality ’60s US TV sets.
