Rocky & Bullwinkle Waited 10 Years

Rocky and Bullwinkle, the moose and squirrel stars of the 1959 cartoon, “Rocky and His Friends,” were already almost 10 years old when they finally made it on to primetime television. The two adventurers had been part of an earlier concept called “The Frostbite Falls Review,” where a gang of forest animals produce their own show. That cartoon, with Rocket J. Squirrel (a.k.a. Rocky) and Canadian Moose (Bullwinkle), didn’t appeal to advertisers.