Most folks know of Rocky and Bullwinkle but are unaware that the show on which Moose and Squirrel were first featured was called Rocky and His Friends. It's the form in which I first discovered those characters and the wonderful world of Jay Ward and Bill Scott. The video below is a complete half-hour episode (including commercials) the way the show was when I became an avid watcher.
It went on the air on ABC as of November 19, 1959, airing at 4:30 in the afternoon two days a week. In September of 1961, it made the jump to fringe prime time on NBC, Sunday evenings at 7 PM and this is when Dudley Do-Right became a part of the proceedings. Later on, it was syndicated in several different packages, a few of which incorporated elements of shows produced by a company called Total Television. The Total Television material (like The World of Commander McBragg) was animated by the same animation company in Mexico that animated most of the Ward product. This has caused some confusion in the marketplace as to which were Jay Ward cartoons and which were Total — but this half-hour is all Jay Ward.
You may notice in the end voice credits, there's no mention of Daws Butler. Daws was heard in the Fractured Fairy Tale and also in a commercial that used characters from Ward's Aesop & Son cartoons. Ordinarily, Charles Ruggles supplied the voice of Aesop while Daws did the Son and other roles but in this commercial, he imitated Ruggles and did both parts. At the time, Daws was voicing so many shows for Hanna-Barbera that he decided to have them leave his name off the second season of Rocky and His Friends.
Anyway, here's the format in which I first met some of my favorite characters in my favorite cartoons…