The Bullwinkle Show (1959)

Action · Adventure · Animation

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, Peabody's Improbable History, and Fractured Fairy Tales, among others.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (5,194 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 5
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1959)

7.96 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 28 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Jet Fuel Formula/Bullwinkle's Ride or Goodbye, Dollink	7.8	137
2	Bullseye Bullwinkle or Destination Moose/Squeeze Play or Invitation to the Trance	7.9	95
3	The Scrooched Moose/Monitored Moose or The Carbon Copy-Cats	7.8	84
4	Rocky's Dilemma or A Squirrel in a Stew/The Submarine Squirrel or 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea	7.9	73
5	The Bars and Stripes Forever/Hello Out There! or There's No Place Like Space	7.9	68
6	A Creep in the Deep or Will Success Spoil Boris Badenov?/Ace Is Wild or The Flying Casket	8.0	64
7	The Back-seat Divers or Mashed Landing/Bullwinkle's Water Follies or Antlers Aweigh	8.0	59
8	The Inspector-Detector or A Kick in the Plants/Canoes Who? or Look Before You Leak	8.0	63
9	Two for the Ripsaw... or Goodbye, Mr. Chips/Farewell, My Ugly or Knots to You	8.0	62
10	Cheerful Little Pierful or Bomb Voyage/Summer Squash or He's Too Flat for Me	7.9	62
11	The Earl & the Squirrel or The March of Crime/Adrift in the Mist or Fog Groggy	7.9	61
12	The Deep Six or The Old Moose and the Sea/The Slippery Helm or Captain's Outrageous	7.8	60
13	Bullwinkle Makes a Hit or I Get a Bang Out of You/Three on an Island or Tell It to the Maroons	7.9	61
14	Dancing on Air or The Pottsylvania Polka/Axe Me Another or Heads You Lose!	7.9	56
15	The Pen-Pals or Rock Hocky Rocky/The Fright-Seeing Trip or Visit to a Small Panic	7.9	57
16	Boris Burgles Again or Sinner Take All/Danger Ahead or Watch Out for Falling Rockys	8.1	57
17	Avalanche Is Better Than None or Snows Your Old Man/Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You	8.1	54
18	The Snowman Cometh or An Icicle Built for Two/The Moonman Is Blue or The Inside Story	8.0	57
19	Fuels Rush in or The Star-Spangled Boner/The Pottsylvania Permanent or I've Grown Accustomed to the Place	7.8	53
20	The Boundary Bounders or Some Like It Shot/The Washington Whirl or Rocky Off the Record	8.1	55
21	Box Top Robbery/A Fault in the Vault or Banks a Million	8.2	62
22	Calaboose Moose or The Crime of Your Life/When a Felon Needs a Friend or Pantomime Quisling	7.9	55
23	Give 'Em the Works or Rocky Around the Clock/Crime on My Hands or Hickory Dickory Drop	7.6	56
24	Down to Earth or the Bullwinkle Bounce/Fall Story or Adrift in the Lift	8.1	55
25	The Ground Floor or That's Me All Over!/Fools Afloat or All the Drips at Sea	8.1	53
26	Water on the Brain or the Deep Six and 7/8/Bullwinkle Goes to Press or All the Moose That's Fit to Print	8.3	54

Season 2 (1960)

7.93 avg 52 episodes 7.7 → 8.0 23 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Upsidaisium/Big Bomb at Frostbite Falls or The Exploding Metropolis	7.7	53
2	The Road to Ruin or Mine Over Matter/Two Flying Ghosts or High Spirits	7.7	51
3	Crash Drive or Oedipus Wrecks/Fender Benders or The Asphalt Bungle	7.9	44
4	Burning Sands or The Big Hot Foot/Death in the Desert or A Place in the Sun	8.2	41
5	The Boy Bounders or Plane Punchy/A Peek at the Peak or Your Climb is My Climb	8.4	41
6	You've Got a Secret or Out of Sight - Out of Mine/Boris and the Blade or Sheik, Rattle and Roll	8.2	40
7	Sourdough Squirrel or Hardrock Rocky/A Creep at the Switch or Sudden Pacific	7.8	41
8	The Train on the Plain or The Overland Express/Danger in the Desert or Max Attacks	8.2	41
9	The Missing Mountain or Peek-A-Boo Peak/Go Down Moses or The Fall Guy	8.1	42
10	Rocky and the Rock or Braver and Boulder/Mountain Mover or Boris Sneaks a Peak	8.3	46
11	Bullwinkle's Rise or This Goon for Hire/Boris Bites Back or A Rebel without a Pause	8.1	47
12	Bullwinkle at the Bottom or A Mish-Mash Moose/Double Trouble or The Moose Hangs High	8.3	42
13	Jet Jockey Rocky or The One Point Landing/Plots and Plans or Too Many Crooks	8.1	41
14	The Cliff Hanger or Taken for Granite/Supersonic Boom or The Old Mount's A-Moverin	8.0	41
15	The Big Blast or A Many Splintered Thing/The Steal Hour or A Snitch in Time	8.2	45
16	Verse and Worse or Crime Without Rhyme/Truck Drivers in the Sky or Follow the Fleet	8.4	43
17	The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor/The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot	8.4	45
18	Battle of the Giants or It Takes Two to Tangle/Bye Bye Boris or Farewell My Ugly	8.8	47
19	Metal-Eating Mice/Bullwinkle Bites Back! or Nothing But the Tooth	8.1	42
20	Knock on Wood or Bullwinkle Takes the Rap/A Knock for the Rock or The Lamp Is Low	7.8	43
21	Window Pains or The Moosetrap/Doorway to Danger or Doom in the Room	8.0	43
22	Boris Makes His Move or The Mice Man Cometh/Big Cheese Boris or I'd Rather Be Rat	7.9	44
23	The Space Rat or Of Mice and Menace/The Shot Heard Round the World or First National Bang	7.6	41
24	The Rat-Pack Attacks or Sharrup You Mouse/Bucks for Boris or Rocky Pays the Piper	7.9	41
25	Fright Flight or A Rocky to the Moon/Bullwinkle Bellows Again or Moonin' Low	7.9	44
26	Bongo Boris or The Hep Rat/The Spies of Life or When a Fella Needs a Fiend	8.1	41
27	Greenpernt Oogle/The Mail Animal or Bullwinkle Stamps His Foot	7.9	37
28	Burgled Bullwinkle or The Moose Nappers/A Crown for Bullwinkle or Monarch Moose	7.9	37
29	Squirrel in the Scope or Ring Around the Rocky/Block Party or The Happy Headsman	7.6	36
30	The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg/Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift	7.1	38
31	Blood and Sand or Three for the Show/Bullwinkle's Landing or Moosle Beach	7.5	35
32	The Sand Blasters or Big Bang on the Beach/The Brave and the Boulder or To Each His Stone	7.6	36
33	Rue Britannia/Earl and Water Don't Mix or Next Time, Take the Drain	7.8	33
34	Moose Gets the Juice or Mourning Becomes Electra-cuted/Episode 120 or 123	7.9	35
35	Explosive Situation or Don't Make It Worse-It's Badenov/You've Got Me in Stitches or Suture Self	8.2	34
36	Fifty Cents Lost or Get That Halfback/The Scheme Misfires or You Can Planet Better Than That	8.0	35
37	Buried Treasure/A Tisket a Casket, or The Bury Box	7.4	38
38	The Bank Busters, or The Great Vaults/Sweet Violence, or The Yegg and I	7.4	36
39	Many a Thousand Gone, or The Haul of Fame/Down to Earth, or Me and My Shatter	7.7	37
40	Hop Skip and Junk, or Bullwinkle's Big Tow/Bucks for Boris, or The Green Paper Caper	7.7	37
41	When Moose Meets Moose, or Two's a Crowd/The Midnight Chew-Chew, or This Gum for Hire	7.3	37
42	Boris Badenov and His Friends?/Bars of Steal, or The Hard Cell	7.4	38
43	Subway Finish, or An Underground Round/The Last Edition, or Five-Scar Final	8.1	38
44	Last Angry Moose/A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo	7.8	40
45	Fun on the Freeway or The Quick and the Dead/Bullwinkle Makes a Movie or The Feature from Outer Space	8.0	38
46	Wailing Whale/Vagabond Voyage or The Castoffs Cast Off	7.9	33
47	Fear on the Pier or What's Up Dock?/TNT for Two or Fright Cargo	8.1	33
48	Underwater Eyeball or The Deep Blue See/Underwater Moose or The Aqua-lunk	8.0	36
49	Terror on the Seas or We've Only Begun to Fright/Blank Night or The Age of Nothing	7.9	34
50	Defective Story or A Muffled Report/Leaky Lyrics or Bullwinkle Plugs a Song	8.0	36
51	Follow the Swallow or The Inside Story/Playtime for Rollo or Rest in Pieces	7.9	33
52	A Whale of a Tale or Thar She Blows Up/Fast and Moose or Charley's Antlers	8.0	33

Season 3 (1961)

8.05 avg 33 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 22 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Three Moosketeers: Parts 1-2	8.0	38
2	The Three Moosketeers: Parts 3-4	7.7	38
3	The Three Moosketeers: Parts 5-6	7.9	31
4	The Three Moosketeers: Parts 7-8	7.9	32
5	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 1-2	8.2	31
6	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 3-4	8.1	31
7	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 5-6	7.8	34
8	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 7-8	8.2	31
9	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 9-10	8.0	29
10	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 11-12	7.9	29
11	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 13-14	8.1	29
12	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 15-16	8.5	29
13	Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 17-18	7.7	31
14	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 1-2	7.9	35
15	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 3-4	7.8	33
16	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 5-6	8.1	34
17	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 7-8	7.9	33
18	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 9-10	7.9	35
19	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 11-12	8.0	31
20	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 13-14	7.9	30
21	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 15-16	8.1	27
22	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 17-18	8.0	27
23	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 19-20	8.1	26
24	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 21-22	7.9	27
25	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 23-24	8.3	28
26	Missouri Mish Mash: Parts 25-26	8.2	30
27	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 1-2	8.0	26
28	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 3-4	8.1	25
29	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 5-6	8.5	27
30	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 7-8	8.3	26
31	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 9-10	8.3	26
32	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 11-12	8.2	28
33	Topsy Turvy World: Parts 13-14	8.1	24

Season 4 (1962)

7.42 avg 19 episodes 7.7 → 7.3 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Painting Theft: Parts 1-2	7.7	30
2	Painting Theft: Parts 3-4	7.4	30
3	Painting Theft: Parts 5-6	7.4	36
4	The Guns of Abalone: Parts 1-2	7.1	31
5	The Guns of Abalone: Parts 3-4	7.5	27
6	The Treasure of Monte Zoom: Parts 1-2	7.5	32
7	The Treasure of Monte Zoom: Parts 3-4	7.1	28
8	The Treasure of Monte Zoom: Parts 5-6	7.0	29
9	The Treasure of Monte Zoom: Parts 7-8	7.7	39
10	Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2	7.4	31
11	Goof Gas Attack: Parts 3-4	7.2	30
12	Goof Gas Attack: Parts 5-6	7.8	26
13	Goof Gas Attack: Parts 7-8	7.7	25
14	Banana Formula: Parts 1-2	7.5	27
15	Banana Formula: Parts 3-4	7.6	28
16	Banana Formula: Parts 5-6	7.7	28
17	Banana Formula: Parts 7-8	7.5	25
18	Banana Formula: Parts 9-10	6.9	25
19	Banana Formula: Parts 11-12	7.3	25

Season 5 (1962)

7.71 avg 33 episodes 7.4 → 8.7

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 1-2	7.4	27
2	Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 3-4	7.8	21
3	Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 5-6	7.6	24
4	Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 7-8	7.6	21
5	Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10	7.4	24
6	Mucho Loma: Parts 1-2	7.3	25
7	Mucho Loma: Parts 3-4	7.5	22
8	Mucho Loma: Parts 5-6	7.5	26
9	Pottsylvania Creeper: Parts 1-2	7.8	25
10	Pottsylvania Creeper: Parts 3-4	7.8	23
11	Pottsylvania Creeper: Parts 5-6	7.7	25
12	Moosylvania: Parts 1-2	7.9	28
13	Moosylvania: Parts 3-4	8.0	24
14	The Ruby Yacht: Parts 1-2	7.8	26
15	The Ruby Yacht: Parts 3-4	7.8	22
16	The Ruby Yacht: Parts 5-6	7.4	24
17	Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 1-2	7.2	26
18	Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 3-4	7.8	20
19	Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 5-6	7.3	25
20	The Weather Lady: Parts 1-2	7.1	26
21	The Weather Lady: Parts 3-4	7.9	22
22	The Weather Lady: Parts 5-6	6.8	24
23	Louse on 92nd Street: Parts 1-2	7.1	25
24	Louse on 92nd Street: Parts 3-4	7.6	22
25	Louse on 92nd Street: Parts 5-6	7.7	27
26	Wossamotta U: Parts 1-2	7.9	28
27	Wossamotta U: Parts 3-4	8.0	21
28	Wossamotta U: Parts 5-6	8.4	28
29	Wossamotta U: Parts 7-8	8.2	25
30	Wossamotta U: Parts 9-10	8.2	21
31	Wossamotta U: Parts 11-12	7.9	27
32	Moosylvania Saved: Parts 1-2	8.2	25
33	Moosylvania Saved: Parts 3-4	8.7	28