The Best Episodes of The Bullwinkle Show Season 1
Every episode of The Bullwinkle Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bullwinkle Show Season 1!
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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Bullwinkle Show" season 1 is "Jet Fuel Formula (1) - Jet Fuel Formula", rated 7.6/10 from 104 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Jet Fuel Formula (1) - Jet Fuel Formula" aired on 11/19/1959 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Fractured Fairy Tales - Rapunzel".
7.6/10 104 votes#1 - Jet Fuel Formula (1) - Jet Fuel Formula
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/1959
Rocky and Bullwinkle accidentally discover a new and amazing rocket fuel while baking Grandma Bullwinkle’s recipe for mooseberry-flavored fudge cake—an explosive discovery which propels them on a round-trip adventure to the Moon. Bullwinkle is immediately appointed "Director of Guided Moosles.”
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- 7.8/10 73 votes
#2 - Fractured Fairy Tales - Rapunzel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/1959
The long-haired heroine lets her hair down.
Director: N/A
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- 7.5/10 66 votes
#3 - Bullwinkle's Corner - The Swing
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1959
Bullwinkle recites Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "The Swing".
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- 7.7/10 56 votes
#4 - Peabody's Improbable History - Ben Franklin
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1959
The origins of Mr. Peabody and the WABAC machine: Mr. Peabody finds Sherman in the street being beaten up by some bigger boys. At first, he doesn't think that he's the right sort of boy- but when he sees how he is treated in the orphanage, Peabody decides to adopt him. At first, there's a problem when they won't let a dog adopt a boy- but he goes to court, and the judge decides that if a boy can have a dog, then a dog can have a boy! Sherman comes to live with Mr. Peabody, who builds him the Wayback Machine in order to keep him busy. They go back in time to Rome, and then to see Ben Franklin.
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- 7.7/10 54 votes
#5 - Jet Fuel Formula (2) - Bullwinkle's Ride or Goodbye, Dollink
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/1959
Because the rocket fuel recipe had been torn apart in the explosion, Bullwinkle knows how much but not what of, so he and Rocky set to work in their government laboratory, while at universities all over the country, cake baking is being added to the scientific curriculum. Meanwhile, after failing in an attempt to time-bomb the Moose, Boris and Natasha do what any intelligent, self-sufficient spy with real initiative would do: They wait for instructions!
Director: N/A
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- 7.7/10 50 votes
#6 - Jet Fuel Formula (3) - Bullseye Bullwinkle or Destination Moose
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1959
Those little green men holding extremely ominous-looking weapons aren't congressmen, as Bullwinkle first surmises--they're Gidney and Cloyd, reluctant visitors from the moon, here to keep an invasion of earth tourists from cluttering up their homeland. Indeed, just to prepare for their visit, the two have had to practice dodging traffic, listening to jukeboxes, filling out forms, and breathing smog! Meanwhile, Boris and Natasha, twelve stories up, with a heavy safe as our heroes stroll by below, finally receive orders from headquarters: KILL MOOSE!
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- 7.9/10 49 votes
#7 - Fractured Fairy Tales - Puss and Boots
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1959
A Jay Ward send-up of this classic tale, with a whole new twist on the story you expect.
Director: N/A
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- 7.7/10 52 votes
#8 - Bullwinkle's Corner - Little Miss Muffett
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1959
Bullwinkle reads and acts out the nursery rhyme, "Little Miss Muffett" while Rocky takes the role of the spider.
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- 7.8/10 52 votes
#9 - Peabody's Improbable History - Napoleon
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1959
Mr. Peabody and Sherman travel to 1810 where they meet Napoleon who is missing his royal suspenders. So, Peabody and Sherman must get them back from some pirates. But when they get them back, they're shocked to see everyone is glad with Napoleon occupied.
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- 7.7/10 48 votes
#10 - Jet Fuel Formula (4) - Squeeze Play or Invitation to the Trance
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1959
Whoops. The actual orders said, “*DON'T* KILL MOOSE," so Boris races the safe to keep Bullwinkle safe, and it's safe to say that he *almost* makes it. It's back to the laboratory for our heroes, where they turn out acres of cinnamon pizzas and hot fudge strudels, but none of it’s explosive. Just as Rocky's thinking hypnotism might be something to try, Swami Ben Boris and his assistant appear, putting Bullwinkle into a trance and, forthwith, the moose tells *everything* he knows—all about his early years in the Minnesota woods, his days at the Philpott School for Exceptional Children (he was the only student with antlers), his experiences in the army, where for three years, he served as a hat rack in the Officers’ Club—going on for a full twelve hours and boring everyone within hearing distance into dreamland, so that when he finally gets to the part about the recipe, the only ones awake to hear it are the two moon men. Forthwith, Cloyd raises his weapon and scrooches the big moose!
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- 7.9/10 48 votes
#11 - Jet Fuel Formula (5) - The Scrooched Moose
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1959
The scrooch gun has frozen Bullwinkle solid, and Cloyd and Gidney start off with their moosesicle as a trophy of their visit to a small planet, but Boris comes to in time to con them into leaving Moose for him, while they get Squirrel, the brains of the operation. While the moon men are telling Rocky they can't remember if they've scrooched Bullwinkle for eight hours or eight years...WHISK! Eight hours later, Bullwinkle thaws out in Boris's laboratory, where every word he says is monitored in another country by a faraway band of ominous spies.
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- 7.7/10 49 votes
#12 - Fractured Fairy Tales - The Fisherman's Wishes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1959
A little fisherman goes out to fish and nets a mermaid. After the man gives in to her pleas to be let go, the mermaid is willing to grant him wishes for his kindness. After she mends his net, he tells his wife about it all. The fisherman's wife asks him to ask the mermaid for a new apron. This then snowballs into grander wishes till his wife attains Queen-like status. Overcome with power, she demands that her husband wish her to be a goddess. Upon meeting the mermaid again, she asks if he himself has any wish of his own. His one wish is that his wife be happy. His last wish spent, he returns to his ordinary little home and lives happily ever after.
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- 7.7/10 50 votes
#13 - Bullwinkle's Corner - The Horn
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1959
Bullwinkle tells the poem about the little boy who blew his horn.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 47 votes
#14 - Peabody's Improbable History - Lord Nelson
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/3/1959
Lord Nelson is unable to go into battle against the Spanish fleet as his crew has left port minus one important commodity. Now it's up to Peabody to help him get into battle.
Director: N/A
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- 7.7/10 46 votes
#15 - Jet Fuel Formula (6) - Monitored Moose or The Carbon Copy Cats
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/3/1959
Every move the moose makes is duplicated in the faraway spy lab. Bullwinkle cooks up some tasty chocolate pan dowdy that blows up when the spies try it, and when Rocky smells the delicious aroma, it leads him right to Bullwinkle, but Boris is ready with a helpful trapdoor that sends the plucky squirrel falling into another stew!
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- 8.1/10 46 votes
#16 - Jet Fuel Formula (7) - Rocky’s Dilemma or Squirrel in a Stew
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/10/1959
Rocky's blown away all right, out to sea in a leaky hot air balloon courtesy of Boris Badenov. Meanwhile, an anxious nation and two anxious moon men are searching for the missing moose, who's still baking away in Boris's secret laboratory. By going door-to-door to every house in the country, Gidney and Cloyd eventually turn up there, so Boris and Natasha quickly throw them a surprise party complete with knockout punch, while back out over the stormy seas, lightning strikes Rocky's balloon, sending it plunging.
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- 7.8/10 47 votes
#17 - Fractured Fairy Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/10/1959
Goldilocks learns a lesson about the downside of misusing other people's property.
Director: N/A
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- 7.9/10 47 votes
#18 - Bullwinkle's Corner - Where Go the Boats
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/10/1959
Bullwinkle tells the story about riding on a boat.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 46 votes
#19 - Peabody's Improbable History - Wyatt Earp
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/10/1959
Dodge City's famed sheriff is unable to face "Aces Wilde" in a gun showdown, due to some bad luck and a leg injury, sending Peabody to do "a man's job."
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- 7.9/10 47 votes
#20 - Jet Fuel Formula (8) - The Submarine Squirrel or 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/10/1959
Fortunately, Bullwinkle offers the wrong toast—"To crime!"—and Boris and Natasha, official bad guys that they are, are obliged to drink up, gulping down their own knockout punch; meanwhile, the flying squirrel is being used for target practice by the U. S. Navy, until quick-witted Rocky uses the smoke from the aircraft fire to spell out the phrase "U. S. Taxpayer" and, of course, the Navy needs every one of those that it can get. Soon Rocky finds Bullwinkle, and just as our heroes are about to leave with the moon men, a grateful U. S. government responds by arresting them!
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/10 50 votes
#21 - Jet Fuel Formula (9) - Bars and Stripes Forever
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 12/17/1959
Yes, the government agents who've arrested our heroes are waiting for two spies. If it's not Rocky and Bullwinkle, it must be those two funny-looking green guys, reasons Special Agent Iris T. Upthecreek, but when he tries to take the moon men into custody, he's scrooched...for a full fifty years, which creates a tiny problem until Rocket J. hits upon the idea of putting the scrooched agent on a pedestal, right in front of the National Security Building, while he slowly thaws. Meanwhile, the moon men have become media darlings, with pointed heads all the rage, and they're even given the keys to the city (they're delicious). Cloyd and Gidney respond to all this flattering attention by heading back to their spaceship for a little peace and quiet, but ensuring that same peace and quiet on the moon means keeping Grandma Moose's recipe out of earthling hands, so it looks as if our heroes are going to be forced to go lunar themselves.
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- 7.8/10 48 votes
#22 - Fractured Fairy Tales - Jack and the Beanstalk
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/17/1959
A forgetful Giant enables Jack to escape by not remembering his famous saying.
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- 7.6/10 50 votes
#23 - Bullwinkle's Corner - My Shadow
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/17/1959
Bullwinkle tells a poem about his shadow until comes to life and picks a fight with him.
Director: N/A
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- 8.0/10 48 votes
#24 - Peabody's Improbable History - King Arthur
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 12/17/1959
Everything is out of hand in King Arthur's kingdom, a dragon is terrorizing the kingdom and all the knights are too weak and pathetic to fight the dragon and Mr. Peabody decides to use a new strategy. He uses Sherman's bubble gum.
Director: N/A
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- 8.0/10 49 votes
#25 - Jet Fuel Formula (10) - Hello Out There! or There's No Place Like Space
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/17/1959
Up and up they go, and then down and down: Cloyd and Gidney are out of fuel, or is that fudge cake? Because Boris and Natasha have absconded with their last fuel tank, the moon men have no choice but to tell Rocky the recipe, and they're just one ingredient short: mooseberry juice, which grows in only one place in the entire nation, and that hard-to-find spot just happens to be Rocky and Bullwinkle's hometown, *Frostbite Falls, Minnesota* (population twenty-three). Meanwhile, Boris and Natasha, those two creeps in the deep, board a midget submarine.
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