Television
Jay Ward, who sired a collection of characters dominated by a squirrel named Rocky and a simple-minded moose he called Bullwinkle, and then put them in a TV series that featured primitive animation and sophisticated dialogue, died Thursday.
Oct. 13, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Rocky the Flying Squirrel and his nemesis Natasha Fatale sparred on “The Bullwinkle Show.”
July 27, 2017
Just in case you don’t remember who Carl Weathers is, the title sequence for his new series features a “Rocky”-like montage of him jogging, doing push-ups, pumping iron and then lathering up in the shower.
Feb. 15, 1986
The Scene: Friday night at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, at the annual dinner and roast benefiting the Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic.
Dec. 11, 1990
“Time Squad,” a new animated series premiering tonight on the Cartoon Network, takes a stab at meshing hip humor with slight slices of history, coming up short on both counts.
June 8, 2001
Movies
Movie stars are nice, but the joy of ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle’ is its grasp of the TV show’s clever sensibility.
June 30, 2000
California
GREEN ENC: The first issue of Enc, the glossy new magazine by the Environmental Nature Center, is out this week with articles on Upper Newport Bay and marine mammal research.
April 9, 1995
Obituaries
Alan Young, the amiable comedic actor who became a TV icon in the early 1960s starring opposite a talking horse named Mister Ed, died Thursday.
May 20, 2016
Who made Max Headroom?
May 5, 1987
Hokey smokes!
Sept. 9, 1990