Box Top Robbery
Box Top Robbery is the second Rocky and Bullwinkle story arc. It includes 12 episodes, and was broadcast as part of the first season of Rocky and His Friends on ABC during the spring of 1960. It is considerably shorter than the preceding story of Jet Fuel Formula, and subsequent Bullwinkle stories would usually follow this length.
| "Box Top Robbery" | |
|---|---|
| Rocky and His Friends episode | |
 l to r: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Boris & Natasha (disguised as Hemlock Soames & Watkins), Fiduciary J. Blurt | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 |
| Directed by | Gerard Baldwin Pete Burness Bill Hurtz Gerry Ray Bob Schleh George Singer Ernie Terrazas |
| Written by | George Atkins Chris Hayward Chris Jenkins Lloyd Turner |
| Produced by | Ponsonby Britt |
| Production code | 41–52 |
| Original air date | April 7, 1960 - May 12, 1960 |
Plot
The basis of the world economy is not gold, silver, or even uranium but, rather, cereal boxtops. Fiduciary Blurt, the head of the World Economic Council, has informed members that someone is flooding the market with counterfeit box tops, threatening to devastate the world economy. Suspicion quickly falls on Bullwinkle, who has amassed tens of thousands of box tops. However, Bullwinkle has come by his fortune legitimately, and once his name has been cleared he is asked to appear before the Council as an expert on box tops. Blurt also summons his chief security officers, Hemlock Soames and Dr. Watkins, who are actually Boris and Natasha in disguise. As they are in fact the box top counterfeiters they realize that the jig is up and set about bundling off their stash of counterfeits, just as Rocky and Bullwinkle discover their hiding place. The heroes survive being launched into the air in an elevator car and fired upon by the Coast Guard. Boris and Natasha's printing press is accidentally destroyed by Rocky and Bullwinkle, who are given a parade and awarded medals before heading off into the sunset.
Episode segments
Episode 1
- Box Top Robbery
- Aesop and Son: The Hare and the Tortoise
- Mr. Know-It-All: How To Catch A Bee (and Make Your Honey Happy)
- Dudley Do-Right: Trap Bait
- A Fault in the Vault or Banks a Million
Episode 2
- Calaboose Moose or The Crime of Your Life
- Fractured Fairy Tale: Snow White
- Mr. Know-It-All: How To Be a Cow-Puncher (without Getting Hit Back)
- Peabody's Improbable History: William Tecumseh Sherman
- When a Felon Needs a Friend or Pantomime Quisling
Episode 3
- Give 'em the Works or Rocky Around the Clock
- Aesop and Son: The Hare and the Hound
- Mr. Know-It-All: How To Escape From Devil's Island (and Get Away From It All)
- Peabody's Improbable History: First Kentucky Derby
- Crime on My Hand or Hickory Dickory Drop
Episode 4
- Down to Earth or The Bullwinkle Bounce
- Fractured Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
- Mr. Know-It-All: How To Shoot Par
- Dudley Do-Right: Masked Ginny Lynne
- Fall Story or A Drift in the Lift
Episode 5
- The Ground Floor or That's Me All Over!
- Fractured Fairy Tales: Pinocchio
- Mr. Know-It-All: Magic Made Easy
- Peabody's Improbable History: P.T. Barnum
- Fools Afloat or All the Drips at Sea
Episode 6
- Water on the Brain or The Deep Six and 7/8
- Fractured Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood
- Mr. Know-It-All: How To Turn a Beastly Failure Into a Monstrous Success
- Peabody's Improbable History: Stanley and Livingstone
- Bullwinkle Goes to Press or All the Moose That's Fit to Print
Video releases
In the early 1990s, this episode was released as the main feature of the video "La Grande Moose", although the second part of Episode 2, all parts of Episodes 3 and 4, and the first part of Episode 5 were removed to avoid showing Bullwinkle in danger of falling off a building, which lasted through almost six parts.
External links
- Rocky and Bullwinkle Episode Guide at Toontracker
- The Bullwinkle Show at TV.com
- Rocky and His Friends at IMDB