Hector J. Peabody, simply referred to as Mr. Peabody, is an anthropomorphic cartoon dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, produced by Jay Ward. Peabody appeared in the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments created by Ted Key, and was voiced by Bill Scott. In 2014, he was featured in a computer-animated film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman. From 2015 to 2017, he appeared in a television series based on the film.
Mr. Peabody's first name is never given or referred to in the cartoons, but in an animated promotion for the Rocky & Bullwinkle Savings Stamp Club, he tells Sherman that it is "Hector".
Peabody's Improbable History
Plot
The cartoons are about Peabody, who is the smartest being in existence, having graduated from Harvard when he was 3 years old. ("Wagna cum laude"). Peabody has accomplished many things in his life as a business magnate, inventor, scientist, Nobel laureate, gourmand, and two-time Olympic medalist.
In the first episode, Peabody meets an orphan named Sherman (portrayed by Walter Tetley) whom he saves from some bullies. He adopts Sherman after a court appearance that also involved him having to get the President and the government to help him out. Upon inventing the Wayback Machine and doing different upgrades, Peabody and Sherman meet various historic figures and help out with their plights. Each installment ends with Peabody making a pun on something revolving around the episode's time-traveling trip. An example of such a pun is "Marie Antoinette could have avoided trouble by making an edict for the people to eat cake, but she could not have her cake and edict too."
Episodes
This is the list of 91 episodes which aired in 1959 and 1960:
"Show Opening" - This episode details how Mr. Peabody adopted Sherman and how he invented the Wayback Machine to travel back in time that involved it being upgraded twice. They travel in time where they meet a used chariot salesman and later Ben Franklin. "Napoleon" "Lord Nelson" "Wyatt Earp" "King Arthur" "Franz Schubert" "Lucrezia Borgia" "Sir Walter Raleigh" "Robert Fulton" "Annie Oakley" "Jesse James" "The Wright Brothers" "George Armstrong Custer" "Alfred Nobel" "Marco Polo" "Richard the Lionhearted" "Don Juan" "William Tecumseh Sherman" "First Kentucky Derby" "P. T. Barnum" "Stanley and Livingstone" "Louis Pasteur" "Robin Hood" "Robinson Crusoe" "Ponce de León" "Leonardo da Vinci" "John L. Sullivan" "Paul Revere" "Confucius" "Nero" "Captain Matthew Clift" "Vasco Núñez de Balboa" "Peter Cooper" "The Battle of Bunker Hill" "The Pony Express" "Stephen Decatur" "Alexander Graham Bell" "Commander Peary" "Pancho Villa" "Lord Francis Douglas" "Sitting Bull" "Christopher Columbus" "The French Foreign Legion" "Guglielmo Marconi" "Scotland Yard" "John Holland" "Louis XVI" "Francisco Pizarro" "Daniel Boone" "William Shakespeare" "Zebulon Pike" "The First Golf Match" "William Tell" "James McNeill Whistler" "Ferdinand Magellan" "Ludwig van Beethoven" "Calamity Jane" "Cornwallis' Surrender" "The First Indian Nickel" "Jules Verne" "Casanova" "Lawrence of Arabia" "Bonnie Prince Charlie" "Paul Reuter" "Johannes Gutenberg" "Buffalo Bill" "Hans Christian Ørsted" "Leif Ericson" "John Sutter" "Sir Isaac Newton" "Kit Carson" "The First Caveman" "Geronimo" "The Great Wall of China" "The Marquis of Queensbury" "Jim Bowie" "Edgar Allan Poe" "Charge of the Light Brigade" "The Royal Mounted Police" "The First Bullfight" "The Building of the Great Pyramid" "John James Audubon" "Mata Hari" "Galileo" "Wellington at Waterloo" "Florence Nightingale" "Henry the VIII" "The First Indianapolis Auto Race" "Captain Kidd" "The Texas Rangers" "Cleopatra"