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The Bullwinkle Show: Season 5

165 episodes Premiered Aug 19, 1962 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on The Bullwinkle Show

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Bullwinkle Show Season 4.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 5 Episodes

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S5·E7 Core

Fractured Fairy Tales - The Fisherman and His Wife

Aug 19, 1962

A fisherman and his wife are very poor, and he is happy. The wife, however, is unhappy, and wishes that he would catch more fish in order to make a better living. While fishing, he

S5·E8 Core

Bullwinkle's Corner - Taffy

Aug 19, 1962

Bullwinkle recites the poem "Taffy." However, in the telling of the story, Boris (in the role of Taffy) begins to "bend and ad-lib" his parts. For example, instead of stealing "a p

S5·E22 Core

Fractured Fairy Tales - Riding Hoods Anonymous

Sep 2, 1962

Little Red Riding Hood is SO contrite after her booby-trapped basket explodes in the Wolf's face- especially as she's just discovered that he's a member of Riding Hoods Anonymous,

S5·E24 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Lord Nelson

Sep 2, 1962

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.

S5·E28 Core

Bullwinkle's Corner - Barbara Frietchie

Sep 9, 1962

Bullwinkle reads a poem about Barbara Frietchie, who ends up being a sewing lady for the Union Army in the Civil War and tries to sew a flag for the Union. Boris plays a Confederat

S5·E34 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Alfred Nobel

Sep 9, 1962

Alfred Nobel has trouble testing his explosives because he does not have a good place to test them. Now, Peabody and Sherman must help him find a safe place to test the TNT.

S5·E42 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Sleeping Beauty

Sep 23, 1962

A Wicked Fairy casts a beautiful Princess into a never-ending sleep. The Prince who comes to awaken her changes his mind when he sees a chance for commercial exploitation-and turns

S5·E44 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Calamity Jane

Sep 23, 1962

Calamity Jane tries everything to have a calamity to live up to her name, but she keeps failing with her good luck. Can Mr. Peabody think of something to help her become the desper

S5·E49 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - The Wright Brothers

Sep 23, 1962

Kitty Hawk, a troublesome bird, nests in the Wright brothers' plane and prevents them from making their historic flight. So Peabody disguises a rock as an egg to distract the bird

S5·E54 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Mata Hari

Sep 30, 1962

In 1914 England, Mata Hari has stolen the plans to Britain's greatest secret. Peabody and Sherman must capture her before she turns those plans over to the Germans.

S5·E57 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Pied Piper

Apr 5, 1963

This is the story of the Pied Piper who plays a flatt, not a flute, and who drives out all the mice in the town. The strange little man has the ability to create pies from his pipe

S5·E62 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Booty and the Beast

Apr 5, 1963

Alden Farquhar has good looks and a sense of humor, but no money. While strolling along one day, he runs into a witch who turns him into a big, beastly ogre. People are now scared

S5·E64 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Napoleon

Apr 5, 1963

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

S5·E74 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Lucretia Borgia

Apr 12, 1963

Lucretia Borgia, the worlds best poison artist has just gotten a 12th husband who is snacking on furniture. Peabody and Sherman try to get the husband to leave Lucretia but he love

S5·E77 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Sweet Little Beet

Apr 19, 1963

Sweet Little Beet is a poor orphan girl forced into a life of drudgery and ill-treated by her wicked (and UGLY!) stepsisters. A mysterious (and invisible) Prince promises to wed th

S5·E87 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Ugly Duckling

Apr 26, 1963

In a pond in the Middle West, an ugly duckling wants to be a star, so he has a face lift that makes him good-looking, and missing the opportunity to play an ugly role.

S5·E88 Core

Bullwinkle's Corner - Jack Be Nimble

Apr 26, 1963

Bullwinkle tells us the story of Jack B. Nimble, played by Boris, whose business card is "High Jumps Inc., Candlewicks a Specialty." He gets $40 a week.

S5·E89 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Don Juan

Apr 26, 1963

Don Juan has lost his mojo when he finds out that his love for onions has given him bad breath and he is losing all the ladies. Only Peabody and Sherman can help him recover his re

S5·E92 Core

Fractured Fairytales - The Golden Goose

May 3, 1963

An old man who has three sons plans to give one of them a golden goose, but he first must find out which one deserves it. A rather dimwitted guy trades his stale sandwich to a gobl

S5·E97 Core

Fractured Fairytales - King Midas

May 10, 1963

King Midas, the most miserly man alive, embarks on an advertising campaign to make people 'like' him, but places a mean tax on the people of his kingdom.

S5·E122 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Leaping Beauty

May 31, 1963

Beauty is tricked by the wicked witch and is not put to sleep but is forced to put other people to sleep... even the prince.

S5·E139 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Christopher Columbus

Jun 14, 1963

Mr. Peabody and Sherman help Christopher Columbus discover that the earth is round. TRIVIA: It is a popular misconception that Columbus discovered America or that the Earth was rou

S5·E152 Core

Fractured Fairytales - Red White

Jun 28, 1963

Both the Duke and the fair maiden have the reddest hair in the nation. Lucky for them, red hair is the magic word.

S5·E159 Core

Peabody's Improbable History - Sir Isaac Newton

Jul 5, 1963

Sir Issac Newton can't prove his law of gravity, so Mr. Peabody and Sherman travel to 1686, to make sure that Isaac Newton will have the iconic encounter with an apple that leads h

S5·E162 Core

Fractured Fairytales - The Witch's Broom

Jul 5, 1963

Grizelda wins the Witch of the Year Award for being so nasty, but then falls in love with a handsome prince - so she decides to enchant herself and make herself a princess. It work

S5·E164 Mytharc

Dudley Do-Right - Saw Mill

Jul 5, 1963

Snidely Whiplash kidnaps Nell on her wedding day and holds her hostage in the sawmill.

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