From a 1984 episode of Entertainment Tonight, here's Leonard Maltin reporting on the enduring popularity of Rocky and Bullwinkle, complete with interviews with Bill Scott and June Foray, and them staging a mock recording session for the camera.
Bill was, of course, more than the voice of Bullwinkle and other key characters in the Jay Ward cartoons. He was Jay's co-producer and head writer…and much of the wonderful humorous style of those shows was Bill's humor. At the time this Entertainment Tonight segment was done, Bill was a little frustrated that plans for more projects of the Moose and Squirrel kept falling through…which was due more to business problems than the network interference he complains about. Not that the then-current pressure to launder cartoons and make them "socially redeeming" was not a formidable obstacle.
Still, he had hopes. Shortly after the time this was taped, Bill and I and a brilliant actor named Frank Welker began working on a Dudley Do-Right project. It was humming along nicely until late '85 when Bill passed away.
Happily, June is still around to bask in the love that so many of us have for those films. Her autobiography, which Earl Kress and I are assisting her with, should be out in '08.
Here's a few minutes of Bill and June from 1984…
