Jay Ward Productions was an Amercian animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American

United States

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 animator

Animator

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 Jay Ward

Jay Ward

J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken...

. It made extensive use of limited animation

Limited animation

Limited animation is a process of making animated cartoons that does not redraw entire frames but variably reuses common parts between frames. One of its major trademarks is the stylized design in all forms and shapes, which in the early days was referred to as modern design...

 techniques.

It was best-known for producing The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959 to June 28, 1964 on the ABC and NBC television networks...

and many other films and series. The company also designed trademark characters like Cap'n Crunch

Cap'n Crunch

Cap'n Crunch is a product line of sweetened corn and oat breakfast cereals introduced in 1963 and manufactured by Quaker Oats Company. Quaker Oats has been a division of PepsiCo since 2001. The product line is heralded by a cartoon mascot named Cap'n Crunch, a sea captain .-Development:Pamela Low,...

, King Vitaman

King Vitaman

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, Quisp

Quisp

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, and Quaker breakfast cereals, and made numerous commercials for these products.

Today, Classic Media

Classic Media

Classic Media, LLC, is an American production company and distributor of family programming. It was founded in 2000 by former Marvel Entertainment CEO Eric Ellenbogen and former Broadway Video executive John Engelman in hopes of acquiring mismanaged classic properties and giving exposure to...

 now owns the catalog.

Films and TV series

Animation

• Crusader Rabbit
  Crusader Rabbit
  Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. The concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode - Crusader vs. the State of Texas - aired on KNBH in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1950....
  
  
• The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
  The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
  The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959 to June 28, 1964 on the ABC and NBC television networks...
  
  
  • Rocky and His Friends
  • The Bullwinkle Show
  • Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Peabody's Improbable History
  • Dudley Do-Right
    Dudley Do-Right
    Dudley Do-Right, created by Alex Anderson, is the eponymous hero of a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show which parodied early 20th century melodrama and silent film in the form of the Northern genre....
    
    
• Hoppity Hooper
  Hoppity Hooper
  Hoppity Hooper is a 1964 animated television series produced by Jay Ward, originally broadcast on ABC and co-sponsored by General Mills and Topper Toys.-Series premise:...
  
  
  • Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show
• George of the Jungle
  George of the Jungle
  George of the Jungle was an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV...
  
  
  • Super Chicken
    Super Chicken
    Super Chicken is a segment that ran on the animated television series George of the Jungle. It was produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who earlier had created the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons...
    
    
  • Tom Slick

Commercials
(For Quaker Oats Company)

• Quake and Quisp, characters used by Quaker Oats
• Cap'n Crunch
  Cap'n Crunch
  Cap'n Crunch is a product line of sweetened corn and oat breakfast cereals introduced in 1963 and manufactured by Quaker Oats Company. Quaker Oats has been a division of PepsiCo since 2001. The product line is heralded by a cartoon mascot named Cap'n Crunch, a sea captain .-Development:Pamela Low,...
  
  
• King Vitaman
  King Vitaman
  King Vitaman is a brand of pre-sweetened breakfast cereal produced by Quaker Oats and sold in the United States. The cereal entered the marketplace in 1970, and although it has changed mascots over the years, it is still in production....
  
  

Live action

• Fractured Flickers
  Fractured Flickers
  Fractured Flickers is a live-action syndicated half-hour television comedy show that was produced by Jay Ward, who is otherwise known for animated cartoons. The pilot film was produced in 1961 , but the series wasn't completed until 1963...
  
  

External links

• Jay Ward Productions at Don Markstein's Toonopedia