Fractured Fairy Tales and Aesop & Sons were two segments on various versions of Rocky and Bullwinkle. They presented fairy tales or fables in a humorous, modernized manner while altering the storyline.
Commonalities
Debuted in 1959 on ABC’s Rocky & His Friends (The first of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show titles)
Produced by Jay Ward
Became part of The Hoppity Hooper Show in 1964
Became part of the Dudley Do-Right Show in 1969
Did not spinoff into books or comics
Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Fairy Tales had three different introductions
Produced by Jay Ward
Narrated by Edward Everett Horton
Voices by June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and an uncredited Daws Butler
91 episodes were made; first – Goldilocks; Last – The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was (Click for episode list)
Each episode 4½ minutes long
One of the few TV cartoon series with no continuing characters,
Enjoy the Three Little Pigs
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Aesop and Son
Same theme music as Fractured Fairy Tales
Structure: Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After carefully listening to the story, the son undermines the moral with a pun.
Continuing Tag Line: ..and do you know the moral of the story?
39 episodes: First – The Lion and the Mouse; Last – The Fox and the Three Weasels (Click for episodes list)
Voices: Aesop by Charles Ruggles (the only Jay Ward character he did), Junior by Daws Butler
Here’s an episode: The Fox and the Winking Horse
A Frank Angle 