Ponsonby Britt

Ponsonby Britt

Ponsonby Britt was the credited—but fictional—executive producer of the television series "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", "Fractured Flickers", "Hoppity Hooper", and "George of the Jungle".

In 1959, Jay Ward and Bill Scott invented the name "Ponsonby Britt, Limited" as the new title of their corporation. Britt eventually became an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) and was retained in the cartoon's closing credits as an in-joke. Bill Scott was quoted as saying, "We had no executive producer, so we felt we should make one up." Britt even had an "official" biography used in press releases. [cite book
last = Scott
first = Keith
authorlink = Keith Scott (Australia)
title = The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose
origyear = 2000
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=qdwcbJxM-HsC
accessdate = 2008-01-01
publisher = St. Martin's Press
isbn = 0312283830
pages = p. 135
]

The name "Ponsonby" possibly came from Arthur Ponsonby, a prominent British politician.

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