The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show is an American animated jukebox musical comedy television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and Jay Ward Productions. The series is based on "Peabody's Improbable History", the 1960s segments that aired as part of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, and the 2014 film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which was also produced by DreamWorks Animation. The series premiered on October 9, 2015, on Netflix. The second season was released on March 18, 2016. The third season was released on October 21, 2016. The fourth and final season was released on April 21, 2017. The series was removed from Netflix on April 21, 2023. As of March 2026, the show is now streaming on Kidoodle.TV along with various other shows from DreamWorks Animation Television.
The series is digitally hand-drawn, with the Vancouver-based DHX Media providing the animation. Mr. Peabody is voiced by Chris Parnell, while Max Charles reprises his role as Sherman from the film. Originally, according to The Animation Guild, 78 episodes of the television series were ordered, but only 52 episodes were aired.
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Synopsis
Mr. Peabody and his son Sherman host a live TV variety show out of their Manhattan penthouse, with various historical figures as their guests that are brought to them through the WABAC time machine. Half of the show is in a variety show format, with the other half being time travel adventures formatted like the original "Peabody's Improbable History" segments from the 1950s and 1960s.
This show also introduces new characters like the robotic Orchoptitron, the building manager Mr. Hobson, the notary Mrs. Hughes, and Peabody's downstairs neighbors Christine Bluestone and the Yakamora family. The janitor Old Bill also appears where he is mostly seen during the credits.
Although the series is set three years after the events of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), there is no mention of that films' events nor do the characters Penny Peterson, Paul Peterson, Patty Peterson or Edwina Grunion make an appearance.
Voice cast
Main
Chris Parnell as Hector J. Peabody
Max Charles as Sherman
Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Christine Bluestone, Abby Fisher
Dieter Jansen as Mr. Calvert Hobson, Bird Baby
Sunil Malhotra as Sweet Tune Swami
David P. Smith as Mrs. Arugula Hughes, Orchoptitron, and Orville Wright
Josh Keaton as Mr. Yakamora, Josh Guapo, Wilbur Wright, others
Kari Wahlgren as Mrs. Yakamora, Maria Garcia, Annie Oakley, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Hatshepsut, Ada Lovelace, Lucy Walker, Pinkbeard (in "Blackbeard"), others
Special guest stars
Brian Baumgartner as Hotu Matu'a
Flula Borg as Joe Troplong
Gary Busey as Alternate Future Mr. Peabody
Margaret Cho as Hua Mulan
Bob Dorough as James Madison
Stephen Fry as Uncle Duke
Jared Harris as Bigfoot
Daniel Henney as Akashi Shiganosuke
Jane Lynch as Bernadette Steel
Missi Pyle as Catherine the Great (1st Time)
Jeff Ross as Aristophanes
Fred Stoller as Peter Cooper
Reggie Watts as Rejgie
Guest stars
Carlos Alazraqui as Ponce de Leon
Dee Bradley Baker as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eric Bauza as Galileo
Michael Patrick Bell as Santa Claus
Jeff Bennett as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Joseph Lister, Saint Patrick, Roberto Ublindo
Steve Blum as Jules Léotard, Edgar Allan Poe
Flula Borg as Joe Troplong
Eric Bradley as Julio Iglesias
Grey DeLisle as Cleopatra, Mary Anning
Terry Dexter as Joan of Arc
Richard Epcar as Julius Caesar
Daniel Henney as Akashi Shiganosuke
Kate Higgins as Belle Starr
Danny Jacobs as Enrico Caruso
Grace Kaufman as Boogaz
Tom Kenny as Blackbeard, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, George Washington (in "David Bushnell")
Andrew Kishino as Koikawa Harumachi
Evan Kishiyama as Payton
Abigail Zoe Lewis as Shelby
Yuri Lowenthal as Baby Kenny
Tress MacNeille as Florence Nightingale, Oracle
Musical guests
In some episodes there is a musical guest.
Wordsworth & Prince Paul in Stuck/Mozart
Jukebox the Ghost in Black Hole/Winston Churchill
Ra Ra Riot in Peabody's Parents/Galileo
JD McPherson in Outbreak/Ancient Greek Games
Katie Herzig in World Records/Hotu Matu'a
JD Sampson in Telethon/Enrico Caruso
Hammered Satin in Peabody's Delivery/Joe vs. the Peabody and Sherman
The Family Crest in The Perfect Perfect Show Again Again/Abraham Lincoln
Production
Chris Parnell replaced Ty Burrell as the voice of Mr. Peabody from the 2014 film Mr. Peabody & Sherman. He auditioned for the role about a year and a half before the series' premiere. Trying to replicate Bill Scott's voice from the original cartoons as close as possible, he prepared by watching the 1960s show, and ended up doing his own interpretation of the character.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack for the first season of the series was released digitally on October 2, 2015, and was released on CD in December 2015. Published by Lakeshore Records, the album features original score and the opening theme song by Eric Goldman and Michael Corcoran (aka The Outfit), and new original songs by Jukebox the Ghost, JD McPherson, Wordsworth and Prince Paul, and Ra Ra Riot., along with original songs performed by the cast of the series.
