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Description: Here's Part 8 (the final part) of a rare surviving edition of Bill Jackson's The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show on WFLD Channel 32. This was from the original 2" quadruplex master tape. Includes:

Fenster and Mother Plumtree bickering about her cooking and his inventions, and Wally and Maynard likewise in a sour mood, due to Dr. Doompuss' nefarious machinations; B.J. seeks to change the atmosphere by drawing a happy face, but Doompuss and his partners in crime, FrankenWeird and Wolf Wally, throw gloom dust and immediately darken the drawn face's mood. When B.J. sees what happened, the Box chimes in, "It was terrible" (voice of June Foray from Stan Freberg's 1953 hit "St. George and the Dragonet"); at that point the show's closing theme, "Doodletown Fifers" by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (RCA Victor 20-/47-4866, 1952), starts up and B.J. signals for The Flying Nun which comes after the program, and will return tomorrow after Speed Racer; after this is a shot of Doompuss with his henchmen, vowing to take down "Bushy Head, the Dragon and Billy Blue Suit," upon which the "Doodletown Fifers" theme returns, with a long shot of the "Cartoon Town" set, with B.J. wondering what happened - and showing the ruined drawing to Dragon.

(NOTE: Some sync problems affect the tape near the end.)

Use of footage as originally aired on station WFLD,
courtesy of Fox Television Stations, Inc.

TM and (C)1972.
All rights reserved.

This aired on local Chicago TV some time between January and September of 1972.