BIG JOHN & SPARKY reel-to-reel series
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| Reel | Programs | Pages | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-587 | 1 | 1 | Episodes include the African Adventure; Air plane flight over a waterfall; The voyage home; Mayor Plumpfront's persual by Miss Daffodill; The Mayor's surprise wedding plans; The kidnapping of Miss Daffodill; Dilly and the hunt for the nappers. |
| R-588 | 1 | 1 | The further adventures of Daffadill Billy's kid- napping; Uke disappears; Ukie returns and sues the city because it won't pay him the reward it offered for his return; Ukie goes into big league baseball; The Widow Dilly spurns the Mayor and returns to Florida; The Mayor wants to become a hermit; Sparkie's club is in a hassle over base- ball uniforms; The beginning of a mystery concern- ing Sparkle's dog. |
| R-589 | 1 | 1 | Continuation of the mystery of the dognapper; Return of Ukie from big league baseball; Ukie's invention (a motor that runs on only air); Ukie makes race cars for himself and Sparkie and they race in the 1953 Indianapolis 500 race and Ukie wins; A radio station puts on a show; Sparkie finds a rare butterfly; Big John tries to teach the mayor and Ukie how to read the railroad time table; Big John breaks his ankle. |
| R-590 | 1 | 1 | Sparkie decides to leave Big John because Big John is seeing a girl; Ukie invents a magic travel machine to follow Sparkie to the Land of Make Believe; Ukie offers to spark Big John's girl friend so Big John won't get her; Ukie challenges Big John to a duel; Ukie thinks Miss Mac Clannahan is going to marry him; Ukie rescues a woman from a fire and loses his memory. |
| R-591 | 1 | 1 | The woman Ukie rescued was Mrs. J.B. Sackfull; She thinks he is her little boy; As she thinks he is her son Eugene · she kidnaps him from the hospital; Big John and Sparkie and the Mayor go out to Lake Michigan to rescue Ukie from Mrs. Sackfull's island; They are lost in a storm; They are rescued by Ukie who thinks he is John Paul Jones; Mrs. Sackfull wants them off her island; Later she invites them into her castle which is haunted; They discover the means of the haunting; Ukie thinks that he is Charlie Rustflaw. |
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