Debuting on Sunday 26 August 1979, Firehouse Follies presented Bill Jackson, Dirty Dragon and all the other Gigglesnort Hotelpuppets in a fire station setting.
Produced by WLS in Chicago, the series was essentially a vaudeville-style
The series was scrapped when new station management took over in February 1980. Bill Jackson left the television industry and taught at the California Institute of the Arts for 12 years.
Jackson was hospitalised with COVID-19 in January 2022. He was subsequently released but died in Paso Robles, California, on January 17, 2022. He was 86.
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