[4] His earliest appearance in children's television was in 1960 when he hosted a program in Fort Wayne, Indiana, called the Popeye and Little Rascals Club; this was broadcast for two years.

[1][5][6] Jackson was then hired by another Chicago station, the then-independent WFLD, which was looking for a show to air opposite WGN-TV's highly popular Garfield Goose and Friends.

Jackson, playing the mayor of the town, featured his existing puppet character, Dirty Dragon, as well as several new ones named "Weird", "Wally Goodscout", "Mother Plumtree", and "The Old Professor".

[9] The final WFLD episode (#1311) was broadcast July 27, 1973; one month later, The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show (now in a new setting of "Carefree Corners") began a one-year run on WGN.

[10] Meanwhile, Jackson began commuting between Chicago and New York, where he produced and hosted another local show, BJ's Bunch, featuring many of the same characters.

[11][12] By the fall of 1974, WGN cancelled The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show, after which Jackson produced a one-off holiday special, A Gift For Granny, which aired on WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC affiliate.

[1] Jackson and his puppets next appeared in the educationally-themed program Gigglesnort Hotel in 1975, which brought most of the old Cartoon Town characters back, plus a few new creations.

[1][13] In a 2001 interview, Jackson expressed some frustration at seemingly not being able to fit into the criteria established for children's programming on network television.

Several episodes were released by Karl-Lorimar Home Video in the 1980s in a series of six volumes, one of which consisted of two holiday specials Jackson produced in California after he left Chicago: Billy Joe's Thanksgiving --aka Salute To The Turkey-- and a later remake of A Gift For Granny, which featured a green incarnation of Dirty Dragon and a female voice artist as Mother Plumtree.

[1] In later years, Jackson continued living in California with his wife and started a website to sell DVDs of his old programs online.