The Further Adventures of Big Jon and Sparkie developed through the 1950's and went to a longer format broadcast on Saturday mornings as "No School Today."
Sparkie's irrepressible sense of belonging in a real if slightly wacky world, is very involving. John Dunning, in "On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio,"
says "It remained, for those who heard it, one of the most important and poignant pieces of childhood."
Right is a vintage song sheet with
Jon and Sparkie


