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[ It may have taken a while but we finally get to the Gold Rush episode. It's baffling in the ways you expect grafting a Klondike Gold Rush motif onto a far-future underwater setting. ]

Episode Number: JBJ-8
Title: "Claim-Jumped Jabber"
Original Airdate: 30 October 1976
Production Code: 84-8
Plot: On inheriting a gold mine Jabberjaw is pursued by claim jumper Coldfinger, who pursues Jabberjaw with femme fatale Francine La Fin and an ice ray.
Locations: Aqualaska, Kelp City.
Guest Characters: Two Prospectors, Coldfinger, Two Minions, Lawyer, Hotel clerk, Francine La Fin, Robot Emcee, Sheriff, Jabberclaw.
Songs: ``Cruising 2062'' (chase), ``Slip Through My Hands'' (performance, fragment)

Thoughts:
Aqualaska is frozen, even apparently underwater.

( Really. The whole show is kind of like that. )

Trivia: Between 1803 and 1807 Great Britain seized 528 American ships; France seized 389. Source: An Empire Of Wealth: The Epic History Of American Economic Power, John Steele Gordon.

Currently Reading: Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan, Giles Milton.