On ABC, a brief scene of a scared Sylvester climbing into a trunk to hide from Alfie was removed (out of fear that children will imitate it). The cartoon jumped from Alfie entering the room to him creeping up to the trunk.
One of several comic interpretations of the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
A similarly attired American bulldog was seen in A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947), though his turtleneck sweater was green.
The original sci film classic The Fly was still four years away from release when this short, with its monstrous fly, premiered.