The Trouble with Miss Switch

"The Trouble with Miss Switch"
ABC Weekend Special episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 40 and 41
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Written by Sheldon Stark
Produced by Jerry Eisenberg
Featured music Dean Elliott
Original air date February 16, 1980 (Part 1)
February 23, 1980 (Part 2)
Running time 60 minutes
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"The Trouble with Miss Switch" is a 1980 ABC Weekend Special two-part animated episode produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and based on the 1971 children's book of the same name by Barbara Brooks Wallace. It originally aired on ABC on February 16 and 23, 1980.

Following its initial broadcast, "Miss Switch" was frequently rerun on ABC Weekend Special and due to its immense popularity, a sequel titled "Miss Switch to the Rescue" was also produced as an ABC Weekend Special two part episode in 1982.

Synopsis

Part 1

Rupert Brown and Amelia Daley (voiced by Eric Taslitz and Nancy McKeon) are classmates at Pepperdine Elementary School who discover that their substitute teacher, Miss Switch (voiced by Janet Waldo), is a witch complete with a magical talking cat named Bathsheba (voiced by June Foray). She tells the children that the wicked witch Saturna (also voiced by June Foray) has taken control of the Witches' Council and has condemned the fair Miss Switch with the aid of her Computer Witch. Rupert suggests bewitching a certain football player's number at the big game to ensure victory, but Saturna causes the spell to backfire so that the visiting team wins. Rupert comes up with another plan, but asks Miss Switch to let him and Amelia accompany her...

Part 2

Miss Switch and Bathsheba fly to Witch Mountain with Rupert and Amelia. Saturna sends out her bats to attack them, which causes the broom to splinter; some bats carry Miss Switch away, while the others drop Rupert, Amelia and Bathsheba down a well. Miss Switch finds herself in the council room, where the Witches' Council prepares their verdict. The children and Bathsheba get out of the well, and sneak in disguised as witches. Just as Miss Switch agrees to be banished, her friends reveal that her ability to spread love and joy is the most original witchcraft idea of all. The Witches' Council banishes Saturna and appoints Miss Switch the new Head Witch.

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