Miss Switch to the Rescue

Miss Switch to the Rescue
Based on Characters created by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Written by Sheldon Stark
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Voices of Janet Waldo
Eric Taslitz
Nancy McKeon
Hans Conried
Alan Dinehart
Music by Dean Elliott
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 2
Production
Executive producer(s) Joe Ruby & Ken Spears
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Ruby-Spears Enterprises
Release
Original network ABC
Original release January 16 – 23, 1982
Chronology
Preceded by The Trouble with Miss Switch

Miss Switch to the Rescue is a 1982 animated sequel to the 1980 television special The Trouble with Miss Switch produced by Ruby-Spears Enterprises and based on characters created by Barbara Brooks Wallace. It was originally broadcast as a two-part episode of ABC Weekend Specials series on January 16 and 23, 1982.

Plot

Part 1

Rupert Brown and Amelia Daley (voiced by Eric Taslitz and Nancy McKeon) receive a mysterious gift from a spooky old crone: a ship inside a bottle with a tiny man as its passenger. Rupert opens the bottle, releasing its occupant – an evil Warlock named Mordo (voiced by Hans Conried) – who kidnaps Amelia. Rupert calls upon the good witch, Miss Switch (voiced by Janet Waldo) to use her magic powers to rescue Amelia. Using her witches' encyclopedia, she traces Mordo and Amelia to the year 1640, when Mordo was imprisoned in the flask for developing an evil potion that turns people into trolls. Traveling back in time on her broomstick, Miss Switch and Rupert find Amelia on Mordo's pirate ship, where the warlock is about to administer his potion to the town's mayor. They manage to rescue Amelia, but lose the mayor to Mordo's clutches who is transformed into a troll named Thaddeus...

Part 2

Upon their return to the present, Amelia and Rupert learn from Miss Switch's magic book that the real power behind this diabolical plot is Saturna (voiced by June Foray), the wicked witch whom Miss Switch and the children had helped to banish to the Island of Fire and Ice. As Saturna vows to get her revenge, Amelia begins to fade away and then vanishes – a disappearance Miss Switch knows will be permanent unless Amelia is rescued by nightfall. Amelia returns to normal just in time with the help of Thaddeus the troll, who drinks the potion which also transforms him back into the mayor. Miss Switch returns the children to school; Rupert asks her if they'll ever see her again and, as she flies away on her broomstick with Bathsheba, Miss Switch uses her magical powers to write the words "Who Knows?" on the blackboard.

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