The Bewitchin' Pool

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“The Bewitchin’ Pool” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 156
Season: 5
Production code: 2619
Original air date: June 19, 1964
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Joseph M. Newman

[edit] Cast

Whitt: Kim Hector
Gloria Sharewood: Dee Hartford
Sport Sharewood: Mary Badham
Jeb Sharewood: Jeffrey Byron (as Tim Stafford)
Aunt T: Georgia Simmons
Radio Announcer: Harold Gould
Gil Sharewood: Tod Andrews
Sport Sharewood (voice) June Foray

[edit] Synopsis

There are two children, who are brother and sister, who get no love from their parents. Their mother is cruel and mean, and is struggling with her jobs. Their father is the same but has a high paying job. While swimming in their pool, they go underwater then come back up to discover they are in a lake somewhere else. There are children there having fun and playing. There is only one adult there named "Aunt T" who is an elderly woman who is sweet and kind and loves children. When the boy and girl decide to go back, because they fear their parents are worried, they find out that they've decided to divorce. When they tell the children the news they give them the choice of either living with their mother or their father. The children hate them for it and they jump back into the pool. Soon the parents realize that the children have disappeared and they are now living with Aunt T.

[edit] Trivia

This was the final episode of the original Twilight Zone series.

Mary Badham's voice was deemed unintelligible in the outdoor scenes, so June Foray dubbed Sport Sharewood's lines. The change in Sport's voice is noticeable when she moves indoors and Mary's own deeper voice and more authentic accent are heard.

Badham is known chiefly for this and her role in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. She retired from acting in her teens and became an art restoration expert. Her elder brother is Saturday Night Fever director John Badham, yet Mary has never appeared in any of his films.

Jeffrey Byron, portraying Badham's younger brother, is the son of late General Hospital star Anna Lee. His acting credits as an adult include the cyberpunk yarn The Dungeonmaster, which featured Richard Moll as the title nemesis.