The Bewitchin' Pool
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“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. In To Kill a Mockingbird, she played Scout and her brother was Jem; in this episode, she played Sport and her brother was Jeb, an obvious parallel.
- 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.
