The Stepford Children

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The Stepford Children is the second of three made-for-television sequels to the 1975 cult film The Stepford Wives. The film premiered on the NBC network on March 15th, 1987. The film was directed by Alan J. Levi and written by William Bleich.

1 Plot summary
2 Cast
3 Production Notes
4 DVD release
5 References

[edit] Plot summary

Barbara Eden and Don Murray star as Laura and Steven Harding, a couple who move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had died. Soon Laura and her children, David (Randall Batinkoff) and Mary (Tammy Lauren), notice the strange women and over-aggressive men of Stepford and become more suspicious when their friends seemingly change, blending in with the rest of the town. David's rebel girlfriend becomes a cheerleader overnight, and Laura's sloppy neighbor Sandy (Sharon Spelman) becomes obsessed with cleaning and bundt cakes overnight.

Steven joins the Men's Association, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, the children are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and while Steve is happy with Laura as she is, he decides daughter Mary has become too rebellious, he delivers her to the Men's Association to be changed.

Just in time, Laura discovers Mary strapped to a table. David bursts in on his motorcycle and is able to escape with Laura and Mary. They are surrounded by the other Men's Club members as well as the antagonistic half-completed robots destined to become other town members. The Hardings escape and cause an explosion to destroy the Men's Association, its members and the robots (including Steve) and race out of town.

[edit] Cast

Barbara Eden as Laura Harding
Don Murray as Steve Harding
Tammy Lauren as Mary Harding
Sharon Spelman as Sandy Gregson
Ken Swofford as Frank Gregson
Debbie Barker as Lois Gregson
Dick Butkus as Tom Wilcox
James Coco as Mr. Jamison
John Cameron Mitchell as Kenny
Judith Baldwin as Kimberly Summer

[edit] Production Notes

Judith Baldwin had a role in the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives

The robots evolved from the original depiction in the first film, who closely resembled mannequins or the animatronics found at Disneyland. The advanced versions resemble "the Visible Man" toy, and this design was similarly recreated in the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives.

[edit] DVD release

While never being released on any format in the USA, it received a theatrical release in Europe and was released on VHS under the Worldvision European label.

[edit] References

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