Miss Switch to the Rescue

"Miss Switch to the Rescue" is a 1982 ABC Weekend Special two-part animated episode and a sequel to "The Trouble with Miss Switch" (1980) produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and based on the 1981 children's book of the same name by Barbara Brooks Wallace. It originally aired on ABC on January 16 and 23, 1982.

Synopsis

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.

Voices

Janet Waldo as Miss Switch
Eric Taslitz as Rupert Brown
Nancy McKeon as Amelia Daley
Hans Conried as Mordo, the Warlock
June Foray as Bathsheba and Saturna

Production credits

Executive Producers: Joe Ruby & Ken Spears
Directed by: Charles A. Nichols
Written by: Sheldon Stark
Based on the Characters Created by: Barbara Brooks Wallace
Voices: Janet Waldo, Eric Taslitz, Nancy McKeon, Hans Conried, Alan Dinehart, Walker Edmiston, June Foray, Anne Lockhart, Hal Smith, Philip Tanzini
Director of Production Design: Ric Gonzalez
Supervising Story Director: Gordon Kent
Story Direction: Ron Campbell
Models: Alan Huck
Voice Direction: Alan Dinehart
Layout Supervision: Larry Huber
Layout: Kathleen Carr, Kurt Conner, Hak Ficq, George Goode, Fred Irvin, Lew Ott, Mario Piluso, Aaron St. John, Wallace Sides
Background Layout Supervision: David High
Background Layout: John F. Guerin, Bruce Zick
Animation Supervision: Jay Sarbry
Animation: Frank Andrina, Ed Barge, Tom Barnes, Bob Bemiller, Oliver Callahan, Rudy Cataldi, Rick Leon, Hicks Lokey, Mircea Mantta, Costi Mustatea, Bob Nesler, Margaret Nichols, Zeon Davush, Ed Demattia, Joan Drake, Hugh Fraser, Al Green, Terry Harrison, Fred Hullmich, Aundre Knutson, Barney Posner, Bill Pratt, Joanna Romersa, Don Ruch, Kunio Shimamura, Ken Southworth
Assistant Animation Supervision: John Boersema
Production Coordinator: Loretta High
Xerography: Star Wirth
Checking and Scene Planning: Paul Strickland
Ink and Paint Supervision: Alison Victory
Studio Manager: Jeff Cooke
Background Styling: Eric Semones
Backgrounds Painted by: Katsuyoshi Hozumi, Dennis Durrel, Gary Selvaggio, P.S. Lewis, Peter Van Elk, Bob Schaefer, Dennis Venizelos, Gloria Wood, Tom Woodington
Color Key: Bunny Semones
Title Design: Bob Schaefer
Assistants to the Executive Producers: Erika Grossbart, Kayte Kuch
Production Assistants: Joyce Benson, Bryna Melnick, Kathy Rose
Music: Dean Elliott
Musical Supervision: Paul DeKorte
Supervising Film Editor: Chip Yaras
Effects Editors: Jack Durney, Pete Grives, Karla McGregor, Kevin Spears
Music Editor: Denise O'Hara
Negative Cutting: Mary Nelson
Post Production Supervision: Lenore Nelson
Technical Supervision: Jerry Mills
Camera: Steve Altman, Charles Flekal, Curtis Hall, Dan Larsen, Raymond Lee, Ralph Migliori, Joe Ponticelle, Cliff Shirpser, Roy Wade, Jerry Whittington, Dave Valentine
Laboratory: C.F.I.
Re-Recording: T.V.R., James L. Aiholtz, C.A.S.
© 1982 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
Produced by RUBY-SPEARS ENTERPRISES, INC.
A Division of the Taft Entertainment Company

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