Miss Switch to the Rescue

"Miss Switch to the Rescue"
ABC Weekend Special episode
Episode no. Season 5
Episode 53 and 54
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Written by Sheldon Stark
Featured music Dean Elliott
Original air date January 16, 1982 (Part 1)
January 23, 1982 (Part 2)
Running time 60 minutes
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"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.

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