Miss Switch to the Rescue

Miss Switch to the Rescue is a 1982 animated television special and a sequel to The Trouble with Miss Switch (1980) produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. It is based on the 1981 children's book of the same name by Barbara Brooks Wallace and originally aired in two parts on ABC Weekend Special series on January 16 and 23, 1982.[1][2] It also features the final role for actor Hans Conried, who died only a few weeks before the first part aired.

Miss Switch to the Rescue
GenreAnimation
Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Based onMiss Switch to the Rescue
by Barbara Brooks Wallace
Written bySheldon Stark
Directed byCharles A. Nichols
Voices of
Music byDean Elliott
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersJoe Ruby and Ken Spears
Running time60 minutes
Production companyRuby-Spears Productions
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseJanuary 16 (1982-01-16) –
January 23, 1982 (1982-01-23)

The special was rebroadcast on ABC in April/May 1982, as well as June 1983, February 1985, July 1986, April 1987 and February 1989.[3]

Synopsis

Rupert Brown and Amelia Daley receive a mysterious package from a spooky old crone: a ship inside a bottle with a miniature man aboard. Rupert opens the bottle, unwittingly releasing the evil warlock Mordo, who quickly kidnaps Amelia. Rupert calls upon the good witch Miss Switch to use her magic powers to rescue Amelia. Miss Switch conjures The Witches Encyclopedia and traces Mordo and Amelia to the year 1640, when good witches imprisoned Mordo in the bottle. Traveling back in time on her broomstick, Miss Switch and Rupert eventually find Amelia on Mordo's pirate ship, where the warlock is about to administer his evil potion to mayor Daley. They manage to rescue Amelia, but Mordo is still able to transform the mayor into a troll. Upon their return to the present, Amelia and Rupert learn from Miss Switch's magic encyclopedia that the real power behind this diabolical plot is Saturna, meddling from afar on 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 saved by sunset.

Miss Switch rewinds the clock to bring back Amelia, then uses the additional time to mix an antidote potion. Miss Switch uses ingredients in the school science lab, with the addition of unicorn dust. Mordo kidnaps the classroom of children on his flying pirate ship. An expanded rescue mission unfolds, culminating with the troll Thaddeus drinking the antidote, transforming back into Mayor Daley, who is in fact Amelia's 300-years-removed grandfather. Angered by the turn of events, Saturna battles Mordo with magic, causing a massive cave-in that traps them both in ice. Miss Switch safely returns all the children to school, magically ensuring the other classmates forget the whole incident. When Rupert asks Miss Switch if they'll ever see her again, she and Bathsheba vanish on her broomstick, leaving behind the response "Who Knows?" on the chalkboard.

Voices

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

Home video release

Miss Switch to the Rescue was released on a VHS titled The Miss Switch Mystery Special as a double feature with The Trouble with Miss Switch by Strand VCI Entertainment in 1991. To date, it has not been released on DVD by current rightsholder Warner Home Video.[4]

See also

References
  1. Wallace, Barbara Brooks (1981). Miss Switch to the Rescue. Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0687270774.
  2. Woolery, George W. (1991). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-five Years, 1962-1987. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810821989.
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 298. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. The Miss Switch Mystery Special at WorldCat
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