The Trouble with Miss Switch
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The Trouble with Miss Switch is an animated television special based on a children's book by Barbara Brooks Wallace
.
The story centers on two students, Rupert and Amelia, who find out that their substitute teacher is a witch. When she is around animals they possess the ability to talk. This also extends to Miss Switch's magical cat, Bathsheba. The children learn that Miss Switch's coven of witches has come under the control of Saturna (June Foray
), an evil witch who is out to destroy Miss Switch. Miss Switch asks for their help to stop her.
Both the cartoon and the book were followed by Miss Switch to the Rescue, in which Miss Switch and children get sent back into time by an evil Warlock. Miss Switch was voiced by veteran voice actress, Janet Waldo
.
The film premiered in 1980 and was broadcast numerous times on ABC
as an episode of the ABC Weekend Special
.
Barbara Brooks Wallace
Barbara Brooks Wallace is an award-winning American children's writer, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor .Wallace was born and spent her childhood in...
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The story centers on two students, Rupert and Amelia, who find out that their substitute teacher is a witch. When she is around animals they possess the ability to talk. This also extends to Miss Switch's magical cat, Bathsheba. The children learn that Miss Switch's coven of witches has come under the control of Saturna (June Foray
June Foray
June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
), an evil witch who is out to destroy Miss Switch. Miss Switch asks for their help to stop her.
Both the cartoon and the book were followed by Miss Switch to the Rescue, in which Miss Switch and children get sent back into time by an evil Warlock. Miss Switch was voiced by veteran voice actress, Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. She is best known in animation for voicing Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats...
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The film premiered in 1980 and was broadcast numerous times on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
as an episode of the ABC Weekend Special
ABC Weekend Special
The ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated....
.