{"id":8636,"date":"2019-10-09T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2019-10-06T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T01:08:05","slug":"the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-5-episode-36-the-bewitchin-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/09\/the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-5-episode-36-the-bewitchin-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twilight Zone \u2013 Complete Series Review \u2013 Season 5 Episode 36 \u2013 The Bewitchin’ Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sport and Jeb are the young children of Gil and Gloria Sharewood.\u00a0 They live on a beautiful estate with a big house and a large in ground swimming pool.\u00a0 But their prosperous parents dislike each other intensely and bicker constantly.\u00a0 One day while their parents are fighting the children see a little boy with a Huckleberry Finn straw hat on his head appear in the swimming pool and tells them to follow him.<\/p>\n

They swim down into the pool and end up somehow coming out into a swimming hole where they see a country cottage surrounded by a swarm of children playing happily together.\u00a0 The boy they followed Whitt introduces them to Aunt T, an old lady who takes care of the children.\u00a0 She gives them chores and acts as a loving grandmother to them.\u00a0 She gets Sport and Jeb to frost a cake she\u2019s making for the children and they are really happy to be in a happy love-filled environment.\u00a0 But then Sport hears her mother worriedly calling to them and she tells Aunt T they have to back to their home because they and their parents love each other.\u00a0 Aunt T agrees that a loving home is the best place for children.\u00a0 They swim back into the pool and their parents are very angry with them for disappearing and punish them by sending them to bed without supper.<\/p>\n

The next morning Sport is painting outside when her mother wants her to get her brother who has disappeared.\u00a0 She says she has a big announcement and there won\u2019t be any more fighting in the house.\u00a0 Sport goes into the pool and finds her way back to Aunt T\u2019s house where Jeb is happily helping out.\u00a0 Sport tells Jeb that they have to go back and that things were going to be better without any more fighting.<\/p>\n

When Jeb and Sport get back their parents tell them they\u2019re getting divorced and the kids will have to pick who they want to live with.\u00a0 Jeb and sport run back to the pool and their parents chase them and tell them to get out of the pool.\u00a0 When they don\u2019t resurface their father jumps in.\u00a0 When he comes back up, he tells his wife that they aren\u2019t in the pool.\u00a0 She becomes hysterical crying for them to come back.<\/p>\n

Jeb and Sport are happily frosting cakes with Aunt T when suddenly Sport hears her mother\u2019s voice calling for them.\u00a0 But she ignores it and they go back to their happy life at Aunt T\u2019s.<\/p>\n

This was the last episode to be televised in the Twilight Zone series.\u00a0 Because of this, some technical problems they had with sound on the outdoors segments of the show caused major issues.\u00a0 The actress who played Sport was not available to re-dub the sound and so a voice actress, June Foray had to be used to voice over Sport\u2019s lines.\u00a0 Foray was the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series and her voice is noticeably different from the actress who played Sport.\u00a0 This change is actually quite jarring for the listener.<\/p>\n

Another incidental note for this episode has to do with the actress who played Sport (Mary Badham).\u00a0 In this episode the sister and brother are named Sport and Jeb.\u00a0 In a well-known movie that Mary had recently been in (To Kill a Mockingbird) the character she played was a sister named Scout with a brother named Jem.\u00a0 A coincidence?\u00a0 I think not!<\/p>\n

This fantasy episode is addressing the topical problem of an increased divorce rate in America at the time.\u00a0 Of course, compared to today it was an idyllic era for family life but modernity was already taking its toll on the sanctity of marriage and the family.\u00a0 I see what Serling was saying in this episode and it is admirable.\u00a0 Dramatically the story is simple but effective.\u00a0 Even counting in the technical problems with the voice over I\u2019ll call this a B+.<\/p>\n

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