Thirty-plus years since I last saw this program.
I always believed it was Bea Benaderet from "Burns and Allen" and "Petticoat Junction" who played this part.
Upon going online, I searched her name, and found nothing.
Didn't know if it was Twilight Zone, Hitchcock or something else.
Then finally I was given Ms. Leighton's name, the name of the program from Hitchcock and even sent to a site with her picture.
Sure enough, she bore a resemblance to Bea Benaderet.
Have to rethink all those memories.
Yet I do remember this truly frightening and utterly bizarre, yet very ground-breaking story.
It seems there is more than what I and my siblings recall.
A small girl goes to her aunt's to live. The little girl says someone named Mr. Peppercorn (I got that name from another site) was doing all the mischievous things.
Now this little girl had a black doll; African American doll, if you will. I've also read on another site that the doll was voodoo in origin it seems. Someone had given it to the girl as a gift.
In one scene, the doll is put up on the piano as punishment for the little girl, and the piano starts playing by itself.
I guess this was Mr. Peppercorn doing this.
At the end, the woman goes looking for the little girl. She hears laughter in the woods.
We briefly glimpse (can you believe I remember this after three decades?) the little white girl leaping toward an object.
The woman finds a little black girl there.
"So!" she says. "Youre the one causing all this trouble and being a bad influence!" She takes a switch to the little black girl, who runs away without saying a word.
The woman then goes back to the box that had the doll in it.
The doll is there, but it is no longer black.
The doll is white.
The little girl has traded places with the doll. Now the doll is alive and the little girl is the doll.
The woman runs after the little girl, screaming, pleading for her to come back, but to no avail.
She falls to the ground, clutching the doll, and sobbing.
Worth noting; the line "where the woodbine twineth" is uttered in the 1930s Lionel Barrymore film "On Borrowed Time" about the old man who catches death (Cedric Hardwicke) in a tree.
Mr. Brink (Hardwicke) would take people away by saying they were going 'where the woodbine twineth'.
I always believed it was Bea Benaderet from "Burns and Allen" and "Petticoat Junction" who played this part.
Upon going online, I searched her name, and found nothing.
Didn't know if it was Twilight Zone, Hitchcock or something else.
Then finally I was given Ms. Leighton's name, the name of the program from Hitchcock and even sent to a site with her picture.
Sure enough, she bore a resemblance to Bea Benaderet.
Have to rethink all those memories.
Yet I do remember this truly frightening and utterly bizarre, yet very ground-breaking story.
It seems there is more than what I and my siblings recall.
A small girl goes to her aunt's to live. The little girl says someone named Mr. Peppercorn (I got that name from another site) was doing all the mischievous things.
Now this little girl had a black doll; African American doll, if you will. I've also read on another site that the doll was voodoo in origin it seems. Someone had given it to the girl as a gift.
In one scene, the doll is put up on the piano as punishment for the little girl, and the piano starts playing by itself.
I guess this was Mr. Peppercorn doing this.
At the end, the woman goes looking for the little girl. She hears laughter in the woods.
We briefly glimpse (can you believe I remember this after three decades?) the little white girl leaping toward an object.
The woman finds a little black girl there.
"So!" she says. "Youre the one causing all this trouble and being a bad influence!" She takes a switch to the little black girl, who runs away without saying a word.
The woman then goes back to the box that had the doll in it.
The doll is there, but it is no longer black.
The doll is white.
The little girl has traded places with the doll. Now the doll is alive and the little girl is the doll.
The woman runs after the little girl, screaming, pleading for her to come back, but to no avail.
She falls to the ground, clutching the doll, and sobbing.
Worth noting; the line "where the woodbine twineth" is uttered in the 1930s Lionel Barrymore film "On Borrowed Time" about the old man who catches death (Cedric Hardwicke) in a tree.
Mr. Brink (Hardwicke) would take people away by saying they were going 'where the woodbine twineth'.