The last and hardly the best of the original episodes. Earl Hamner wrote a number of excellent folksy TZ episodes, but this one reeks of formula. I was always troubled by this episode. Do these children really want to spend the rest of their lives with that creepy Aunt T? Is cake every day better than life in the real world? Do the children never want to see their parents again, divorced or otherwise? Did the parents report the children to the authorities as missing? Would they be thrown in jail under suspicion of some unspeakable crime? Why do the children have such thick southern drawls when their parents have no accents at all? June Foray's obvious overdubbing of Mary Badham's voice adds to the creepiness. Shudder.
Review of The Bewitchin' Pool
