I love watching old TV shows from my childhood. They bring back memories when life, while not really better for many, was definitely much simpler as a child. This is the show that I have had vague memories of for decades that, like many other reviewers, left an indelible impression on me as a young child. I specifically remembered the story of a young blonde girl who had a life-sized black doll that, through circumstances I didn't quite remember, ended with the doll coming to life and the child becoming the doll. Because I was only 5 or 6 years old when I saw it, I didn't have a clue whether the memory was from a movie or from one of the creepy shows on air at that time, such as Outer Limits or The Alfred Hitchcock show. Then, today I was watching an old episode of one of my all-time favorite childhood shows, The Big Valley, in which the young blonde actress appeared and was so familiar to me that I looked her up on the internet. Lo and behold, I discovered a picture of her with a life-sized black doll and I realized that after over 50 years of wondering, I had finally found what I had spent decades wondering about! I found the episode on YouTube and watched it, and now I know why I have remembered it all these years later. I am sure that as a young African-American child myself, I didn't fully understand the meaning behind the story. I was too young to really understand Intolerance and racism that ran rampant back then (and has made a resurgence in recent years), but it is obvious that even as a young child, the story and the message behind it resonated with me on some level, and I am so glad this little mystery in my life has finally been solved!
Review of Where the Woodbine Twineth
