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Just a Kid Again

posted 5 years ago by CoriSCapnSkip (1562)
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One of my favorite episodes, and very good companion viewing to the Twilight Zone episode "Young Man's Fancy."

I've been watching the series on Logo and may have hallucinated a scene. This https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=bewitched-1964&episode=s06e23 purports to give an entire transcript of the episode. Logo did cut a scene, in which Irving, transformed by Tabitha from a 32-year-old salesman into a 9-year-old boy, is pulled over by a cop while driving and rescued by an old man who drops him at the Stephens'. The scene I remember, however, is Irving picking up a phone and saying, "Hello, Mom? Dad? How would you like raising me all over again?" This is neither in what Logo showed or this transcript! Is it a real scene from this program, and if not, is it from some other show with a similar situation? Thanks.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 5 years ago

Irving never talks to this parents in the uncut episode. I've been watching for 40-plus years, more than twenty
uncut. The line you're referencing does not exist. It IS possible it was in an earlier draft of the script, or
perhaps it was filmed, then cut when the show was trimmed for broadcast (sometimes a line would be shown
in an upcoming promo that did not make the final cut).

I don't see any similarity between this ep and TZ's "Young Man's Fancy." Totally different genres (sitcom/sci-fi),
emotions and plots. Both are strong episodes, though.

The kid who played "Irving" is just terrific.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (1562) 5 years ago

How about the scene in the transcript, in which Irving says his parents live "that way" in Ohio?

Is it ever stated anywhere in the series where the Stephens live?

Yes, Richard Powell was terrific, very mature, and unbelievable that he was just seven years old and not the nine he was playing when that episode was filmed.

The resemblance between "Just a Kid Again" and "Young Man's Fancy" is that both are about an adult wishing himself back into a kid, but the tone is quite different.

I wonder where I heard that one about raising me all over again. Sometimes I remember something I wouldn't have imagined, but misremember the source.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 5 years ago

This Richard Powell was 11 year old, I believe, NOT 7. The problem lies in that there are two different Richard Powells.
Not quite sure how that mix-up came about, but the two are often confused.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (1562) 5 years ago

The one I looked up, who had a middle initial perhaps to distinguish him from the other, was supposedly born in 1962 and the show was filmed in 1970. I would hate to give credit to the wrong person for another actor's performance.

[–] [email protected] (5497) 5 years ago

The actor who plays the wisecracking "little" Irving is really funny. He does a great job of acting like an adult.

I like when he spots his girlfriend and yells, "Hey Ruthie, it's me!"

I don't see a similarity with "Young Man's Fancy" either. The man in the TZ episode clearly wanted to remain a child. Irving had a big change of heart when he realized that he'd be giving up Ruthie.