Any kid who grew up with the internet, thousand channel television, and immersive video games has NO idea how rare and special shows like this were. Imagine having three, static-filled, low resolution, TV channels ... no ability to record (for most people). Like the radio, you just went about your life until the gods of entertainment decided to bless you with something cool - and you had to savor every last drop of it during the time they deemed was fitting. It was fleeting - ephemeral. Seeing a movie in a theater was like a legal version of an LSD trip. Guess I'm a curmudgeon now.

Man, old school cartoons just hit different

As a kid, there was nothing like either the ABC Afterschool Special or Weekend Special.

Wow! This takes me back. I’m 56 now having my bowl of boo berry cereal 🥣👻

Someone needs to make a collection of 70s and 80s Holiday themed tv show episodes

This used to come on every Halloween when I was a kid.. I haven't seen this in over thirty-five years 😄😄

This is when Saturday morning meant something special

One tiny inactive neuron buried deep in my brain heard that theme in the opening, woke up and started to hum along.

Ain't gonna lie, I had a huge crush on Ms. Switch when I was a kid lol

As an 70s child & 80s teenager I grew up watching abc weekend specials & after school specials I really miss fun Saturday morning programming on tv

This should be on the air for Halloween

man i feel like eating a bowl of cereal sittn on the floor in front of the tv

Man... I want to be a kid again so bad. The intro alone almost had me in tears. Thanks for the upload.

Complete with the ABC Weekend Special intro! I don't understand why stuff like this can only be found on You Tube. It'd make better Halloween programming than badly edited horror movie marathons.

I miss animation like this. Hannah- Barbera had some serious competition with Ruby-Spears.

I missed this back in '82. I've would've been 21 anyway, so I can see why, this one slipped by me. But, even at 61, I'm STILL enjoying it, and I don't have to pretend, that I'm a kid again, since this was so well done. Good old animation, without 'crappo' computer CGI. A good message for kids, also 😁👍!!!

This is something I saw during my childhood and completely forgot about until I saw it on my KZfaq feed. It’s like a memory unlocked.

R.I.P Janet waldo and June Foray you made a guy with a difficult childhood tolerable.

June Foray is a national treasure.

I love Bathsheba. Puuurrrfect companion.

Miss switch is one of those rare cartoon characters that you just watch over and over again and never grow tired of 😴.

Reliving the Childhood watching this

I haven't seen this in years!!😁👏👏 Back in the good days before Disney Corp came in.

These kids look like the kids from Magic School Bus.

Miss Switch really seems to be an uncanny likeness of Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman), LOL how ironic.....

Anyone else remember how ABC used to split this into 2 episodes? They would show the first part one weekend then never show the second part! I'd go to school on Monday and at least 2 or 3 kids would be pissed as hell. Me included.

I liked that they portrayed us as Good also ^^ this doesn't happen to often.

OMG...the opening just took me back to Saturday mornings

The teacher witches up nicely.

Wish Disney+ had these on their service.

From back when network television was better.. a almost forgotten gem.

Lol 😂 I Remember seeing this One Saturday Morning Years ago back in the 1970's I think I was in 5th or 6th Grade and here I am today 57yrs Old Running Across this.

Omgoodness I remember this show. Wow those were the days. Gen X 1965 Thanks for this 👍🏾

ThIs 54 yr old sees this and says I REMEMBER THIS

"Miss Switch to the Rescue" is also a good show🌙

Witch Hazel as an actual antagonist! Love it!

WOW! I was just thinking about this. Man this takes me back to when you couldn't wait for Saturday to get here.

This came up randomly on my feed today. First time I've seen it in probably forty years or so. The intro of this show alone brings back memories of laying in front of the TV on childhood Saturday mornings back in the early '80s. Thanks for posting this. It has great picture and sound quality, even when I watch it on my big screen TV. It looks better than it ever could then.

"We'll never get another teacher as good as you!" "Probably not." 😂 Wow! This was when we'd recently gotten ABC in town _(Schoolhouse Rocks and Happy Days!)_ along with a new tower that brought over NBC, PBS, and a UHF station from Denver _(monster movies on the weekend!)_ and we weren't limited to just CBS anymore. I remember the comput-o-witch kinda freaked me out, but not how loud that soundtrack was.

I loved Miss Switch so much as a kid! I’ve been searching for this forever. Thanks for making my day. 🖤🖤

This is some pretty intense stuff to show little kids.

26:19 -Mr. & Mrs. Rupert Peevil Brown (Rupert Brown & Amilia Daley).

Aww man. Great memories of good ole times as a kid. Thanks for posting this!!

I remember the Weekend Specials on Saturday mornings and remember see this. Great and educational classic cartoon.

I remember and love that. Intro

Brings back good childhood memories of Saturday morning cartoons!!! =)

Wow....I can remember eating a bowl of cereal, saturday morning...watching that intro alone, it seems to just take you back. :)

i think i remember watching on the ABC Weekend Special on saturday mornings

I looked for this online YEARS ago and couldn't find it. Now without even trying, it appears. Thank you, Magic of KZfaq!

I miss these times. So simple and innocent

She took students on a midnight trip to Witch Mountain without signed parental permission slips. The principals in my school district would have joined Saturna in banishing her to Witch Mountain. Movies like this set up teachers like me for so much disappointment. 😇

Nostalgia, miss it...

Fitting for Halloween. 🎃🎃🎃

Wow!!! I have not seen this ABC network Special since my elementary/grade school years, growing up in Chicago!!! Especially, considering that I just made 51 years old last month!!! I am a new subcriber, and I enjoy the content that you have on your channel!!! Keep bringing more of the old school content, it brings back special memories, especially for the Halloween season!!! Make mine Spectreman!!! Keep up the Great work!!!

Even though I'm a 2000s kid this gives me nostalgia

I couldn't help but notice that Rupert has a pretty close physical resemblance to "Velma" from the old Scooby Doo shows, including the scientific mindset.

I forgot about the show. Now it makes me feel real old

I was around 10 years old and I ❤and this show

Miss Switch was legit my ideal role model. I LIVED for these specials.

As a kid this was always one of my faves!!!!

Wow, this sure brings back memories, on Saturdays after cartoons seeing these programs.

One of my childhood favorites,and in high quality viewing.Thank you for posting!

As many have said, it was released during an age where there were few channels, and stuff like this only played once a year (unlike cable now that would replay it all October). Given that, I probably watched it at most 4 times, but it left an indelible mark. Every so often the Miss Switch music from the beginning would pop into my head for no reason, and for the longest time I couldn’t even remember what it came from! Then I remembered this program and I could remember many of the scenes as if it were yesterday. Many thanks to the poster for putting this up! Brings back great memories.

I don't remember when this came on but I remember watching it I remember I loved it too! Boy then were some good times!

I remember watching this movie when I was young . It caught my attention and I enjoyed it . This kid movie was just neat . Over my years , I had forgotten all about this movie. One day , low and behold , I came across this movie on KZfaq, I was so excited to see it all over again 😉

I love this cute short it's cute to watch it on Halloween beside anytime of the year. I like Miss Switch she's a good witch and a great Teacher too.

Soy la bruja del '71.Doña Cleotilde en El programs favorito #1.El Chavo del Ocho.

I love this old cartoon

I think this was my favorite one. I even bought the book at a school book fair.

I have been waiting for YEARS for someone to make this available! Thank you VERY much.

I grew up in the 80's and 90's. I never saw this show. I grew up mostly watching Transformers, Voltron, GI Joe, Thundercats, He-Man, and The Real Ghostbusters.

Grew up on this. Peace ✌️

Saturna is voiced by the same actress who voiced the witch in a Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom was riding a witch's broom without permission. Then she gave him a 'real' ride just before he woke up from his nightmare.

Remember this,love the old Halloween cartoon specials.

there is like no room for that guinea pig and that turtle has no substrate....

It's so nice seeing media that depicts the good AND bad sides of witchcraft (Even if it's stylized). especially back in the early 80's when witchcraft and occultism still had a negative stigma around it as far as the general populous was concerned. Miss Switch genuinely cares for the children and despite having her own problems, she continues to worry about their well-being. Whereas Saturna is selfish and vindictive, she doesn't care about anyone but herself, not even other witches. it's a clear view of the two diametrically opposed ideas of witches at the time, Wicked and sneaky, or Enlightened and misunderstood.

I completely FORGOT about this cartoon! Brings back nice memories of Saturday mornings watching cartoons like this and much more! I'd like to get this on DVD some day.

Oh wow. I remember watching this, though my memory is limited. I saw it as a toddler. I hadn't started school yet so I got the idea that school teachers were witches in disguise. What's even funnier is that at the time I was unaware that my mother was getting her teaching degree. 😂

Loved the return of the voice actress for Bugs Bunny's Witch Hazel as Saturna... I kept waiting for her to jump up, click her heels together while shedding a few bobby pins...

Ohhh my god I remember watching this. Oh lord I'm so old now having seen it when it premiered. But still enjoyed it and watched it again.

I’m glad this popped up in my search. I love Miss Switch and it was great getting to watch it again after all these years. Thanks

I remember watching this as a kid when it premiered. Definitely one of my all time favorite ♥

that intro is so beautiful too bad they don't make intros like this no more i wan't born yet to see this didn't know miss switch is beautiful there something special about these classics

Saturna just wanted Switch to adopt the paradigm shift towards more progressive core competencies within the organization's infrastructure. But through her over-reliance on technology, she lost the human element and her dynamic ideation resulted in deleterious micro-management. That and she used poisonous crimson mist on her employees - a corporate practice that went out in the 1630s.

I remember watching this as a kid! I even had a black cat named Sheba, after the cat in the cartoon of course.

90s kid grown up, found this. A cute, classic little movie with still familiar sounding voices. Saturnia is a classic witch voice. I was half expecting the boy to point out that her witches brew is not unlike a recipe, and is likely repeatable, like science. But this is a classical type cartoon and it was more cute than that, and I can appreciate that too. Overall a charming special. These times produced a lot of those kinds of things.

I saw this one when it first aired. I loved it so much that the following Saturday, I bought the book and read it in less than a day. It is so great to see it again. However, for some reason, I can't seem to get into the sequel "Miss Switch To The Rescue". Thank you for posting the original here. The audio and visual qualities are excellent.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I haven't seen this since the 80s! Love you😍😘

Ah, my childhood!

Thank you thank you thank you! I saw this when it aired on television. I loved it so much I bought the book and when this reappeared I recorded the audio on my cassette player. (No VCR in those days.) I would listen to it over and over. I could never find this on DVD. Where on Earth did you get it?

A cartoon that I had forgotten was brought back to my memory today. As I was delighted by the opening credits music and all, what got me most was the scene of a cloud passing by the moon. I had just witnessed this in real time minutes before. I was intrigued by it, telling myself, surely this isn't the first time I have seen this in all my 47 years, but it felt like the first time. Although I didn't actually watch the cartoon, I allowed it to play as i read the comments. Shout out to the one who took the time to open the doors to Christ, twice! After I'd had my fill of reading, I began to actually watch, and the part that was on was when the boy was telling the computer witch the truth and it crashed. So as my brain was figuring the message i heard miss switch say, a witch is a witch is a witch. I must return to that side of my nature. good teachers like me are hard to find. remember even more important than a good teacher is a good student. Get involved, be curious, let your imagination soar, the best teacher in the world can't help unless you want to learn. I thought to myself what a great message. I agree. When the girl asked if they would ever see her again. and she said, PERHAPS SOME NIGHT YOU MAY LOOK UP AND SEE a SMALL CLOUD DRIFT ACROSS the MOON. I got goosebumps. Seriously, I know God is real. Jesus Christ ❤

Like it was yesterday. Lol love it.

Loved this show as a kid

I remember this. Miss Switch made a hot witch. I have not seen this since 1979. Thanks for the post...

I had forgotten about this...but I was immediately transported back. Thanks for posting 💛

Thank you so much. This show on the ABC Weekend Special defined Halloween for me as a kid in the 1980's. I remembered the show all these years (Miss Switch was so stylish and elegant! Who could forget that?) and I appreciate you posting this.

classic 80s

One of my favourites from the ABC Weekend Specials

I watched this when i was a kid. Thank you for sharing this video.

I had the book & vaguely remember seeing (& loving) this. As an adult, you notice different things. Boy, someone was apprehensive about technology!