One Step Beyond (TV-1959) MAKE ME NOT A WITCH S2E14

Mind-bending series hosted by John Newland, your guide to the unknown! Based on true, supernatural events that defy scientific explanation, this show appeals to fans of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
MAKE ME NOT A WITCH: A young girl living on a farm acquires the ability to read people's minds. Her gift proves instrumental in the rescue of two children. Co-stars Patty "Bad Seed" McCormack the youngest actress every to be nominated for an Academy Award!

[@creigcoogan5363]

That was some insanely fine acting from Patty McCormack!

[@MoosyMcCow]

LOVE her in "The Bad Seed"! That movie fascinated and freaked me out at the same time. One of the best movies of all times. What a gem she is!

[@Bacallz]

MoosyMcCow The book the movie is based on is even better. I couldn’t put it down.

[@julzofthenile]

For swizzle

[@preciousgems6361]

Father God blesses all his children with gifts That does not mean shes a witch She is gifted

[@rem2267]

Robert Emhardt as the priest! He's one of my favorite character actors. Great in any and every role. So glad to see him here!

[@kenbritton6782]

I recall him as the uptight, impatient business man stuck in Mayberry because his car had to be repaired by Gomer Pyle.

[@Theywaswrong]

@@kenbritton6782 Do it, do it! Go take a nap...Go to Thelma Lou's, Go watch some TV.....JUST DO IT..DO IT.

[@Theywaswrong]

He also appeared later as the owner of a furniture polish company owner who hires Aunt Bee to do a TV commercial.

[@kenbritton6782]

@@Theywaswrong That's the guy . Barnie: "Alright ,alright! Jeez, what's the big hurry anyway ?" Great show!

[@sheiladavis6523]

Allison Halpinnn Robert Emhardt had played the 1st Mackenzie Corey on the soap opera Another World in the mid 1960's December 16,2020

[@RedArrowTinker]

How nice to see a TV episode where the priest was a kindly, soft-spoken, devout character and not the creepy villain.

[@kormsby12]

The "Ma" in this one is Aileen Ryan, Sean Penn's mom. And "Pa" is Leo Penn, his dad. If you look closely, you can see Sean in both of them.

[@TheLovliestbrown]

Just a little trivia: Emmy's mother and father were played by Sean Penn's real-life mom and dad, Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan.

[@karlynnelangerak4549]

Cool

[@sonnyroy497]

He looks more like the mom.

[@yodservant]

Interesting....thank you for that info🦁🎄❄️

[@sandiwebb3706]

Thank you for sharing. I love trivia!

[@omennemo8844]

I googled this show and Wikipedia has an article on it and supposedly some of the stories may be true and some are just legends.

[@SuperIliad]

“Make Me Not a Witch,” Season 2, Episode 14, aired 22 December 1959. John Newland as Himself-Host, Patty McCormack as Emmy Horvath, Robert Emhardt, Priest, Eileen Ryan as Mrs. Horvath, Leo Penn as Jed Horvath, Deena Goldstone (as Deena Gerard) as Jill Riley, Jimmy Baird as Captain Riley's Son, William Greene as Captain Riley, Pedro Regas as Juan Orriba, Preston Hanson, the Doctor, Charlott Knight as the Housekeeper.

[@hortondlfn1994]

The Bad Seed turns out to be good, after all!

[@paulocraice]

My family came to Brazil late 60s from Hungary. As soon as they hit they started to listening some weird stories. Very spooky. The Ukranian witch girl was one of the stories. Exactly Emmys legend. My grandma used to avoid that family.

[@mannyj4751]

The Lord Works in mysterious ways 🙏...

[@Lolabelle59]

Especially love it when there's a (spoiler alert) happy ending.

[@leeclark4495]

In my old neighborhood of many ethnic immigrant families, I had several childhood friends who immigrated from Europe, who could understand a language but not speak it.

[@lisapratt166]

Lee Clark I’m the same way.

[@vickikay54]

My husband was raised in a German speaking household. He is now 65 and understands German, but cannot speak it.

[@Apollo_Mint]

That girl’s got eyebrows like a Soviet General Secretary

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." Tennessee Williams

[@patriciahayes7315]

What a lovely story! :D

[@VLM123]

The awesome Patty McCormack!

[@mapleleaf0]

It's not unusual for someone to be able to understand some of a language but not be able to speak it. I'm not surprised the fisherman could only think in Spanish after a stroke but could still understand some English. There's a huge difference between expressive and receptive language, and a stroke can really highlight that difference.

[@msbrowngault]

I agree

[@cherylbowker3717]

I met Pattie McCormick in So Bend,In. For the premiere of the Snow Queen 🎥. She is very nice &I got her autograph

[@danae5578]

Loll "Tell me that I'm thinking! Com'on!" "Now SHUT UP!" LOL I'm like make up your mind.

[@torridd]

"She can't even read what's in them books!" LOL!

[@msbrowngault]

😅😂😂😂😂😂

[@hammadoolass]

LOVE JOHN NEWLAND

[@Lyrielonwind]

Great ending. I was expecting she would be taken away. Cool!

[@realitycheck3363]

Damn, that was one long tide.

[@justgreen4298]

about 25 minutes long

[@thraciangrapes]

It's the bratty girl from The Bad Seed!

[@subelildirty491]

Great episode. Patty McCormack is💯 "Greatness" Now I'll give you guys a real present and fun fact. 🎁🎀 The parents married in real life. They had two sons. Chris and SEAN Penn. 👍

[@daringmore6892]

Thats Old Hollywood, how interesting. How fun to meet your husband on an acting gig.

[@narvelancoleman3813]

Patti McCormack from "The Bad Seed."

[@qhsperson]

Yes.

[@perennialbeachcomber.7518]

McCormack's portrayal of "Rhoda Penmark, the bad seed," is unforgettable.

[@aplicqu8761]

Not even speaking in the dialect of her mother. Crisp midwestern compared with the Kentuckian accent of the parent. Terrible direction, acting or both. And the girl is clearly about 15, not 12.

[@kenbritton6782]

@@aplicqu8761 My.. such intelligence . It was actually a successful TV show , not a documentary. Petty critiques from the armchair master of film. I chuckle.... Sorry...

[@yvonnespearing]

yes she grown into a crazier gal,,lol

[@CaptZdq1]

Amazing. Someone or something gave her those powere so 2 children could be saved. We don't know who or what, but if only these things could happen more often.

[@daringmore6892]

Do people listen? The US Police Fire Medics FBI are doing all human trafficking in USA plan fake mass shootings blame youth for these horrific faked violence by kids frauds on all USA intelligence to steal the people lied dead and actual vids made showing running idiots in uniforms people believing this would be way to handle emergency call of school shootout. You notice PD Refuse bodycams for work, but shootout OH WE USE THEM...trying to prove fake is real to gullible people want to believe kids shoot kids. THEY DO NOT. THESE ARE VERY EVIL MINDED SLAVETRADERS PD RICH STARS PIZZAGATE GOV OF OUR KIDS AND ANY OF US. MILLIONS ARE TAKEN.

[@RSEFX]

I suspect that Robert Emhardt was pleased to play a decent character on film as opposed to the often villainous roles he generally was cast in. He made a great villain, but...comes a time when it is seems smart on the part of producers and directors to cast against type. One thing that didn't quite work in this episode----a result of the tiny budgets under which shows such as this were shot---is the obvious on-stage tiny "island" on which the two kids are stuck. Should've been dubbed, to eliminate the blatant echo in the voices, a dead giveaway that this was shot on an indoor tank in an echoing room instead of outdoors. (Plus the fog didn't quite disguise the back of the tank.) The dramatic conflicts in this story are quite unique, and highlight the kind of fresh, out-of-the ordinary drama and enterainment that can be explored in taking on paranormal-based material (whether one believes this sort of thing to be true or merely misunderstood and/or misreported everyday phenomena).

[@ingerrogers3146]

I loved this one.

[@tracytovey9471]

The blonde-headed girl was in a movie called The Bad Seed she played a great role in that movie

[@robinson01902]

Yes Tracy Tovey. I remember that film. Just to let you know. The blond girl's name is Patty McCormack.

[@Sameoldfitup]

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." Oscar Wilde.

[@alwayswondering4051]

Given to literature. Beautiful.

[@dawnfinch8232]

Beautiful

[@archiearchiball3392]

death is beauty no pain or sorrow

[@charliemorris2338]

Yes,the resolution of opposites peace until one reincarnates and takes another body.

[@SuperIliad]

Be wary of pretty phrases.

[@sallykohorst8803]

What a story crazy but scary to read minds.

[@alanwilson2073]

After the mother's reaction, the girl should'a shut her mouth about all that stuff and never said another word about it to anybody, especially her hillbilly hick parents. She needed to get the hell outta that house asap. Just be obedient and start plannin' on gettin' the hell outta there and never look back. Her parents did not even love or respect her. So what that they bore you into this world, all I saw was arrogance, stupidity and hate in her parents. How many millions of kids and young people are going through the same thing right now?!?! Leave and don't look back. Don't even call them or tell them anything, just go as soon as you can. The way things turned out anyway, I should'a never made contact with my family or my parents after I left home. Face reality and just move on with your own life, you just focus on you and only you, leave them to their own devices. Just work on building your own life and your own estate, never mind them. It disturbed me to hear the hate coming from her parents voices and words.

[@calliehendricks9188]

Love these old shows👍😎

[@hammadoolass]

That's one hell of a set of eyebrows on Emmy

[@richardhincemon9423]

They just don't make them like that anymore!!!♥️

[@laserus3333]

A Friend of mine was cleaning her apartment and had the vacuume running. I was waiting for her to finish and shut off the vacuum cleaner to ask her something. Then she turned it off and answered my question before I asked it. I was like..."Wthell? I didn't ask you yet and you answered what I was about to ask!" She just looked at me all casually and said "Oh I'm sorry about that, it happens sometimes if I'm not... paying attention"

[@joelee662]

What if it was true if it was the 1600 they would think she was a witch. People are afraid of aliens isn't it true they walk among us. Thank you for the movie 👍🇺🇸

[@covetprice]

We don't exist

[@nunyabizness199]

Hmmm, Emmy could tell what her father was thinking from inside the house, why does she have to go into the hospital to know what the old fella was thinking...

[@daringmore6892]

Hes a stranger and speaks Spanish, how can she picture someone she never met?

[@pattytanur3321]

Great program and acting 🎭

[@bonniebester606]

I used to have a cat named Emmi! Make me not a witch! I'm scared!

[@godisking7741]

AMEN ✝️🛐 God is good!!

[@orchidlilly7518]

Thank-you Pizzaflix*

[@fanaticforager6610]

Normal is just plain subjecti✌🏼🕉✨🦋

[@jprz13]

That’s before Vatican II

[@conniecrawford5231]

Patti is playing a 12 year old here, but looks much older.

[@Jeni10]

Connie Crawford She was 14 during filming.

[@moondoll787]

If fear and narrow mindedness were parents.

[@taraajll5755]

Yes it is strength

[@jagdishacharya1438]

I thinks the witch frame was made of wicks of f vicara of those day John newlans. God' bless the list souls. From India🇮🇳

[@RR-on4sk]

It's interesting that they had the doctor call talking/ emotion 12:30 a "power", implying that what is humans already do is a power, so why wouldn't another form of communication be a human power too?

[@cedricburns910]

What trips me out about people in theses shows is why is they getting more mad than the person that the situation actually happening too. It's seems if they mother detach from reality and from anything outside that from because her personal self ain't amount too shit but a ole plain house wife. She too lame and just don't have no expectations but farm life that she can't see her daughter got a Gift!

[@theexisting1197]

12 years old 😞 she looks about 24

[@Jeni10]

One4utwo She was 14 during filming.

[@theexisting1197]

@@Jeni10 oh she really was thanks I'm not good with verification of age good to get great information 👍

[@Jeni10]

One4utwo Movies and TV rarely use age as a criterion, they go by ability and appearance. I don't know if you watched Heartland, but the grandfather and his son-in-law are only a couple of years apart in real life. It happens like that all the time. That's why they kept Shirley Temple in short dresses for so many years, to keep her cute little girl appearance which was so popular.

[@theexisting1197]

@@Jeni10 interesting knowledge you have on appearance,, Yes I've watched heartland LoL would have never thought they was that close in age..

[@Jeni10]

One4utwo yeah, Shaun Johnson was born in 1958 and Chris Potter in 1960.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

black and white is easier on the eyes

[@valtito9297]

scared or just plain stupid? no more powers no more rescue miracles!

[@angiebirdsall5132]

Creepy priest..

[@RedArrowTinker]

Sorry, but I disagree. I thought his character was gentle and kindly.

[@grooveythoughts]

he speak Spanish but can understand English wow

[@mapleleaf0]

Not unusual

[@lamonthamilton667]

Happens all the time..

[@Maysoon3121]

Those ignorants

[@debturcott6800]

Sure seems to be a very angry household. Even before the mind reading.

[@aodhmacraynall8932]

Gott dam all theze mutthafukkahs need some Zanax everbody so f**ing intense all the time.

[@covetprice]

Stories.. just stories.

[@kellyyork3898]

It’s hard to believe that the awful treatment of women and girls was so bad.

[@aodhmacraynall8932]

14:44 Who in the f**k are you?

[@lionhartd138]

Rule 1. when you've discovered your witch powers, DO NOT tell the nearest christian nutcase/authority figure.

[@terranbishop5549]

The priest must not know Leviticus 19:31, 20:6, Deuteronomy 18:9-14, and the story of the slave girl in Acts 16:16-24. These gifts are not from God.

[@barbarachipman9436]

don't trust him. people are vicious.

[@geoffreygoodyear3746]

It's hard to watch with the American girl screaming all the way threw it :0

[@conniecrawford5231]

shoplifting began in ancient phoenicia “ through”, not “ threw”

[@monkeynumbernine]

She was not actually screaming all the way through it. Have you seen any modern movies?

[@aplicqu8761]

Newland even resued introductions. This didn't occur with Serling. Cut rate, poorly written Twilight Zones. Has some good actors. Just not as good. Likely due to this reliance on reported "supernatural facts," none of which can be proven. This is the weakness of the series. Fiction with a sprinkling of the unproven facts would've worked better.

[@stephaniealexander3314]

A Plicqu I don’t agree with with you , as these stories, if you do a little research, were kept as closely to the ACTUAL EVENTS as possible, so maybe it’s not as smooth as “ Twilight Zone” but....its NOT a competition...the show stands amazing all on its own and its an incredible show about Psychic Phenomenon!👍❤️🕊✨

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

Very well said, thank you!