WANTED: SCENE OF THE CRIME (1984) TV Episode Entitled “The Babysitter”

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Hello All-

I have been looking for an episode from the 1984 NBC short-lived television series SCENE OF THE CRIME hosted by Orson Welles. The episode is called “The Babysitter” and it featured Angela Lansbury, Anne Lockhart, Robert Pierce, Priscilla Weems, and Isabelle Walker. This is my recollection of it: it begins out when a young girl named Karen (Isabelle Walker) gets a music box from her parents (Anne Lockhart and Robert Pierce) for her birthday. On top of the music box is a figuring of a magician. This box will grant her one wish.

Karen has a mean babysitter (Priscilla Weems) who comes to her house while her parents go out. She is really mean to Karen: she taunts her, turns the lights out to scare her, and shouts her name through the vents. Karen runs to her room and holds the music box, making a wish that the babysitter will go away. The babysitter looks through the house to find Karen, knowing that she is hiding from her. The babysitter opens the closet and a real-life, adult-sized magician jumps out, stabbing her with the knife from Karen’s birthday cake.

This is the IMDB listing for it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0695571/fullcredits#cast

There are some Youtube messages about it, too, and one person said they might have it on Betamax. I wrote to them but they didn’t respond.

Does anyone have this on VHS or burned to a DVD? MCA Home Video released a 90-minute compilation of this series on VHS in 1986, but this episode was not on it. These are the Youtube links to clips from the 1986 VHS copy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C9Gj8MyH2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKBDjBfKs3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYybyQ05sLQ

If you do have or know where I can get it, please email me at “finabla1789” followed by “@” sign followed by “yahoo.com”

Thank you very much,
Todd

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I've been looking for this episode too, forever. Let me know if you ever find it/get it.

-Kelley (clut...@hotmail.com)