"Ironside" Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Murder (1972)
Director:Christian I. Nyby II
Writers:Sy Salkowitz (writer)
Collier Young (creator)
TV Series:"Ironside" (1967)
Original Air Date:3 February 1972 (Season 5, Episode 21)
Genre:Crime | Drama |
Cast (Episode Credited cast)
Raymond Burr ... Robert T. Ironside
Don Galloway ... Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Don Mitchell ... Mark Sanger
Elizabeth Baur ... Fran Belding
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul Carr ... Gerald Barker
Jodie Foster ... Pip Barker
This episode marks the only known instance in which future Oscar-winner Jodie Foster shared screen time (after a fashion) with Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling!. The ten-year-old Foster is cast as Pip Baker, the daughter of Chief Ironside's friends Gerald and Carol Barker (Paul Carr, Anne Whitfield). Morbidly fascinated with witchcraft and the occult, little Pip is convinced that she has cast a spell upon her parents' nasty landlord, causing the man's death. Later on, however, the police arrest a mentally challenged adult named Billy (Lee Paul) for the murder. Certain that neither Pip nor Billy is the guilty party, Ironside launches his own investigation, which at one point brings him in contact with a certain Mr. Thyros (Serling!), the black-clad owner of a "Witches'" store. ~ Hal Erickson,