The Bad Seed
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Paul Wendkos
Richard Kiley
Christa Denton
Carol Locatell
David Ogden Stiers
Lynn Redgrave
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Synopsis
This television remake of the 1954 Broadway stage hit and subsequent film two years later of Maxwell Anderson's play adapted from William March's tidy little horror novel (both starred Nancy Kelly as the horrified mother and Patty McCormack as the precious young daughter she discovers to be a murderer) emerged an equally frightening contemporary thriller. Blair Brown and nine-year-old Carrie Wells assumed the starring roles, Richard Kiley (in a sex-switched part) had the role taken in both the play and earlier film by Eileen Heckart as the parent of the schoolmate drowned by the "angelic" young girl, and David Carradine (in the old Henry Jones role) is the local dimwit handyman unlucky enough to see through the youngster's sunny disposition. Cinematographer Ted Voightlander won an Emmy Award nomination for his contribution.
Director
Paul Wendkos
Cast
Richard Kiley
Christa Denton
Carol Locatell
David Ogden Stiers
Lynn Redgrave
Sarah Fairfax
Blair Brown
Katharine Tobin
Anne Haney
Eve Smith
David Carradine
Carrie Wells
Chad Allen
Weldon Bleiler
Crew
Maxwell Anderson
Darryl Athons
Len Bram
Paul Chihara
Steven Cohen
George Eckstein
George Eckstein
Nora Morgan Eckstein
Robert E. Engelman
Barbara J Guedel
Jimmie Herron
Fredric P Hope
Clark King
Karin Lavine
Norman T Leavitt
William March
Eugene Marks
Sue Moore
Marjorie Mullen
Travis Nixon
Maria Padilla
Lorin B Salob
Del Ree Todd
Ted Voigtlander
Dianne Young
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Aired in United States February 7, 1985
