Beyond Witch Mountain (1982) is the second sequel to the 1975 Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain. Although Eddie Albert returned to play Jason O'Day from the original 1975 movie, the parts of Tony and Tia were recast with actors comparable only in age to Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards when they first played the parts; the parts of Aristotle Bolt, Lucas Deranian and Uncle Bené were also recast.
It was originally intended to be the pilot for a te...
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Beyond Witch Mountain (1982) is the second sequel to the 1975 Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain. Although Eddie Albert returned to play Jason O'Day from the original 1975 movie, the parts of Tony and Tia were recast with actors comparable only in age to Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards when they first played the parts; the parts of Aristotle Bolt, Lucas Deranian and Uncle Bené were also recast.
It was originally intended to be the pilot for a television series, but no networks thought that viewers would take the show seriously, and so a second episode was never made.
The film is rarely shown on the Disney Channel or any other station, and has never been released on home video.
The film also contradicts the 1978 sequel Return to Witch Mountain because in that film, Tia and Tony are of teenage years, because Uncle Bene is still alive, and because in both of the original movies, Tony had to answer Tia verbally. He didn't have the power to talk through his mind. In Beyond Witch Mountain,...
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