Big John, Little John

The show centers around a forty-year-old middle school science teacher named John Martin (played by Edelman). While vacationing in Florida, he drinks from a spring which turns out to be the legendary Fountain of Youth sought by Juan Ponce de Leon. The water has the effect of changing him into a twelve-year-old boy (played by Rist), and back again. Martin has no control over when the changes will occur, because he only took a sip of the water, and not a full drink, which explains why the changes are recurring and not permanent. Only his wife, Marjorie (Joyce Bulifant) and son, Ricky (Mike Darnell) know his secret, though Martin's students (who befriend him as "Little John") and his boss, principal Bertha Bottomly, become suspicious that something unusual is going on. The Martin family explain the younger John as their nephew, staying with them. Throughout the series, "Big John" unsuccessfully tries to find a cure for his predicament, but his experiences as "Little John" often give him insight into what his students are facing.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 266909
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired September 11, 1976
  • Recent December 4, 1976
  • Airs Saturday,
  • Network NBC
  • Average Runtime 25 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 September 1976 December 1976 13
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 13
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 13
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Gordon Wiles 9 09/11/1976 - 11/27/1976
Wes Kenney 2 09/25/1976 - 10/30/1976
Norm Gray 1 12/04/1976
Ross Bowman 1 10/16/1976
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Lloyd J. Schwartz 2 09/11/1976 - 10/23/1976
Ron Friedman 1 10/09/1976
Philip John Taylor 1 09/18/1976
Ron Sellz 1 09/25/1976
Alan Dinehart (II) 1 10/16/1976
Sam Locke 1 11/06/1976
Bill Freedman 1 10/02/1976
Paul Roberts 1 11/06/1976
David P. Harmon 1 11/27/1976
Bruce Kalish 1 09/25/1976
Harry Winkler 1 11/13/1976
Herbert Finn 1 10/16/1976
Sherwood Schwartz 1 09/11/1976
Mark Fink 1 10/30/1976
Davis Samuel Zucker 1 12/04/1976
Bruce Howard 1 11/20/1976
Al Schwartz (I) (1910–1988) 1 10/02/1976
Ben Gershman 1 11/13/1976
Jerome Zucker 1 12/04/1976

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