 | Saturday-morning situation comedy, that ran only for one season of 13 episodes in 1976. The story of John Marton, a middle-school science teacher who comes across the famed Fountain of Youth, and takes a drink from it. The result is that he periodically turns from "big" John into "little" John. The show revolved around the various predicaments that John found himself in, as he changed back and forth between his 40 year old and 12 year old self. The show ran on NBC in the United States and the BBC in the UK. It starred Herbert Edelman as "Big John" and Robert "Robbie" Rist as "Little John." Edelman a known character actor, who'd appeared in the Neil Simon comedies The Odd Couple (1968) and Barefoot In The Park (1967). And regularly appeared in popular TV shows during the 70s and 80s. |
| Robbie Rist, best known for playing Cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch, and for voicing characters in TV Shows and movies like Stuffy the overly proud stuffed dragon in Doc McStuffins. He later went on the voice the character of Michelangelo in the film of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Big John, Little John may have only ran for one season, but for anyone growing up in the 70s and 80s, the theme song still sticks in your head. | |
