Mute

I think this story is about the essential need for love and the moral need to act for the good of the child. Little Ilse (Ann Jillian) is born to parents belonging to a weird society that wants to further telepathy, partly by keeping children mute. Her parents die in a house fire and the couple who look after her become very emotionally involved.

Cora (Barbara Baxter) is a bit psychologically fragile and very clingy to Ilse, probably because she had a daughter who died. Baxter plays the part well, never trying to make Cora saintly or plain selfish. All the adults seem to have their own agenda, so its hard most of the time to know what to wish for Ilse.

I think its about love-either that or Richard Matheson wrote it to drive us all bloody mad. Decent, watchable TV drama but not what I really feel TZ should be.