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I'm Not Martin
Season 4, Episode 1
I'm not martin
Air date October 4, 2014
Written by Mitch Watson
Directed by Neill Fearnley
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I'm Not Martin is the first episode of Season 4 of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series. It is based on the short story of the same name from Nightmare Hour.

Summary[]

Sean is laid up in the hospital with tonsillitis on Halloween, and ends up back in 1952 where the doctors and nurses mistake him for a boy named Martin Charles who needs his rotting foot removed.

Plot[]

Sean is taken to a hospital to have his tonsils removed, but he must stay over night for the procedure. Though his mother tries to comfort him, his brother tells him the story of Martin Charles...

One night a boy is taken to the hospital and is put right next to another boy who has to have his foot removed-the other boy is called Martin. Before his surgery, Martin switches his medical chart with the others boy's. So when the hospital's workers come to take Martin to surgery, they take the other kid instead. The boy screams, "I'm not Martin!" as the real Martin smiles, pretending he's sleeping.

Sean's brother says that the boy still haunts these halls looking for a new foot. Sean tries to act calm, but he is terrified. Luckily Sean's mother takes his brother and herself home so Sean can rest up for his tonsillitis. Later that night, as Sean is trying to sleep, there is strange sounds coming from outside his room. Sean is awoken by these sounds. He decides, even though unwillingly, to investigate. He looks around for a bit, until he runs into the Boy without a Foot. Scared, Sean tries to get away from the Boy, but the Boy persuades him that the Hospital itself is evil. Sean believes him and follows the Boy.

The boy mentions that once a part is taken from you, you can never leave. The boy shoves Sean into an old part of the hospital and he is transported back to October 1952. He frantically flees from the doctor (Daryl Shuttleworth) and nurse Kilpatrick (Andrea Ware), but is caught and brought to the operating room and is put under anesthesia. He wakes up in his own hospital bed. The whole thing turned out to be a dream, a side effect of the anesthesia of his tonsil operation. He happily leaves the hospital. As he gets into his mom (Leslie Hopps DeSchutter)'s van, his brother asks if he was scared, Sean says no and smilingly adds in the comment "After all, I'm not Martin" only to hear "Not yet.". Sean looks down to see the one-foot boy from the hospital stroking his leg and Sean screams.

Cast[]

  • Sean Giambrone as Sean Daly
  • Leslie Hopps DeSchutter as Judy Daly
  • Joshua Balfour as Derrick Daly
  • Andrea Ware as Nurse Kilpatrick
  • Daryl Shuttleworth as Doctor
  • Nicholas Croome as Martin Charles
  • Naiah Cummins as Nurse
  • Collin MacKechnie as Kid/Boy

Differences from the story[]

  • The basic plot of the story is basically the urban legend that is told in the episode. It simply had Sean meeting Martin and waking up to see that he was mistaken for him due to their clipboards being switched. Nothing supernatural was implied and it is not explained how the staff fell for this. Everything else was invented for the episode.

Trivia[]

  • R.L. Stine considers the short story to be one of the sickest things he's written, due to the ending implying Sean would be losing his foot.
  • This is the final episode to be directly adapted from anything.
  • This is the only episode written by Mitch Watson.
    • Coincidentally, Mitch Watson also wrote an episode of Spooksville called "Critical Care" that also has someone facing danger in a hospital while he's there to gets his tonsils out.
  • Director Neil Fearnly won a Leo Award for this episode.
  • According to showrunner Dan Angel, they wanted to do this episode earlier but both the network and R.L. Stine wouldn't let them due to content of the original story.. Eventually they talked them down.

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