Bewitched

Name: Bewitched
Genre: Comedy
Released: September 17, 1964
Cast: David White, David White, Dick Sargent, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead

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Bewitched: Season 6

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ABC | Release Date: September 17, 1964

Starring: David White, David White, Dick Sargent, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Agnes Moorehead

Summary: Bewitched is a fantasy sitcom chronicling what happens when a witch and a mortal fall in love in 1960s and '70s suburban America. At the very center of the show is Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of a good-hearted witch named Samantha. A strong, independent woman with the world at her finger tips (or a twitch of her nose), she gives up herBewitched is a fantasy sitcom chronicling what happens when a witch and a mortal fall in love in 1960s and '70s suburban America. At the very center of the show is Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of a good-hearted witch named Samantha. A strong, independent woman with the world at her finger tips (or a twitch of her nose), she gives up her witchly life to do things the "mortal way". Her mortal husband Darrin Stephens (played by Dick York, and later Dick Sargent) is a talented advertising executive with McMann & Tate. He obsesses with leading a "normal life" where one works hard to earn a good living for one's family. He constantly struggles against disapproving witches and warlocks, like Samantha's powerful mother, Endora (played by Agnes Moorehead).
Endora is determined to prove to Samantha that the mixed-marriage marriage was a tremendous mistake. Over the show's eight year run, Endora tries numerous spells, all creating humiliation and chaos in Darrin's mortal world. This often ends up affecting Darrin's money-obsessed boss and best friend, Larry Tate (played by David White). Larry's wife, Louise (played by Irene Vernon and Kasey Rogers), is Samantha's best friend, although she is unaware that Sam is a witch.
In season two, life changes dramatically when Samantha and Darin give birth to daughter Tabitha Stephens (played by five babies that season and by twins Erin and Diane Murphy starting in season three). Many early Tabitha episodes revolve around whether she is a witch or mortal until the big reveal in season three. Later in season six, the Stephenses give birth to a boy, Adam. Although less airtime is spent on his character, eventually audiences find out that he too has powers.
Recurring characters include Samantha's favorite aunt, Clara, who is a lovable, bumbling witch (played by Marion Lorne). Due to Aunt Clara's extended age, she is suffering the loss of her powers and inadvertently wreaks havoc at the Stephens home. Also often wreaking havoc is Samantha's practical joking Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde), her Shakespeare orating father, Maurice (Maurice Evans), a bad joke-telling witch doctor, Dr. Bombay (Bernard Fox) and a shy witch-maid Esmeralda (Alice Ghostley). Elizabeth Montgomery also portrays Samantha's free-spirited, mischievous twin cousin, Serena.
On the mortal receiving end of the seemingly hallucinogenic world of witches are neighbors Gladys and Abner Kravitz. Gladys, first portrayed by Alice Pearce and later by Sandra Gould, was immediately aware that the Stephens household was positively strange, and was certain that something "beyond this world" was at work across the street. Abner (George Tobias) never believes it. Darrin's mother, Phyllis Stephens (Mabel Albertson), fairs no better, as she is forever witnessing zany antics only to have her husband, Frank Stephens (Robert F. Simon and later Roy Roberts) not believe it.
Bewitched earned nearly two dozen Emmy nominations during its run. Marion Lorne and Alice Pearce won well deserved awards, as did director and producer, William Asher (Elizabeth Montgomery's husband at the time). In 1970, Bewitched presented a Christmas episode regarding bigotry and racism, and received a special Emmy award, the Governor's Award, for the landmark episode (Sisters at Heart), not coincidentally, Elizabeth Montgomery's favorite episode. Beyond the theme of bigotry and "mixed-marriages", the series explored cultural issues of consumerism, materialism, human vanity, women's liberation, and mass hysteria. Season six of Bewitched brought about the biggest change to the series as Dick York was replaced by Dick Sargent in the role of Darrin. This element of the show has become a cultural touchstone, with many viewers debating their favorite Darrin.
First Telecast: September 17, 1964
Last Telecast: July 1, 1972

ABC Daytime: 1968 - 1973
ABC Saturday Morning: 1971 - 1973

Episodes: 254 Episodes (74 black and white, 180 color)

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Season 1: #2
Season 2: #7
Season 3: #8
Season 4: #11
Season 5: #12
Season 6: #25
Season 7: (above #25)
Season 8: (above #25)… Expand

Creator: Sol Saks

Genre(s): Comedy

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S8:E30. Tabatha's Weekend
Air Date: February 22, 2021
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S8:E29. I Don't Want To Be A Toad
Air Date: February 12, 2021
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Air Date: January 22, 2021

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Sep 21, 2019

I know this is informal but BEWITCHED IS A TERRIBLE SHOW AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL WITCH SHOWS AND WORST SHOWS EVER MADE. & I have many reasons for that:
1. Samantha is a HORRIBLE & UNLIKABLE witch. She never uses her powers for anything meaningful but rather just to make things moreI know this is informal but BEWITCHED IS A TERRIBLE SHOW AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL WITCH SHOWS AND WORST SHOWS EVER MADE. & I have many reasons for that:
1. Samantha is a HORRIBLE & UNLIKABLE witch. She never uses her powers for anything meaningful but rather just to make things more convenient. Like on the episode where she is learning how to drive (as you can see it's already an incredibly interesting and mind boggling plot: learning to drive) when she was about to have a fender bender she made the car disappear and reappear once she got past it. And like the second where she's trying to cook her husband (Darin) breakfast but she makes a mess so she uses her powers to clean it up and just zap him breakfast. Instead of using her powers when things get too hard, she should learn how to deal with them like a mortal, as Darin has always said he hates witchcraft anyway. If the show's plot revolved around a witch trying to survive in the human world, then it would be much more interesting than the plot the show had presented, a witch and her family using their powers and driving her husband mad. And this leads me on to my second point.
2. Using Powers for Poor Reasons and "Punishing the Guilty"
The reasons witches uses their powers on this show are very cockamamie and stupid. Like how the mother used her powers to make herself a cup of coffee or make Samantha's daughter (Tabitha) an expert at piano. Or how Sam made furniture appear and changed Darrin's clothes. Instead of using their powers for selfish gain and ludicrous things that could be easily down without them, how about they use the powers to save lives or help real world issues like local pollution. Instead they're "punishing the guilty." "Punishing the Guilty" is a phrase from Charmed (an actual good witch show) meaning that witches can't punish anyone who has done something presumably guilty. Now the one time a witch from Charmed did it, it was against someone who KILLED. But the witch from Charmed's (Phoebe) future self did it. And present Phoebe saw that, went back to her own time and learned a lesson about how it's wrong to punish the guilty no matter how small, because good witches on that show's job is to protect and save innocents, not punish the guilty. So when she learned this lesson, she decided not to use her sister's powers to get back at a man who let his dog do its business on her lawn. See but this was never the case with Bewitched. Samantha was an awful, presumably, short tempered person who would punish the guilty, mainly females who were "guilty" because Sam is presumably sexist against her own gender, for the dumbest reasons. Like the first episode: Samamtha used her powers to humiliate a woman at her own party just because the woman told her a couple of backhanded compliments and indirect insults, which for the most part were true. What kind of example are setting? She acted like it was okay for witches to use their powers against humans. She could have expressed to the woman how her remarks were uncalled for but instead she takes the cowardly way out and hides behind her powers to "handle" the situation. Also, she used her powers on a female who told her a couple of insults but not in the rapey old apothecary from season eight who constantly harassed and sexually assaulted her. What a trashy sexist woman. And this reflected on to her ugly, pest of a daughter in the later seasons because in an episode in season eight, her daughter turned her bulpy into a frog. Like she could have told her teacher or talked to a trusted adult to stop the bullying, but no she cowardly hides behind her powers just like her mom does. It's funny because if Sam got into a sticky altercation without her powers, she'd just scream and runaway like worthless coward she is, like when Darin was chasing her with a pie in the Double Double Toil and Trouble episode. Just shows how she could never defend herself and survive without her powers because she's that useless. Instead of cowardly hiding behind her powers, she should have been learning how to handle adult altercations in a mature adult fashion. All this leads to my third point.
3. Inconsistencies and a Dumb Idea of Witchcraft
This shows has countless inconsistencies leading back all the way to the first episode. Sam says she's a weak and inexperienced witch but then later that season she believes that she is evenly matched in power with a witch who fairly experienced and strong. This is the episode where Endora (Samantha's mother) tries to break up Samantha and Darin's marriage by having a young witch use her powers to woo Darin and his work partner. In this episode Sam freezes a restaurant and turns Darin into a fish. If she's so inexperienced then how can shw do that? And also witchcraft in this show works by Samantha waving her hands or twitching her mouth and nose. They rarely say spells or use potions. The imagery is ugly and the plots are bad too. This show is just plain trash.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 8

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- Season 8 Overview
  Air Date: September 15, 1971
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  S8:E30. Tabatha's Weekend
  Air Date: February 22, 2021
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  S8:E29. I Don't Want To Be A Toad
  Air Date: February 12, 2021
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  S8:E28. Ancient Macedonian Dodo Birds
  Air Date: January 22, 2021
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  S8:E27. SAMANTHA FOR THE DEFENSE
  Air Date: June 2, 2017
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  S8:E26. The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Sam
  Air Date: March 25, 1972
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  S8:E25. Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse
  Air Date: March 18, 1972
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  S8:E24. A Good Turn Never Goes Unpunished
  Air Date: March 11, 1972
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  S8:E23. School Days, School Daze
  Air Date: March 4, 1972
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  S8:E22. George Washington Zapped Here (2)
  Air Date: February 26, 1972
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  S8:E21. George Washington Zapped Here (1)
  Air Date: February 19, 1972
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  S8:E20. Tabitha's First Day at School
  Air Date: February 12, 1972
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  S8:E19. Serena's Youth Pill
  Air Date: February 5, 1972
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  S8:E18. Samantha on Thin Ice
  Air Date: January 29, 1972
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  S8:E17. Serena's Richcraft
  Air Date: January 22, 1972
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  S8:E16. Samantha is Earthbound
  Air Date: January 15, 1972
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  S8:E15. Samantha's Magic Sitter
  Air Date: January 5, 1972
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  S8:E14. Adam, Warlock or Washout?
  Air Date: December 29, 1971
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  S8:E13. Three Men and a Witch on a Horse
  Air Date: December 15, 1971
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  S8:E12. The Eight Year Itch Witch
  Air Date: December 8, 1971
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  S8:E11. The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit
  Air Date: December 1, 1971
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  S8:E10. Hansel and Gretel in Samanthaland
  Air Date: November 17, 1971
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  S8:E9. A Plague on Maurice and Samantha
  Air Date: November 10, 1971
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  S8:E8. TV or Not TV
  Air Date: November 3, 1971
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  S8:E7. The Ghost Who Made a Spectre of Himself
  Air Date: October 27, 1971
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  S8:E6. Paris, Witches' Style
  Air Date: October 20, 1971
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  S8:E5. Bewitched, Bothered, and Baldoni
  Air Date: October 13, 1971
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  S8:E4. Samantha's Not-So-Leaning Tower of Pisa
  Air Date: October 6, 1971
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  S8:E3. Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster
  Air Date: September 29, 1971
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  S8:E2. How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (2)
  Air Date: September 22, 1971
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  S8:E1. How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (1)
  Air Date: September 15, 1971
Season 7

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- Season 7 Overview
  Air Date: September 24, 1970
Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: September 18, 1969
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 26, 1968
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 7, 1967
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 15, 1966
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 16, 1965
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 17, 1964