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Bewitched

January 07, 2023

This article is about the American television sitcom. For other uses, see Bewitched (disambiguation).

Bewitched is an American fantasy sitcom television series that originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972.[1]: 95  It is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife. The show was popular, finishing as the second-rated show in America during its debut season, staying in the top ten for its first three seasons, and ranking in eleventh place for both seasons four and five. The show continues to be seen throughout the world in syndication and on recorded media.

Bewitched
Genre
Created bySol Saks
Written byVarious[nb 1]
Directed byWilliam Asher (most episodes)[nb 1]
Starring
Theme music composer
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes254 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerHarry Ackerman
Producers
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running timeapprox. 25 minutes
Production companies
DistributorSony Pictures Television
Release
Original networkABC
Picture format
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseSeptember 17, 1964 (1964-09-17) –
March 25, 1972 (1972-03-25)
Chronology
Followed byTabitha

Bewitched was created by Sol Saks under executive producer Harry Ackerman and starred: Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens; Dick York (1964–1969) as Darrin Stephens, her husband (Dick Sargent replaced an ailing York for the final three seasons, 1969–1972); Agnes Moorehead as Endora, Samantha's mother; David White as Larry Tate, Darrin's boss; Irene Vernon (1964–1966) and later Kasey Rogers (1966–1972) as Louise Tate, Larry's wife; Alice Pearce (1964–1966) as Gladys Kravitz; George Tobias (1964–1971) as her husband, Abner Kravitz; and Erin Murphy (1966–1972) as Tabitha Stephens (she shared this role for 18 episodes with her fraternal twin sister, Diane Murphy). In 1966, Sandra Gould took over the part of Gladys Kravitz (1966–1971) when Alice Pearce died. Annual semi-regulars included Maurice Evans as Maurice, Samantha's father; Marion Lorne as Samantha's Aunt Clara (1964–1968); Alice Ghostley as Esmeralda, Samantha's babysitter (1969–1972); Paul Lynde as Samantha's Uncle Arthur (1965–1971); Mabel Albertson as Darrin's mother, Phyllis Stephens (1964–1971); and Robert F. Simon and Roy Roberts alternating the role of Frank Stephens, Darrin's father (1964–1971).

Hanna-Barbera produced the opening and closing animation credits.[2] In 2002, Bewitched was ranked No. 50 on "TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time".[3] In 1997, the same magazine ranked the season 2 episode "Divided He Falls" #48 on their list of the "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time".[4]

Plot

A beautiful witch named Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) meets and marries a mortal named Darrin Stephens (originally Dick York, later Dick Sargent). While Samantha complies with Darrin's wishes to become a normal suburban housewife, her magical family disapproves of the mixed marriage and frequently interferes in the couple's lives. Episodes often begin with Darrin becoming the victim of a spell, the effects of which wreak havoc with mortals such as his boss, clients, parents, and neighbors. By the epilogue, however, Darrin and Samantha most often embrace, having overcome the devious elements that failed to separate them. The witches and their male counterparts, warlocks, are very long-lived; while Samantha appears to be a young woman, many episodes suggest she is actually hundreds of years old. To keep their society secret, witches avoid showing their powers in front of mortals other than Darrin. Nevertheless, the effects of their spells—and Samantha's attempts to hide their supernatural origin from mortals—drive the plot of most episodes. Witches and warlocks usually use physical gestures along with their incantations. To perform magic, Samantha often twitches her nose to create a spell. Special visual effects are accompanied by music to highlight such an action.

Setting

The main setting for most episodes is the Stephenses' home at 1164 Morning Glory Circle, in an upper-middle-class suburban neighborhood, either in Westport, Connecticut or Patterson, New York as indicated by conflicting information presented throughout the series. Many scenes also take place at the fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency McMann and Tate, where Darrin works.

Characters

Main article: List of Bewitched characters
 
Dick York, Elizabeth Montgomery (front) and Agnes Moorehead (back) as Darrin, Samantha and Endora
 
Clockwise: Dick Sargent, Elizabeth Montgomery, Erin Murphy and David Lawrence during the show's final season (1971–1972)

During its run, the series had a number of major cast changes, often because of illness or death of the actors.

Precursors

Creator Sol Saks' inspirations for this series[5] were the film I Married a Witch (1942), developed from Thorne Smith's unfinished novel The Passionate Witch, and the John Van Druten Broadway play Bell, Book and Candle, which was adapted into the 1958 film.[6]

In I Married a Witch, Wallace Wooley (Fredric March) is a descendant of people who executed witches at the Salem witch trials. As revenge, a witch (Veronica Lake) prepares a love potion for him. She ends up consuming her own potion and falling for her enemy. Her father is against this union.[6] In the film of Bell, Book and Candle, modern witch Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) uses a love spell on Shep Henderson (James Stewart) to have a simple fling with him but she genuinely falls for the man.[6]

Both films were properties of Columbia Pictures, which also owned Screen Gems, the company that produced Bewitched.[7]

Production and broadcasting

 
Elizabeth Montgomery and Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur (1968)

Sol Saks received credit as the creator of the show; he wrote the pilot of Bewitched but was not involved with the show after the pilot. Creator Saks, executive producer Harry Ackerman, and director William Asher started rehearsals for the pilot on November 22, 1963; this coincided with the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[8] Asher felt personally affected by the event, as he knew Kennedy; he had produced the 1962 televised birthday party where Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President".[9] The pilot concerned "the occult destabilization of the conformist life of an upwardly mobile advertising man".[9] For that first episode, "I Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha", Academy Award-winning actor José Ferrer served as the narrator. First season producer and head writer Danny Arnold set the initial style and tone of the series, and he also helped develop supporting characters such as Larry Tate and the Kravitzes. Arnold, who wrote on McHale's Navy and other shows, thought of Bewitched essentially as a romantic comedy about a mixed marriage; his episodes kept the magic element to a minimum. One or two magical acts drove the plot, but Samantha often solved problems without magic. Many of the first season's episodes were allegorical, using supernatural situations as metaphors for the problems any young couple would face. Arnold stated that the two main themes of the series were the conflict between a powerful woman and a husband who cannot deal with that power, and the anger of a bride's mother at seeing her daughter marry beneath her. Though the show was a hit right from the beginning, finishing its first year as the number 2 show in the United States, ABC wanted more magic and more farcical plots, causing battles between Arnold and the network.[citation needed]

In its first season, Bewitched was American Broadcasting Company's number one show and the best rated sitcom among all three networks, coming second in ratings only to Bonanza.[9] Bewitched aired at 9 pm Thursday evenings. It was preceded on the air by another sitcom, My Three Sons, and followed by the soap opera Peyton Place. My Three Sons finished 13th in the ratings and Peyton Place ninth. The block formed by the three shows was the strongest ratings grabber in ABC's schedule.[9] Arnold left the show after the first season, leaving producing duties to his friend Jerry Davis, who had already produced some of the first season's episodes (though Arnold was still supervising the writing). The second season was produced by Davis, and, with Bernard Slade as head writer, misunderstandings and farce became more prevalent elements, though this season still included a number of more low-key episodes in which the magical element was not strongly emphasized. With the third season and the switch to color, Davis left the show, and was replaced as producer by William Froug. Slade also left after the second season. According to William Froug's autobiography, William Asher (who had directed many episodes) wanted to take over as producer when Jerry Davis left, but the production company was not yet ready to approve the idea. Froug, a former producer of Gilligan's Island and the last season of The Twilight Zone, was brought in as a compromise. By his own admission, Froug was not very familiar with Bewitched and found himself in the uncomfortable position of being the official producer even though Asher was making most of the creative decisions. After a year, Froug left the show, and Asher took over as full-time producer of the series for the rest of its run. The first two seasons had aired Thursdays at 9:00, and the time was moved to 8:30 shortly after the third year (1966–1967) had begun. Nevertheless, the ratings for Bewitched remained high and it placed among the top fifteen shows through the 1968–69 season. It was the seventh highest-rated show in both the U.S. '65–'66 and '66–'67 schedules. Similarly, it was number 11 the following two years.[9]

 
Marion Lorne as Samantha's bumbling Aunt Clara

At the time, the show had won three Emmy Awards. William Asher won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 1966. Alice Pearce posthumously won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Gladys Kravitz and Marion Lorne won the same award posthumously in 1968 for her portrayal of Aunt Clara. Producers were faced with how to deal with the deaths of both these actresses. When Pearce died in early 1966, Mary Grace Canfield was hired to play Gladys's sister-in-law Harriet Kravitz in four episodes. Comedienne Alice Ghostley was approached to take over the role of Gladys the next season, but turned it down. She and Pearce were good friends so Ghostley decided to decline the role out of respect for Pearce. (from the 2020 online blog "Do You Remember?" article 'Here's What Happened to ‘Bewitched’ Actress Alice Pearce Before and After Playing “Mrs. Kravitz” ' in which Ed Gross interviews Bewitched author Herbie J. Pilato talking about Alice Ghostley being approached to replace Alice Pearce) In the fall of 1966, Sandra Gould was hired as Gladys Kravitz. Gould would remain with the show until the spring of 1971. After Marion Lorne's death in the spring of 1968, she was not replaced, and the character of Aunt Clara was not seen after the fourth season. Beginning in the show's sixth year, Alice Ghostley was finally used to play the character of Esmeralda, a kind but shy and inept witch who served as a nanny and nursemaid to Darrin and Samantha's children, Tabitha and Adam. (Ironically, Ghostley had appeared in a similar role as Naomi, an incompetent domestic, hired by Darrin to do housecleaning for a pregnant Samantha in the second-season episode "Maid To Order".) In another notable casting change, Louise Tate, played by Irene Vernon during the first two seasons, was played by Kasey Rogers thereafter.

The fifth season of Bewitched (1968-1969) proved to be a turning point for the series, most notably with the mid-season departure of Dick York and the record eight episodes which were filmed without him afterwards (although aired out of order with previously filmed episodes). York was suffering from recurring back problems, the result of an accident during the filming of They Came To Cordura (1959). As a result, many episodes in seasons three and four had York's character of Darrin out of town on business. Towards the end of the season five, York's increased disability, which had caused numerous shooting delays and script rewrites, resulted in his collapsing on the set in January 1969 while filming the episode "Daddy Does His Thing". He was immediately rushed to the hospital and after a long talk with producer-director William Asher, York decided to leave the series. At about the same time, Montgomery and Asher announced that they were expecting another baby and it was decided that Samantha and Darrin would also have another child in the fall of that year. On screen, Samantha tells Darrin over the phone the news of her second pregnancy in the fifth-season episode "Samantha's Good News". That same month, Dick Sargent was cast to play Darrin beginning in the sixth season.[10] It was also during this season that Serena (Samantha's identical cousin, also played by Montgomery) was used more frequently. Filming of scenes involving both Samantha and Serena was accomplished by using Melody McCord, Montgomery's stand-in.

 
Maurice Evans as Samantha's father, with Elizabeth Montgomery (1971)

Beginning with the sixth season's (1969–1970) opening credits, in addition to York being replaced with Sargent, Elizabeth Montgomery was billed above the title, and David White now received billing as well, after Agnes Moorehead's. During this year, the show saw a significant decline in ratings, falling from eleventh to 24th place. In mid-1970, the set of the Stephenses' home was being rebuilt due to a fire. In June, the cast and crew traveled to Salem, Magnolia, and Gloucester, Massachusetts to film an eight-part story arc in which Samantha, Darrin, and Endora travel to Salem for the centennial Witches Convocation. These location shoots marked the only times the show would film away from its Hollywood studio sets and backlot. Season seven premiered with eight so-called 'Salem Saga' episodes. On June 15, 2005, TV Land unveiled a Samantha statue in Salem to mark the show's 40th anniversary.[11] On hand were three surviving actors from the show, Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay), Erin Murphy (Tabitha), and Kasey Rogers (Louise Tate), as well as producer/director William Asher.[12]

These on-location episodes helped the show's sagging ratings.[13] However, during that year, scripts from old episodes were recycled frequently. By the end of the 1970–1971 season, the ratings for Bewitched had noticeably dropped and the show did not even rank in the list of the top thirty programs. ABC moved Bewitched's airtime from Thursdays at 8:30 pm to Wednesdays at 8:00 pm at the beginning of the eighth season. The schedule change did not help ratings as the show was now pitted against CBS's popular The Carol Burnett Show. Fewer recurring characters were used this season; the Kravitzes, Darrin's parents and Uncle Arthur did not appear at all, and Louise Tate only featured in three episodes. Filming ended in December 1971, and in January 1972 the show was finally moved to Saturday night at 8:00 pm, opposite television's number one show, All in the Family, where it fared even worse, with Bewitched finishing in 72nd place for the year.

During its first five seasons, Bewitched was sponsored by both General Motors’ Chevrolet division and the Quaker Oats Company.[14] As a result, Chevrolet vehicles were often prominently featured on the series, even as a part of the storyline (an example of product placement), and there were many scenes of the Stephenses having breakfast in the kitchen. Sponsors in later seasons included Bristol-Myers, Eastman Kodak and Oscar Mayer.

Sets and locations

The 1959 Columbia Pictures film Gidget was filmed on location at a real house in Santa Monica (at 267 18th Street). The blueprint design of this house was later reversed and replicated as a house facade attached to an existing garage on the backlot of Columbia's Ranch. This was the house seen on Bewitched. The patio and living room sets seen in Columbia's Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) were soon adapted for the permanent Bewitched set for 1964. The interior of the Stephenses' house can be seen, substantially unaltered, in the Jerry Lewis film Hook, Line & Sinker (1969). The set was also used several times in the television series Gidget and I Dream of Jeannie, as well as the television film Brian's Song (1971). It was also used, as a setting for an opening tag sequence, for the final episode of the first season of another Screen Gems property, The Monkees and in an episode of The Fantastic Journey. The house served as Doctor Bellows' house on I Dream of Jeannie, and was seen in an episode of Home Improvement when Tim Taylor took Tool Time on location to the house of Vinnie's mother to repair a gas leak in the basement furnace (with a second gas leak at the kitchen stove, unbeknownst to Tim). The Stephens house was also featured in a Fruit of the Loom Christmas commercial and it was used as Clark Griswold's boyhood home in his old home movies in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.[15] On Marvel Studios' 2021 limited series WandaVision, which pays homage to Bewitched in a number of episodes, the house's exterior serves throughout the series as the home of neighbor Agatha Harkness, while the interior set briefly appears in one episode as the ever-evolving home of the titular characters, Wanda and Vision.

On the Columbia studio backlot, the Kravitzes' house was actually down the street from the Stephenses' house exterior. Both houses' exterior doors opened to an unfinished 18-by-15-foot (5.5 by 4.6 m) entry, as the interiors were shot on studio sound stages elsewhere. A "front porch" set, replicating the porch of the backlot house was created as well. From 1964 through 1966, the Kravitzes' house was the same as used for The Donna Reed Show. Beginning with season 3 color episodes in 1966, the Kravitz house sets were the same as what would (years later) be featured as The Partridge Family house.

Production and filming for Bewitched was based in Los Angeles and, although the setting is assumed to be New York, several episodes feature wide-angle exterior views of the Stephenses' neighborhood showing a California landscape with mountains in the distance. Another example of questionable continuity regarding the location can be seen in Season 6, Episode 6: Darrin's parents drive home after visiting the new baby, passing several large palm trees lining the street.

Cancellation and aftermath

Despite the low ratings, Bewitched still had a contract for two more seasons on ABC. The network was willing to honor that contract by renewing the sitcom for a ninth season. However, by this time, Montgomery had grown tired of the series and wanted to move on to other roles. Also, she and her husband William Asher had separated and would divorce in 1974. As a consolation, Asher pitched an idea to ABC for a sitcom starring Paul Lynde. The concept was based on the play Howie, about a lawyer, Paul Simms (played by Lynde), whose daughter marries a slacker named Howard, or "Howie". The Lynde character despises him, as he is not interested in earning money or traditional pursuits. In creating a series for Paul Lynde, Asher decided to resurrect the Howie concept for ABC and Screen Gems as a replacement for Bewitched the following year. Asher designed The Paul Lynde Show to be ABC's counterpart to CBS's All In the Family; however, the show lacked the controversial and topical issues brought up by that series, due to ABC's restriction on social realism.[citation needed] This was despite Lynde's rewrite of the show's dialog in an effort to make the series more lively and comedic. When The Paul Lynde Show debuted on ABC in the fall of 1972, it inherited Bewitched’s time slot during its last season on Wednesday nights opposite the first half of the Top 30 hit The Carol Burnett Show on CBS and the Top 20 hit Adam-12 on NBC. While the first episode of The Paul Lynde Show did well in the ratings, strong negative reactions not only to Lynde's character but also the premise of the series led to bad word of mouth and, as the weeks went by, resulted in a collapse in viewership.

The show bore some similarities to Bewitched. Some of the sets used for the Simms' house and backyard were repurposed from Samantha and Darrin Stephens's home. The name of Paul's law firm McNish & Simms was very similar to the name of Darrin Stephens's advertising agency McMann & Tate. In addition, many actors regularly seen on Bewitched were also used on Lynde's series including Mabel Albertson, Herb Voland, Jack Collins, Richard X. Slattery, and Dick Wilson.

At the same time, to help fulfill the network's contract with Bewitched, Asher and Harry Ackerman created another ABC sitcom for the 1972–1973 season titled Temperatures Rising. The series starred James Whitmore and Cleavon Little. In its first year, the sitcom was not only struggling with its format but with ratings. In mid-season, Asher was replaced as producer by Bruce Johnson and Duke Vincent. Despite its challenges, the series ended its first year with a respectable 29 share and was renewed for the 1973–1974 season. To improve ratings and help Paul Lynde fulfill his contract with the network, ABC wanted to make some changes. When The New Temperatures Rising Show debuted in September 1973, Whitmore was replaced by Lynde and the emphasis on black comedy in the show became more prominent. As a result, the ratings for the series fell well below the levels of the previous season.

When Screen Gems head John Mitchell and ABC chief programmer Barry Diller noticed that The New Temperatures Rising Show was failing, they contacted William Asher and asked him to come back and salvage the series. As a result, the show was resurrected on July 18, 1974, after a six-month hiatus with its original title Temperatures Rising. Joining Lynde and Little in the cast was Bewitched alum Alice Ghostley. Despite the changes in cast and format, the attempt to resuscitate the series failed and ABC finally cancelled it permanently. The final episode of Temperatures Rising aired on August 29, 1974, which ended William Asher's original contract with Bewitched and ABC.

Cultural context

In February 1964, feminist Betty Friedan's two-part essay "Television and the Feminine Mystique" for TV Guide[16][17] criticized the portrayal of women in television shows as simplistic, manipulative, and insecure household drudges whose time was spent dreaming of love and plotting revenge on their husbands.[18] Samantha's character differed from this stereotype and Endora used Friedan-like language to criticize the boring drudgery of household life.[6] Others have looked how the series 'play[ed] into and subvert[ed] a rich load of cultural stereotypes and allusions' regarding witches, gender roles, advertising and consumerism.[19] In the episode "Eat at Mario's" (May 27, 1965), Samantha and Endora use their powers to defend and promote a quality Italian restaurant. They take delight in an active, aggressive role in the public space, breaking new ground in the depiction of women in television.[6]

Airing during the civil rights era, Bewitched broached taboos about interracial marriage.[20]

In a 1992 interview, Elizabeth Montgomery was asked if the show was an allegory about closeted homosexuality. She answered, "Don't think that didn't enter our minds at the time. We talked about it on the set—certainly not in production meetings—that this was about people not being allowed to be what they really are. If you think about it, Bewitched is about repression in general and all the frustration and trouble it can cause."[21]

Reception

Walter Metz attributes the success of the series to its snappy writing, the charm of Elizabeth Montgomery, and the talents of its large supporting cast. The show also made use of respected film techniques for its special effects. The soundtrack was unique, notably where it concerned the synthesized sound of nose twitching.[9]

The first episodes featured a voice-over narrator "performing comic sociological analyses" of the role of a witch in middle class suburbia. The style was reminiscent of Hollywood films such as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).[6] In a 1991 audio interview with film historian Ronald Haver, Elizabeth Montgomery revealed that her father Robert Montgomery was originally approached and asked to narrate these episodes but he refused. Instead, the narration was done by Academy Award-winning actor José Ferrer, who did not receive credit.

The series inspired the rival show I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970)[9] on NBC, which was produced by the same studio as Bewitched (Screen Gems).

Spin-offs, crossovers, and remakes

The Flintstones

The 1965 episode of The Flintstones titled "Samantha" (1965) featured Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery as Darrin and Samantha Stephens, who have just moved into the neighborhood. This crossover was facilitated by both series being broadcast on ABC.[22]

Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family

An animated TV special made in 1972 by Hanna-Barbera Productions for The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, this featured teenage versions of Tabitha and Adam visiting their aunt and her family who travel with a circus.[23] The show aired on December 2, 1972.[24]

See also: List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows

Tabitha

Main article: Tabitha (TV series)

In 1977, a short-lived spin-off titled Tabitha aired on ABC. Lisa Hartman played Tabitha, now an adult working with her brother Adam at television station KXLA. There were several continuity differences with the original series. Adam and Tabitha had both aged far more than the intervening five years between the two series would have allowed. Adam also had become Tabitha's older mortal brother, rather than her younger warlock brother, as he was in Bewitched. Supporting character Aunt Minerva (Karen Morrow) says she has been close to Tabitha since childhood, though she had never been mentioned once in the original series. Tabitha's parents are mentioned but never appear. However Bernard Fox, Sandra Gould, George Tobias and Dick Wilson reprised their roles as Dr. Bombay, Gladys Kravitz, Abner Kravitz, and "various drunks."

Passions

Main article: Passions (soap opera)

The 1999-2008 NBC soap opera Passions featured several appearances by Bernard Fox, playing Dr. Bombay.[25] In another echo of Bewitched, the resident witch on Passions, Tabitha Lenox (Juliet Mills), named her daughter "Endora."[26]

Theatrical movie

Main article: Bewitched (2005 film)

Bewitched inspired a 2005 film starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. This film was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film, departing from the show's family-oriented tone, is not a remake but takes a metafictional approach, with the action focused on arrogant, failing Hollywood actor Jack Wyatt (Ferrell) who is offered a career comeback playing Darrin in a remake of Bewitched. The role is contingent upon him finding the perfect woman to play Samantha. He chooses an unknown named Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), who is an actual witch. The film was written, directed, and produced by Nora Ephron, and was poorly received by most critics and was a financial failure. It earned $22 million less than the production cost domestically. However it earned an additional $68 million internationally. The New York Times called the film "an unmitigated disaster."[27]

Comic adaptations

Dell Comics adapted the series into a comic book series in 1964. The art work was provided by Henry Scarpelli.[28]

In 1966, the series was adapted as a strip in Lady Penelope, beginning from issue 12 and lasting until the comic's demise in 1969.[29]

Television remakes

  • Argentina: A remake called Hechizada, produced by Telefé, aired in early 2007. It starred Florencia Peña as Samantha, Gustavo Garzón as her husband, Eduardo, and Georgina Barbarrosa as Endora. This show adapted original scripts to an Argentinian context, with local humor and a contemporary setting. The show was cancelled due to low ratings after a few weeks.
  • Japan: TBS, a flagship station of Japan News Network, produced a remake called Okusama wa majo (奥さまは魔女, meaning "(My) Wife is a Witch"), also known as Bewitched in Tokyo.[30] Eleven episodes were broadcast on JNN stations Fridays at 10 pm, from January 16 to March 26, 2004, and a special on December 21, 2004. The main character, Arisa Matsui, was portrayed by Ryoko Yonekura. Okusama wa majo is also the Japanese title for the original American series.
  • India: In 2002, Sony Entertainment Television began airing Meri Biwi Wonderful a local adaptation of Bewitched.
  • Russia: In 2009, TV3 broadcast a remake titled "" ("My Favorite Witch"), starring Anna Zdor as Nadia (Samantha), Ivan Grishanov, as Ivan (Darrin) and Marina Esepenko as Nadia's mother. The series is very similar to the original, with most episodes based on those from the original series. American comedy writer/producer Norm Gunzenhauser oversaw the writing and directing of the series.
  • United Kingdom: In 2008, the BBC made a pilot episode of a British version, with Sheridan Smith as Samantha, Tom Price as Darrin, and veteran actress Frances de la Tour as Endora.

Proposed reboots

In August 2011, it was reported that CBS ordered a script to be written by Marc Lawrence for a rebooted series of Bewitched.[31]

On October 22, 2014, Sony Pictures Television announced that it sold a pilot of Bewitched to NBC as a possible entry for the 2015—2016 US television season. This show would have concerned Tabitha's daughter Daphne, a single woman who despite having the same magical powers as her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, is determined not to use her special abilities to find a soul mate. The new version of the proposed series, written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, had been on the radar of several major networks, including ABC, after Sony began shopping the project to interested parties.[32]

On August 23, 2018, ABC announced that it had bought a pilot for a single camera Bewitched remake from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris. This is Barris's last new project for the network before his exclusive contract with Netflix goes into effect.[33]

WandaVision

Further information: Don't Touch That Dial and WandaVision § Writing

The second episode of drama-mystery television miniseries WandaVision, titled "Don't Touch That Dial", heavily references the series through an animated title sequence and the premise of Wanda Maximoff and Vision living an idyllic suburban life trying to conceal their true natures. Exteriors of the neighborhood were filmed at the now Warner Ranch Backlot with Maximoff's nosy neighbor Agnes living in the Stephens house.

Episodes

Main article: List of Bewitched episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankRating
First airedLast aired
136September 17, 1964 (1964-09-17)June 3, 1965 (1965-06-03)231.0
238September 16, 1965 (1965-09-16)June 9, 1966 (1966-06-09)725.9[a]
333September 15, 1966 (1966-09-15)May 4, 1967 (1967-05-04)723.4[b]
433September 7, 1967 (1967-09-07)May 16, 1968 (1968-05-16)1123.5
530September 26, 1968 (1968-09-26)April 24, 1969 (1969-04-24)1123.3[c]
630September 18, 1969 (1969-09-18)April 16, 1970 (1970-04-16)2420.6[d]
728September 24, 1970 (1970-09-24)April 22, 1971 (1971-04-22)——
826September 15, 1971 (1971-09-15)March 25, 1972 (1972-03-25)72[34]11.3[34]

Episode availability

Syndication history

After completing its original run, ABC Daytime and ABC Saturday Morning continued to air the series until 1973. Since then, Bewitched has been syndicated on many local US broadcast stations, first from 1973 to 1982 and then since 1993, including Columbia TriStar Television as part of the Screen Gems Network syndication package from 1999 to 2001, which featured bonus wraparound content during episode airings in 1999.

From 1973 to 1982, the entire series was syndicated by Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures. By the late '70s, many local stations skipped the black and white episodes or they only ran them in the summer due to the perception that black-and-white shows usually had less appeal than shows which were filmed in color. From 1981 to about 1991, only the color episodes were syndicated in barter syndication by DFS Program Exchange. The first two seasons, which were in black and white, were not included because Columbia retained the rights to them. Beginning in 1989, Nick at Nite only aired the black-and-white episodes, which were originally unedited. The edited versions of the episodes continued in barter syndication until 1992. Columbia syndicated the entire series beginning in 1991. The remaining six color seasons were added to Nick at Nite's lineup in March 1998 in a week-long Dueling Darrins Marathon. Later, seasons 1–2 were colorized and made available for syndication. Eventually, they were made available for DVD sales. The cable television channel WTBS carried seasons 3–8 throughout the 1980s and 1990s from DFS on a barter basis like most local stations that carried the show.

The Hallmark Channel aired the show from 2001 to 2003; TV Land then aired the show from 2003 to 2006, and it returned to TV Land in March 2010,[35] but left the schedule in 2012.

In October 2008, the show began to air on WGN America, and in October 2012, it began to air on Logo, limited to the middle seasons.

MeTV aired the show in conjunction with I Dream of Jeannie from December 31, 2012, to September 1, 2013.[36] The cable and satellite network FETV also airs the show together with I Dream of Jeannie. The show now airs on Antenna TV and GAC Family. The episodes on GAC Family air in HD and have been remastered.

Overseas markets

In Australia, this series aired on the Nine Network's digital channel GO! later it moved to the Seven Network's digital channels 7TWO later 7flix. Prior to this, the show aired in reruns on Network Ten in 1995 before moving to the Seven Network a year later.

In Italy, the series aired on Raiuno, Telemontecarlo, Italia 1, Rai 3, Canale 5, Retequattro, Boing & Paramount Network under the name Vita da strega (Life as a Witch) from 1967 until 1979.

The Russia-based channel Domashny aired the show from 2008 to 2010.

Internet

Selected episodes may be viewed on iTunes, YouTube, IMDb, Hulu, The Minisode Network, Crackle, and Amazon.com. The show also airs on free streaming TV station Pluto TV.[37]

Home media

Main article: Bewitched DVD releases

Beginning in 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all eight seasons of Bewitched. In regions 1 and 4, seasons 1 and 2 were each released in two versions—one as originally broadcast in black-and-white, and one colorized. The complete series set only contains the colorized versions of Seasons 1–2. Only the colorized editions were released in regions 2 and 4.

On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Bewitched.[38] They have subsequently re-released the first six seasons, with seasons 1 & 2 available only in their black and white versions.[39][40][41]

On October 6, 2015, Mill Creek Entertainment re-released Bewitched- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[42] Special features were stripped from the release. The first two seasons are in black and white only.

Notes

  1. ^ Tied with The Beverly Hillbillies
  2. ^ Tied with Daktari and The Beverly Hillbillies
  3. ^ Tied with Mission: Impossible and The Red Skelton Show
  4. ^ Tied with NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and The F.B.I.
  1. ^ a b A full list of directors and writers can be seen at this link.

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Further reading

  • Alachi, Peter (2006). Salem's Summer of Sam: On the Trail of "Bewitched" in Salem, 1970. palachi.com. ISBN 978-0-9776751-2-8.
  • Metz, Walter (January 30, 2007). Bewitched. TV Milestones. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3231-3.
  • Meyers, Gina (June 20, 2004). The Magic of Bewitched Trivia and More. iUniverse, Inc. ISBN 978-0-595-31557-4.
  • Pilato, Herbie (October 2004). Bewitched Forever: 40th Anniversary Edition (2nd ed.). Tapestry Press. ISBN 978-1-930819-40-5.
  • Piro, Rita (March 24, 2006). Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitching Life (5th ed.). Great Feats Press. ISBN 978-0-9706261-2-7.
  • Tranberg, Charles (August 31, 2007). I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead (2nd ed.). BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-095-0.
  • Rogers, Kasey (November 1, 1995). The Official Bewitched Cookbook: Magic in the Kitchen. Kensington Books. ISBN 978-1-57566-095-0.
  • Spencer, Beth. "Samantha every witch way but lose." The Age, 25 June 2005.
  • York, Dick (June 2004). The Seesaw Girl and Me: A Memoir. New Path Press. ISBN 978-0-9745446-4-9.

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bewitched, this, article, about, american, television, sitcom, other, uses, disambiguation, american, fantasy, sitcom, television, series, that, originally, aired, eight, seasons, from, september, 1964, march, 1972, about, witch, marries, ordinary, mortal, vow. This article is about the American television sitcom For other uses see Bewitched disambiguation Bewitched is an American fantasy sitcom television series that originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from September 17 1964 to March 25 1972 1 95 It is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife The show was popular finishing as the second rated show in America during its debut season staying in the top ten for its first three seasons and ranking in eleventh place for both seasons four and five The show continues to be seen throughout the world in syndication and on recorded media BewitchedGenreFantasySitcomCreated bySol SaksWritten byVarious nb 1 Directed byWilliam Asher most episodes nb 1 StarringElizabeth MontgomeryDick YorkAgnes MooreheadDick SargentDavid WhiteTheme music composerHoward GreenfieldJack KellerComposersWarren Barker most episodes Allyn Ferguson 1 episode Van Alexander 3 episodes Jimmie Haskell 4 episodes Pete Carpenter 1 episode Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons8No of episodes254 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producerHarry AckermanProducersDanny Arnold 17 episodes season 1 Jerry Davis most episodes seasons 1 2 William Froug season 3 William Asher seasons 4 8 Camera setupSingle cameraRunning timeapprox 25 minutesProduction companiesScreen GemsAshmont Productions season 8 DistributorSony Pictures TelevisionReleaseOriginal networkABCPicture formatBlack and white 1964 1966 Color 1966 1972 Audio formatMonauralOriginal releaseSeptember 17 1964 1964 09 17 March 25 1972 1972 03 25 ChronologyFollowed byTabithaBewitched was created by Sol Saks under executive producer Harry Ackerman and starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens Dick York 1964 1969 as Darrin Stephens her husband Dick Sargent replaced an ailing York for the final three seasons 1969 1972 Agnes Moorehead as Endora Samantha s mother David White as Larry Tate Darrin s boss Irene Vernon 1964 1966 and later Kasey Rogers 1966 1972 as Louise Tate Larry s wife Alice Pearce 1964 1966 as Gladys Kravitz George Tobias 1964 1971 as her husband Abner Kravitz and Erin Murphy 1966 1972 as Tabitha Stephens she shared this role for 18 episodes with her fraternal twin sister Diane Murphy In 1966 Sandra Gould took over the part of Gladys Kravitz 1966 1971 when Alice Pearce died Annual semi regulars included Maurice Evans as Maurice Samantha s father Marion Lorne as Samantha s Aunt Clara 1964 1968 Alice Ghostley as Esmeralda Samantha s babysitter 1969 1972 Paul Lynde as Samantha s Uncle Arthur 1965 1971 Mabel Albertson as Darrin s mother Phyllis Stephens 1964 1971 and Robert F Simon and Roy Roberts alternating the role of Frank Stephens Darrin s father 1964 1971 Hanna Barbera produced the opening and closing animation credits 2 In 2002 Bewitched was ranked No 50 on TV Guide s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time 3 In 1997 the same magazine ranked the season 2 episode Divided He Falls 48 on their list of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time 4 Contents 1 Plot 2 Setting 3 Characters 4 Precursors 5 Production and broadcasting 5 1 Sets and locations 6 Cancellation and aftermath 7 Cultural context 8 Reception 9 Spin offs crossovers and remakes 9 1 The Flintstones 9 2 Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family 9 3 Tabitha 9 4 Passions 9 5 Theatrical movie 9 6 Comic adaptations 9 7 Television remakes 9 8 Proposed reboots 9 9 WandaVision 10 Episodes 10 1 Episode availability 10 1 1 Syndication history 10 1 1 1 Overseas markets 10 1 2 Internet 10 1 3 Home media 11 Notes 12 References 13 Sources 14 Further reading 15 External linksPlot Edit Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery 1968 A beautiful witch named Samantha Elizabeth Montgomery meets and marries a mortal named Darrin Stephens originally Dick York later Dick Sargent While Samantha complies with Darrin s wishes to become a normal suburban housewife her magical family disapproves of the mixed marriage and frequently interferes in the couple s lives Episodes often begin with Darrin becoming the victim of a spell the effects of which wreak havoc with mortals such as his boss clients parents and neighbors By the epilogue however Darrin and Samantha most often embrace having overcome the devious elements that failed to separate them The witches and their male counterparts warlocks are very long lived while Samantha appears to be a young woman many episodes suggest she is actually hundreds of years old To keep their society secret witches avoid showing their powers in front of mortals other than Darrin Nevertheless the effects of their spells and Samantha s attempts to hide their supernatural origin from mortals drive the plot of most episodes Witches and warlocks usually use physical gestures along with their incantations To perform magic Samantha often twitches her nose to create a spell Special visual effects are accompanied by music to highlight such an action Setting EditThe main setting for most episodes is the Stephenses home at 1164 Morning Glory Circle in an upper middle class suburban neighborhood either in Westport Connecticut or Patterson New York as indicated by conflicting information presented throughout the series Many scenes also take place at the fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency McMann and Tate where Darrin works Characters EditMain article List of Bewitched characters Dick York Elizabeth Montgomery front and Agnes Moorehead back as Darrin Samantha and Endora Clockwise Dick Sargent Elizabeth Montgomery Erin Murphy and David Lawrence during the show s final season 1971 1972 Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens Dick York seasons 1 5 Dick Sargent season 6 8 as Darrin Stephens Agnes Moorehead as Endora David White recurring in seasons 1 5 starring in seasons 6 8 as Larry TateDuring its run the series had a number of major cast changes often because of illness or death of the actors Precursors EditCreator Sol Saks inspirations for this series 5 were the film I Married a Witch 1942 developed from Thorne Smith s unfinished novel The Passionate Witch and the John Van Druten Broadway play Bell Book and Candle which was adapted into the 1958 film 6 In I Married a Witch Wallace Wooley Fredric March is a descendant of people who executed witches at the Salem witch trials As revenge a witch Veronica Lake prepares a love potion for him She ends up consuming her own potion and falling for her enemy Her father is against this union 6 In the film of Bell Book and Candle modern witch Gillian Holroyd Kim Novak uses a love spell on Shep Henderson James Stewart to have a simple fling with him but she genuinely falls for the man 6 Both films were properties of Columbia Pictures which also owned Screen Gems the company that produced Bewitched 7 Production and broadcasting Edit Elizabeth Montgomery and Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur 1968 Sol Saks received credit as the creator of the show he wrote the pilot of Bewitched but was not involved with the show after the pilot Creator Saks executive producer Harry Ackerman and director William Asher started rehearsals for the pilot on November 22 1963 this coincided with the assassination of John F Kennedy 8 Asher felt personally affected by the event as he knew Kennedy he had produced the 1962 televised birthday party where Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday Mr President 9 The pilot concerned the occult destabilization of the conformist life of an upwardly mobile advertising man 9 For that first episode I Darrin Take This Witch Samantha Academy Award winning actor Jose Ferrer served as the narrator First season producer and head writer Danny Arnold set the initial style and tone of the series and he also helped develop supporting characters such as Larry Tate and the Kravitzes Arnold who wrote on McHale s Navy and other shows thought of Bewitched essentially as a romantic comedy about a mixed marriage his episodes kept the magic element to a minimum One or two magical acts drove the plot but Samantha often solved problems without magic Many of the first season s episodes were allegorical using supernatural situations as metaphors for the problems any young couple would face Arnold stated that the two main themes of the series were the conflict between a powerful woman and a husband who cannot deal with that power and the anger of a bride s mother at seeing her daughter marry beneath her Though the show was a hit right from the beginning finishing its first year as the number 2 show in the United States ABC wanted more magic and more farcical plots causing battles between Arnold and the network citation needed In its first season Bewitched was American Broadcasting Company s number one show and the best rated sitcom among all three networks coming second in ratings only to Bonanza 9 Bewitched aired at 9 pm Thursday evenings It was preceded on the air by another sitcom My Three Sons and followed by the soap opera Peyton Place My Three Sons finished 13th in the ratings and Peyton Place ninth The block formed by the three shows was the strongest ratings grabber in ABC s schedule 9 Arnold left the show after the first season leaving producing duties to his friend Jerry Davis who had already produced some of the first season s episodes though Arnold was still supervising the writing The second season was produced by Davis and with Bernard Slade as head writer misunderstandings and farce became more prevalent elements though this season still included a number of more low key episodes in which the magical element was not strongly emphasized With the third season and the switch to color Davis left the show and was replaced as producer by William Froug Slade also left after the second season According to William Froug s autobiography William Asher who had directed many episodes wanted to take over as producer when Jerry Davis left but the production company was not yet ready to approve the idea Froug a former producer of Gilligan s Island and the last season of The Twilight Zone was brought in as a compromise By his own admission Froug was not very familiar with Bewitched and found himself in the uncomfortable position of being the official producer even though Asher was making most of the creative decisions After a year Froug left the show and Asher took over as full time producer of the series for the rest of its run The first two seasons had aired Thursdays at 9 00 and the time was moved to 8 30 shortly after the third year 1966 1967 had begun Nevertheless the ratings for Bewitched remained high and it placed among the top fifteen shows through the 1968 69 season It was the seventh highest rated show in both the U S 65 66 and 66 67 schedules Similarly it was number 11 the following two years 9 Marion Lorne as Samantha s bumbling Aunt Clara At the time the show had won three Emmy Awards William Asher won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 1966 Alice Pearce posthumously won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Gladys Kravitz and Marion Lorne won the same award posthumously in 1968 for her portrayal of Aunt Clara Producers were faced with how to deal with the deaths of both these actresses When Pearce died in early 1966 Mary Grace Canfield was hired to play Gladys s sister in law Harriet Kravitz in four episodes Comedienne Alice Ghostley was approached to take over the role of Gladys the next season but turned it down She and Pearce were good friends so Ghostley decided to decline the role out of respect for Pearce from the 2020 online blog Do You Remember article Here s What Happened to Bewitched Actress Alice Pearce Before and After Playing Mrs Kravitz in which Ed Gross interviews Bewitched author Herbie J Pilato talking about Alice Ghostley being approached to replace Alice Pearce In the fall of 1966 Sandra Gould was hired as Gladys Kravitz Gould would remain with the show until the spring of 1971 After Marion Lorne s death in the spring of 1968 she was not replaced and the character of Aunt Clara was not seen after the fourth season Beginning in the show s sixth year Alice Ghostley was finally used to play the character of Esmeralda a kind but shy and inept witch who served as a nanny and nursemaid to Darrin and Samantha s children Tabitha and Adam Ironically Ghostley had appeared in a similar role as Naomi an incompetent domestic hired by Darrin to do housecleaning for a pregnant Samantha in the second season episode Maid To Order In another notable casting change Louise Tate played by Irene Vernon during the first two seasons was played by Kasey Rogers thereafter The fifth season of Bewitched 1968 1969 proved to be a turning point for the series most notably with the mid season departure of Dick York and the record eight episodes which were filmed without him afterwards although aired out of order with previously filmed episodes York was suffering from recurring back problems the result of an accident during the filming of They Came To Cordura 1959 As a result many episodes in seasons three and four had York s character of Darrin out of town on business Towards the end of the season five York s increased disability which had caused numerous shooting delays and script rewrites resulted in his collapsing on the set in January 1969 while filming the episode Daddy Does His Thing He was immediately rushed to the hospital and after a long talk with producer director William Asher York decided to leave the series At about the same time Montgomery and Asher announced that they were expecting another baby and it was decided that Samantha and Darrin would also have another child in the fall of that year On screen Samantha tells Darrin over the phone the news of her second pregnancy in the fifth season episode Samantha s Good News That same month Dick Sargent was cast to play Darrin beginning in the sixth season 10 It was also during this season that Serena Samantha s identical cousin also played by Montgomery was used more frequently Filming of scenes involving both Samantha and Serena was accomplished by using Melody McCord Montgomery s stand in Maurice Evans as Samantha s father with Elizabeth Montgomery 1971 Beginning with the sixth season s 1969 1970 opening credits in addition to York being replaced with Sargent Elizabeth Montgomery was billed above the title and David White now received billing as well after Agnes Moorehead s During this year the show saw a significant decline in ratings falling from eleventh to 24th place In mid 1970 the set of the Stephenses home was being rebuilt due to a fire In June the cast and crew traveled to Salem Magnolia and Gloucester Massachusetts to film an eight part story arc in which Samantha Darrin and Endora travel to Salem for the centennial Witches Convocation These location shoots marked the only times the show would film away from its Hollywood studio sets and backlot Season seven premiered with eight so called Salem Saga episodes On June 15 2005 TV Land unveiled a Samantha statue in Salem to mark the show s 40th anniversary 11 On hand were three surviving actors from the show Bernard Fox Dr Bombay Erin Murphy Tabitha and Kasey Rogers Louise Tate as well as producer director William Asher 12 These on location episodes helped the show s sagging ratings 13 However during that year scripts from old episodes were recycled frequently By the end of the 1970 1971 season the ratings for Bewitched had noticeably dropped and the show did not even rank in the list of the top thirty programs ABC moved Bewitched s airtime from Thursdays at 8 30 pm to Wednesdays at 8 00 pm at the beginning of the eighth season The schedule change did not help ratings as the show was now pitted against CBS s popular The Carol Burnett Show Fewer recurring characters were used this season the Kravitzes Darrin s parents and Uncle Arthur did not appear at all and Louise Tate only featured in three episodes Filming ended in December 1971 and in January 1972 the show was finally moved to Saturday night at 8 00 pm opposite television s number one show All in the Family where it fared even worse with Bewitched finishing in 72nd place for the year During its first five seasons Bewitched was sponsored by both General Motors Chevrolet division and the Quaker Oats Company 14 As a result Chevrolet vehicles were often prominently featured on the series even as a part of the storyline an example of product placement and there were many scenes of the Stephenses having breakfast in the kitchen Sponsors in later seasons included Bristol Myers Eastman Kodak and Oscar Mayer Sets and locations Edit The 1959 Columbia Pictures film Gidget was filmed on location at a real house in Santa Monica at 267 18th Street The blueprint design of this house was later reversed and replicated as a house facade attached to an existing garage on the backlot of Columbia s Ranch This was the house seen on Bewitched The patio and living room sets seen in Columbia s Gidget Goes to Rome 1963 were soon adapted for the permanent Bewitched set for 1964 The interior of the Stephenses house can be seen substantially unaltered in the Jerry Lewis film Hook Line amp Sinker 1969 The set was also used several times in the television series Gidget and I Dream of Jeannie as well as the television film Brian s Song 1971 It was also used as a setting for an opening tag sequence for the final episode of the first season of another Screen Gems property The Monkees and in an episode of The Fantastic Journey The house served as Doctor Bellows house on I Dream of Jeannie and was seen in an episode of Home Improvement when Tim Taylor took Tool Time on location to the house of Vinnie s mother to repair a gas leak in the basement furnace with a second gas leak at the kitchen stove unbeknownst to Tim The Stephens house was also featured in a Fruit of the Loom Christmas commercial and it was used as Clark Griswold s boyhood home in his old home movies in National Lampoon s Christmas Vacation 15 On Marvel Studios 2021 limited series WandaVision which pays homage to Bewitched in a number of episodes the house s exterior serves throughout the series as the home of neighbor Agatha Harkness while the interior set briefly appears in one episode as the ever evolving home of the titular characters Wanda and Vision On the Columbia studio backlot the Kravitzes house was actually down the street from the Stephenses house exterior Both houses exterior doors opened to an unfinished 18 by 15 foot 5 5 by 4 6 m entry as the interiors were shot on studio sound stages elsewhere A front porch set replicating the porch of the backlot house was created as well From 1964 through 1966 the Kravitzes house was the same as used for The Donna Reed Show Beginning with season 3 color episodes in 1966 the Kravitz house sets were the same as what would years later be featured as The Partridge Family house Production and filming for Bewitched was based in Los Angeles and although the setting is assumed to be New York several episodes feature wide angle exterior views of the Stephenses neighborhood showing a California landscape with mountains in the distance Another example of questionable continuity regarding the location can be seen in Season 6 Episode 6 Darrin s parents drive home after visiting the new baby passing several large palm trees lining the street Cancellation and aftermath EditDespite the low ratings Bewitched still had a contract for two more seasons on ABC The network was willing to honor that contract by renewing the sitcom for a ninth season However by this time Montgomery had grown tired of the series and wanted to move on to other roles Also she and her husband William Asher had separated and would divorce in 1974 As a consolation Asher pitched an idea to ABC for a sitcom starring Paul Lynde The concept was based on the play Howie about a lawyer Paul Simms played by Lynde whose daughter marries a slacker named Howard or Howie The Lynde character despises him as he is not interested in earning money or traditional pursuits In creating a series for Paul Lynde Asher decided to resurrect the Howie concept for ABC and Screen Gems as a replacement for Bewitched the following year Asher designed The Paul Lynde Show to be ABC s counterpart to CBS s All In the Family however the show lacked the controversial and topical issues brought up by that series due to ABC s restriction on social realism citation needed This was despite Lynde s rewrite of the show s dialog in an effort to make the series more lively and comedic When The Paul Lynde Show debuted on ABC in the fall of 1972 it inherited Bewitched s time slot during its last season on Wednesday nights opposite the first half of the Top 30 hit The Carol Burnett Show on CBS and the Top 20 hit Adam 12 on NBC While the first episode of The Paul Lynde Show did well in the ratings strong negative reactions not only to Lynde s character but also the premise of the series led to bad word of mouth and as the weeks went by resulted in a collapse in viewership The show bore some similarities to Bewitched Some of the sets used for the Simms house and backyard were repurposed from Samantha and Darrin Stephens s home The name of Paul s law firm McNish amp Simms was very similar to the name of Darrin Stephens s advertising agency McMann amp Tate In addition many actors regularly seen on Bewitched were also used on Lynde s series including Mabel Albertson Herb Voland Jack Collins Richard X Slattery and Dick Wilson At the same time to help fulfill the network s contract with Bewitched Asher and Harry Ackerman created another ABC sitcom for the 1972 1973 season titled Temperatures Rising The series starred James Whitmore and Cleavon Little In its first year the sitcom was not only struggling with its format but with ratings In mid season Asher was replaced as producer by Bruce Johnson and Duke Vincent Despite its challenges the series ended its first year with a respectable 29 share and was renewed for the 1973 1974 season To improve ratings and help Paul Lynde fulfill his contract with the network ABC wanted to make some changes When The New Temperatures Rising Show debuted in September 1973 Whitmore was replaced by Lynde and the emphasis on black comedy in the show became more prominent As a result the ratings for the series fell well below the levels of the previous season When Screen Gems head John Mitchell and ABC chief programmer Barry Diller noticed that The New Temperatures Rising Show was failing they contacted William Asher and asked him to come back and salvage the series As a result the show was resurrected on July 18 1974 after a six month hiatus with its original title Temperatures Rising Joining Lynde and Little in the cast was Bewitched alum Alice Ghostley Despite the changes in cast and format the attempt to resuscitate the series failed and ABC finally cancelled it permanently The final episode of Temperatures Rising aired on August 29 1974 which ended William Asher s original contract with Bewitched and ABC Cultural context EditIn February 1964 feminist Betty Friedan s two part essay Television and the Feminine Mystique for TV Guide 16 17 criticized the portrayal of women in television shows as simplistic manipulative and insecure household drudges whose time was spent dreaming of love and plotting revenge on their husbands 18 Samantha s character differed from this stereotype and Endora used Friedan like language to criticize the boring drudgery of household life 6 Others have looked how the series play ed into and subvert ed a rich load of cultural stereotypes and allusions regarding witches gender roles advertising and consumerism 19 In the episode Eat at Mario s May 27 1965 Samantha and Endora use their powers to defend and promote a quality Italian restaurant They take delight in an active aggressive role in the public space breaking new ground in the depiction of women in television 6 Airing during the civil rights era Bewitched broached taboos about interracial marriage 20 In a 1992 interview Elizabeth Montgomery was asked if the show was an allegory about closeted homosexuality She answered Don t think that didn t enter our minds at the time We talked about it on the set certainly not in production meetings that this was about people not being allowed to be what they really are If you think about it Bewitched is about repression in general and all the frustration and trouble it can cause 21 Reception EditWalter Metz attributes the success of the series to its snappy writing the charm of Elizabeth Montgomery and the talents of its large supporting cast The show also made use of respected film techniques for its special effects The soundtrack was unique notably where it concerned the synthesized sound of nose twitching 9 The first episodes featured a voice over narrator performing comic sociological analyses of the role of a witch in middle class suburbia The style was reminiscent of Hollywood films such as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter 1957 6 In a 1991 audio interview with film historian Ronald Haver Elizabeth Montgomery revealed that her father Robert Montgomery was originally approached and asked to narrate these episodes but he refused Instead the narration was done by Academy Award winning actor Jose Ferrer who did not receive credit The series inspired the rival show I Dream of Jeannie 1965 1970 9 on NBC which was produced by the same studio as Bewitched Screen Gems Spin offs crossovers and remakes EditThe Flintstones Edit The 1965 episode of The Flintstones titled Samantha 1965 featured Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery as Darrin and Samantha Stephens who have just moved into the neighborhood This crossover was facilitated by both series being broadcast on ABC 22 Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family Edit An animated TV special made in 1972 by Hanna Barbera Productions for The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie this featured teenage versions of Tabitha and Adam visiting their aunt and her family who travel with a circus 23 The show aired on December 2 1972 24 See also List of animated spin offs from prime time shows Tabitha Edit Main article Tabitha TV series In 1977 a short lived spin off titled Tabitha aired on ABC Lisa Hartman played Tabitha now an adult working with her brother Adam at television station KXLA There were several continuity differences with the original series Adam and Tabitha had both aged far more than the intervening five years between the two series would have allowed Adam also had become Tabitha s older mortal brother rather than her younger warlock brother as he was in Bewitched Supporting character Aunt Minerva Karen Morrow says she has been close to Tabitha since childhood though she had never been mentioned once in the original series Tabitha s parents are mentioned but never appear However Bernard Fox Sandra Gould George Tobias and Dick Wilson reprised their roles as Dr Bombay Gladys Kravitz Abner Kravitz and various drunks Passions Edit Main article Passions soap opera The 1999 2008 NBC soap opera Passions featured several appearances by Bernard Fox playing Dr Bombay 25 In another echo of Bewitched the resident witch on Passions Tabitha Lenox Juliet Mills named her daughter Endora 26 Theatrical movie Edit Main article Bewitched 2005 film Bewitched inspired a 2005 film starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell This film was distributed by Columbia Pictures The film departing from the show s family oriented tone is not a remake but takes a metafictional approach with the action focused on arrogant failing Hollywood actor Jack Wyatt Ferrell who is offered a career comeback playing Darrin in a remake of Bewitched The role is contingent upon him finding the perfect woman to play Samantha He chooses an unknown named Isabel Bigelow Kidman who is an actual witch The film was written directed and produced by Nora Ephron and was poorly received by most critics and was a financial failure It earned 22 million less than the production cost domestically However it earned an additional 68 million internationally The New York Times called the film an unmitigated disaster 27 Comic adaptations Edit Dell Comics adapted the series into a comic book series in 1964 The art work was provided by Henry Scarpelli 28 In 1966 the series was adapted as a strip in Lady Penelope beginning from issue 12 and lasting until the comic s demise in 1969 29 Television remakes Edit Argentina A remake called Hechizada produced by Telefe aired in early 2007 It starred Florencia Pena as Samantha Gustavo Garzon as her husband Eduardo and Georgina Barbarrosa as Endora This show adapted original scripts to an Argentinian context with local humor and a contemporary setting The show was cancelled due to low ratings after a few weeks Japan TBS a flagship station of Japan News Network produced a remake called Okusama wa majo 奥さまは魔女 meaning My Wife is a Witch also known as Bewitched in Tokyo 30 Eleven episodes were broadcast on JNN stations Fridays at 10 pm from January 16 to March 26 2004 and a special on December 21 2004 The main character Arisa Matsui was portrayed by Ryoko Yonekura Okusama wa majo is also the Japanese title for the original American series India In 2002 Sony Entertainment Television began airing Meri Biwi Wonderful a local adaptation of Bewitched Russia In 2009 TV3 broadcast a remake titled Moya lyubimaya vedma My Favorite Witch starring Anna Zdor as Nadia Samantha Ivan Grishanov as Ivan Darrin and Marina Esepenko as Nadia s mother The series is very similar to the original with most episodes based on those from the original series American comedy writer producer Norm Gunzenhauser oversaw the writing and directing of the series United Kingdom In 2008 the BBC made a pilot episode of a British version with Sheridan Smith as Samantha Tom Price as Darrin and veteran actress Frances de la Tour as Endora Proposed reboots Edit In August 2011 it was reported that CBS ordered a script to be written by Marc Lawrence for a rebooted series of Bewitched 31 On October 22 2014 Sony Pictures Television announced that it sold a pilot of Bewitched to NBC as a possible entry for the 2015 2016 US television season This show would have concerned Tabitha s daughter Daphne a single woman who despite having the same magical powers as her mother grandmother and great grandmother is determined not to use her special abilities to find a soul mate The new version of the proposed series written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein had been on the radar of several major networks including ABC after Sony began shopping the project to interested parties 32 On August 23 2018 ABC announced that it had bought a pilot for a single camera Bewitched remake from Black ish creator Kenya Barris This is Barris s last new project for the network before his exclusive contract with Netflix goes into effect 33 WandaVision Edit Further information Don t Touch That Dial and WandaVision Writing The second episode of drama mystery television miniseries WandaVision titled Don t Touch That Dial heavily references the series through an animated title sequence and the premise of Wanda Maximoff and Vision living an idyllic suburban life trying to conceal their true natures Exteriors of the neighborhood were filmed at the now Warner Ranch Backlot with Maximoff s nosy neighbor Agnes living in the Stephens house Episodes EditMain article List of Bewitched episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankRatingFirst airedLast aired136September 17 1964 1964 09 17 June 3 1965 1965 06 03 231 0238September 16 1965 1965 09 16 June 9 1966 1966 06 09 725 9 a 333September 15 1966 1966 09 15 May 4 1967 1967 05 04 723 4 b 433September 7 1967 1967 09 07 May 16 1968 1968 05 16 1123 5530September 26 1968 1968 09 26 April 24 1969 1969 04 24 1123 3 c 630September 18 1969 1969 09 18 April 16 1970 1970 04 16 2420 6 d 728September 24 1970 1970 09 24 April 22 1971 1971 04 22 826September 15 1971 1971 09 15 March 25 1972 1972 03 25 72 34 11 3 34 Episode availability Edit Syndication history Edit After completing its original run ABC Daytime and ABC Saturday Morning continued to air the series until 1973 Since then Bewitched has been syndicated on many local US broadcast stations first from 1973 to 1982 and then since 1993 including Columbia TriStar Television as part of the Screen Gems Network syndication package from 1999 to 2001 which featured bonus wraparound content during episode airings in 1999 From 1973 to 1982 the entire series was syndicated by Screen Gems Columbia Pictures By the late 70s many local stations skipped the black and white episodes or they only ran them in the summer due to the perception that black and white shows usually had less appeal than shows which were filmed in color From 1981 to about 1991 only the color episodes were syndicated in barter syndication by DFS Program Exchange The first two seasons which were in black and white were not included because Columbia retained the rights to them Beginning in 1989 Nick at Nite only aired the black and white episodes which were originally unedited The edited versions of the episodes continued in barter syndication until 1992 Columbia syndicated the entire series beginning in 1991 The remaining six color seasons were added to Nick at Nite s lineup in March 1998 in a week long Dueling Darrins Marathon Later seasons 1 2 were colorized and made available for syndication Eventually they were made available for DVD sales The cable television channel WTBS carried seasons 3 8 throughout the 1980s and 1990s from DFS on a barter basis like most local stations that carried the show The Hallmark Channel aired the show from 2001 to 2003 TV Land then aired the show from 2003 to 2006 and it returned to TV Land in March 2010 35 but left the schedule in 2012 In October 2008 the show began to air on WGN America and in October 2012 it began to air on Logo limited to the middle seasons MeTV aired the show in conjunction with I Dream of Jeannie from December 31 2012 to September 1 2013 36 The cable and satellite network FETV also airs the show together with I Dream of Jeannie The show now airs on Antenna TV and GAC Family The episodes on GAC Family air in HD and have been remastered Overseas markets Edit In Australia this series aired on the Nine Network s digital channel GO later it moved to the Seven Network s digital channels 7TWO later 7flix Prior to this the show aired in reruns on Network Ten in 1995 before moving to the Seven Network a year later In Italy the series aired on Raiuno Telemontecarlo Italia 1 Rai 3 Canale 5 Retequattro Boing amp Paramount Network under the name Vita da strega Life as a Witch from 1967 until 1979 The Russia based channel Domashny aired the show from 2008 to 2010 Internet Edit Selected episodes may be viewed on iTunes YouTube IMDb Hulu The Minisode Network Crackle and Amazon com The show also airs on free streaming TV station Pluto TV 37 Home media Edit Main article Bewitched DVD releases Beginning in 2005 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all eight seasons of Bewitched In regions 1 and 4 seasons 1 and 2 were each released in two versions one as originally broadcast in black and white and one colorized The complete series set only contains the colorized versions of Seasons 1 2 Only the colorized editions were released in regions 2 and 4 On August 27 2013 it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Bewitched 38 They have subsequently re released the first six seasons with seasons 1 amp 2 available only in their black and white versions 39 40 41 On October 6 2015 Mill Creek Entertainment re released Bewitched The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 42 Special features were stripped from the release The first two seasons are in black and white only Notes Edit Tied with The Beverly Hillbillies Tied with Daktari and The Beverly 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