Sept. 18, 2024

Happy Birthday, "Bewitched"! Part One- The Magic Begins

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Season 1

S01 E24 Join us for a special 60th-anniversary celebration of the classic TV show "Bewitched" as we discuss the beloved sitcom's place in television history. In this first of 2 episodes, we'll concentrate on the show's first 5 years, a/k/a - the Dick York era.  We kick off the episode with some fun singing and then embark on a nostalgic journey through the rich history and trivia of this beloved series. We explore the show's origins, the initial casting choices, and the memorable pilot episode "I, Darren, Take This Witch, Samantha."  We also reminisce about characters like Uncle Arthur and Aunt Clara, whose limited screen time left a lasting impact, and reflect on how the show has continued to bring joy and charm to our lives.

Did you know Elizabeth Montgomery's performance as Samantha was groundbreaking but went unrecognized by the Emmys? We take an in-depth look at her incredible but Emmy-less legacy, and the baffling decision by the Academy to leave her Emmy-less. We also discuss the impact of Dick York's replacement by Dick Sargent on the show's ratings and how Montgomery's partial ownership of "Bewitched" made her quite wealthy despite the lack of Emmy recognition. Additionally, we touch upon Montgomery's early career, her privileged upbringing, and her mentorship under Bette Davis, which all led to her iconic role in "Bewitched."

Curious about how "Bewitched" came to be and the fascinating stories behind its cast?  From its iconic instrumental theme song to the multiple cast changes, we discuss how these shifts made it feel like two different shows. From on-set anecdotes to episode highlights like "A is for Aardvark" and "Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds," we cover the comedic brilliance and lasting impact of "Bewitched" on television. Plus, don't miss our detailed recap of the hilarious Aunt Clara blackout mishap and a teaser for part two of our celebration, where we'll explore the transition from Dick York to Dick Sargent and Elizabeth Montgomery's thoughts on "I Dream of Jeannie.

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Hey, Brad, before we go any further, I'm going to sing, and you know what?

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You can't stop me this time, except for my voice.

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Okay, you got me nervous, you ready.

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Sure.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday, dear.

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Bewitched.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Yes, and you can't stop me because it's in the public domain.

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Well, you can stop me yes, it is.

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For my voice.

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You can stop me, but you can't stop me from that.

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That just happened a few years ago and I stumbled on Bewitched.

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I said something like but anyway, they'll understand you.

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That's fine.

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People get the idea Because happy birthday, bewitched 60 years.

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One of the few things around that's older than me 60 years.

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Yesterday, september 17th 1964, bewitched debuted on ABC.

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How about that?

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Well, is it my turn to sing?

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Go ahead, yeah, absolutely, I'm going to break the rule because I tell you you can't sing and I'm going to sing.

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I know what you're going to sing Bewitched, bewitched.

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You've got me in your spell.

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Bewitched, bewitched.

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You know your craft so well.

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Before I knew what you were doing, I looked in your eyes.

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That brand of woo that you've been brewing took me by surprise.

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There we go.

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That's enough, wow.

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Sorry for those that had to bear that.

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No, you sounded good, Unlike you.

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I won't degrade your singing voice.

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You sounded good, Boy.

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You had it going too.

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You sound a little bit like Steve Lawrence.

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Did you ever hear his version of it Be which?

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Be which no.

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Yeah, it's quite the earworm.

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And before we start on trivia, did you know that they wanted that?

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And because they ran out of time.

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That's why they did not have the music or the lyrics in the theme song.

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Yeah, they didn't have lyrics in time, which I'm glad.

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I'm glad I like it's instrumental.

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I think if it was someone singing you'd say who's that?

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Is that?

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Darren?

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Yeah, who's singing that song?

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Larry Tate, who's singing that song?

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Unless it was Peggy Lee, then you'd be like doesn't sound like Elizabeth Montgomery.

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Anyway, it's a long way around going to say that we are doing a special, ultra special, supersized episode of Bewitched, actually two episodes on Bewitched.

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Now, listener, brad is always against me doing two-parters.

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He doesn't like us to do two-part episodes.

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But I said to him look, we have to do two parts for this for several reasons.

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First of all, it's really to me two different series Because, when I mean I can, the only series I can think of in which 40% of the original cast changed during the run of the show changed during the run of the show.

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So you have not just, of course, the most famous, the Darrens, but you have two different Louise Tates, two different Gladys Kravitzes.

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Frank Stevens started out as one actor, changed to another actor and then came back to the original actor for the last season.

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So it's like two different shows, don't you think?

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Yes, I do, and actually you left out Marion Lorne, who was Well, but her character didn't change.

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No, her character didn't change, but she was my favorite.

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Next on quality, she's everybody's favorite, and then she unfortunately passed away.

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And then they brought Was it?

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Two seasons later they brought Esmeralda in.

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Yes, actually, we're getting into our tidbits here.

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But yes, actually, alice Ghostly.

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They approached Alice Ghostly to replace the irreplaceable Alice Pierce.

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As Gladys Kravitz and Alice Ghostly, to her everlasting credit, said no, she was a friend of mine, she's irreplaceable, and so that's how we got the.

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I't really talk about sandra gould right now.

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But that's how?

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But yes, then esmeralda.

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They created the character of esmeralda, who was a absent-minded witch, but she wasn't an clara.

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They made a very clear point we cannot replace marion lauren yeah, and that was a smart move.

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Well, elizabeth, uh.

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Montgomery said no, yes, she did, she was adamant, she was very close, she was very close.

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She was very close with Marion Lauren.

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She actually accepted Marion Lauren's posthumous Emmy Award when Marion Lauren won Best Supporting Actress the year that she died.

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The fourth season of the year.

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Okay, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.

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We're getting way ahead of ourselves, way ahead of ourselves.

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Let's talk about 1164 Morning Glory Circle.

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Let's do it.

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I wanted to ask you what this show, what Bewitched, has meant to you as a person, as a gay man, what's the significance in your life?

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I remember watching this.

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I think it was every day in reruns with my mom.

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It was always a big deal.

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One of my mom's consistent lines was when I wanted something and I didn't want to wait, she would say I'm not, samantha, I absolutely adored it.

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I got to tell you watching it again.

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I'm like God there's so much to nitpick about this show and who gives a damn?

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It's fun as hell.

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So won't even go there, at least not right away.

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But I adored Uncle Arthur.

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I don't know if it was because of his flamboyant, which you know he was gay despite he.

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He never admitted it that I know of, or I just loved that he was a jokester.

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But god, I, I.

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He was only like 10 episodes and he had such an impact I might guarantee if you interviewed people they would say I think he was probably on 30 episodes yeah, yeah, well, the sign of a true impactful actor.

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You know, like, like Cloris Leachman on Mary Tyler Moore, people can't believe that she was only in like two or three episodes a season and you're like, but she was the impact.

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I mean he was a hugely impactful.

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Same with Dr Bombay.

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I always loved Dr Bombay.

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I love the way Dr Bombay disappeared.

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I loved he would just do that hand motion.

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It was so elegant, it was just and he was gone.

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He didn't do the arms like Agnes Moorhead, he just went.

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It was great, or Samantha's.

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I also love that he always showed up when he was in the middle of doing something kinky most of the time, always doing something bizarre and half the time it's kinky with his nurses.

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With his nurses.

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Like you, I mean, I remember very well reruns.

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This is just you know, this colors my childhood, this is in the fabric of my childhood, this show, watching it after school and just watching.

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I tell you what was really amazing for me was because they didn't show the Screen Gems, did not show the black and white episodes in syndication when Bewitched first syndicated because they figured no one would watch them.

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They were really hard to come by.

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And then I believe it was probably Nick at Night that first showed the black and white ones.

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And I was my mind, my life was.

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My mind was blown when I saw the black and white ones.

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They were so different was my mind was blown when I saw the black and white ones.

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They were so different.

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And just experiencing Alice Pierce, after years and years of the annoying, aggravating, insufferable Sandra Gould, I couldn't believe it.

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I couldn't believe it.

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So I became obsessed with the black and white ones, so much so that during there was an actor strike in the 80s, early 80s, and I wrote a letter to ABC and I said would you please you know you don't have any programming why not show the original black and white episode, the black and white episodes of Bewitched, because you can never see them anywhere.

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And I think I kind of created Nick at Night.

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I gotta tell you right now, they never answered me, but hello.

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So when you're watching TV, land right here.

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It's me, my idea.

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You're welcome, you're welcome world.

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As a fan of TV Land, I'll say thank you and I'm going to go back to Sandra Gold for a minute.

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Gladys Kravitz.

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If we must.

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Because you said that they didn't show the black and white.

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She's.

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The only one I knew was Gladys Kravitz.

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Yeah, that's all I knew, and I loved her and hated her at the same time.

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She was very annoying.

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So when the first time that I saw Alice Pierce, I'm like who is, what is this Gladys Kravitz?

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And I absolutely hated her because it just rubbed me wrong.

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It was like this isn't right.

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Watching it again, I'm like, wow, she's really good.

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She's brilliant, yeah, brilliant.

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She was a brilliant, brilliant actress.

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She's very Carol Burnett, like you know.

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If Carol Burnett's career had gone a different way, if Carol Burnett didn't have that incredible singing voice I think that you know, took her to Broadway and led her to Variety, she would have been fantastic.

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Mrs Kravitz, oh, she would have been, because, I mean, she's a little too young, especially for George Tobias, to be George Tobias' wife.

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But then again there's Vivian Vance and Bill Frawley.

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So you never know.

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But yeah, to me, alice Pierce has such humor, has such charm, has such nuance.

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Sandra Gould has no nuance.

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Sandra Gould has no charm.

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Sandra Gould is just annoying.

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But anyway, yes, we're getting way ahead of ourselves, way ahead of ourselves.

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What we're going to do today, dear listener, is we're going to kind of take the template of our Mary Tyler Moore episode and expand it, because we've decided to do two separate episodes On this episode.

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Today we're going to discuss the first five seasons of Bewitched, aka the Dick York years, and then in part two next week stay tuned for next week's episode we will talk about the Dick Sargent episodes.

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So basically the three seasons that Dick Sargent played Darren.

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But today it's Dick York land, dick York time and I'm so happy about that.

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And you mentioned, I don't like two parters.

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When you first said to me, I kind of shuddered for a second.

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I thought, no, this one we have to.

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To me, I kind of shuddered for a second.

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I thought, no, this one we have to.

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I got to tell you, though, this was the most painful, the most excruciating assignment that you've given me.

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Oh God, why I had such a how, out of 254 episodes, do I pick my favorite?

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I mean, I have my choice, but I'm like all these others.

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I want to talk about them all.

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We need a whole.

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Well, that's why we could do a bewitched podcast.

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Well, that's why we should actually, but that's why I said it has to be two episodes, Cause there was no way as hard as it was on Mary Tyler Moore.

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This was such a challenge and I don't know, and even even splitting it into two parts, I still had a hell of a time picking four episodes for the Dick York years.

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I just it was so difficult because I love them almost all of them so very much, so, very much.

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I'm the same way.

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I'm like I have all these other episodes I'd love to talk about, but I had to break it down.

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I'm like, okay, these are the best.

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They really reflect the show Hopefully both.

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Maybe when people listen to this they will email us, text us, their suggestions for their favorite episodes and, who knows, we can have a Bewitched 61st anniversary.

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I'd love that.

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Please do so.

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I would love that too.

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I'd love it at 60 years on September 17th 1964.

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And I think the reason we're here, the reason we're all here celebrating Bewitched, comes down to two words, and those two words are Elizabeth Montgomery.

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Has there ever been a more charming, more beautiful, more luminous television star than Elizabeth Montgomery?

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I really don't think so.

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I mean, you know I love Mary Tyler Moore, God knows I love Lucy.

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Elizabeth Montgomery is up there with them in the Pantheon.

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She is the most charming, lovable, just effervescent TV star I think there ever was.

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And if you're used to Samantha, as you usually saw her as a really good playing housewife, watch the first episode where she is so Samantha's so uncomfortable because Darren takes her to the society meeting and Samantha dresses up inappropriately and Darren's ex-fiance is there.

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She plays that so well and after seeing her play the housewife for so long and then seeing her in this incident where she's so unsure of herself, I like wow, she really is a good actress she was a wonderful actress.

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Well, all I have to do is watch her post bewitched work.

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I mean, it's all on youtube the legend of lizzie borden chilling uh, a case of rape chilling.

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She did those edna buchanan mysteries before she died.

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Incredible work, incredible work.

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Here's the thing about.

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The thing about.

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Elizabeth Montgomery was nominated for nine Emmys and four Golden Globes.

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She was nominated for Bewitched five times and I just want to get this out there in the beginning.

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Okay, she was nominated.

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She never won an Emmy for Bewitched.

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Now, as I said before, we all know how much I love Lucy.

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Okay, as I said before, we all know how much I love Lucy.

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But in 1967 and 1968, lucille Ball won back-to-back Emmys for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy.

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Now, the first one in 67 is really touching.

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She hadn't won an Emmy in a long time.

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She was totally surprised.

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Her speech is very touching.

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And then she won again.

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So I'm just going to put this out there.

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Let's please take back one of those, the 68, the repeat, because she didn't care.

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She was kind of sarcastic in her speech and she really didn't care.

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She was like, oh, I'm winning again.

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I think she had a piece of cheese in her mouth.

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Give it to Elizabeth Montgomery.

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How can you not give this woman an Emmy for this performance?

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I don't understand it.

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It's one of the biggest travesties in Emmy history, in awards history, as far as I'm concerned.

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I agree 100%.

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When I saw that, I was absolutely amazed that it wasn't more.

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It's shocking, isn't it?

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It's shocking, yes, it really was.

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Especially when you consider how popular the show was, I mean there were seasons that was above beverly, hillbillies.

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Oh, it was the.

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It was the number one rated tv sitcom.

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In its first season it was number two.

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It was behind bonanza, but as far as comedies go it was the number one comedy on television.

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It was abc's first biggest hit ever.

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It was ab ABC's big, an entire network's biggest hit ever.

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It was huge and it you know, it was in the top 10 for its first three seasons and then it fell to like 11, the final two.

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And then the unfortunate occurrence happened and we got I mean, we'll talk about Dick Sargent, but there was, there was an immediate drop in the ratings once Dick York left and it went to 24 and then it just bottomed out.

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In its last year I think it was 72, which I think is unfortunate.

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And we'll get to this in our next episode, because there are some episodes from the final season I actually really like.

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But we'll get to that.

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We'll get to that later.

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I agree and tell me.

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Well, I know for a fact that ABC, when it comes to between CBS and NBC, abc, is much younger, much Still been around a while, but it's much younger.

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And so you're telling me that for the decade and a half I'm going to guess maybe two decades that it was on actually probably a decade and a half it never really had a hit.

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It had a couple of hits, but it didn't have this kind of gargantuan.

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It didn't have Lucy, it didn't have the Honeymooners, it didn't have George Burns and Gracie Allen.

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These were all CBS, nbc.

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So when they bought this little series about a witch who marries a mortal from Screen Gems, they had no idea.

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They had no idea what was going to happen.

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In fact, there was some resistance to it because they thought that it would not be accepted in the South.

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The idea of a witch was a little too conservative for the South.

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So they were a little worried.

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And then Chevrolet, the sponsor, came on board and they said let's do it, and it became their biggest hit ever, their biggest hit ever.

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So I think it's amazing.

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And the last thing before we get into I want to say about Elizabeth Montgomery she should have won more awards, but at least it made her very rich.

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Oh yeah, Well, you know she had a piece of it, she got a piece of it in the sixth season and then a bigger piece of it in the last season.

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So God bless her.

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Well, I'm going to talk a little bit more about Elizabeth Montgomery and then we'll go into which, because I think it's important to put it in context For people who don't know.

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For her formative years, elizabeth Montgomery was basically known as Robert Montgomery's daughter, because she was the daughter of Robert Montgomery, who was a very, very big movie star in the early talkies, I mean right up until the late forties.

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He, he, he became a director in the late forties.

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He played Philip Marlowe in Lady and the Lake.

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He was in Night Must Fall.

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He got an Academy Award nomination.

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He was also for.

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He was also instrumental in the formation of the Screen Actors Guild.

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So he was quite a guy, robert Montgomery.

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He was a big, big star in the early.

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He was with them all.

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He was with Garbo, he was with Crawford, he was with Shearer, because MGM was top-heavy with actresses.

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They didn't have enough really strong actors until Clark Gable came along, until Spencer Tracy came along, so Robert Montgomery stepped in.

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So the point of that being, robert Montgomery was a big movie star.

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He was married to a Broadway actress, elizabeth Allen, and they had a daughter in 1933, and her name is Elizabeth Montgomery.

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She was born on April 15, 1933, and she wanted to follow in her father's footsteps.

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She was a Beverly Hills kid.

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She grew up in privilege, she was surrounded by luxury, she had a lot of celebrity friends, but that was the way it was back then.

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They were all like it was an industry town.

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She even said that I didn't think I was anything special.

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My father went to work every day and came home and my mother was there and we had this house and I rode my bike and I went to school and that's the way it was.

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So it wasn't until later on she realized her lineage and the tradition, when she wanted to become an actress.

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And she became an actress and began her career in 1951 on her father's TV show Her father had in the early fifties.

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Another amazing thing about Robert Montgomery was he switched.

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He realized the potential in television.

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Not a lot of people did.

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Most people in the movies stayed far away from television.

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He realized the potential and he produced a show called Robert Montgomery Presents and it was a big show in the 50s and Elizabeth Montgomery made her acting debut on his show in 1951.

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And that's how she got started.

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And I didn't know that stuff.

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Usually you don't catch me by surprise too much, because I do a little bit of delving, not nearly as much as you do but I had no idea that was her father.

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Yeah, yeah, no, he's a great guy.

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It's funny because he was very conservative, but 50s conservative, not batshit crazy conservative like we think he was.

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He was basically a democrat, is what you're trying to say he was.

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He was very conservative and his daughter, elizabeth, was very liberal, so they had a lot of battles um in that way.

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But here's a conservative who was instrumental in creating the screen actors guild.

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So hello, that tells you something.

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Right, there he was.

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He was.

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He had a lot of integrity, robert montgomery.

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But one of his co-stars was also one of Elizabeth Montgomery's mentors and later best friends, bette Davis.

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Now Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery did not like each other.

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They made a film together called June Bride, in which it's amazing, they got through it because they didn't kill each other each other.

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But when Elizabeth Montgomery was in New York as an actress trying to make her way, she ran into Bette Davis at a party and of course they knew the family and Bette Davis became a mentor to Elizabeth Montgomery, which is really kind of sweet.

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And I'll just tell one quick funny story and then we'll get into Bewitched history.

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So Elizabeth Montgomery was hanging out at Bette Davis's house one day and they were talking and Betty Davis was the only person that Elizabeth Montgomery let call her Betty.

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Nobody else could call her Betty.

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She was Elizabeth, later she was Lizzie, but never Betty.

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But she let Betty Davis do it.

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She let Betty Davis do it.

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So they're having a discussion at Betty Davis's house one day and they got into a disagreement and they got into an argument and Elizabeth Montgomery said that Betty Davis got up and walked out, stormed out of the room and then turned around and said Betty, when they make a movie of my life you should play me, and I don't think that's necessarily a compliment.

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And then she turned and walked out.

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Oh, I love that.

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So Elizabeth Montgomery had some fire in her.

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I'll tell you.

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I'll tell you anyway.

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Tony, you and I get excited when we get messages and emails and texts from listeners that tell us how much they enjoy the show.

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We do.

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But you know, I think we should push it a little bit and ask them to go a little bit further.

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Ooh, a challenge.

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If you enjoy this show, let others know.

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Five stars are great, whatever you want to give, except one star.

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If you have one star, say you know, this show is not for me and move on.

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We accept that.

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Yeah, Say you know this show is not for me and move on.

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We accept that, yeah, you don't need to.

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Don't give us one star.

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Just say no, not for me, Just skip it.

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Or tell your friends.

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That's the best way too, right?

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Tell your friends, hey, I have this great fun podcast with these two kooky guys who talk about movies and TV.

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We run the gamut.

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We have everything.

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Yeah, we're all over.

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The place is a better way to put it, but in a good way.

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So do it right now, before you forget.

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So Elizabeth Montgomery was a very busy actress in the 50s.

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She was working on her father's show, she was doing a lot of TV.

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She was nominated for an Emmy for an episode of the Untouchables, actually, and she was in a movie called Johnny Cool.

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And when she was on this movie, on the set of Johnny Cool, she met her director, and her director was a guy named William Asher.

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Now, for anybody who doesn't know, william Asher is kind of another one of these legendary directors from TV's golden age.

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He worked on a little TV show called I Love Lucy.

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So, if you like, I Love Lucy, his very first episode was actually job switching, the Candy Factory episode.

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So you know, william Asher had some cred.

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I mean, when Lucy O'Ball likes you, yeah, you got some cred.

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So William Asher was a very famous TV director that he was branching out into films and he met Elizabeth Montgomery on the set of Johnny Cool.

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They fell in love.

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William Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery got married.

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They wanted to find a project in which they could work together and they went to a company called Screen Gems with an idea they had for a TV show called the Fun Couple, and it was a story that was centered around a millionaires who marries a mechanic and they face all these problems due to opposition from his family, and they brought it to the company Screen Gems.

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Now, screen Gems was pretty well known in the industry for creating really family-oriented sitcoms.

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They did Father Knows Best, leave it to Beaver this kind of stuff.

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And Screen Gems was headed by this guy named Harry Ackerman who used to be president of CBS, and then he took over Screen Gems.

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And do you remember, brad, when we talked about Tootsie?

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And I said to you that it's a lot more common than you think when two projects kind of are being created independently of each other, without the other one's knowledge, and they kind of come together to create another project.

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Yes, yeah, we had that whole discussion.

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I don't know where you're going with this.

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This has my interest.

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Well, this is exactly what happened in this case, because while Elizabeth Montgomery was with Bill Asher and they were talking about this show called the Fun Couple, there was a project being developed at Screen Gems by a writer-producer named Saul Sachs I Married a Witch and the film Belle Book and Candle I Married a Witch was from the 40s with Fredrick March and Veronica Lake, and Belle Book and Candle had Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak and they're both about witches.

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Kim Novak and Veronica Lake both play witches, so Solstice developed this series about a witch who marries a mortal and just as it was being developed, bill Asher brought this idea about called the fun couple to Screen Gems and the two came together at this time to develop Bewitched Now, the show Bewitched.

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The original idea that Screen Gems was developing was originally offered to the actress, tammy Grimes.

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Remember we talked about her and the boys in the band yes, but she decided she didn't want it.

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She, we talked about her and the boys in the band yes, but she decided she didn't want it.

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She didn't want to play the role.

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So they were looking for an actress and it was exactly the same time that Elizabeth Montgomery and William Asher brought them the idea for this show called the Fun Couple, and they went.

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Wait a minute, let's bring these together.

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Here's our witch, right here it's Elizabeth Montgomery.

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And that's how that project first began.

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Well, I didn't know that.

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I knew that it was based on the two movies I don't think I've ever seen I Married a Witch, but Bell Book and Candle.

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If you haven't seen it.

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But you know Bewitched watch it and you're like oh, this is where Bewitched came from.

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Yeah, it is pretty good.

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And Kim Novak's wonderful.

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It's wonderful, isn't it?

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So yeah, so that's how that happened.

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Now, the character in the original premise for Bewitched was not called Samantha.

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Do you know what she was called?

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I heard it a long time ago, so no, I don't remember.

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The character was called Cassandra.

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Ah yes, when it was offered to Tammy Grimes her name was Cassandra.

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But Elizabeth Montgomery nixed that.

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She said no, no, no, no.

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She said I don't like that name because of all of its Greek mythological implications.

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You know, cassandra, it's gloom and doom.

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And then they said to her well, why don't we call her Elizabeth?

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And she hated that even more.

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She thought no, that is so egotistical, I can't even do that.

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So she kind of she's growing a little shade to the Lucys and the Marys out there when their characters are named after them.

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But anyway, she said I couldn't imagine having a TV character named after me.

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No, no, no, no, no, I like the name Samantha.

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So she came up with the name Samantha, so the character was named Samantha.

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Now they had to find a husband and when Tammy Grimes was involved they approached the actor, richard Crenna, and he declined.

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And then they offered it to a second actor, a very familiar name, and you know what his name was Brad.

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Let me think Is it Dick Sargent?

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It was Dick Sargent.

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Oh, I didn't stop you, you got that one.

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No, I knew that one.

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Good for you, you got that one.

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Yes, darren was offered to Dick Sargent first.

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So all you anti-Dick Sargent people out there, of which I am one, so I got to eat this crow too.

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Dick Sargent was actually offered the part of Darren first, but he was already committed to another series.

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So they went with their third choice, which was an actor named Dick York.

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Dick York was a gifted comedic actor who had been in films and TV.

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He won praise for his role in the movie Inherit the Wind opposite Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy.

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He in films and TV.

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He won praise for his role in the movie Inherit the Wind opposite Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy.

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He's a wonderful actor.

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He was a wonderful actor.

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He was also in the TV production just before this, the TV version of the film Going my Way, also with Gene Kelly.

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So he auditioned with Elizabeth Montgomery and, according to Dick York, their chemistry was immediate.

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And I don't know about you, but I mean for me personally.

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I would totally agree with that.

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I think their chemistry is so wonderful.

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I think they have such a romantic, loving chemistry between them that it's immediate.

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It makes sense.

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They seem like they're a couple.

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They seem like they're a young couple in love.

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Yes, most definitely.

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And you can see why she would put up with his request that she deny her heritage and who she is because she wants to please him so much.

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I totally buy that.

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I think their chemistry is absolutely wonderful.

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I think he's a wonderful comedic actor.

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So they had their darren and they had their samantha.

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Now they needed the third major character of samantha's, and do you know how that came about?

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Well, I know that she was called, I think just mother Right Agnes Moorhead called her Andorra and the actress yes.

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Yes, agnes Moorhead is the one that gave her a name, which is a great name, and I got to say this about Andorra.

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She is the country's first well-known bitchy drag queen.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Yes, and Agnes Moorhead came up with the name Endora.

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It's based on the Witch of Endor from the Hebrew Bible and she was an entity who could summon the dead, basically in the Hebrew Bible and if you know anything about it, agnes Moorhead's really fascinating.

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She was the daughter of a minister.

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She was almost what we would call fundamentalist Christian.

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Agnes Moorhead was which seems kind of antithetical that she would then play a witch.

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I always thought that I did know that about her and the fact that she played a witch and the fact that she was working with Elizabeth Montgomery, who fact that she played a witch, and the fact that she was working with Elizabeth Montgomery, who we know is very liberal.

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But I'm going to jump ahead.

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I'm also thinking that may be one of the reasons why she didn't like Dick Sargent as well.

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We'll get to that later next episode.

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Yes we'll get to that later, because that was a big thing too that I was like, oh really, this is interesting.

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So the story goes and this is according to Elizabeth Montgomery told this story that they didn't know who they were going to get to play this larger than life, crazy mother.

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And Elizabeth Montgomery was in New York shopping in a department store one day and she said she heard this extraordinary voice behind her talking to the salesperson and she said she turned around and she saw this woman with huge head of red hair, orange like hair, wrapped up in pink tool, and she approached the woman.

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She said excuse me, are you?

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And the woman said immediately agnes moorhead.

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Yes, and she said, oh, I'm, I'm elizabeth montgomery.

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And she was oh, how are you blah blah?

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Because she knew everyone knew her father.

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And she said, um, have you ever thought about doing a tv series?

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And agnes moor had said, no, no, no, well, maybe it was that fast.

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So obviously something happened in the conversation, because agus moore had wasn't just some, you know, out of work actress shopping in the department store.

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I mean, this woman had already had a very, very illustrious career.

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She was in what is arguably the most famous film of all time, or the greatest film of all time, citizen kane.

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And I argue that you argue the greatest film of all time, citizen Kane, and I argue that you argue, the greatest film of all time.

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Yes, I will argue that We'll have to go into the Citizen Kane one day.

00:30:07.256 --> 00:30:08.278
Oh yeah, I do too.

00:30:08.278 --> 00:30:08.721
I don't think so.

00:30:08.789 --> 00:30:12.421
I think people will remember her from two roles that are a little later.

00:30:12.421 --> 00:30:38.049
First of all, definitely they'll remember her from the Twilight Zone yes, what is continuously rated one of the many people rated as the best twilight zone ever uh, it is the episode where she is a mute woman, and it was 1961, just before this show started, and it was the one called the invaders, where the tiny ship was attacking the earth woman.

00:30:39.173 --> 00:30:44.250
Air quotes the earth woman yes uh, and it's, it's a brilliant episode.

00:30:44.250 --> 00:30:46.036
She doesn't say a word and she's so good in it.

00:30:46.036 --> 00:30:51.356
The other thing that I also remember in it's a very short role for her is in how the west was one.

00:30:51.356 --> 00:30:53.260
Yes, he played the.

00:30:53.260 --> 00:30:57.237
I can't remember what her role was, but I remember she was on a raft and she drowned.

00:30:57.698 --> 00:31:02.430
Yes, yes, well, you know, one of her lifelong friends was Debbie Reynolds, they were very close.

00:31:02.430 --> 00:31:09.759
She was also in the Singing Nun with Debbie Reynolds, and this is going to be off tangent, but I'm going to tell it because it's a Carrie Fisher story.

00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:24.898
So anyway, you know, paul Lynn, when he had a couple of drinks with him, not only became very obnoxious, so they say, but he would say things about people, and he's the one who really started the rumor that Agnes Moorhead was a lesbian.

00:31:25.800 --> 00:31:32.071
Now I'm sure there's people out there who've heard this that Agnes Moorhead was a lesbian, because Bewitched is basically the gayest show ever.

00:31:32.071 --> 00:31:35.377
And this is what's funny because.

00:31:35.377 --> 00:31:42.761
And so Carrie Fisher talked about this and she said you know, my mother, debbie Reynolds, was very close with Agnes Moorhead.

00:31:42.761 --> 00:31:43.976
They were in the Singing Nun together.

00:31:43.976 --> 00:31:45.435
They were in how the West Was Won together.

00:31:45.435 --> 00:31:47.516
She'd probably consider her almost her daughter.

00:31:47.516 --> 00:31:48.419
They were that close.

00:31:48.419 --> 00:31:56.503
And she said her mother would get very offended that people would say Agnes Moorhead was a lesbian because she was just a very strict Christian woman.

00:31:56.503 --> 00:31:57.510
It wasn't.

00:31:57.510 --> 00:31:59.818
There really wasn't anything about sexuality about her.

00:31:59.818 --> 00:32:08.094
I mean, she would come to the set with her script in one hand and a Bible in the other.

00:32:08.094 --> 00:32:09.116
This is who Agnes Morehead was, isn't that funny?

00:32:09.116 --> 00:32:12.083
So anyway, but Debbie Reynolds also had rumors that she was a lesbian.

00:32:12.083 --> 00:32:26.915
Someone brought that up to Carrie Fisher, mostly begun by her former husband, eddie Fisher, and Carrie Fisher always said no, my mother was not a lesbian, my mother was just a very, very bad heterosexual.

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.442
Oh, that sounds so Carrie.

00:32:31.263 --> 00:32:32.204
Anyway, we're way, I'm way.

00:32:32.204 --> 00:32:35.037
I'm sorry I'm way, way off off the subject there.

00:32:35.057 --> 00:32:35.838
So I just we have a.

00:32:35.838 --> 00:32:37.069
We have a lot more to do.

00:32:37.069 --> 00:32:38.352
We have a lot of episodes to cover.

00:32:38.352 --> 00:32:38.711
We do.

00:32:38.731 --> 00:32:42.016
So we're let's let's get into the, let's get into the production of this.

00:32:42.016 --> 00:32:44.819
We're going to talk about the production and the pilot.

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:47.542
Do you want to talk a little bit about the pilot of Bewitched, the first episode?

00:32:47.542 --> 00:32:49.246
I, darren, take you Samantha.

00:32:51.269 --> 00:32:58.675
I guess I love this episode and it's one of the things I'm kind of disappointed in Bewitched, because this episode it is so sexy.

00:32:58.675 --> 00:33:09.785
It's the beginning when Darren and Samantha just a touch on when they met very quickly, but then it's after they got married and Samantha is trying to explain to Darren that she is a witch.

00:33:09.785 --> 00:33:12.686
He, of course, doesn't believe her, so she has to do some spells.

00:33:12.686 --> 00:33:16.093
But there is this chemistry between the two.

00:33:16.093 --> 00:33:18.200
You believe this is a couple that are madly in love.

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:21.618
And the other thing is Darren's a man about town.

00:33:21.618 --> 00:33:35.555
He talks about with his ex-fiance about cruises, they went on and these fancy trips, and he and Samantha go to her house for a party and it's with all these hoity-toity people.

00:33:35.555 --> 00:33:38.017
People and I.

00:33:38.017 --> 00:33:50.047
What I wish is that we had that sexiness as a young hip couple for like the first season and then transfer them over into Morning Glory Circle.

00:33:50.106 --> 00:33:50.326
Yes.

00:33:50.690 --> 00:33:51.511
I really love that.

00:33:51.511 --> 00:33:52.734
We had that the first episode.

00:33:52.734 --> 00:33:55.883
But then the second episode they moved to the suburbs.

00:33:55.883 --> 00:33:59.681
So I hate to complain because I loved them in Morning Glory Circle.

00:33:59.721 --> 00:34:12.193
So I hate to complain because I loved them in Morning Glory Circle, I think the fact that they had so many outdoor shoots is one of the reasons why this show was so successful, because it felt real.

00:34:12.193 --> 00:34:15.715
They walked across the street to their neighbors, they had a yard, they had trees, they worked outside and indoors.

00:34:15.715 --> 00:34:22.181
I mean, everyone loved the house, but they felt like a real couple, except one happened to be a witch, with family members that are kooky.

00:34:22.181 --> 00:34:24.784
Yes yes, we all have family members that are kooky.

00:34:25.344 --> 00:34:29.467
There's the fun couple for you, elizabeth Montgomery and Bill Asher's pilot.

00:34:29.467 --> 00:34:31.693
It leaks in there.

00:34:31.693 --> 00:34:32.496
Well, you know.

00:34:32.496 --> 00:34:33.539
I think, though, that's the thing about.

00:34:33.539 --> 00:34:34.541
The pilot is the pilot.

00:34:34.541 --> 00:34:35.371
First of all, the pilot.

00:34:35.371 --> 00:34:40.614
They began filming the pilot on here's a day, on November 22, 1963.

00:34:40.614 --> 00:34:46.480
So quite an auspicious date to start working on a TV series.

00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:52.585
But despite the fact they were shaken, bill Asher said they were determined to keep the schedule and plow through.

00:34:52.585 --> 00:34:55.007
And Bill Asher was a personal friend of John F Kennedy's.

00:34:55.007 --> 00:34:57.713
He produced the Happy Birthday, mr President.

00:34:58.173 --> 00:35:03.235
Famous Marilyn Monroeroe segment and I do want to stop you for our younger folks that day.

00:35:03.235 --> 00:35:10.717
What we're talking about, oh, is the day john f kennedy was assassinated do you really think anybody listening to this podcast is so young?

00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:14.391
yes okay, not everybody's good with dates.

00:35:14.391 --> 00:35:17.478
Okay, yes, the date the president kennedy was assassinated was.

00:35:17.478 --> 00:35:22.152
They began, but they managed to uh, to plot on through Elizabeth Montgomery.

00:35:22.152 --> 00:35:26.643
By the way, ps was three months pregnant during the filming of the pilot.

00:35:26.643 --> 00:35:32.536
I don't know if you could notice that Her outfits were pretty blousey and she's a negligee for part of it too.

00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:35.599
Yeah, I had known that before and I forgot.

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:40.045
And I'm like oh my goodness, Look at her, she is pregnant and I remember.

00:35:40.146 --> 00:35:42.594
Yeah, yeah, you can kind of tell she was, she was.

00:35:42.594 --> 00:35:47.405
Yeah, she, you can tell, especially when the show picked up a year later, almost when they began filming the series.

00:35:47.405 --> 00:35:52.005
It was like a year between the pilot and then she had her baby and then she recovered.

00:35:52.387 --> 00:35:53.351
And she looked fabulous, but you know what I?

00:35:53.371 --> 00:35:53.731
love about.

00:35:53.731 --> 00:36:01.545
What I love about the pilot is did you notice in the pilot they mention when she confesses to Darren, I'm a cauldron stirring, broom riding witch.

00:36:01.545 --> 00:36:08.800
He talks about his aunt who thinks she's a lighthouse, and she stands up on the roof, you know, to warn the ships when it's raining.

00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:10.476
And that came back.

00:36:10.476 --> 00:36:18.463
I love that, that little act, because when his parents meet Aunt Clara later on, elizabeth Montgomery says to him you have an aunt who thinks she's a lighthouse.

00:36:18.463 --> 00:36:20.918
I love that consistency.

00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:22.916
That was so they planted that scene.

00:36:22.916 --> 00:36:24.998
Of course, it all went to shit after that.

00:36:24.998 --> 00:36:29.260
It all fell in the toilet and there were two different Darrens and two different Louise, but you know what I'm saying.

00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:34.070
They started it out with real integrity, which I love about the early part of this series.

00:36:34.090 --> 00:36:38.101
But even with the cast changes, most of the show was pretty good at continuity.

00:36:38.670 --> 00:36:39.693
There were some errors?

00:36:39.753 --> 00:36:40.554
Well, please, how many?

00:36:40.554 --> 00:36:42.820
Much better than the other shows.

00:36:42.820 --> 00:36:45.498
In the 60s, a lot of shows just didn't even care about continuity.

00:36:45.498 --> 00:36:47.081
I think they did a pretty good job.

00:36:47.262 --> 00:36:48.110
I got to disagree with you.

00:36:48.110 --> 00:36:50.795
There are actors and actresses who play Darren's clients.

00:36:50.795 --> 00:36:56.072
The same actor over and over, and you're like, oh my.

00:36:56.092 --> 00:36:57.659
God her again him again.

00:36:57.659 --> 00:37:02.277
How many times has this guy been on this show as a different client?

00:37:02.277 --> 00:37:03.552
It was annoying, and he also had a different secretary.

00:37:03.501 --> 00:37:05.543
it seemed like every week yeah, there was no continuity in the secretaries.

00:37:05.543 --> 00:37:06.425
Yeah At all.

00:37:06.670 --> 00:37:08.335
But I'm just talking about continuity in the story.

00:37:08.436 --> 00:37:09.059
So I love that.

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:22.485
You know what else I love about this episode, the first few episodes, is it's like a two-part episode, because you have the first part where he finds out she's a witch, and you think that would be the entire series, entire episode.

00:37:22.485 --> 00:37:24.215
It wasn't, it was only the first part.

00:37:24.215 --> 00:37:26.936
And then there's a second act and it's Sheila.

00:37:26.936 --> 00:37:28.579
Yes, I love Sheila.

00:37:28.579 --> 00:37:33.016
It's Sheila Darren's ex, played by the wonderful Nancy Kovacs.

00:37:33.016 --> 00:37:34.059
I love that.

00:37:34.059 --> 00:37:34.681
I love it.

00:37:34.681 --> 00:37:35.322
Sheila.

00:37:35.322 --> 00:37:36.871
Tell us about Sheila.

00:37:36.971 --> 00:37:39.394
Well, Sheila, I fortunately get to.

00:37:39.394 --> 00:37:48.153
We aren't going to talk about her too much during the pilot because I get to talk about an episode later when she comes back, which I'm very excited they brought her back.

00:37:48.153 --> 00:37:49.137
I think it was three years later.

00:37:49.438 --> 00:37:52.297
Yes, twice, but she is this Two episodes in a row.

00:37:52.329 --> 00:37:56.240
She is this royal royal rich bitch.

00:37:56.240 --> 00:38:06.615
Yes, yes, bitch, yes, yes who was engaged to darren, and she does everything she could to humiliate samantha and that's why I said samantha wears the wrong clothes.

00:38:06.615 --> 00:38:12.097
She told samantha that the party that her and darren were going to was casual.

00:38:12.097 --> 00:38:15.711
So samantha wears this casual outfit and asked darren, are you sure?

00:38:15.711 --> 00:38:16.012
And he goes.

00:38:16.012 --> 00:38:18.840
Oh yes, and of course everybody's dressed to the nines.

00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:39.655
When samantha shows up and she's very condescending to Samantha and let's just say she's such a bitch that when Samantha gets even with her, it's rich, it's rich, it's so rich they had to do it again in color, the second time for your episode, which we'll talk more about, the wonderful Sheila.

00:38:39.655 --> 00:38:44.344
And the second thing I love about this episode is Dave.

00:38:44.344 --> 00:38:46.293
Do you know who Dave is?

00:38:46.293 --> 00:38:47.157
Dave?

00:38:47.157 --> 00:38:50.215
Dave, no, darren's drinking buddy.

00:38:50.951 --> 00:38:52.257
Oh my God, Dave Wilson.

00:38:52.769 --> 00:38:55.159
Dave, the mythic Dave.

00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:57.036
I love Dave.

00:38:57.036 --> 00:39:01.101
He only appears in the bar drinking with Darren.

00:39:01.101 --> 00:39:04.117
That's the only time we ever see Dave is when Darren goes to the bar.

00:39:04.117 --> 00:39:05.601
Actually, no Wait.

00:39:05.601 --> 00:39:07.175
Oh you're going to stump me, uh-oh.

00:39:07.451 --> 00:39:08.889
Yes, because I was shocked.

00:39:08.889 --> 00:39:24.998
I'm going to jump way ahead, because one of the episodes we're going to talk about in the next episode with the Dick Sargent series was an episode called the Salem Saga, and they are in Salem Massachusetts, for a reason we'll get into later.

00:39:24.998 --> 00:39:27.356
And he is.

00:39:27.356 --> 00:39:34.838
It's the same Dick Wilson who's been in the drunk at the bar and you guys may know him as Mr Whipple in all the Charmin commercials.

00:39:35.672 --> 00:39:37.538
The drunk no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:39:37.538 --> 00:39:38.541
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:39:38.541 --> 00:39:40.242
You're thinking of a totally different character, brad.

00:39:40.242 --> 00:39:41.985
You're thinking of a totally different character.

00:39:41.985 --> 00:39:46.237
Dave is not the alcoholic that, yes, I know exactly who you're talking about.

00:39:47.114 --> 00:39:49.998
Oh, I know who you're talking about the guy that was always complaining about his wife.

00:39:50.190 --> 00:40:03.713
Yes, yes, yes, dave is Darren's drinking buddy.

00:40:03.713 --> 00:40:04.215
That's all he ever did.

00:40:04.215 --> 00:40:05.219
Yes, he was played by an actor named gene blakely.

00:40:05.219 --> 00:40:05.961
Okay, and yes, that's all he ever did.

00:40:05.961 --> 00:40:06.625
All he ever did was meet darren.

00:40:06.625 --> 00:40:07.548
Whenever would darren would be upset?

00:40:07.548 --> 00:40:11.016
Suddenly darren would be in a bar and he would be drinking with him.

00:40:11.016 --> 00:40:16.293
He only appeared in eight episodes of, and mostly in the first year.

00:40:16.293 --> 00:40:25.653
His final appearance was um in the fourth season and it was the episode as If we Never Met, which is kind of fitting because he's remembering they were figuring out what it'd be like if they never met.

00:40:25.653 --> 00:40:26.858
So naturally, dave is there.

00:40:26.858 --> 00:40:28.402
But I love Dave.

00:40:28.402 --> 00:40:31.074
Dave never listens to a word Darren is saying.

00:40:31.074 --> 00:40:33.320
He just answers him.

00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:33.860
He talks.

00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:35.123
Darren talks, he talks.

00:40:35.123 --> 00:40:36.572
Darren says my wife is a witch.

00:40:36.572 --> 00:40:38.197
They're all witches, I know it.

00:40:38.197 --> 00:40:39.159
It's so funny.

00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:42.536
He's totally oblivious and then he drinks his drink and leaves.

00:40:42.536 --> 00:40:44.456
So I love Dave.

00:40:44.456 --> 00:40:46.902
I think Dave is such a great character.

00:40:47.646 --> 00:40:51.804
Yeah, yeah, the man I went on tangent about is Dick Wilson, and we'll talk about him later.

00:40:51.824 --> 00:40:53.490
Yes, yes, the infamous Mr Whipple.

00:40:53.490 --> 00:41:00.173
Yes, absolutely yes, all the pilot was filmed and the first episodes were filmed almost a year later.

00:41:00.173 --> 00:41:17.342
And when Bewitched premiered, it got mostly positive reviews, particularly for the actors, and they realized that they had a hit on your hands because by the end of the first season, as we said, it was the second highest rated show on television.

00:41:18.304 --> 00:41:39.257
Now, before we go into episodes, I have a couple questions for you and I want to see if you know, this All right, and Dora called Darren by his correct name Eight times during the whole series, three times in just one episode, because she had a charm, she was under the spell of a charm, so she called him Darren.

00:41:39.257 --> 00:41:44.382
But what were some of the other names that Endora called Darren?

00:41:46.554 --> 00:41:48.539
The one I always remember the most is Darwood.

00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:50.853
Durwood, durwood's the most famous one, durwood.

00:41:50.994 --> 00:41:53.460
Durwood, darwood, devon.

00:41:53.961 --> 00:41:55.891
Dobbin Delmore.

00:41:55.952 --> 00:41:58.541
Dobbin Delmore, dustin Dirty.

00:41:58.541 --> 00:42:00.858
It's a running joke that never got old.

00:42:01.170 --> 00:42:05.416
It's hysterical, it's hysterical, I love it, I love it, I love it.

00:42:05.416 --> 00:42:10.179
And okay, here's another tidbit for you Elizabeth Montgomery didn't really twitch her nose.

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:11.269
What was it?

00:42:11.269 --> 00:42:12.150
She was actually twitching.

00:42:12.490 --> 00:42:12.931
That I knew.

00:42:13.532 --> 00:42:22.380
Her upper lip Correct, because it was a nervous habit she had that she wasn't even aware of until Bill Asher mentioned it to her.

00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:22.639
And.

00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.762
I learned that when they made that horrible bewitched movie.

00:42:26.242 --> 00:42:26.483
Yes.

00:42:27.764 --> 00:42:30.206
And I can't remember who the actress was that played Samantha.

00:42:30.806 --> 00:42:31.387
Nicole Kidman.

00:42:32.110 --> 00:42:42.019
Okay, nicole Kidman played Samantha and she talked about how she had to learn how to do that twitch of her upper lip, whereas it came naturally with Elizabeth Montgomery.

00:42:42.289 --> 00:42:46.235
That's the only reason I know it was a nervous habit, A nervous habit that she wasn't even aware of.

00:42:46.235 --> 00:42:50.597
And then she did it right before they started filming and Bill Asher said that's it what you just did.

00:42:50.597 --> 00:42:51.059
That's it.

00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:57.844
But Elizabeth Montgomery said if she ever had like a glass of wine or she was tired, she couldn't do it, so she had to be very diligent.

00:42:57.844 --> 00:43:01.706
That she couldn't, that she wouldn't do it, all right, so should we dive into these episodes?

00:43:01.706 --> 00:43:04.956
Wow, we're already way in and we're just hitting our first episode.

00:43:05.135 --> 00:43:06.179
Yeah, this could be a long one.

00:43:06.179 --> 00:43:09.052
This is so strap in everybody.

00:43:09.052 --> 00:43:10.054
This is going to be fun.

00:43:10.054 --> 00:43:13.858
So my first episode is not much further after this episode.

00:43:13.858 --> 00:43:15.360
My first episode is from season one.

00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:30.521
It's episode four and it's called Mother Meets What's-His-Name, from October 8th 1964, written by Danny Arnold and directed by Bill Asher and, just like we said, many of these early episodes, it's really two episodes in one.

00:43:30.521 --> 00:43:34.320
There's a story for act one and there's a story for act two.

00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:49.233
Now, this was the third episode shot, but it was actually the fourth one to air, and the easy way to tell that is because it's the last one with the narration, and the narration in the pilot once upon a time there was a normal american girl is actually by jose ferrer.

00:43:49.233 --> 00:43:51.500
So I guess they figured yeah, isn't amazing.

00:43:51.500 --> 00:43:56.152
So I guess they figured it was a little too expensive to pay this oscar-winning to narrate our series.

00:43:56.152 --> 00:43:57.452
We're going to stop the narration.

00:43:57.452 --> 00:43:59.134
So this is the last one.

00:43:59.134 --> 00:44:02.117
I just love this episode so much for these two great acts.

00:44:02.117 --> 00:44:08.380
The act one is when the welcome wagon appears and it's our introduction.

00:44:08.380 --> 00:44:18.228
Well, it's not our introduction, but it's our first long-term exposure to the brilliance of Alice Pierce as Gladys Kravitz.

00:44:18.228 --> 00:44:22.039
Oh, she's so funny in this episode.

00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:22.981
She's so funny.

00:44:23.250 --> 00:44:27.460
What happens in part one is that the neighbors come over to welcome Samantha to the neighborhood.

00:44:27.460 --> 00:44:42.771
It's these three women it's Alice Pierce, gladys Kravitz and June and Shirley who appear in another episode later on I think the witches are out and then disappeared, which is unfortunate, because they're fun too and they're snooping and they're trying to figure out, you know, and Elizabeth Montgomery doesn't have anything unpacked.

00:44:42.771 --> 00:44:58.072
And so they're being real nosy neighbors and they go into the kitchen to have this cake that they brought, and there's no china, there's no cups, there's no silverware, but of course there's no cups, there's no silverware.

00:44:58.072 --> 00:45:00.237
But of course, magically, bone china, there's sterling silver, and this goes over their heads.

00:45:00.237 --> 00:45:01.699
They're totally oblivious to it.

00:45:01.699 --> 00:45:06.197
But the best part of the episode is that their telephone hasn't been hooked up yet.

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:15.101
So while the other ladies are in the other room dealing with the children who have been tied up, three children, two children get tied up and one doesn't.

00:45:15.101 --> 00:45:17.614
Who tied up the third child?

00:45:17.614 --> 00:45:19.603
Gladys keeps saying that, but nobody's listening to her.

00:45:19.603 --> 00:45:22.032
So she runs into the kitchen to call Abner.

00:45:22.032 --> 00:45:26.132
She calls him on the phone and he doesn't understand it either and she's like don't you understand?

00:45:26.132 --> 00:45:29.639
Two kids tied up and one not tied up is normal.

00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:31.871
How did the third kid get tied up?

00:45:31.871 --> 00:45:39.398
So she hangs up and, as she's about to leave, the doorbell rings and she goes to the door and it's the telephone repairman there to set up the telephone.

00:45:39.398 --> 00:45:47.291
And so she lets him in and she goes to leave and she turns to Samantha and says oh, I let in the telephone repairman to hook up your telephone.

00:45:47.291 --> 00:46:02.884
And she leaves and she walks away and she stops and she does a take and she looks right at the camera and says to hook up your telephone it is such a brilliant take.

00:46:03.505 --> 00:46:04.905
I love Alice Pierce.

00:46:04.905 --> 00:46:06.166
I love Alice Pierce.

00:46:07.170 --> 00:46:07.692
What do you think of that?

00:46:07.692 --> 00:46:08.876
Let's talk about George Tobias for one second.

00:46:08.876 --> 00:46:10.673
Sure, he was so dry.

00:46:11.034 --> 00:46:11.576
Oh, he was.

00:46:11.797 --> 00:46:15.398
He was perfect and he stayed that way through the whole series.

00:46:15.550 --> 00:46:16.521
He did, even when he was with the annoying Sandra Gould.

00:46:16.521 --> 00:46:16.663
He was perfect.

00:46:16.663 --> 00:46:17.226
He was perfect and he stayed that way through the whole series.

00:46:17.226 --> 00:46:17.623
He did even when he was with the annoying Sandra Gould.

00:46:17.623 --> 00:46:30.436
He was the same character, yes, but she is so wonderful, the takes she does, they're so big, but they're so funny and they're so believable and you have such sympathy for her.

00:46:30.971 --> 00:46:33.378
I have no sympathy for Sandra Gould at all.

00:46:33.378 --> 00:46:34.621
She's just annoying.

00:46:34.621 --> 00:46:59.490
I wish she would go away.

00:46:59.490 --> 00:47:00.914
I wish someone would turn her into a toad or an artichoke and she'd be.

00:47:00.914 --> 00:47:03.599
She is so larger than life, I mean, she's just so imposing.

00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:09.103
And this is something I think that was lost as the series went on was this sense of suspense and this sense of drama.

00:47:09.103 --> 00:47:12.331
You really get Agnes Moorhead's dramatic chops here.

00:47:12.331 --> 00:47:14.976
I mean, the woman was nominated for four Oscars, for God's sake.

00:47:14.976 --> 00:47:28.632
You get the strength of Indora and the intimidation of Indora, and when she first meets Darren and you think they're going to get along, and he wants to call her by her last name and she goes, you'll never be able to pronounce it.

00:47:28.954 --> 00:47:29.394
Just call me.

00:47:29.454 --> 00:47:33.983
Indora and you think they might get along.

00:47:33.983 --> 00:47:44.099
And then it turns because Samantha doesn't do her witchcraft and Endora wants to know why she's not and she says why do you prevent my daughter from being herself young man?

00:47:44.099 --> 00:47:46.096
And uh, so that's how it starts.

00:47:46.096 --> 00:47:55.159
So it ends horribly because because Endora gets very furious and stands up and says young man, and Samantha saves Darren and says mother, don't.

00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:56.190
And she goes.

00:47:56.190 --> 00:48:02.914
Very well, she goes young man, consider yourself very lucky that you are not at this moment an artichoke.

00:48:02.914 --> 00:48:06.701
And then she does the most dramatic exit ever.

00:48:06.701 --> 00:48:09.371
I mean smoke and fire and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:48:09.371 --> 00:48:12.297
And she's gone and we lost that as a series went on.

00:48:12.297 --> 00:48:20.079
I guess you couldn't do it every week, but I love that drama, I love that suspense, I love that intimidation of Agnes Moorhead.

00:48:20.771 --> 00:48:28.699
Yeah, they really played up in the earlier years that she was a very powerful witch and it did come up in the later episodes, but not nearly as much.

00:48:29.469 --> 00:48:33.514
Well, you really get the sense from Agnes Moorhead that she is a powerful witch.

00:48:33.514 --> 00:48:36.338
I mean just in her demeanor, in her composure.

00:48:36.338 --> 00:48:38.079
You know the way she carries herself.

00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:38.940
I mean the way she looks.

00:48:38.940 --> 00:48:41.684
You don't have to be told it, you get it.

00:48:41.684 --> 00:48:43.766
She could turn into an artichoke very quickly.

00:48:43.766 --> 00:48:46.092
But I love that episode.

00:48:46.092 --> 00:48:58.074
I love the fact that it sets up the relationship between Endora and what's-his-name, and mostly I just love the fact that alice pierce has just a wonderful, wonderful moment.

00:48:58.094 --> 00:49:03.023
It's probably the one episode where she and darren got along well until things fell apart.

00:49:03.023 --> 00:49:08.161
Later seasons they had to kind of unite together to do things to save samantha.

00:49:08.161 --> 00:49:13.842
But that was the one episode where they they got along until samantha dropped the bomb interesting.

00:49:13.882 --> 00:49:17.840
You say they got along because we're going to go on to my second episode.

00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:32.440
But before we do, I want to ask you did you ever notice that in the first six seasons Elizabeth Montgomery wears this really beautiful heart necklace in every single scene of every single episode?

00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:33.181
Did you ever notice that?

00:49:33.289 --> 00:49:41.659
No, but I'm going to take a guess that it was from her husband and because they split up at the end she wasn't wearing it anymore, that's right, it's very interesting.

00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:42.751
Yes, it was a gift.

00:49:42.751 --> 00:49:57.804
It was a white gold diamond pave heart that Bill Asher gave her as a love present and she wore it throughout the first five seasons of Bewitched up until sometime in the sixth season it disappears.

00:49:57.804 --> 00:50:00.315
I'm not sure exactly which episode.

00:50:00.315 --> 00:50:02.139
There was also more than one.

00:50:02.139 --> 00:50:13.077
She got a replacement for it and then in the final season it's replaced by a necklace with the letter S on it, unless she's wearing a choker, because she was very Maude by then.

00:50:13.077 --> 00:50:14.490
She was very that girl by then.

00:50:14.510 --> 00:50:15.755
She had the long hair and the boots.

00:50:15.755 --> 00:50:23.563
So some people might say that kind of was a harbinger of the fact that their marriage was falling apart, that she stopped wearing that beautiful heart necklace.

00:50:23.563 --> 00:50:28.740
All right, so my second episode choice is also from the first season.

00:50:28.740 --> 00:50:33.632
It's called A is for Aardvark and it's from January 14th 1965.

00:50:33.632 --> 00:50:41.940
It is written by Earl Barrett and directed by and here's one of the reasons I love it the wonderful, great, fantastic Ida Lupino.

00:50:42.402 --> 00:50:44.543
Now if anybody doesn't know who Ida Lupino was.

00:50:44.543 --> 00:50:46.525
Ida Lupino was a pioneer.

00:50:46.525 --> 00:50:55.501
She was the only female director working in the studio system in the 50s and the 60s.

00:50:55.501 --> 00:50:56.606
She was a pioneering producer of her own films.

00:50:56.606 --> 00:50:57.030
She did social films.

00:50:57.030 --> 00:50:59.739
She was the first woman to direct a film noir.

00:50:59.739 --> 00:51:01.306
She was also an actress.

00:51:01.306 --> 00:51:03.373
She began as an actress at Warner Brothers in the 40s.

00:51:03.373 --> 00:51:04.195
She had quite a career.

00:51:04.195 --> 00:51:08.496
She was in High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart, so she was very accomplished by this time.

00:51:08.496 --> 00:51:11.003
She transitioned to almost entirely directing.

00:51:11.003 --> 00:51:13.936
She would make occasional acting appearances and she directed this.

00:51:13.936 --> 00:51:15.900
And she knew Agnes Moorhead.

00:51:15.900 --> 00:51:24.282
They had been together in Hollywood in the 40s and I'm not saying there were problems, but the air was a little tense.

00:51:24.282 --> 00:51:29.536
According to Elizabeth Montgomery, agnes Moorhead liked to give people a hard time.

00:51:29.536 --> 00:51:30.858
She really tested people.

00:51:30.858 --> 00:51:34.333
She was one of those broads, like Bette Davis, who liked to push the limits.

00:51:35.114 --> 00:51:41.411
So I love this episode because people call it a template episode, because it really is what the show is about.

00:51:41.411 --> 00:51:49.675
Because in the episode Darren sprains his ankle and Samantha's waiting on him hand and foot and she's exhausted.

00:51:49.675 --> 00:52:04.822
So she suggests that she cast a spell to make the house cooperate with him and, as you can imagine, the power goes to his head and Endora says I told you so, so that's why I chose it.

00:52:04.822 --> 00:52:07.594
It's really the crux of the whole series.

00:52:07.594 --> 00:52:12.483
As Endora says, it's Adam and the proverbial apple all over again.

00:52:12.483 --> 00:52:17.793
And this is the first episode in which Andorra calls Darren by his correct name.

00:52:17.793 --> 00:52:25.822
She calls him Darren as soon as he says to Samantha I've been wrong making you forego witchcraft all these years.

00:52:25.822 --> 00:52:29.876
So suddenly she likes Darren very much, so she calls him Darren.

00:52:30.277 --> 00:52:37.181
But I particularly love this episode because of course it devolves and Darren becomes greedier and greedier.

00:52:37.181 --> 00:52:46.344
And then suddenly he has a realization when Elizabeth Montgomery decides she has to go all full bore with him to make him see how ridiculous he's being.

00:52:46.344 --> 00:52:52.722
And she does, and in the end he comes to the realization that this isn't the life he wants.

00:52:52.722 --> 00:53:07.994
And it happens because a necklace arrives that he had purchased for Samantha before this whole thing happened and Samantha starts to cry and she says to him I want you to believe that this necklace and you mean more to me than anything in the world.

00:53:07.994 --> 00:53:12.132
It's the most moving and touching scene and this is what I love about this show and this is what I love about Elizabeth Montgomery.

00:53:12.132 --> 00:53:13.494
It's so moving.

00:53:13.494 --> 00:53:14.496
She's such a good actress.

00:53:14.496 --> 00:53:19.485
She's crying, it's heartwarming and to me it's kind of what the series lost as it went on.

00:53:19.485 --> 00:53:31.820
It lost this wonderful heart, in this wonderful warmth, because it really is a love story and it's highlighted so well in this episode oh, I agree, I agree, I, I, you know what I?

00:53:32.643 --> 00:53:33.889
I didn't remember this one.

00:53:33.889 --> 00:53:37.572
And then I looked up after you said, uh, you're, you were going to do it.

00:53:37.572 --> 00:53:39.773
And I was like, wow, I love this one.

00:53:40.014 --> 00:53:41.494
Yeah, and so Samantha.

00:53:41.494 --> 00:53:44.737
So at the end Darren says is there any way you can make this all go away?

00:53:44.737 --> 00:53:46.719
So Samantha basically turns back the clock.

00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:50.922
They didn't do that a lot of Bewitched, but they did it in this episode and it, it.

00:53:50.922 --> 00:53:57.606
It's just a wonderful ending to this, to this sweet, warm, just beautiful, beautiful episode.

00:53:57.606 --> 00:54:02.711
So that's my second episode, you're up.

00:54:03.532 --> 00:54:19.525
So I'm going to move us to the second season and the reason why I chose my episode is because it's the first episode with Uncle Arthur and starring the incredible Paul Lynn, who just he was my favorite in the series, kind of mixed with Aunt Clara I'd have a tough time balancing the two.

00:54:19.525 --> 00:54:23.168
And you know he's the whole reason to watch Hollywood Squares.

00:54:23.168 --> 00:54:26.894
You go online and watch episodes of Hollywood Squares and you'll just laugh for hours.

00:54:26.894 --> 00:54:29.356
This episode probably.

00:54:29.356 --> 00:54:31.777
I forgot how funny this episode was.

00:54:31.777 --> 00:54:39.360
This is the one episode I think I watched with the whole family and we laughed and laughed and laughed.

00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:43.601
I mean this is probably the funniest that Darren ever was in the series that I can recall.

00:54:44.090 --> 00:54:46.679
And that's a tall order, because Dick York was a very funny actor.

00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:47.934
He's very Jack Lemmon-like.

00:54:48.617 --> 00:54:48.878
Yes.

00:54:48.878 --> 00:55:01.659
So the way the story goes is that Indora is visiting Sam and Darren and all of a sudden things start being silly around the house and they did they realize it's uncle arthur.

00:55:01.659 --> 00:55:18.871
So pauline makes his first appearance as uncle arthur and he meets darren, and darren is really mad at indora and arthur sees the antagonism that darren has and he pulls Darren aside and said let's get even with her Now.

00:55:18.871 --> 00:55:21.342
Arthur is Andorra's brother.

00:55:22.126 --> 00:55:22.750
So strange.

00:55:25.456 --> 00:55:26.599
They've never gotten along.

00:55:26.599 --> 00:55:27.442
It's implied.

00:55:27.442 --> 00:55:33.322
So you kind of think, oh, arthur is going to, he wants to get even with Andorra, so it makes it believable.

00:55:33.322 --> 00:55:45.376
So he decides he's going to tell Darren that he's going to give him powers and he's going to teach him a incandescent so that he can do something to Endora, he can put a spell on her.

00:55:45.376 --> 00:55:50.340
And what's so funny, darren at first is reluctant and then Arthur convinces him.

00:55:50.340 --> 00:55:58.219
And I don't remember if it's because Arthur was so persuasive, I think it was because Endra made him even madder and he just wanted to get even with Andorra.

00:55:58.889 --> 00:55:59.713
And he's an asshole.

00:55:59.713 --> 00:56:01.699
Basically, yes, yes.

00:56:02.971 --> 00:56:18.398
So Arthur decides to teach Darren how to do a spell, and what Darren has to do is ring a bell, blow into kazoo and do this absolutely ridiculous incantation.

00:56:18.398 --> 00:56:22.077
I don't remember it other than he says Yaga-zoo.

00:56:23.150 --> 00:56:26.793
Yaga-zoozy, yaga-zoozy, yaga-zoozy-zoo.

00:56:26.793 --> 00:56:30.362
Yes, I don't know.

00:56:30.382 --> 00:56:33.496
The second part yeah, that's the best part anyway.

00:56:33.496 --> 00:56:37.199
So they go through this whole thing.

00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:45.072
Darren goes out to the living room and looks at indora and sam and basically says, indora, I'm gonna teach you a lesson.

00:56:45.072 --> 00:56:51.829
And he rings his bell, blows his the uh, kazoo, the kazoo, thank you.

00:56:51.829 --> 00:56:52.670
I was gonna say tuba.

00:56:52.670 --> 00:56:53.313
And I knew that one right.

00:56:53.313 --> 00:56:54.514
He rings the bell, blows the kazoo, thank you.

00:56:54.514 --> 00:56:55.115
I was going to say tuba.

00:56:55.115 --> 00:56:55.717
And I knew that one right.

00:56:55.717 --> 00:56:59.746
He rings the bell, blows the kazoo and starts doing the ya-ga-zoosie, ya-ga-zoosie.

00:56:59.746 --> 00:57:06.942
And Dora and Samantha are just looking at him like what the hell are you doing?

00:57:06.981 --> 00:57:08.003
It's so funny.

00:57:08.210 --> 00:57:10.818
Because they don't even really understand that he's trying to do a spell.

00:57:10.818 --> 00:57:13.239
He's just acting insane.

00:57:21.730 --> 00:57:22.751
And he keeps doing it over and over again.

00:57:22.771 --> 00:57:23.614
Oh, it's so funny it's so funny, dick york.

00:57:23.614 --> 00:57:29.070
Oh, darren finally realizes that uncle arthur has made a fool of him and pulled a prank.

00:57:29.070 --> 00:57:38.025
So then, because they all want to get even with Arthur, especially Indora and Darren, they decide to play a trick on Arthur.

00:57:38.025 --> 00:57:40.777
And so they make this plan.

00:57:40.777 --> 00:58:00.302
And so Arthur comes back and Darren starts doing the yagazoozy, ringing the bell and doing the kazoo, and Samantha turns Indora into a parrot, which sends Arthur into a panic because his sister is now a parrot.

00:58:00.302 --> 00:58:12.639
And of course, darren doesn't know how to turn him back and, as we know from what has been established in this show, they broke it a couple times, or a few times, but one way actually more than a few times.

00:58:13.065 --> 00:58:17.317
But one witch is not supposed to be able to undo the spell of another witch.

00:58:18.045 --> 00:58:18.586
Yeah, there was always.

00:58:18.586 --> 00:58:19.791
That was pretty murky.

00:58:19.791 --> 00:58:21.170
Sometimes you could, sometimes you couldn't.

00:58:21.706 --> 00:58:22.469
It was the rules.

00:58:22.670 --> 00:58:27.757
Yeah, the witch's book of rules is very, very convoluted, yeah.

00:58:28.106 --> 00:58:30.172
It kind of depended on what they needed for the script.

00:58:30.693 --> 00:58:31.396
Right, right.

00:58:31.485 --> 00:58:44.463
So of course, Arthur panics, and in the end they bring Indora back and Arthur swears his prank days are over, which we know how well that went.

00:58:44.822 --> 00:58:45.704
How long that lasted.

00:58:45.704 --> 00:58:53.498
I just love the idea of Agnes Moorhead and Paul Lynn being brother and sister.

00:58:53.764 --> 00:58:56.554
I think it is the most hysterical idea.

00:58:57.005 --> 00:59:00.469
What the hell kind of family is this Actually?

00:59:00.469 --> 00:59:02.072
Where does Aunt Clara fit in?

00:59:02.072 --> 00:59:03.036
Is Aunt Clara in Dora?

00:59:03.036 --> 00:59:03.617
They're never clear.

00:59:03.617 --> 00:59:07.170
Is Aunt Clara in Dora's sister, Her sister-in-law?

00:59:07.170 --> 00:59:08.396
Who's Hagatha?

00:59:08.396 --> 00:59:09.440
Who's Enchantress?

00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:10.510
I mean, it's so funny.

00:59:10.510 --> 00:59:14.657
You're not really sure how these people are related, yet they're all related in some way or another.

00:59:15.184 --> 00:59:18.893
Actually, Clara is established as Endora's sister.

00:59:19.534 --> 00:59:19.996
She is.

00:59:20.536 --> 00:59:22.891
In one episode, and it may be one that you mentioned.

00:59:22.891 --> 00:59:26.128
It's the one where they want to take Clara's magic away from her.

00:59:26.307 --> 00:59:28.610
Right right, the trial and error of Aunt Clara yes.

00:59:28.630 --> 00:59:33.976
She basically, she basically is on trial, and it's actually one that I considered doing.

00:59:35.016 --> 00:59:35.898
I love that episode.

00:59:36.057 --> 00:59:37.039
And it is brought up.

00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:40.202
It's mentioned that Indora is her sister in that episode.

00:59:40.202 --> 00:59:49.942
The reason I didn't want to do that episode is because that is probably the one episode where Indora is the most evil like uncomfortably evil, I know.

00:59:50.626 --> 00:59:52.052
Why is she so mean to Clara?

00:59:52.052 --> 00:59:52.909
I don't understand that.

00:59:52.909 --> 01:00:00.612
I don't get it which Clara has slight revenge on the episode I'm going to talk about after your next one, so we'll get to that.

01:00:00.612 --> 01:00:02.793
But I never understand why she's so mean to Clara.

01:00:02.793 --> 01:00:05.994
But I love when Clara gets her little cracks at her.

01:00:05.994 --> 01:00:14.565
There's one episode where where clara says something about long samantha, I know she's your mother, but she can be quite trying sometimes.

01:00:17.952 --> 01:00:22.141
That's funny oh my god, now we're gonna move yeah, I love that episode.

01:00:22.181 --> 01:00:23.864
I love the joker is a card.

01:00:23.885 --> 01:00:27.351
What a great episode yes, yes, and the joker is a card.

01:00:27.351 --> 01:00:30.577
It was from season two, episode five, in October of 1965.

01:00:30.577 --> 01:00:31.759
I should have said that earlier.

01:00:31.759 --> 01:00:38.949
So now we're going to move almost just over a year later.

01:00:38.949 --> 01:00:45.237
This is going to be season three, episode nine, in November of 1966.

01:00:45.237 --> 01:00:54.853
And this one is called short happy circuit and I chose this one, similar to the reason why I chose the other one with pauline, because I adore aunt clara.

01:00:54.853 --> 01:00:56.695
Yeah, just love her.

01:00:56.695 --> 01:00:59.126
Who would not want aunt clara as their grandmother?

01:00:59.126 --> 01:01:05.677
I know she is so sweet and so kind and she tries so hard.

01:01:05.677 --> 01:01:09.914
You know it's heartbreaking that she can't do the magic like she used to.

01:01:09.914 --> 01:01:14.032
She, it bothers her, but she doesn't get upset about it because she's Clara.

01:01:14.032 --> 01:01:21.786
But you know, she just, she's just fumbling because she, she's an older witch and she, you know, she's losing her magic.

01:01:21.786 --> 01:01:27.978
And in this one it's one another time when Samantha and Darren have Aunt Clara babysit.

01:01:28.324 --> 01:01:28.887
You wonder why they?

01:01:28.887 --> 01:01:31.695
They always do that because you know she's going to do something.

01:01:31.985 --> 01:01:32.849
You just know she is.

01:01:32.849 --> 01:01:34.710
Well, it's the same thing with Esmeralda.

01:01:34.789 --> 01:01:35.672
Yeah, well, that's true.

01:01:35.773 --> 01:01:42.967
Yeah, that's true, and Darren always says I think this is a bad idea, and Samantha's like oh don't worry, nothing's going to go wrong.

01:01:43.266 --> 01:01:46.512
Since you mentioned Esmeralda, I just want to quickly ask you a quick question.

01:01:46.512 --> 01:01:56.628
This is a little quiz for you, because we talked about Aunt Clara, marion Lorne, alice Ghostly, esmeralda.

01:01:56.628 --> 01:02:03.777
What seminal 60s film did Marion Lorne and Alice Ghostly appear in together right before Marion Lorne died?

01:02:04.539 --> 01:02:05.780
Oh, do you know?

01:02:05.780 --> 01:02:07.894
Oh, I thought you were going to ask me a designing women question.

01:02:07.894 --> 01:02:08.277
No, I do love her.

01:02:08.277 --> 01:02:09.483
A designing women question.

01:02:09.503 --> 01:02:11.510
No, I do love her in designing women, but no.

01:02:12.092 --> 01:02:12.954
Yeah, she's awesome.

01:02:13.135 --> 01:02:17.480
I don't know 1960s film, a little movie you might have heard of called the Graduate.

01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:18.644
Oh, are you serious?

01:02:18.644 --> 01:02:26.777
There is a party scene in which Marion Lorne and Alice Ghostly play guests at this party together, and they're little cameos.

01:02:26.797 --> 01:02:27.639
But isn't that crazy.

01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:28.780
That is.

01:02:30.724 --> 01:02:31.949
Aunt party together and their little cameos.

01:02:31.949 --> 01:02:32.409
But isn't that crazy.

01:02:32.409 --> 01:02:33.353
That is aunt clara and esmeralda together.

01:02:33.353 --> 01:02:34.836
It's like alternate universes colliding in.

01:02:34.836 --> 01:02:36.786
And then there's dustin hoffman and anne bancroft.

01:02:36.786 --> 01:02:38.210
You're like where the fuck am I?

01:02:38.210 --> 01:02:39.432
What world is this?

01:02:40.054 --> 01:02:44.619
and anne bancroft would make a great witch she would have been a wonderful andora robinson.

01:02:44.619 --> 01:02:48.471
Oh yeah, mr robinson would have been a great andora but I interrupted you, so go.

01:02:48.490 --> 01:02:49.554
So go back to the trial.

01:02:49.554 --> 01:02:51.338
The short happy circuit of Aunt Clara.

01:02:51.358 --> 01:02:53.251
Okay, so Aunt Clara shows up.

01:02:53.251 --> 01:02:58.657
I pretty much am sure that she shows up in their fireplace, which she's done quite often.

01:02:58.657 --> 01:03:03.172
You never know where Aunt Clara is going to show up.

01:03:03.172 --> 01:03:06.992
She either shows up in a closet or I used to slip down straight through.

01:03:07.010 --> 01:03:08.972
Right Whoosh, I used to slip down straight through.

01:03:10.945 --> 01:03:13.989
Whoosh and Aunt Clara.

01:03:13.989 --> 01:03:23.376
When she shows up she's a little bit distraught because her longtime beau, aki, has left her for a younger witch, so she's a little disheartened.

01:03:23.376 --> 01:03:36.632
But she's going to babysit Tabitha, and so Sam and Darren go to the Tate's house again to meet one of the obnoxious clients that they always have.

01:03:36.632 --> 01:03:40.110
Who's going to make a pitch for McElroy's shoes?

01:03:40.110 --> 01:03:41.711
That's what he owns.

01:03:41.711 --> 01:03:48.711
And Darren agrees that Van Clara does not use her witchcraft in front of Tabitha.

01:03:48.711 --> 01:03:52.092
But Clara being Clara, she can't resist.

01:03:52.092 --> 01:04:11.440
And what she does in the spell is she blows a fuse and blocks out the electricity in the entire eastern seaboard she causes a blackout on the entire eastern seaboard, which you know was inspired by the real life blackout.

01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:14.110
Yes, I'm certain you know it was caused by.

01:04:14.110 --> 01:04:17.974
Okay, so everybody history books, it was caused by Aunt Clara on Morning Glory Circle.

01:04:21.405 --> 01:04:24.971
If you ever saw the movie, when Were you and the Lights Went Out, it was all caused by Aunt Clara.

01:04:25.525 --> 01:04:26.570
All caused by Aunt Clara.

01:04:28.726 --> 01:04:29.126
So anyway.

01:04:29.126 --> 01:04:36.603
So Darren is trying to do this presentation at the Tate House and this client is just a jerk, he just doesn't even want to pay attention.

01:04:36.603 --> 01:04:41.034
I don't know why he hired them to do this presentation because he doesn't care.

01:04:41.034 --> 01:04:44.371
So Darren is trying to do it in the dark and it's just not going well.

01:04:44.371 --> 01:05:11.057
They're trying to do it by candlelight and flashlight and as Clara tries to fix the electrical problem, she calls Aki for help and his powers are also starting to wane and, as such, he is only able to bring on the electricity at the Stevens' home, which, of course Gladys Kravitz, looking out her window, is yelling to Abner that there's lights on at the Stevens' home, abner.

01:05:11.057 --> 01:05:18.224
So, hearing that there is electricity at the Stevens' home, they all decide to leave the Tate's house.

01:05:18.224 --> 01:05:26.659
Now it's funny that the lights are off in the whole East Coast, but they don't seem to question that much why there is light on at the Stevens' home.

01:05:26.659 --> 01:05:31.293
Gladys Kravitz seems the only one that seems to think that's like really odd.

01:05:31.454 --> 01:05:33.891
They question it Again, again, again.

01:05:33.891 --> 01:05:36.469
Nobody listens to Gladys.

01:05:37.492 --> 01:05:40.590
Especially Abner, especially Abner.

01:05:40.590 --> 01:05:55.280
So, anyway, they show up at the house and Darren is able to do his presentation, and the way it ends is that Augie has to hide into a closet because they all show up.

01:05:55.846 --> 01:05:56.688
He has to keep his arms up.

01:05:56.688 --> 01:05:58.414
Every time he puts his arms down.

01:05:59.005 --> 01:06:00.851
Yes, he has to keep his arms up to keep the light on.

01:06:00.851 --> 01:06:01.673
I forgot about that.

01:06:01.673 --> 01:06:02.496
That was hysterical.

01:06:02.496 --> 01:06:06.570
If he puts his hands down, the lights go off, so he has to keep his arms up.

01:06:07.112 --> 01:06:08.217
And he's an old man.

01:06:08.237 --> 01:06:10.255
He's an old man, yes, so he has to keep his arms up and he's an old man.

01:06:10.255 --> 01:06:10.577
He's an old, yes.

01:06:10.577 --> 01:06:11.364
Yes, I felt so sorry for him.

01:06:11.364 --> 01:06:13.088
I wonder how long he had to do that.

01:06:13.088 --> 01:06:15.114
During the takes, I kept thinking about that.

01:06:15.936 --> 01:06:23.052
Well, during this time, gladys kravitz looks in the window and sees the man with his arms up in the air and when he takes him down, the lights go off and then they go up.

01:06:23.052 --> 01:06:27.126
So the tates and the client and the stevens are at the house.

01:06:27.126 --> 01:06:29.391
They're trying to do this presentation.

01:06:29.391 --> 01:06:37.210
It is not going well at all because we know from their show Darren's ad campaigns are absolutely horrible.

01:06:37.210 --> 01:06:44.494
I don't know how McManan and Tate stayed in business, even when Samantha came up with the campaigns for him.

01:06:44.494 --> 01:06:46.038
It's like, is she really a witch?

01:06:46.038 --> 01:06:47.391
Because that campaign sucked.

01:06:47.391 --> 01:06:50.233
Anyway, the guy doesn't buy into it.

01:06:52.027 --> 01:06:58.938
So Gladys Kravitz shows up, she sneaks into the house and she goes because the lights come back on and she hides in the closet.

01:06:58.938 --> 01:07:00.809
Well, augie is in there.

01:07:00.809 --> 01:07:03.273
So she screams and comes out.

01:07:03.273 --> 01:07:06.934
So they're like she's trying to explain that there's somebody there.

01:07:06.934 --> 01:07:10.635
And you know there's chaos as usual when Gladys Kravitz is around.

01:07:10.635 --> 01:07:12.570
And now he decides to leave.

01:07:12.570 --> 01:07:15.092
He has to leave because they open the door and he's not there.

01:07:15.092 --> 01:07:24.652
But when they open up, he walks out the front door, but all of him is invisible, except for his shoes, except for his shoes.

01:07:24.652 --> 01:07:30.273
So, mr McElroy, with McElroy's shoes is convinced this was part of the campaign.

01:07:31.114 --> 01:07:32.496
And that ends the day.

01:07:32.496 --> 01:07:34.400
They get the client.

01:07:34.704 --> 01:07:39.297
Once again, witchcraft got him into this mess and witchcraft got him out of it.

01:07:39.297 --> 01:07:45.057
And how fortunate and how coincidental that it's a client for shoes that sells shoes.

01:07:45.057 --> 01:07:47.851
Isn't that just interesting?

01:07:47.851 --> 01:07:48.733
I love that episode.

01:07:48.733 --> 01:07:49.376
She's so.

01:07:49.445 --> 01:07:49.768
Yes, marion Lorne.

01:07:49.768 --> 01:07:51.018
Marion Lorne episode, she's so.

01:07:51.059 --> 01:07:51.684
Marion Lorne.

01:07:51.684 --> 01:07:54.150
Marion Lorne, there was no one like Marion Lorne.

01:07:54.552 --> 01:07:58.851
I just I feel like you know the character in the, I think.

01:07:58.851 --> 01:08:02.168
But this woman waited until she was in her eighties until she finally got.

01:08:02.168 --> 01:08:03.193
She finally hit.

01:08:03.193 --> 01:08:03.373
Now.

01:08:03.373 --> 01:08:04.800
Marion Lorne worked her entire life.

01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:06.025
She's on Broadway, she was in theater.

01:08:06.025 --> 01:08:09.251
She was gorgeous, she was very, very, she was a very beautiful woman.

01:08:09.251 --> 01:08:10.074
She was on she's.

01:08:10.074 --> 01:08:13.059
She has a great role in strangers on a train, the hedgecock film.

01:08:13.059 --> 01:08:19.404
She was in mr peepers, which is a tv show nobody knows from the 50s, starring wallace cox, for years.

01:08:19.404 --> 01:08:22.971
But this, this was the overnight success of marion lauren.

01:08:22.971 --> 01:08:32.694
Finally, she found and she won the emmy, but she unfortunately, as we said, it was posthumously given to her because she died the following year.

01:08:32.694 --> 01:08:40.216
She died the year, uh, the fourth season of bewitched, which is, has the episode that I want to talk about I want to say one more thing before you move on.

01:08:40.256 --> 01:08:41.328
I know you're going to talk about her too.

01:08:41.328 --> 01:08:46.788
Yeah, I told you, my mom and I used to watch this show, and there are two characters that my mom talked about all the time.

01:08:46.788 --> 01:08:54.020
First of all, we loved Aunt Clara and the fact that she had a doorknob collection which Mary and Lauren apparently had in real life.

01:08:54.039 --> 01:08:54.640
She really did.

01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:56.184
Yes, yes, yes.

01:08:56.583 --> 01:08:59.113
She had a doorknob and I'm like to my mom, I thought that's ridiculous.

01:08:59.113 --> 01:09:01.954
My mom's like no, she really in real life she has a doorknob collection.

01:09:09.704 --> 01:09:10.229
And we both adored Clara.

01:09:10.229 --> 01:09:11.297
My mom talked about a lot was Mrs Stevens Darren's.

01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:14.793
Ah, the fabulous Mabel Albertson yes, played by Mabel Albertson and her Frank.

01:09:14.793 --> 01:09:19.396
I have a sick headache and my mom didn't find the least bit funny.

01:09:19.396 --> 01:09:25.676
She was so sympathetic towards Mrs Stevens, like she's like.

01:09:25.676 --> 01:09:28.292
Why don't they that poor woman thinks she's crazy?

01:09:28.292 --> 01:09:29.829
Please tell her.

01:09:29.829 --> 01:09:32.314
I love poor Mabel Albertson, I love.

01:09:32.375 --> 01:09:33.219
Mabel Albertson.

01:09:33.219 --> 01:09:38.103
She annoys me a little bit in this series sometimes because she's just so.

01:09:38.103 --> 01:09:39.850
How can you not love Elizabeth Montgomery?

01:09:39.850 --> 01:09:42.012
How can you be so antagonistic towards Samantha?

01:09:42.012 --> 01:09:43.811
She's so beautiful and charming and lovely.

01:09:43.811 --> 01:09:45.707
But you know, it's funny, elizabeth.

01:09:45.707 --> 01:09:50.235
I said a little bit about how Agnes Moore had a tendency to test people.

01:09:50.235 --> 01:09:51.878
She didn't test Mabel Albertson.

01:09:53.925 --> 01:09:55.386
Mabel Albertson would not put up with her shit.

01:09:55.386 --> 01:09:56.387
That doesn't surprise me.

01:09:56.868 --> 01:10:01.554
According to Elizabeth Montgomery, she said because Mabel wouldn't have any of it.

01:10:01.554 --> 01:10:05.498
So I love that about Mabel Albertson.

01:10:05.498 --> 01:10:07.461
She's like oh no, you don't, aggie.

01:10:07.461 --> 01:10:10.889
Not with me, you don't girl, I love that.

01:10:10.908 --> 01:10:12.511
So on to your next one.

01:10:13.613 --> 01:10:15.436
So my next one is from the fourth season.

01:10:15.436 --> 01:10:18.387
As I said, this has got to be.

01:10:18.387 --> 01:10:25.731
I have so many, it's so hard to say, but it really really is near, near, near the very top of my all-time favorite episodes.

01:10:25.731 --> 01:10:36.515
It's season four, episode 11, 118 in the series and it's called Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds and it's from November 16th 1967.

01:10:36.515 --> 01:10:40.853
And this is written by Richard Baer and directed by Richard Kinnan.

01:10:40.853 --> 01:10:44.585
Now, there are lots of reasons why I like this episode.

01:10:44.585 --> 01:10:52.359
What happens in this episode is Andorra loses her powers due to exposure to an ancient Macedonian dodo bird.

01:10:52.359 --> 01:11:03.537
So apparently she's allergic, as the title says, to this ancient Macedonian dodo bird, but she doesn't remember when it happened, because dodo birds have been extinct for centuries.

01:11:03.537 --> 01:11:05.211
So it's a real problem.

01:11:05.545 --> 01:11:17.407
And Endora is basically earthbound and has to live with darren and samantha, which as you can imagine you have never seen her so pitiful oh well, that's number one why I love this, why I love this episode.

01:11:17.407 --> 01:11:21.012
Agnes moorhead is hysterical.

01:11:21.012 --> 01:11:30.197
She is so pathetic when she loses her powers, her voice even changes that powerful voice she has.

01:11:30.197 --> 01:11:32.565
It's come this little weak thing and she goes.

01:11:32.565 --> 01:11:36.168
I've lost me powers and she goes.

01:11:36.168 --> 01:11:39.130
Darewood, help me.

01:11:41.909 --> 01:11:42.332
What was it?

01:11:42.332 --> 01:11:44.171
She was trying to pick up A coffee pot.

01:11:44.564 --> 01:11:46.550
Coffee, oh, it's heavy.

01:11:46.550 --> 01:11:53.247
She goes, she stays the night, she spends the night.

01:11:53.247 --> 01:11:54.872
She comes down in the morning and she still doesn't have her powers.

01:11:54.872 --> 01:11:57.087
And samantha says mother, would you, would you pour the coffee?

01:11:57.087 --> 01:11:59.252
And she can't do it by witchcraft.

01:11:59.252 --> 01:12:02.527
So she stands up and she goes to pick up the coffee pot and she almost falls over.

01:12:02.527 --> 01:12:04.930
She goes, it's heavy.

01:12:04.930 --> 01:12:08.555
So that's it.

01:12:08.595 --> 01:12:09.898
She's so funny, she's still.

01:12:09.898 --> 01:12:13.649
She's still calling him durwood, though, and she's asking him for help.

01:12:13.649 --> 01:12:20.131
And he says to her you know, if you're going to ask me for help, at least you can call me by my correct name.

01:12:20.131 --> 01:12:24.319
And she goes, I'll try, what is it?

01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:30.997
And he says darren, and she goes, I'll try, and a few moments pass.

01:12:30.997 --> 01:12:34.185
And she says Darren and she goes I'll try, and a few moments pass and she says Dennis.

01:12:34.185 --> 01:12:36.149
So she's also playing with him.

01:12:36.149 --> 01:12:47.752
That's what I also love about it, because there's this look in her eye like, yes, she's feeling helpless and she doesn't have anybody, but she's still given the screws to Durwood, which I think is so funny.

01:12:47.752 --> 01:12:49.657
So I love this episode for that reason.

01:12:50.037 --> 01:12:56.176
I love this episode because it also has Aunt Clara, because what happens when Endora loses her powers?

01:12:56.176 --> 01:13:01.716
Well, dr Bombay, which is number three why I love this episode, because of the wonderful Dr Bombay is in.

01:13:01.716 --> 01:13:06.873
It says that she's having an allergic reaction to a Macedonian dodo bird.

01:13:06.873 --> 01:13:10.659
And what happens when she hasn't lost her powers?

01:13:10.659 --> 01:13:14.913
They're out in the atmosphere and Dora goes.

01:13:14.913 --> 01:13:27.189
They're just hanging out in the atmosphere and he says no, unless a witch, who is a relative whose own powers are beginning to weaken, should come in contact with them.

01:13:27.189 --> 01:13:30.016
And what do you suppose happens at that exact moment?

01:13:30.016 --> 01:13:32.931
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, smoke fire.

01:13:32.931 --> 01:13:43.074
There's aunt clara in a fetching new hat, in a wonderful little outfit, fully powered and extremely powerful extremely powerful.

01:13:43.636 --> 01:13:46.265
And of course, it's so funny because she doesn't know why.

01:13:46.265 --> 01:13:46.725
She's just like I.

01:13:46.725 --> 01:13:49.448
I got the zip back in my zing.

01:13:49.448 --> 01:13:50.710
She's cocky.

01:13:50.710 --> 01:13:55.854
I love how cocky she is, she's so, but still sweet, still sweet, aunt Clara.

01:13:55.854 --> 01:13:57.275
But she is.

01:13:57.275 --> 01:13:59.797
She's feeling her oats because now she can do things.

01:13:59.797 --> 01:14:03.761
She makes this sumptuous meal and she's going to go off and have dinner somewhere else.

01:14:03.761 --> 01:14:09.261
And so they realize that Aunt Clara probably has Andorra's powers.

01:14:09.261 --> 01:14:18.356
And she comes back, and this is my favorite line, I think, ever in Bewitched Aunt Clara says to Samantha I know, you think I stole Andorra's powers.

01:14:18.524 --> 01:14:21.911
I didn't steal Andorra's powers, I had no idea what's happening.

01:14:21.911 --> 01:14:26.470
She says and this is because I'm a swinger and I like to swing.

01:14:26.470 --> 01:14:42.988
Can you imagine Just think about Mary and Lauren saying I'm a swinger and I like to swing.

01:14:42.988 --> 01:14:43.331
Oh, it's so funny.

01:14:43.331 --> 01:14:43.712
So of course, yes.

01:14:43.733 --> 01:14:45.462
What happens is they find out eventually, because Endora keeps saying where's Tabitha?

01:14:45.462 --> 01:14:46.626
She's been up in her room all day.

01:14:46.626 --> 01:14:49.331
I want to see Tabitha in this really annoying whining voice.

01:14:49.331 --> 01:15:00.907
Well, it turns out that Tabitha from one of her picture books has materialized an ancient Macedonian dodo bird, which is this ridiculous massive puppet that comes down the stairs behind Tabitha.

01:15:00.907 --> 01:15:01.649
It's very funny.

01:15:01.649 --> 01:15:03.713
So they're actually able to pluck.

01:15:03.713 --> 01:15:14.253
Part of the antidote is plucking the tail of the dodo bird putting in Dr Bombay's drink and Dora drinks it and of course her powers are completely back.

01:15:14.845 --> 01:15:18.431
She's in Dora again and just at that moment you're a commotion on the roof.

01:15:18.431 --> 01:15:19.815
And who is it?

01:15:19.815 --> 01:15:22.273
It's Aunt Clara who's been waylaid.

01:15:22.273 --> 01:15:27.073
She was at the yacht races and suddenly she's on the roof and she can't get down.

01:15:27.073 --> 01:15:29.854
So things are back to normal.

01:15:29.854 --> 01:15:33.925
It is such a funny, funny, funny episode.

01:15:33.925 --> 01:15:35.509
I think it's also the reason.

01:15:35.509 --> 01:15:38.856
As I said, this was Marianne Lauren's last season.

01:15:38.856 --> 01:15:44.229
She won a posthumous Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy so well-deserved.

01:15:44.229 --> 01:15:47.055
It wasn't her final episode, but it was one of the final episodes.

01:15:47.925 --> 01:15:50.546
And you missed the part that I thought was the funniest in the episode.

01:15:50.546 --> 01:15:51.488
What's that is?

01:15:51.488 --> 01:15:57.789
When she said she's gonna go yachting and boom, the neighborhood isn't is an ocean and she's on a boat.

01:15:57.789 --> 01:16:01.898
And when gladys kravitz looks out the window.

01:16:01.898 --> 01:16:07.434
I mean she's seen many things and looking out that window, but she looks out and sees the water.

01:16:07.434 --> 01:16:11.159
And you see Clara there with her little sitting in her dinghy.

01:16:15.006 --> 01:16:17.292
And then immediately, samantha immediately changes it back.

01:16:17.292 --> 01:16:18.256
Though how could she do that?

01:16:18.465 --> 01:16:19.650
Because it's another witch's spell.

01:16:19.650 --> 01:16:22.391
Yeah, that's another one where they broke the rule.

01:16:22.551 --> 01:16:26.033
There you go, the murky waters of witchdom on Bewitched.

01:16:26.033 --> 01:16:29.555
I love Bernard Fox, dr Bombay, as I said before.

01:16:29.555 --> 01:16:39.007
He had actually been a guest star the second season playing a witch hunter and, like Paul Lynn, he made such an impression that they brought him back as a witch character and I just think Dr Bombay is a scream.

01:16:39.007 --> 01:16:41.693
Everybody is working it throughout.

01:16:41.693 --> 01:16:45.706
Most Dick York is so funny in this episode.

01:16:45.706 --> 01:16:48.353
Agnes Moorhead, as I said, brilliantly funny.

01:16:49.234 --> 01:16:57.707
Marion Lawrence steals my heart every time because she's a swinger and she likes to swing, so that's allergic to Macedonian dodo birds.

01:16:57.707 --> 01:16:59.470
Now, what's your last episode of this?

01:16:59.470 --> 01:17:02.177
What's your last choice for this episode, brad?

01:17:02.966 --> 01:17:10.198
My last choice for this episode and I chose it because we didn't do the pilot, and this is almost like a replay of the pilot, but it doesn't feel like it.

01:17:10.198 --> 01:17:10.681
It fits.

01:17:10.681 --> 01:17:13.193
Yeah, it's very, very, very similar.

01:17:13.193 --> 01:17:19.353
It's called Snob in the Grass and this brings back Darren's ex-fiancee.

01:17:19.594 --> 01:17:20.976
Sheila, the divine Sheila.

01:17:21.125 --> 01:17:29.070
Played by Nancy Kovac, who's just wonderful because she is such a snotty bitch and she's hysterical.

01:17:29.492 --> 01:17:29.912
I love her.

01:17:29.952 --> 01:17:31.634
Slapstick funny at the same time.

01:17:31.634 --> 01:17:37.039
Yeah, when the fly or the bee lands on her nose and she's looking cross-eyed at it.

01:17:37.039 --> 01:17:43.135
She's so elegant and all of a sudden she's like this cartoon clown and I'm like laughing hysterically.

01:17:43.515 --> 01:17:51.689
So anyway, do you know that Nancy Kovacs was originally going to be a recurring character who was going to be a foil for Samantha, but it didn't work out.

01:17:51.689 --> 01:17:53.293
So yeah, I'm sorry but I interrupted you, go back.

01:17:53.867 --> 01:17:54.871
That would have been interesting.

01:17:54.871 --> 01:18:03.194
So, darren, again there's a client that they're trying to impress, and it happens to be Sheila's father.

01:18:03.194 --> 01:18:05.024
So, Larry.

01:18:05.024 --> 01:18:10.208
Tate says Darren, you got to get a hold of Sheila and Sharon's, like no, no, no, no, no.

01:18:10.208 --> 01:18:17.773
Well, as Larry usually does, I don't know if he tried to fire Darren, as he does 10,000 times, or whatever- Every time.

01:18:17.813 --> 01:18:18.913
Whatever it is, they're best friends.

01:18:18.913 --> 01:18:20.295
But he's always ready to fire Darren.

01:18:20.295 --> 01:18:31.140
Yeah, he wants Darren to swoo Sheila so that they can win the Summers account, which is the company owned by Sheila's father.

01:18:31.140 --> 01:18:34.002
So Darren does meet up with Sheila in a bar.

01:18:34.002 --> 01:18:41.904
Well, actually, he and Larry go to the bar to meet Sheila and her father.

01:18:41.904 --> 01:18:52.048
Sheila alone shows up and Larry, being the asshole that Larry can be, excuses himself and leaves, leaving Darren with Sheila, who is being very seductive, trying to get him back.

01:18:52.310 --> 01:18:54.398
As she did in the pilot Like she did in the pilot.

01:18:54.398 --> 01:18:56.125
Yes, it's basically the same, just like she did in the pilot.

01:18:56.444 --> 01:18:57.509
It's the pilot in color.

01:18:57.509 --> 01:18:58.713
Exactly, pilot in color.

01:18:58.864 --> 01:19:03.689
She doesn't want to let Darren go, she wants him to dump his little housewife.

01:19:03.689 --> 01:19:08.537
And Indora, at this time, has already been talking to Samantha that she thinks Darren is cheating.

01:19:08.537 --> 01:19:28.659
Darren says of course not so, as he and Sheila are sitting at a table and Sheila has her hands all over Darren, and Dora shows up as a waitress and throws the tray of food into Darren.

01:19:28.659 --> 01:19:29.221
That's such a funny moment.

01:19:29.221 --> 01:19:34.935
She turns around, they're trying to order and she turns around wearing this ridiculous waitress outfit and it's Indora.

01:19:34.935 --> 01:19:35.979
The look, the look.

01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:40.354
It's Indora and she throws the plate right in his lap, and then she just looks at him and smiles.

01:19:40.413 --> 01:19:40.635
Yes.

01:19:40.635 --> 01:19:54.310
Before that, the look on Darren's face yes, like oh shit, yes, so Samantha will not talk to darren and they reconcile.

01:19:54.310 --> 01:19:58.005
She finally believes darren that this was something going on, and darren says we have to go to this party that sheila is holding.

01:19:58.005 --> 01:20:04.256
And uh, so in the first episode she told samantha that was going to be a casual affair.

01:20:04.256 --> 01:20:12.452
And so samantha shows up wearing casual clothing and of course it's a formal affair.

01:20:12.452 --> 01:20:18.390
So this time Sheila says it's a casual affair, we're just doing like a little picnic.

01:20:18.390 --> 01:20:24.595
Well, it's a very wealthy little picnic and Samantha says I'm not going to fall for it again this time.

01:20:24.716 --> 01:20:24.956
Yes.

01:20:25.324 --> 01:20:28.869
And Samantha dresses up very formally and Darren has on a tux.

01:20:28.869 --> 01:20:30.731
I guess she convinced Darren to wear the tux.

01:20:30.731 --> 01:20:35.012
Sheila opens up the door and once again she fooled Samantha.

01:20:35.012 --> 01:20:37.940
It is indeed a casual affair.

01:20:38.404 --> 01:20:38.524
Yeah.

01:20:38.765 --> 01:20:44.856
And very quickly, though Darren says we have another affair we have to go to after this one, yeah, he saves it Very good.

01:20:45.277 --> 01:20:46.238
Yeah, that did save it.

01:20:46.238 --> 01:20:51.127
So she's not humiliated in that way.

01:20:51.127 --> 01:20:52.689
But the rest of the time she is talking down samantha.

01:20:52.689 --> 01:20:58.207
She's talking about they're going to go on this uh trip and she's invited all her friends to go on this trip.

01:20:58.207 --> 01:21:01.636
I can't remember where it was, but this very expensive trip.

01:21:01.636 --> 01:21:04.728
And she says to samantha what are you doing this summer?

01:21:04.728 --> 01:21:05.628
Why don't you come with us?

01:21:05.628 --> 01:21:08.672
And samantha's like we're, we're replacing our plumbing.

01:21:08.672 --> 01:21:20.326
So then there's a bee flying around sheila's head or a mosquito, I don't be or a fly, we don't really ever find out.

01:21:20.326 --> 01:21:35.046
And so samantha has it land on sheila's nose and sheila's like freaking out, looking cross-eyed at her nose, just looking ridiculous, the butler.

01:21:35.046 --> 01:21:37.030
She tells the butler to do something about it.

01:21:37.030 --> 01:21:38.917
It gets in her hair and he smacks her head, knocking her wig off.

01:21:38.936 --> 01:21:39.658
She's a blonde, which happened?

01:21:39.698 --> 01:21:40.622
in the first episode.

01:21:40.622 --> 01:21:42.412
Yes, she is a blonde and she's a blonde.

01:21:42.412 --> 01:21:44.822
Yes, it happened in the first episode.

01:21:44.822 --> 01:21:46.847
She's a brunette, but nope, she's really a blonde.

01:21:46.847 --> 01:21:47.649
Her wig comes off.

01:21:47.649 --> 01:21:56.476
Then the dog happens to be next to the hose and Samantha turns on the hose and has the dog pick it up in its mouth.

01:21:56.476 --> 01:21:59.753
Well then the dog very quickly gets muddy.

01:22:00.154 --> 01:22:00.395
Yes.

01:22:01.025 --> 01:22:07.519
And the dog runs over and jumps on Sheila, covering her with mud, and Sheila jumps up.

01:22:07.519 --> 01:22:12.051
She's absolutely humiliated and that's Samantha's revenge.

01:22:12.393 --> 01:22:18.971
And, of course, at the end, you miss the part where where Samantha twitches Sheila's the Sheila's sweater.

01:22:19.192 --> 01:22:19.533
Yes.

01:22:19.826 --> 01:22:28.516
And she makes the loops go around the dog's collar and the dog runs off and Sheila's Sheila's shirt becomes undone and her dresses yeah.

01:22:29.024 --> 01:22:30.149
It stops right at her bra.

01:22:30.149 --> 01:22:33.631
About halfway up her bra it stopped further up than I thought they would stop.

01:22:34.153 --> 01:22:36.037
Totally unwinds, totally unwinds.

01:22:36.037 --> 01:22:37.612
That is when Sheila loses it.

01:22:37.612 --> 01:22:39.010
Sheila loses it.

01:22:39.484 --> 01:22:42.996
She runs to her father just absolutely devastated.

01:22:42.996 --> 01:22:47.228
And what's great is Darren, they get the account, or did they?

01:22:47.228 --> 01:22:48.007
They may have lost it.

01:22:48.007 --> 01:22:49.029
Darren, they get the account, or did they?

01:22:49.029 --> 01:22:55.054
They may have lost it, but when they get home, samantha apologizes and this happens a few times.

01:22:55.054 --> 01:22:57.855
Darren says it's okay, she deserved it.

01:22:59.337 --> 01:23:00.137
She did Well.

01:23:00.137 --> 01:23:01.679
How about she can never remember Samantha?

01:23:01.679 --> 01:23:02.340
How hard is that?

01:23:02.340 --> 01:23:08.726
Samsara, Samatar, Samovar, it's like Samantha.

01:23:08.747 --> 01:23:10.237
How hard is that to remember dora with darren?

01:23:10.680 --> 01:23:11.122
it is.

01:23:11.143 --> 01:23:33.148
She does it on purpose part of her being condescending to samantha, and she even makes fun of the name you know what I love about this episode other than you know the wonderful nancy kovacs and it's just such a fun episode is that, yes, it is basically a remake of act two, of the pilot in color, but unlike when they remade episodes later and later seasons of bewitched, it was.

01:23:33.148 --> 01:23:35.854
It had its own bones, it had its own structure.

01:23:35.854 --> 01:23:40.310
It wasn't just an out and out remake of an old episode no, it served a purpose.

01:23:40.511 --> 01:23:53.097
it served a purpose, it had its own premise and, yes, it was very similar, but it was fun to see it in color, as, as opposed to black and white, and the different things samantha did to sheila this time as opposed to the first time, and she deserved every one of them.

01:23:53.484 --> 01:23:55.751
And I liked that it added continuity to the story.

01:23:55.751 --> 01:23:59.872
They actually brought Nancy Kovac back because I didn't remember that.

01:23:59.872 --> 01:24:01.701
I'm like, okay, is it going to be Nancy Kovac?

01:24:01.701 --> 01:24:07.451
And I was so happy it was so it did add continuity to the story that this is something that happened three years before.

01:24:07.451 --> 01:24:08.932
And here we go again.

01:24:08.932 --> 01:24:12.818
They reunited and we had the same chaos as before.

01:24:12.818 --> 01:24:14.319
I just loved this episode.

01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:16.128
It made me laugh this is a fun episode.

01:24:16.128 --> 01:24:20.180
Well, those are our episodes for the dick york era.

01:24:20.180 --> 01:24:20.823
Wow, that was.

01:24:20.823 --> 01:24:26.194
That was quite a chunk that we went through, um, but it was a lot of fun.

01:24:26.194 --> 01:24:31.268
You know there are, as we said at the beginning, there are so many, many, many, many more episodes.

01:24:31.268 --> 01:24:38.675
There's a wonderful episode called Accidental Twins where Aunt Clara mistakenly turns the Tate's son into twins.

01:24:38.675 --> 01:24:41.277
It's hysterically funny using the twin actors who played them.

01:24:41.277 --> 01:24:43.219
There's a bunch of wonderful episodes.

01:24:43.219 --> 01:24:46.822
We never got to, but these ones were definitely fun, fun, fun, fun.

01:24:47.404 --> 01:25:11.720
Tony's going to have some excellent trivia as well there is more trivia to come in part two of our Bewitched, of our Happy Birthday Bewitched episodes, when we tackle the Dick Sargent years and we talk a little bit about what exactly happened with Dick York, what the atmosphere was like when that was happening, how the whole Dick Sargent switch came about, its aftermath and some episodes from that era.

01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:28.137
I also want to talk a little bit about a little show which is kind of like the air quotes genie in the room, A little episode you might know, a little show you might know, called I Dream of Genie and just what Elizabeth Montgomery really thought about I Dream of Genie.

01:25:28.137 --> 01:25:32.612
But you'll have to stay tuned for our next episode on Bewitched to find out.

01:25:33.213 --> 01:25:34.657
And I'm looking forward to it.

01:25:35.024 --> 01:25:36.670
Good, so, without further ado.

01:25:36.670 --> 01:25:38.333
This has been a long one, brad.

01:25:38.333 --> 01:25:45.592
This has been quite a chunk, but still, yes, let's not say goodbye, let's just say au revoir.

01:25:46.335 --> 01:25:48.038
No, let's say goodbye.

01:25:49.891 --> 01:25:50.274
Goodbye.