Bewitched

Darrin (Dick York/Dick Sargent) and Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) are a young, bi-species married couple: he's a mortal human being, she's a witch, something which she does not divulge to him until after their wedding. Darrin just wants them to live a simple, mortal life, to which Samantha agrees, meaning no witchcraft and no telling any of their mortal friends and relatives of her being a witch. However, that no witchcraft vow is difficult to maintain if only because of Samantha wanting or needing to use it to get out of one scrape or another, and her relatives, especially her mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead), the most constant thorn in Darrin's side, against the marriage and the idea of denying Samantha's heritage as a witch. Mortals in their lives also add to their complicated lives: Darrin's friend and spendthrift boss, Larry Tate (David White) of McMann and Tate Advertising, who always wants Darrin to do all the work while the company gets all the glory and money; their nosy neighbors, the Kravitzes, Gladys Kravitz (Sandra Gould/Alice Pearce), who always arrives at the most inopportune time to show her exasperated husband Abner Kravitz (George Tobias) that something funny is going on in the Stephens house; and Darrin's parents, his mother, Phyllis Stephens (Mabel Albertson), who is prone to splitting headaches which become more prevalent as she thinks she sees things in Samantha that just couldn't be in her mortal view. That complicated life gets even more complicated when they start a family, the children who could be mortal or who could be witches and warlocks.

Year

1964

Movie time

25 min

Directed by

N/A

Cast

Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent

7.5/10

IMDB

06E17 - The Phrase Is Familiar

Because of Tabitha being a witch, Darrin, in agreeing to Samantha's suggestion that Tabitha is ready for kindergarten, allows for Endora's choice of Professor Poindexter Phipps, a warlock, to be her at-home tutor if only the professor teaches her in the mortal way. Meanwhile, for Darrin's latest campaign, he explains to Endora that his play off a familiar phrase - in this case, "never cry over spilt milk" - is meant to evoke a sense of comfort, and thus is only one of many strategies for success in his business, but one that should not be overused. So when the two of them have yet another of their disagreements, Endora, without Darrin or Samantha's knowledge, decides to place a spell on him where he spouts off one tired cliché after another. She ratchets up her anger toward Darrin with a slightly more devastating spell after he figures out about the first one. These spells cause problems for Darrin as he has come up with a campaign for H.B. Summers that does not use these tired clichés and refuses to do so even when Summers insists after hearing Darrin spout off these familiar phrases. A problem of a different kind emerges when one of the professor's teaching tool comes into contact with Summers.

Date: 15 Jan 1970
IMDB id: tt0523253
IMDB rating: N/A
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