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

03E11 - Oedipus Hex

The latest diatribe Endora rails against Darrin to Samantha is that she believes he, like all mortal men, enjoys wallowing in the drudgery of work, as work is how mortal men identify themselves. Otherwise, mortal men would be like little children with nothing to do. To prove her point, Endora, without telling either Samantha or Darrin, places a spell on a bowl of popcorn. Anyone who eats the popcorn will forget all about work. It works as Darrin, after eating the popcorn, decides to stay home from work this day, which doesn't bother Samantha in the slightest. However, as more and more men stop by the house and eat the popcorn, the Stephens residence becomes one giant man cave. Having the disruptive group of men around is not good timing for Samantha as she has just volunteered to do some fundraising work with some officious neighborhood women who are meeting at the house. Darrin and his fun loving compatriots threaten Samantha's good standing among the neighborhood women. But when Samantha finally figures out what Endora has done, Samantha tries to use it to her advantage.

Date: 24 Nov 1966
IMDB id: tt0523148
IMDB rating: 9.2
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