Honestly, considering Darrin's and Samantha's expected life spans, it's a wonder her parents gave her such a hard time about marrying him. I don't know why Samantha just didn't say, "Mother, Father, don't worry--he'll be gone before you realize it."
Plus Darrin was mostly a pill. Was forever irked about any witch-ly behavior, had zero interest in the witch life or perspective. Samantha's mother Endora is played as a meddler, but she was actually quite fun and far more open minded about human need than Darrin about witch need.
Plus, there was the fear for the children. If they turned out like their father, then Samantha would outlive them too. You can completely understand her parents seeing their relationship as nothing but doomed heartbreak.
As a child watching the reruns, I never understood why Samantha was so willing to marry a stick-in-the-mud like Darrin. I mean, not use your magic for housekeeping? That's crazy. But, if you consider her long life, Darrin is just going to be a small part of it. She wants to play at being a human, suburban housewife for awhile. It does make you wish the writers had explored her back story some more. Would have been more interesting to see where that desire came from and get more of her family history.
Yep, the eternal Bewitched question: "What does she see in him?" Once you've thought a little it's hard to understand why a woman with so much ability and life experience (300 years) would want to buy in to "the husband is lord and master" more of the time. Granted, the thinking on marriage roles was even worse in earlier times, but with her obvious intelligence and 300 years to think on it, she should certainly have thought of a better way of living for herself. The obvious answer is just that the viewers aren't supposed to think about it that hard.
@@RusTsea196T and Karen Moskowitz - I had the same questions as a kid and wanted to know where she grew up. Staying in that house all day seemed so dull.
I think you’re too deep into an older sitcom. That short of deep character analysis is probably something none of the viewers or writers cared about. I do imagine its a bit like Doctor Who (the Doctor). The short lives humans live and how much they make of them represent something the doctor can never have. You wonder “why does this immortal alien that can travel anywhere in time and space” spend so much time with humans. For him it’s because they’re creatures that achieve amazing things given their short lives. Also (just a random though) she could have actually just fallen in love with him. There’s a serious misconception in that any of us need a “reason” to like or even feel attracted to someone. Its a volatile emotion and can be based on anything or nothing. If these were real people, it would not to be any of our places to ask “why” they are together and what they see in a each other. Because there doesn’t need to be an answer. We don’t need a reason to love someone. Love is inherently an unreasonable and illogical emotion (really all emotions are; similarly people don’t need a reason to be angry).
They addressed this same story line in the later seasons with the 2nd Darrin. Samantha simply turned herself into an old woman so she would be age appropriate for Darrin as he ages. Now that's LOVE
And Aunt Clara is probably close to 10,000 years old... given her deteriorating magic and based on how old she looks for a witch. Just my guess, though.
While I like the both of them, it can't be denied that the first Darrin was the best. It's unfortunate he had to quit the role. It's sad that she mentions her Darrin is strong and in perfect health.
He's going to change a lot more than he knows, into a completely different actor, one without chronic back problems. RIP Dick York, you were the best Darrin.
This brings up another question: If Samantha is 400 years old, did she really wait over 3 centuries to marry or has she had previous husbands who aged out on her?
She's had boyfriends (all warlocks) but that was it. Also, witches don't really appear to be "immortal", they just age slowly. Endora wasn't born old, after all. To a human lifespan, it may seem to be immortality.
@@davidalves31057 season 1 episode 4 Endora implies she knew Caesar personally and attended several of Diogenes party's. which places her at least over 2300yrs old . Serena says the following in reference to Endora's age when asked by Sam's mother in law in season 5 episode 24 "how old is Samantha's mother? " Serena" She admits to 1000yrs " season 6 ep 7 Endora says the to Samantha "You can change your mind a great deal in 3000 yrs I know I did" .
@@davidalves31057 She's at least 5,485 years old, assuming she's not lying about the people she knew in the past: According to her brother Arthur and her niece Serena, Endora "admits to 1,000" -- that is, she's willing to admit she's 1,000 years old, but that's a lie. Arthur says she's actually over 4,000 years old. She's also mentioned knowing Diogenes (~400 BCE), having met Helen of Troy (~1180 BCE) and dating Otze the Iceman (a shaman found frozen in a mountain pass, ~3500 BCE). She's also mentioned that she changed her mind "many times in the last 3,000 years" in a conversation about love and relationships, indicating she's been an adult at least that long. Assuming she's telling the truth about Otze, she would have had to be at least 20 or so in 3500 BCE, which would make her about 5,485 years old in the mid-1960s.
a perfectly fair question he deserves an honest answer to, followed up by how many other husbands has she outlived? kind of a dark observation derwood has....
I guess she hasn’t had any other husbands or else she’d know how to handle all of this better by now. Plus her mother had to remind her that they humans age much faster. But if I was darrin I probably would have assumed she’d had more
If it was a woman worrying about growing old while her husband stayed young, everyone would just expect the husband to find a younger woman and think nothing of it. You know they would.
VultureClone That’s what Darrin was thinking. That he’d be old and ugly and she’d ditch him for some young thang. If someone is going to live for thousands of years and you’re just a human sigh a regular lifespan it means she is going to get another husband. I’m sure Samantha stayed with Darrin till he died of old and and eventually got a new husband. Serena would take her out looking for new dudes.
Someone once pointed out that you could take the premise and characters of _Bewitched_ , and change the viewing angle just _slightly_ , and produce a very frightening horror story. And it's true.
@LisaK71000 No, Bewitched was not filmed in front of a live audience. It was a single camera show, shot more like a movie than many sitcoms. It would have been impractical to do the three camera, I Love Lucy-style setup in front of a live audience with the special effects that Bewitched required. A laugh track was added later. The Andy Griffith Show was shot the same way.
It is sad and tragic. Sam is very nice on a superficial level, but she has been extremely cruel to Darren. By not telling Darren the truth until after they are married, she's trapped him (from his viewpoint of what is right and moral) in a relationship that he really doesn't want to be in. She's using him. She may not think she is using him, but she is. And considering the relationship dynamics, it would appear that the main thing she sees in him is that he's basically non-threatening. She likes that he's not really her peer, and she doesn't mind pretending to be the loyal devoted wife in every situation except when she wants to have her way - and in those she just railroads him.
@@celebrim1 That goes too far, IMHO, but it's true that Sam really _should_ have made it clear to Darren what he was getting into _before_ the wedding.
@@shermanlee4037 Agreed. I am glad they addressed this in season 2's "What Every Young Man Should Know" when Endora sends them back in time to see what would've happened if Samantha had told him she was a witch while they were still dating instead. That should've "really" happened on an ethical level, of course, but then you wouldn't have the show's main conflicts. What sets it up is Samantha, AFTER they're married, telling Darrin: "Soooo I'm a witch. I have literal magic powers to do anything. I am several centuries old. You're going to get old and die way sooner than me. My relatives all have magic powers too, will hate your guts, and will torture you for the rest of your life. Your children will also have magic powers and will outlive you by centuries. You can't tell anyone any of this, not even your parents." What does Darrin get out of this? She's REALLY hot. She looks like Elizabeth Montgomery. He loves her. She agrees to give up witchcraft (or at least tries to) and be a doting housewife. So... he made his choice.
Miss Montgomery was born in '33. 4/15 1933. She DID look to be in her 20's. So first season she is only 31. When she says "older", there's a little joke in that with everyone on set. She was a beautiful woman. Great show.
So She was almost 40 when the show went off, I think in 72. I was a kid and remember seeing it at night in prime time, and reruns in the day in the summer I think.
Oh, he asked them a lot of times. One of the reasons he sometimes comes across as a blustering egotist is that he's covering for his own doubts. That shows through here and there.
I agree. Samantha and Darren had issues that should have been addressed before their marriage but since "Bewitched" is a light comedy there wouldn't have been much of a show if Samantha and Darren had handled things in a more realistic way! I was thinking that the two of them would have to keep changing jobs and residences and even names as the people around them would see that Samantha didn't age like in the movie "The Age of Adeline" which is about a woman who doesn't grow older.
@@andrewbrendan1579 Well, as Sam points out in an other episode, she can change her appearance and appear to age if she wants to. But yeah, in real life their situation would be a lot messier, esp. if Sam's power was not quite so 'whatever the plot requires', but had some kind of limits.
@@shermanlee4037 Ive always wanted to see a continuation of the series that picks up close to Darrin's demise because I think it would be an incredibly interesting story wherein Samantha has to face Darrin's mortality and his refusal to accept her help in order to extend his life whilst also covering how Tabitha/Adam deal with the loss of their father and the resulting realization that they too will outlive every mortal they have ever loved and known by centuries.
"You can spend the whole of your life with me but I can never spend the whole of my life with you. That's the curse of the Time Lords" - Doctor Who. Works for witches too
And Benjamin Button. Solo-dolo is better than watching those you adore wither and die, until you find someone that makes you want to live. 😌 #TrueLoveNeverDies
@Doug Winfield I was gonna point that out, however, since "Bewitched" was a b/w show that did shift into color after its 2nd season, we do know what color that exact dress of Endora's was. She wore this iconic dress quite a bit throughout the series (in both the b/w and color episodes). So, even though this was a b/w episode, originally, that's actually irrelevant 'cause they colorized the dress the exact same color it legitimately would prove to be in the later color episodes. So, we know the statement is still correct, she did have the same color palette as Daphne Blake. 😆But, I guess it is worth mentioning that (unlike Daphne), Endora did branch out into other colors and outfits, as well. 😉Though this outfit was clearly her favorite. 😁
Season 1 has several episodes with scenes that don't try to be funny, but are more poignant about their situation -- "A Is For Aardvark" even has a straight out dramatic scene with Samantha crying. Producer Danny Arnold wanted a show more about meshing and clashing personalities than ones heavy on special effects, which changed during the color seasons.
I don't know - it was pretty good, but I saw a Farside cartoon once that summed it up. It was the writers of Bewitched at a table and they said "I know, let's create a situation where Darrin has no idea what's going on?"
I disagree. Dick Sargent had his moments as the 2nd Darrin on "Bewitched". By the time he came on in 1969, Darrin and Samantha and her family were well-established. Very rarely was he a sourpuss to Samantha until the last season.
@@curtisthomas4923 Some people prefer Kraft slices rather than aged parmesan or a rich cheddar. It's also normal for some to like banjo music instead of violin concertos. Each to his own taste.
Darrin has a valid question. I have to revisit some of the earlier episodes. I thought I knew all the episodes, but there apparently are some that I can't recall. Bewitched was way ahead of it's time! I even noticed some of it's motifs in Harry Potter (e.g. paintings talking, etc). Frankly, I don't think Samantha and her family were "witches" at all, but 5th dimensional beings CALLED witches.
Happy Birthday Samantha!! She was my second mother as I was growing up, especially as I believed I was a witch! Sam was a blonde American version of my brunette English mummy. Both beautiful, both passed around 60yrs, both dearly missed. xo
@@RusTsea196T Well if Sam was born in 1666 she would be about 16 in 1682. So that would match a teenaged version on the picture. At least if Witches grow up as quickly as us ordinary mortals do.
BruhTV She was the forgetful one if I remember she’d show up in their fireplace and couldn’t remember the counter spell on one she did? Always saying “Oh Dear”.
In this episode, Liz was about 32 and Dick York was about 37. Unfortunately he didn't get to live till 75 and Liz wasn't entirely eternal herself either! That's so unfortunate to know that they both died so young and prematurely. Thanks alot. Johnny, Montreal, Canada.
This whole issue makes the Mother's animosity towards Darren kind of ridiculous. By her perspective, Darren is just a passing flung; he'll literally be gone in no time. Why doesn't she just put on a good face and let her daughter have this? He obviously makes her happy at the moment.
It could be that she doesn't want Samantha to hurt when Darrin dies. She could be thinking that it's better to hurt from separation than to hurt from death. Also, saw a bit from later in the show that depicts the entire witches coven as being against Samanthas marriage, so it could be that they frown upon witches marrying mortals as mortals could be seen as inferior. 🤔
I was a kid when this series was on the air..... now decades later watching again on amazon prime. I had forgotten what a sweet show this was, and the chemistry that Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York had was priceless. I never did like it when Dick Sargent took over the role of Darrin. True this show has some politically dated story lines but well this was a different time. I say just sit back watch smile and enjoy this show!
This scene is pretty meta considering when York was too sick to work and had to leave the show, Montgomery never spoke to or saw him again. Even two decades later, when he tried to reach out to tell her he only had months left to live.
Too Samantha in this video mentions what good shape Darren is in but it wasn't true at all. It doesn't show but he major difficulty that I think was because of a spinal problem caused by an injury.
It will be like Duncan the Highlander once said, He had to move about ever 5 or 6 years people will see that he was not aging and start to ask questions and he cannot go back to the same place least for 75 years or people will still be alive that can remember him
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona With the wealth one could accumulate over several centuries I'd think it easy enough to have paid ppl to scout out the net and erase every trace. It's done nowadays.
I remember watching a really good indie movie called The Man From Earth. It was about an immortal who'd been alive since prehistoric times. He told his friends that he would have to pack up and move every 10 years so people wouldn't notice he didn't age.
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona have a fake profile, or now it would be easier to use make up and make it look like someone else for a while Again live in one place for 10 years move to another place across the country for 10 move to another place in 10 by then if anybody sees you could tell them that he was your father
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is a favorite of mine. Endora is the one who put doubts into Darrin's kind. But I love what he tells Sam in the park, that it doesn't matter as long as two people who love one another are meant to be together. In the sequel episode, SAMANTHA'S OLD MAN, Endora does more than just put the thought of aging into Darrin's mind, she changes him into an old man to let him feel what'll be like to get old BUT, he still has the same mental capacity he has before the change. Here one sees how hard it is for Darrin to adjust to the sudden change. In this episode, we also find out that Sam will let herself age at the same rate as Darrin does by explaining, "Witches can do anything they want to do." Of courses, after showing Darrin what she means, Endora pops in angry. These two episodes are two examples that show what BEWITCHED was all about, love and, in many cases, dealing with day-to-day issues, although, sometimes Sam had to deal with an issue her way. 🙂
Endora said that she wasn’t born during the time of King Henry the 8th, and that was during the 15-1600s. So Samantha was probably born a few decades before the Salem Witch Trials since Endora also said that she was a child bride.
Endora admits they age, slow but they age...the least most feeble believer in the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ for their sins will put on absolutely incorruptible bodies in due time, ...1 Corinthians 15:54 - So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
@Debbie Smith in hindsight, the show continuously takes shots at man's mortality which Satan played a part in. But I now know the Lord Jesus Christ rescued fallen man from death and judged the ruler of this world turning the tables on the smug presentation of the show.
Indeed my friend. I remember the questions comparing her to Barbara Eden on I Dream of Jeannie. It was like the question Ginger or Maryanne...I chose Samantha and Maryanne. Those eyes and smiles won me over with both.
Now that i think about it i honestly dont know why Endora made such a big deal about Samantha marrying a mortal. He would only live another 50 years tops, a blink for a nigh immortal being like Samantha. Before Endora noticed , Darrin would die, and wedding vows are only valuable till death parts the two of them. After that , Samantha would be "free" and Endora could marry her off with whoever she wanted
You have to remember, back in those days, most women expected to be virgin on their first wedding night. Most men expected they'd have to marry to have sex, unless they had an accommodating widow/divorcee friend, or a pay-by-the-hour 'friend'. When that's your expectation, long engagements aren't exactly a priority.
I have thought about this watching these shows. If she lives hundreds of years and hardly ages I have thought how many times was she in love and how many for the lack of names. Just how many husbands did she have . Unless she only dated warlocks before Darren she could have went through ten or more . Wish I could live that long without ending up in a cold and lonely grave for eternity lord help us all.
Again this show was ahead of its time Sure he was worried about what people would think when a 75 year old man married to a woman who looks barley out of her 20s but it says a lot that his first worry was that she’d have to take care of him in his old age
What the heck is he grumbling about? In fifty years he will be an elderly man married to a gorgeous girl young enough to be his granddaughter. Even when I was around ten and saw this episode for the first time I could recognize the advantages of being married to her.
Would you want your wife, still young, vital, and strong, so spend her every waking moment caring for you as an invalid? Or hold her back from enjoying her own life? Now granted, with Sam's lifespan that doesn't apply as much, but it's still something to think about. Even in real-world marriages, big age differences can be an issue. I don't oppose them across the board, my own parents had a modestly big age difference and they were happy together, I could tell. But...it _does_ matter. My mother outlived my father by the better part of two decades. (Granted, even with the age difference my father died younger than he should have for health reasons.) I would never tell a couple with a big age difference not to get together just because of it...but I would also not tell them not to think hard about it first, because it does matter.
I think it scared him and made him sad. The idea that Samantha will live practically forever and he only has so much time with her. Of course being a man in the 60s it probably hurt his ego a bit about the immortality thing as well but more than anything I think that small flicker of fear we all have when thinking about getting older and dying got to him right there
Plus a flicker of fear of how's he going to be good enough for his wife when he's old, senile and has more hair coming out of his nose than on top of his head. I think he wants more for her.
In the rest of the episode, we see that he's worried about her losing interest in him as he ages and fades, and he's worried about her being stuck taking care on invalid, and he's just kind of overwhelmed. There's a scene where he sits in the park watching an elderly couple that are clearly still in love, and you can see him comparing their mortal relationship with his situation, and he's not sure he can cope...or if he _should_ .
@@shermanlee4037 I really like the first season of "Bewitched," produced by Danny Arnold, for this reason- it gets surprisingly deep for a '60s sitcom.
Wow, I don't remember Bewitched, having serious moments like this. I never knew Samantha had that kind of expected lifespan. I've been watching these clips recently on yt, and they've all been good. So different than the crap that's on the air today.
Go back and watch the first episode of season one. Endora comes across as genuinely frightening in that. It looks for a moment like she's going to kill Darren to end the marriage, and it's equally obvious that Sam is no match for her magically, so she can't protect him if Endora does decide to do that.
@@shermanlee4037 Great episode, as is "Mother Meets What's His Name." The background music in that one is very dramatic and Agnes Moorehead is terrifying in it ("YOUNG MAN!") Samantha's father Maurice essentially DOES kill Darrin in a later season 1 episode ("Just One Happy Family") but Samantha begs him to bring him back.
It's episodes like this that makes BEWITCHED head and shoulders above comedies today, and most of those of its time. But this show was more than just a comedy, it was a story of two people from two different cultures trying to cope in a suspicious world that didn't like their beliefs challenged. Samantha had to hide who she is for fear of a backlash against her and her family. This is another way of showing what women, people of color and gays were going through back in the 60s, and prior, and even now. Some say that Sam was repressed while Jeannie was a free spirit. Jeannie's uncontrolled nature got Tony, who I thought was the master, into trouble more times than not. Sam was/is more reaoistic. She feared for her family's safety. She stated that more than once, even explaining to Tabitha why they had to keep their secret. In many ways, BEWITCHED was ahead of its tike. Love this series.
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Honestly, considering Darrin's and Samantha's expected life spans, it's a wonder her parents gave her such a hard time about marrying him. I don't know why Samantha just didn't say, "Mother, Father, don't worry--he'll be gone before you realize it."
That's probably precisely why they gave her such a hard time, they didn't want their little girl heartbroken by a union that could never last.
@@FerretJohn i never thoute about it that way
Plus Darrin was mostly a pill. Was forever irked about any witch-ly behavior, had zero interest in the witch life or perspective. Samantha's mother Endora is played as a meddler, but she was actually quite fun and far more open minded about human need than Darrin about witch need.
@@hd-xc2lz Now Tony Nelson (I Dream of Jeannie) - oh yeah!
Plus, there was the fear for the children. If they turned out like their father, then Samantha would outlive them too. You can completely understand her parents seeing their relationship as nothing but doomed heartbreak.
When I was a kid. Endora was an old Bag. Now she looks foxy.
Lol. I know what you mean.
I guess that's because your human and you have aged and she hasn't
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Looking foxy and acting like an old bag are not mutually exclusive. Agnes Moorehead handled both easily.
I have a thing for Endora myself. 😍
If she still looks like that when he's 75, he'll be thanking his lucky stars
....YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!
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Yep!
That's what I was thinking! 😄😄
But what will he look like at age 75? 🤣🤣
As a child watching the reruns, I never understood why Samantha was so willing to marry a stick-in-the-mud like Darrin. I mean, not use your magic for housekeeping? That's crazy. But, if you consider her long life, Darrin is just going to be a small part of it. She wants to play at being a human, suburban housewife for awhile. It does make you wish the writers had explored her back story some more. Would have been more interesting to see where that desire came from and get more of her family history.
Yep, the eternal Bewitched question: "What does she see in him?" Once you've thought a little it's hard to understand why a woman with so much ability and life experience (300 years) would want to buy in to "the husband is lord and master" more of the time. Granted, the thinking on marriage roles was even worse in earlier times, but with her obvious intelligence and 300 years to think on it, she should certainly have thought of a better way of living for herself. The obvious answer is just that the viewers aren't supposed to think about it that hard.
@@RusTsea196T and Karen Moskowitz - I had the same questions as a kid and wanted to know where she grew up. Staying in that house all day seemed so dull.
wow thats deep, as a kid i never thought about that.
I always contrasted him with the Major from "I Dream of Jeannie."
I think you’re too deep into an older sitcom. That short of deep character analysis is probably something none of the viewers or writers cared about. I do imagine its a bit like Doctor Who (the Doctor). The short lives humans live and how much they make of them represent something the doctor can never have. You wonder “why does this immortal alien that can travel anywhere in time and space” spend so much time with humans. For him it’s because they’re creatures that achieve amazing things given their short lives.
Also (just a random though) she could have actually just fallen in love with him. There’s a serious misconception in that any of us need a “reason” to like or even feel attracted to someone. Its a volatile emotion and can be based on anything or nothing. If these were real people, it would not to be any of our places to ask “why” they are together and what they see in a each other. Because there doesn’t need to be an answer. We don’t need a reason to love someone. Love is inherently an unreasonable and illogical emotion (really all emotions are; similarly people don’t need a reason to be angry).
They addressed this same story line in the later seasons with the 2nd Darrin. Samantha simply turned herself into an old woman so she would be age appropriate for Darrin as he ages. Now that's LOVE
@Harold Potsdamer Darrin would not approve of it. I remember, he detests Samantha using her magic.
Tops...the producers did pretty much the same episodes with both Darrins/Dicks (since both actors had the same given names).
Why not just make him younger?
@@jimcarter6669 He was not going to go along with that...remember?
@@dr.davidwho4053 Cause he's a fool. It's kind of misogynistic in a way he wanted to be the one with the power and never have her be above him.
Supposedly samantha is 390-400 years old and her mother is 3,000 years old...I love the show Bewitched
She married down. But I love the show.
I remember one episode she meant being about 1000 years old...
@@Gabriellandon Personally, I think she was born in the year 6. Then her birthday would be 06-06-06.
@@MsBettyRubble I think she was born 06 of June at 6 am lol...
And Aunt Clara is probably close to 10,000 years old... given her deteriorating magic and based on how old she looks for a witch. Just my guess, though.
Always loved when Samantha got stumped how she’d just say “Well”.
Sometimes the writers gave themselves little breaks.
Just like on I Love Lucy when Lucy was caught she'd go "Eww."
Wyeeehlll
I like this Darrin which was more comically with facial expressions and antics.
@Grateful American And BORING.
@Grateful American The other Darrin in real life was gay and trying to hide it. That's why he always looks away when kissing Samantha.
While I like the both of them, it can't be denied that the first Darrin was the best. It's unfortunate he had to quit the role. It's sad that she mentions her Darrin is strong and in perfect health.
warr malaski he also had massive back issues and was in extreme amounts of pain that’s why he was replaced
IZZY...it's hard to recreate a character when the original actor has already formed our impressions of how a replacement should act. thr
I love how she always says “Well??” 😂😂😂
He's going to change a lot more than he knows, into a completely different actor, one without chronic back problems.
RIP Dick York, you were the best Darrin.
This brings up another question:
If Samantha is 400 years old, did she really wait over 3 centuries to marry or has she had previous husbands who aged out on her?
She's had boyfriends (all warlocks) but that was it. Also, witches don't really appear to be "immortal", they just age slowly. Endora wasn't born old, after all. To a human lifespan, it may seem to be immortality.
@@jaycee330 Endora is close to 3000yrs old
@@eijiniizuma6184 not that much, she must be 800 years, or almost 1000 maybe...
@@davidalves31057 season 1 episode 4 Endora implies she knew Caesar personally and attended several of Diogenes party's. which places her at least over 2300yrs old . Serena says the following in reference to Endora's age when asked by Sam's mother in law in season 5 episode 24 "how old is Samantha's mother? " Serena" She admits to 1000yrs " season 6 ep 7 Endora says the to Samantha "You can change your mind a great deal in 3000 yrs I know I did" .
@@davidalves31057 She's at least 5,485 years old, assuming she's not lying about the people she knew in the past:
According to her brother Arthur and her niece Serena, Endora "admits to 1,000" -- that is, she's willing to admit she's 1,000 years old, but that's a lie. Arthur says she's actually over 4,000 years old. She's also mentioned knowing Diogenes (~400 BCE), having met Helen of Troy (~1180 BCE) and dating Otze the Iceman (a shaman found frozen in a mountain pass, ~3500 BCE). She's also mentioned that she changed her mind "many times in the last 3,000 years" in a conversation about love and relationships, indicating she's been an adult at least that long. Assuming she's telling the truth about Otze, she would have had to be at least 20 or so in 3500 BCE, which would make her about 5,485 years old in the mid-1960s.
a perfectly fair question he deserves an honest answer to, followed up by how many other husbands has she outlived? kind of a dark observation derwood has....
Omg so true
I guess she hasn’t had any other husbands or else she’d know how to handle all of this better by now. Plus her mother had to remind her that they humans age much faster. But if I was darrin I probably would have assumed she’d had more
If it was a woman worrying about growing old while her husband stayed young, everyone would just expect the husband to find a younger woman and think nothing of it. You know they would.
@@VultureClone she would want to know the same info, though. it's really not a gender thing here.
VultureClone That’s what Darrin was thinking. That he’d be old and ugly and she’d ditch him for some young thang. If someone is going to live for thousands of years and you’re just a human sigh a regular lifespan it means she is going to get another husband. I’m sure Samantha stayed with Darrin till he died of old and and eventually got a new husband. Serena would take her out looking for new dudes.
If this didn’t have a laugh track, the conversation would be sad and tragic.
Someone once pointed out that you could take the premise and characters of _Bewitched_ , and change the viewing angle just _slightly_ , and produce a very frightening horror story. And it's true.
@LisaK71000 No, Bewitched was not filmed in front of a live audience. It was a single camera show, shot more like a movie than many sitcoms. It would have been impractical to do the three camera, I Love Lucy-style setup in front of a live audience with the special effects that Bewitched required. A laugh track was added later. The Andy Griffith Show was shot the same way.
It is sad and tragic.
Sam is very nice on a superficial level, but she has been extremely cruel to Darren. By not telling Darren the truth until after they are married, she's trapped him (from his viewpoint of what is right and moral) in a relationship that he really doesn't want to be in. She's using him. She may not think she is using him, but she is. And considering the relationship dynamics, it would appear that the main thing she sees in him is that he's basically non-threatening. She likes that he's not really her peer, and she doesn't mind pretending to be the loyal devoted wife in every situation except when she wants to have her way - and in those she just railroads him.
@@celebrim1 That goes too far, IMHO, but it's true that Sam really _should_ have made it clear to Darren what he was getting into _before_ the wedding.
@@shermanlee4037 Agreed. I am glad they addressed this in season 2's "What Every Young Man Should Know" when Endora sends them back in time to see what would've happened if Samantha had told him she was a witch while they were still dating instead. That should've "really" happened on an ethical level, of course, but then you wouldn't have the show's main conflicts. What sets it up is Samantha, AFTER they're married, telling Darrin: "Soooo I'm a witch. I have literal magic powers to do anything. I am several centuries old. You're going to get old and die way sooner than me. My relatives all have magic powers too, will hate your guts, and will torture you for the rest of your life. Your children will also have magic powers and will outlive you by centuries. You can't tell anyone any of this, not even your parents." What does Darrin get out of this? She's REALLY hot. She looks like Elizabeth Montgomery. He loves her. She agrees to give up witchcraft (or at least tries to) and be a doting housewife. So... he made his choice.
She was and always will be one of the most beautiful woman, ever. Thanks
and Sam is pretty too.
And dat ass. Yowza!
Miss Montgomery was born in '33. 4/15 1933. She DID look to be in her 20's. So first season she is only 31. When she says "older", there's a little joke in that with everyone on set. She was a beautiful woman. Great show.
I thought she looked early 30s
Elizabeth Montgomery was a very beautiful woman at any age
Debbie Smith She looks in her 20’s for the time, she looks in her 30’s in this day and age
People looked much older back then to me
So She was almost 40 when the show went off, I think in 72. I was a kid and remember seeing it at night in prime time, and reruns in the day in the summer I think.
Sad knowing how quickly both died. Life is short for us mortals.
Oh, the irony!
Kind of weird you ask your wife her age only after you’ve married.
No weirder than not telling your husband that you’re a witch before the wedding.
Some birthdate would have had to be put on the marriage certificate too I would assume.
This ia fiction and she's a witch
Calm down killer, it’s a tv show. The fact that she’s a witch doesn’t concern you? 🤦🏼♀️
He didn't know she was a witch until after marriage, the the question before then was irrelevant..
This was one of few times in the show Daren was asking valid questions about this relationship. He’s got a point about this.
Oh, he asked them a lot of times. One of the reasons he sometimes comes across as a blustering egotist is that he's covering for his own doubts. That shows through here and there.
I agree. Samantha and Darren had issues that should have been addressed before their marriage but since "Bewitched" is a light comedy there wouldn't have been much of a show if Samantha and Darren had handled things in a more realistic way! I was thinking that the two of them would have to keep changing jobs and residences and even names as the people around them would see that Samantha didn't age like in the movie "The Age of Adeline" which is about a woman who doesn't grow older.
@@andrewbrendan1579 Well, as Sam points out in an other episode, she can change her appearance and appear to age if she wants to. But yeah, in real life their situation would be a lot messier, esp. if Sam's power was not quite so 'whatever the plot requires', but had some kind of limits.
@@shermanlee4037 Ive always wanted to see a continuation of the series that picks up close to Darrin's demise because I think it would be an incredibly interesting story wherein Samantha has to face Darrin's mortality and his refusal to accept her help in order to extend his life whilst also covering how Tabitha/Adam deal with the loss of their father and the resulting realization that they too will outlive every mortal they have ever loved and known by centuries.
Dick York had the best facial expressions.
Voice too.
So expressive.
1960’s Disneyesque.
-"It's in June"-"June what?"
-"The 6th"
Looks at the calendar on the screen, well look at that, tomorrow is the 6th of June.
Woohoo 🎂🎈🎉
Today is June 6
I was hoping he would say 20 June. Today is 20 June and my son's 12th birthday. 😁
@@forgottenpalace4472 Ahhh, tell him I said happy birthday 🕯️🥳1️⃣2️⃣
June 6th is my birthday
"You can spend the whole of your life with me but I can never spend the whole of my life with you. That's the curse of the Time Lords" - Doctor Who. Works for witches too
👍💜
And Benjamin Button. Solo-dolo is better than watching those you adore wither and die, until you find someone that makes you want to live. 😌 #TrueLoveNeverDies
At least the Doctor found Clara.
Ohh my God Endorra's colour palette is nearly identical to Daphne's from Scooby Doo!
Flaming red hair, Purple dress, lime green frills. Yup, I can definitely see it. XD
It's because they're both fabulous, darling! 😉
I never would have make the connection. Very observant.
This was a black and white episode that's been reasonably well colorized.
@Doug Winfield I was gonna point that out, however, since "Bewitched" was a b/w show that did shift into color after its 2nd season, we do know what color that exact dress of Endora's was. She wore this iconic dress quite a bit throughout the series (in both the b/w and color episodes). So, even though this was a b/w episode, originally, that's actually irrelevant 'cause they colorized the dress the exact same color it legitimately would prove to be in the later color episodes. So, we know the statement is still correct, she did have the same color palette as Daphne Blake. 😆But, I guess it is worth mentioning that (unlike Daphne), Endora did branch out into other colors and outfits, as well. 😉Though this outfit was clearly her favorite. 😁
Elizabeth Montgomery was a talented comedic actor. She also had one of the prettiest faces in television history.
Actually without the laugh track, its a fraught scene...he's going to change, but she...can't.
They cut it off before the end of the episode. She promises to use her powers to appear to age with him, and zaps them into looking old temporarily.
1:26 camera tripod shadow
@@AcmeRacing I remember that. I wish they had uploaded it.
Season 1 has several episodes with scenes that don't try to be funny, but are more poignant about their situation -- "A Is For Aardvark" even has a straight out dramatic scene with Samantha crying. Producer Danny Arnold wanted a show more about meshing and clashing personalities than ones heavy on special effects, which changed during the color seasons.
@@John80220 Man shut up dude
Bewitched was the perfect show..Perfect cast, Great script, editing, sound, Music...
I don't know - it was pretty good, but I saw a Farside cartoon once that summed it up. It was the writers of Bewitched at a table and they said "I know, let's create a situation where Darrin has no idea what's going on?"
Thanks for this, it brings me back to being 10 years old and laughing with my parents as we waited for Endora to turn Darren into something new.
His expressions are priceless.
I always loved that show. I was in high school when it debuted. Never missed an episode all those years.
i would love to be able to watch them shows .i all so loved the show if theres away
3:27 - The way she delivered that line was so magical.
I really miss shows like this. :(
I could watch this show (and so many other shows from this period) for hours just to study the interiors.
So samantha was REALLY the original cougar
😆👍💜
Yep!
Sadly, irl, elizabeth and dick both died before 70!
Love Endora's laugh at the end and her "you'll see".
I liked the ones with the good (funny) Darren. The replacement guy was a sourpuss and a meanie to Sam.
I disagree. Dick Sargent had his moments as the 2nd Darrin on "Bewitched". By the time he came on in 1969, Darrin and Samantha and her family were well-established. Very rarely was he a sourpuss to Samantha until the last season.
@@curtisthomas4923 Some people prefer Kraft slices rather than aged parmesan or a rich cheddar. It's also normal for some to like banjo music instead of violin concertos. Each to his own taste.
The fact that Sargent didn't like girls had a lot to do with it. And he was not a good enough actor to hide it.
@@warrmalaski8570 He had an ATTITUDE about it, as well.
@Mikeman Jordan He means he was gay
Darrin has a valid question. I have to revisit some of the earlier episodes. I thought I knew all the episodes, but there apparently are some that I can't recall. Bewitched was way ahead of it's time! I even noticed some of it's motifs in Harry Potter (e.g. paintings talking, etc). Frankly, I don't think Samantha and her family were "witches" at all, but 5th dimensional beings CALLED witches.
So if Darwood can trick his mother-in-law into saying "Arodne", she returns to the fifth dimension for ninety days?
@Richard Walters Jeepers, Mr. White!
Some of us were the age of Tabitha when the show came out in the late 60s, so we don't remember everything! 🤣😎
no such thing as 5th dimension, just as there are no such things as witches
Andy Man bet your fun at parties 🙄
wow, this was a powerful and yet sinister moment i don't remember in this series. she's correct of course :(
Happy Birthday Samantha!! She was my second mother as I was growing up, especially as I believed I was a witch! Sam was a blonde American version of my brunette English mummy. Both beautiful, both passed around 60yrs, both dearly missed. xo
So...your mom look like Serena, Sam's cousin?
I'm assuming her birthday must be 6/6/1666.
Well, the picture is dated 1682 and is of at least a teenaged or grown woman....so she was at least 300.
@@RusTsea196T That picture was conjured by Endora specifically to get Darrin to ask about Sam's age. It's legitimacy is in question.
@@RusTsea196T 6/6/666?
06-06-1066
@@RusTsea196T Well if Sam was born in 1666 she would be about 16 in 1682. So that would match a teenaged version on the picture. At least if Witches grow up as quickly as us ordinary mortals do.
Happy birthday, Samantha lol (it's June 6th 2020)
Yesss 🎂🎈
Happy 425th(approximately) birthday, sam!
She has supernatural powers and was born on June 6th. Would that have been at six o'clock in the morning? And she seems such a nice girl too.
06:06:06 as time of birth.
I hadn't even thought about the 666 thing. Observant!
Endora and Uncle Arthur will always be my favorites.
“ Hiya Sammy!” I loved Arthur too.
Janna Watson 😉
BruhTV She was the forgetful one if I remember she’d show up in their fireplace and couldn’t remember the counter spell on one she did? Always saying “Oh Dear”.
BruhTV Oh right! It’s been so long since I’ve watched them. Thank you for the Clara- fication😁
I totally forgot the "weeelll" catchphrase of hers.
In this episode, Liz was about 32 and Dick York was about 37. Unfortunately he didn't get to live till 75 and Liz wasn't entirely eternal herself either! That's so unfortunate to know that they both died so young and prematurely. Thanks alot. Johnny, Montreal, Canada.
These were real actors and not movie stars capable of only specific roles. Bewitched was clean, funny, and messaged good values.
This whole issue makes the Mother's animosity towards Darren kind of ridiculous. By her perspective, Darren is just a passing flung; he'll literally be gone in no time. Why doesn't she just put on a good face and let her daughter have this? He obviously makes her happy at the moment.
That would put a crimp on the scriptwriters.
I think it was more of a taboo culture thing for witches
It may be that the family animosity is caused by concern for how Samantha will feel when Darren dies.
@@gryphonpol It's never mentioned, and the mother in law treats him pretty poorly. It would be a weird strategy, if this was her motivation.
It could be that she doesn't want Samantha to hurt when Darrin dies. She could be thinking that it's better to hurt from separation than to hurt from death. Also, saw a bit from later in the show that depicts the entire witches coven as being against Samanthas marriage, so it could be that they frown upon witches marrying mortals as mortals could be seen as inferior. 🤔
The mom looks like an old version of Daphne from Scooby Doo
A lighthearted approach to the same conundrum the Highlander faced. . .
I happen to be watching this on June 6, Samantha's bday.
🎂🎈🎉
Happy Birthday Samantha. Grew up watching this show. Tks for the memories.
I was a kid when this series was on the air..... now decades later watching again on amazon prime. I had forgotten what a sweet show this was, and the chemistry that Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York had was priceless. I never did like it when Dick Sargent took over the role of Darrin. True this show has some politically dated story lines but well this was a different time. I say just sit back watch smile and enjoy this show!
Of course, poor Darrin changes before our eyes before the series even ends!
That little "Well" was one of her most endearing, signature trademarks. lol
It's June, and I get to watch this great episode about Samantha being born on June 6th. I'm glad I was born in June too.
Me too! June 23rd :)
This scene is pretty meta considering when York was too sick to work and had to leave the show, Montgomery never spoke to or saw him again. Even two decades later, when he tried to reach out to tell her he only had months left to live.
Poor Dick York..... Darren would certainly reach 75 but not him.....😥Nor Samantha for that matter..... how sad...
Neither Darren lived even close to 75 years.
Too Samantha in this video mentions what good shape Darren is in but it wasn't true at all. It doesn't show but he major difficulty that I think was because of a spinal problem caused by an injury.
Amazing. She had so much class. He was such a typical chauvinist. But it fit the times so well.
Darrin was tortured by his in-laws for 8 seasons.
“I’m going to change” Yep, into a Dock Sargent.
It will be like Duncan the Highlander once said, He had to move about ever 5 or 6 years people will see that he was not aging and start to ask questions and he cannot go back to the same place least for 75 years or people will still be alive that can remember him
With social media now, how would that work?
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona With the wealth one could accumulate over several centuries I'd think it easy enough to have paid ppl to scout out the net and erase every trace.
It's done nowadays.
Lazarus Long, the very-slowly-aging Robert Heinlein character, follows a protocol much like this. At least back when he was confined to one planet.
I remember watching a really good indie movie called The Man From Earth. It was about an immortal who'd been alive since prehistoric times. He told his friends that he would have to pack up and move every 10 years so people wouldn't notice he didn't age.
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona have a fake profile, or now it would be easier to use make up and make it look like someone else for a while Again live in one place for 10 years move to another place across the country for 10 move to another place in 10 by then if anybody sees you could tell them that he was your father
Laura Petrie:"Rob!"
Sam Stephens:"Well!"
I loved this show as a kid. Endorse was the best!
Endora
Otto By Ograffey oops. Damn autocorrect lol
@@jeffharder8706 That's OK. She deserves it for never remembering Darren's name.
@pjabrony8280 lol! That's such a funny gag! She often called him "derwood"!
Ha! I’d forgotten how cute it was when Sam said “Well…..”
Its so funny to see the shadows on the walls! I love this show
I always love how she says, "Well...
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is a favorite of mine. Endora is the one who put doubts into Darrin's kind. But I love what he tells Sam in the park, that it doesn't matter as long as two people who love one another are meant to be together.
In the sequel episode, SAMANTHA'S OLD MAN, Endora does more than just put the thought of aging into Darrin's mind, she changes him into an old man to let him feel what'll be like to get old BUT, he still has the same mental capacity he has before the change. Here one sees how hard it is for Darrin to adjust to the sudden change.
In this episode, we also find out that Sam will let herself age at the same rate as Darrin does by explaining, "Witches can do anything they want to do." Of courses, after showing Darrin what she means, Endora pops in angry.
These two episodes are two examples that show what BEWITCHED was all about, love and, in many cases, dealing with day-to-day issues, although, sometimes Sam had to deal with an issue her way. 🙂
Miss all of them.great show!!
Endora said that she wasn’t born during the time of King Henry the 8th, and that was during the 15-1600s. So Samantha was probably born a few decades before the Salem Witch Trials since Endora also said that she was a child bride.
Saying she wasn't born in the 15-16th centuries was probably out of vanity.
Endora lied to durwood, Endora told Samantha that she parited with Diogenes and Caesar which would make her in excess of 2000yrs old.
@@vermiciosknid9629 Serena in reference to Endoras age "she admits to 1000yrs"
@@eijiniizuma6184 yea but maybe she just time traveled back to that time instead of actually being alive during that time
@@smartypantsmari1442 Endora "You may change your mind many times in 3000yrs I know I did"
I remember the end of this episode is emotional because Samantha transform herself into an old lady in front of Darrin
30 years ago my husband took her photo to a jeweler and had her diamond pave heart necklace duplicated for a wedding gift. I wear it always.
Strange that so many years later, this scene has become rather sinister...
Endora admits they age, slow but they age...the least most feeble believer in the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ for their sins will put on absolutely incorruptible bodies in due time, ...1 Corinthians 15:54 - So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
@Debbie Smith in hindsight, the show continuously takes shots at man's mortality which Satan played a part in. But I now know the Lord Jesus Christ rescued fallen man from death and judged the ruler of this world turning the tables on the smug presentation of the show.
@Debbie Smith are you ready?
Interesting dilemma covered in such a light entertainment show.
It's hard to watch this scene, especially the part about Samantha saying he's in "perfect health", knowing about all his health issues going forward.
Never ask a woman her age. Especially if she's a witch.
You'll end up seeing just how witchy she can get lol.
Or her weight.
A conversation you'll always lose.
Well every time I've had a similar conversation, it always got turned around to be my fault in some way lol.
Always a question to ask if you intend to date them though. If you don't, you might end up in jail...
Elizabeth Montgomery was a beauty when she played Sam.
Indeed my friend. I remember the questions comparing her to Barbara Eden on I Dream of Jeannie. It was like the question Ginger or Maryanne...I chose Samantha and Maryanne. Those eyes and smiles won me over with both.
Darren is like us having a pet in comparision . We usually outlive them .
"let's go in here on the couch for a little while"
"OK!"
I do love this mid-century modern furnishing!
"Perfectly good health" O boy.
@LisaK71000 I was commenting on the irony.
Now TH-cam has given this in my recommendations on June 6th
TH-cam wanted to say happy birthday too 😅🎂🎈
"SAM, what'll people think???
"They'll think you've got the youngest wife on the block, isn't that marvelous??
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Now that i think about it i honestly dont know why Endora made such a big deal about Samantha marrying a mortal. He would only live another 50 years tops, a blink for a nigh immortal being like Samantha. Before Endora noticed , Darrin would die, and wedding vows are only valuable till death parts the two of them. After that , Samantha would be "free" and Endora could marry her off with whoever she wanted
Brings to question youth and great cheekbones :)
Imagine marrying someone you'd been dating less than a year. . . Different times, eh?
I think that maybe with fewer options and greater societal pressure, it was probably just what you did. It does seem strange to me though.
We love to waste our time with the wrong partners, then we turn 35 and it is too late to have kids and we fall into depression.
You have to remember, back in those days, most women expected to be virgin on their first wedding night. Most men expected they'd have to marry to have sex, unless they had an accommodating widow/divorcee friend, or a pay-by-the-hour 'friend'.
When that's your expectation, long engagements aren't exactly a priority.
Sexual freedom is BS
Different times? Yes, since nowadays people don't wait for marriage to have sex, have kids or anything else.
Bahahahaha.....June 6th...."That's kind of a nice day for a birthday" lol!! This show is still amazing in 2021
2:22 "Well!"
Agreed. Love that when she says that !
Imagine not knowing how old your wife is. Lol.
I think my great grandfather went through this exact same thing.
@@dezeraejames5255 funny.
Kinda is. I was told that my great grandmother lied so much about her age, that she forgot how old she was.
@LisaK71000 strange,eh?
My dad always says he knew my mom's age before they married
3:49 Darius - hadn't heard that one before
I have thought about this watching these shows. If she lives hundreds of years and hardly ages I have thought how many times was she in love and how many for the lack of names. Just how many husbands did she have . Unless she only dated warlocks before Darren she could have went through ten or more . Wish I could live that long without ending up in a cold and lonely grave for eternity lord help us all.
Her parents objected to her getting married for a number of reasons, one of which is that in their world, she's just a kid.
Again this show was ahead of its time
Sure he was worried about what people would think when a 75 year old man married to a woman who looks barley out of her 20s but it says a lot that his first worry was that she’d have to take care of him in his old age
The Grammerly commercial before this video had a guy in it by the name "Darren". Haha, I see what they did. :)
she was stunning and funny
June 6th, same day as my grandpa!
If my wife looked like Samantha, and would still look like that when I am 75, I am going to say HELL YES and celebrate
Samantha's solution, not shown here, is to age her looks to match his as he ages. Peace reigns again! 😄👏👍
What the heck is he grumbling about? In fifty years he will be an elderly man married to a gorgeous girl young enough to be his granddaughter. Even when I was around ten and saw this episode for the first time I could recognize the advantages of being married to her.
...I GUESS YOU DON'T KNOW HOW OLDER MEN THINK-!!!
Genie too! Ungrateful dick husbands they had!
Would you want your wife, still young, vital, and strong, so spend her every waking moment caring for you as an invalid? Or hold her back from enjoying her own life? Now granted, with Sam's lifespan that doesn't apply as much, but it's still something to think about. Even in real-world marriages, big age differences can be an issue. I don't oppose them across the board, my own parents had a modestly big age difference and they were happy together, I could tell. But...it _does_ matter. My mother outlived my father by the better part of two decades. (Granted, even with the age difference my father died younger than he should have for health reasons.) I would never tell a couple with a big age difference not to get together just because of it...but I would also not tell them not to think hard about it first, because it does matter.
Best TV series ever.
She was so beautiful
I think it scared him and made him sad. The idea that Samantha will live practically forever and he only has so much time with her.
Of course being a man in the 60s it probably hurt his ego a bit about the immortality thing as well but more than anything I think that small flicker of fear we all have when thinking about getting older and dying got to him right there
Plus a flicker of fear of how's he going to be good enough for his wife when he's old, senile and has more hair coming out of his nose than on top of his head. I think he wants more for her.
@@RusTsea196T I think he does too
In the rest of the episode, we see that he's worried about her losing interest in him as he ages and fades, and he's worried about her being stuck taking care on invalid, and he's just kind of overwhelmed. There's a scene where he sits in the park watching an elderly couple that are clearly still in love, and you can see him comparing their mortal relationship with his situation, and he's not sure he can cope...or if he _should_ .
@@shermanlee4037 I really like the first season of "Bewitched," produced by Danny Arnold, for this reason- it gets surprisingly deep for a '60s sitcom.
Wow, I don't remember Bewitched, having serious moments like this. I never knew Samantha had that kind of expected lifespan.
I've been watching these clips recently on yt, and they've all been good. So different than the crap that's on the air today.
Go back and watch the first episode of season one. Endora comes across as genuinely frightening in that. It looks for a moment like she's going to kill Darren to end the marriage, and it's equally obvious that Sam is no match for her magically, so she can't protect him if Endora does decide to do that.
@@shermanlee4037 Great episode, as is "Mother Meets What's His Name." The background music in that one is very dramatic and Agnes Moorehead is terrifying in it ("YOUNG MAN!") Samantha's father Maurice essentially DOES kill Darrin in a later season 1 episode ("Just One Happy Family") but Samantha begs him to bring him back.
It's episodes like this that makes BEWITCHED head and shoulders above comedies today, and most of those of its time. But this show was more than just a comedy, it was a story of two people from two different cultures trying to cope in a suspicious world that didn't like their beliefs challenged.
Samantha had to hide who she is for fear of a backlash against her and her family. This is another way of showing what women, people of color and gays were going through back in the 60s, and prior, and even now. Some say that Sam was repressed while Jeannie was a free spirit. Jeannie's uncontrolled nature got Tony, who I thought was the master, into trouble more times than not. Sam was/is more reaoistic. She feared for her family's safety. She stated that more than once, even explaining to Tabitha why they had to keep their secret.
In many ways, BEWITCHED was ahead of its tike. Love this series.