Bewitched (1964)★ 8.2/10
- Comedy
- Family
- Fantasy
- Romance
Directed by: Howard Morris, Ida Lupino, Bruce Bilson, Sidney Miller, William Asher
Written by: Sol Saks, Ed Jurist, Richard Baer, Michael Morris, John L. Greene
A witch marries an ordinary mortal man and vows to lead the life of a typical housewife.
- Original title
- Bewitched
- Storyline
- 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.
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 27,503
- Companies
- Ashmont Productions, Screen Gems Television, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 1ère chaîne ORTF, Rahintel, Columbia Pictures Television, DFS Program Exchange, The Program Exchange [us], Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, Sony Pictures Television, 6ter, Antenne 2 (A2), Columbia House, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Imprint Films, LK-TEL, Me-TV, Mill Creek Entertainment, Monte Carlo Televisión - Canal 4, Nickelodeon Network, Rewind TV, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Super Channel
- Release dates
- US September 17, 1964
- FI January 7, 1965
- GB January 14, 1965
- AU April 9, 1965
- FR August 17, 1966
- IT January 16, 1967
- XWG June 4, 1968
- TR September 14, 1974
- MC January 29, 1979
- NL October 8, 1993
- JP June 21, 2005
- MX June 21, 2005
- ES August 16, 2005
- BR March 26, 2007
- CA October 15, 2013
- SG January 21, 2014
- PH October 16, 2015