Box set: Bewitched Complete Box
Bewitched: Season 5
Sony Pictures (1968)
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/ Color / 759 mins#665
Plot
The long-running ABC sitcom Bewitched starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens, a pert, perky, suburban housewife who happened to be a genuine witch, with all the usual magical powers. Samantha was married to Darrin Stephens (played during the first five seasons by Dick York, and in the final three seasons by Dick Sargent), a rising young advertising executive who worked at the New York firm of McMahon and Tate. A mere mortal, Darrin insisted that Samantha -- or "Sam," as he called her -- behave like an ordinary human being, and that she keep her witchcraft under wraps at all times. Sam tried her best to oblige, but the situations occurring in the course of the series invariably required her to cast a few spells and chant a few incantations to get her husband or herself out of jams.Cast
| Elizabeth Montgomery | Samantha Stephens | |
| Dick York | Darrin Stephens | |
| Agnes Moorehead | Endora | |
| Paul Lynde | Uncle Arthur (11 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
| Maurice Evans | Maurice (12 episodes, 1964-1971) |
Crew
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| Producer | William Asher | ||
| Writer | Bernard Slade | ||
| Cinematography | Robert Tobey | ||
| Musician | Warren Barker |
Episodes
Disc 01
Endora tries to make peace with Darrin, but ends up shrinking him down to size . . . gradually. Samantha tries to get her mother to return Darrin to his regular size, but not before a drunk finds the diminutive Darrin in a mayonaise jar in the trash.Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
Guest starring: Dick Wilson, Jack Griffin, Art Metrano
Because of Serena's foolishness, Samantha is sent back in time by a jelaous witch named Brunhilda, who happened to be Serena's boyfriend's wife. In 1868 New Orleans, Samantha is taken in by a maid named Aunt Jenny, and her owner, Rance Butler, falls for her. Now it is up to Darrin to get her back from the Southern gentleman.Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
Guest starring: Clarke Gordon, Barbara Morrison, Isabel Sanford, Jack Cassidy
Endora gets Tabitha to play beautifully on the piano, and Darrin dares Samantha to learn how to play the mortal way. The Piano teacher hears Tabitha play and invites a famous conducter to see her play. Without magic, Tabitha does a poor job and the conductor is stunned. Samantha then finds a real prodigy for the conductor, and wins the bet with Darrin.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Richard Baer
Guest starring: Fritz Feld, Arthur Adams, Gerald Edwards, Jonathan Harris
Once upon a time, Endora made a deal with another witch Carlotta that Samantha will marry her son Juke, but Samantha hasn't lived up to her part of the deal. Now Carlotta and Juke are back and Carlotta will stop at nothing to give Juke what he wants. She makes Darrin disappear and never brings him back until Samantha agrees to marry Juke. Samantha tells Juke to finally stand up to his mother and tell her off.Director: William Asher
Writer: Lila Garrett / Bernie Kahn
Guest starring: Steve Franken, Mercedes McCambridge
Serena is involved again. This time, Drarin takes her to the honeymoon spot where he and Samantha went. Samantha is at a Witches Council meeting and doesn't know what is going on. Darrin gets intimate with Serena, thinking that she is Samantha, and she tells him to back off. Then Tabitha is called to solve the puzzle.
Endora turns Darrin into the most self-centered, conceited person on earth. He thinks that this will make him lose an account with a new client, but Samantha saves the day when she tells the client that they should zero in on the youth market.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Lila Garrett / Bernie Kahn
Guest starring: Sara Seegar, Herb Voland
Uncle Arthur is supposed to make napoleons for dessert, but ends up bringing in Napoleon Bonaparte instead! Arthur cannot remember how to send him back and Larry wants to use Napoleon to advertise detergent. Unknowingly, Samantha says the right words and he disappears back to his own time.Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
Guest starring: J. Edward McKinley, Dort Clark, Henry Gibson
Disc 02
Mrs. Stephens drops in unexpectantly, and insists Samantha enter a slogan contest to win a trip to Tahiti. And she wins! Of course, Larry Tate's none to happy as it turns out to be one of their biggest clients. The typical Stephen's fight occurs. Darrin's furious! He thinks Samantha used witchcraft. Darrin heads to the neighborhood bar, gets drunk, and tells the he's married to a witch. Darrin comes around when Samantha's slogan is rejected after all.Director: Luther James
Writer: Arthur Julian
Guest starring: Dick Wilson
Samantha gets involved in a fight against tearing down a neighborhood park for a supermarket. The bad news is that the park is owned by Darrin's new client, Mr. Mossler, and because of her involvement, Darrin ends up losing his job. Samantha saves the day when she brings one of the statues in the park to life to convince Mossler to stop with the construction.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Guest starring: Vic Tayback, Barbara Perry, Art Metrano, Garland Thompson, Robert Terry, Teddy Quinn, Arch Johnson, DoDo Denny, Jeff Burton
Tabitha goes to pre-school for the first time and meets Amy, a classmate. When the teacher groups the children in animal groups, Amy gets chosen to be a toad in the toad group, but she wants to be in a butterfly group. Tabitha misunderstands her request and actually turns her into a butterfly! Samantha, who has been watching the whole thing through the window, chases Amy the butterfly all around the city and catches her so Tabitha can change her back.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Doug Tibbles
Guest starring: Maralee Foster, Maudie Prickett, Lola Fisher, Art Metrano, Jean Gillespie, Paul Sorenson, Karl Lukas
Samantha wants to keep a willow tree in her yard and decides to treat it. She calls Dr. Bombay to make her tree weep, but Samantha gets caught in the spell and each time the wind blows, she starts crying. When Larry hears her cry, he thinks that she and Darrin are having a fight and comes over to comfort her, but not before Dr. Bombay comes by to give her an antidote to make her laugh. When Larry comes by, Samantha starts laughing and laughing, and Larry starts laughing too. Then Darrin comes in to find Samantha and Larry laughing for no apparent reason. Then Dr. Bombay comes by with another antidote to make everything and everyone normal again.Director: William Asher
Writer: Michael Morris
Guest starring: Paul Sorenson, Sharon Vaughn, Vincent Perry, Jean Blake
Darrin is turned into the most nicest person in the world by Endora and gets a tough client named Mrs. Sebastian to sign with McMann and Tate. When Mrs. Sebastian suspects that something is up, she then takes back her account, but Samantha changes her mind and she accepts Darrin.Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: Arthur Alsberg
Guest starring: Jill Foster, Sharon Vaughn, Larry Barton, Herb Voland, Mala Powers
Phyllis hires a maid for Samantha and Darrin, and a good-hearted maid named Amelia is chosen. The Stephens have to let her go because of the witchcraft in Samantha's family. Phyllis's friend, Mrs. Otis, decides to use Amelia.Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: Douglas Dick / Peggy Chantler Dick
Guest starring: Nellie Burt, Virginia Gregg, Nora Marlowe
A sexy client named Clio Vanita tries to get with Darrin, but not if Serena can help it. Taking up for her cousin, Serena decides to turn Clio into a monkey! Darrin tries to get Serena to change her back, but she doesn't and Clio the monkey hangs around......Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Ed Jurist
Guest starring: Nancy Kovack
Disc 03
The minute Clio flies the coop, Serena comes back. The Stephens and Serena find the monkey Clio in the hands of a little boy, an organgrinder, and the police! Serena changes Clio back and Samantha comes up with a stellar idea for the Clio Vanita wine account when Larry meets the organgrinder who kept Clio company as a monkey.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Ed Jurist
Guest starring: Bryan O'Byrne, Bobo Lewis, Ezekial Williams, Kathryn Harrow, Nancy Kovack, Cliff Norton, Richard X. Slattery
Endora creates a toy called the Fuzz, a toy that has the power to charm people. Darrin presents this idea to Larry and the Fuzz charms Darrin to the tune of a million dollars. Samantha is worried about Darrin when he tells her that he will finally give her and Tabitha everything they could possibly want. Endora removes the spell and Samantha tells Darrin that as long as she and Tabitha love Darrin, that is worth a lot more than money.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Jerry Mayer / Paul L. Friedman
Guest starring: Cliff Norton, Meg Wyllie, Jill Foster, Ed McCready, Jerry Rose, Cosmo Sardo, Bob Barr
Samantha is speaking in rhymes, which turns out to be a bad thing when Darrin is entertaining a client who has been using jingles for years and is tired of them. Larry gets tired of Samantha rhyming and wants her to quit it. Dr. Bombay comes by and gets Samantha to stop rhyming. She then explains to the client that she spoke in rhymes to prove how annoying they can be.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Richard Baer
Guest starring: Sara Seegar, Dick Wilson, Larry D. Mann
Phyllis breaks bad on Samantha's family, and Serena shuts her up by turning her into a cat! Miss Parsons finds Phyllis as a cat and decides to keep her. Meanwhile, Frank is looking for Phyllis and Samantha finds her at Miss Parsons' house with a whole bunch of other cats she has collected! She then finds cat Phyllis and gets Serena to change her back to a human.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Douglas Dick / Peggy Chantler Dick
Guest starring: Hal England, Ruth McDevitt
Serena decides to do the same thing that Samantha did and tries to find a mortal to date. She finds Franklin Blodgett through a computer dating service, but like all TV Land computer dating agencies, the matches always turn out to be bad. This proves this fact when Franklin insults Serena's magic when they are about to be engaged.Director: William Asher
Writer: Michael Morris
Guest starring: Peter Bracco, Robert Terry, Cosmo Sardo, Lloyd Bochner, John Fiedler
Tabitha changes an ape into a handsome man named Harry who is instantly discovered as model potential. Harry gets bored of the whole situation, and Samantha tells him to act like himself, a mad ape.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Lila Garrett / Bernie Kahn
Guest starring: Gordon DeVol, Judy March, Diki Lerner, Elmer Modlin, Danny Bonaduce, Paul Smith, Lou Antonio, Gail Kobe
Phyllis wants Tabitha to spend a weekend with her and Frank, but doesn't count on Samantha and Endora to be there also. They all start fighting and arguing until Tabitha turns herself into a cookie. Samantha convinces her daughter that she is not the cause of all of their arguments and wants her to turn back into a human.Writer: Douglas Dick / Peggy Chantler Dick
Disc 04
Darrin is invited to join the Burning Oak Country Club, a very exclusive club. To get the right attitude, Endora changes him into a snob of all snobs.Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: Leo Townsend / Pauline Townsend
Guest starring: Edward Andrews, Glenda Farrell, June Vincent, Doreen McLean, Mauritz Hugo, Harriet MacGibbon
The Witches Council takes away Samantha's powers when she refuses to break up with Darrin. Uncle Arthur and Serena help out Samantha and, as a result, loses their powers as well. After a hellacious day in the mortal working world, Serena and Uncle Arthur decide that they are better off with their powers. Samantha goes to the Witches Council and tells them they are in the wrong for their ignorance. Then Samantha, Serena, and Uncle Arthur get their powers back.
Samantha gets through to a greedy miser Mr. Haskell when he doesn't contribute to the UNICEF fund. Samantha and Endora mess up Haskell's love life when they hex Lila to admit that she is in an affair with another man!Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
Guest starring: Herb Voland, Bernie Kopell, Sharon Vaughn, Sara Seegar, Rosemary Eliot, Kay Elliot, Judy March, Frank Jamus, Jean Blake, Howard Dayton, Jack Griffin
Maurice gives Darrin a magic lighter, which Darrin doesn't accept. Maurice turns Darrin into a donkey because of his ingratitude. Samantha tries to find her father and finds him in Paris. She returns to see that Darrin the donkey has been taken to an animal shelter. Darrin is released and Maurice back tracks everything that he did to turn Darrin back to a human.Director: William Asher
Writer: Michael Morris
Guest starring: Karl Lukas, Mercedes Moliner, Shive Rozier, Jack Griffin
Endora and Maurice get into an argument about Maurice's new secretary and Endora makes him jealous by going out with a warlock who good in speaking Shakespeare. Then Maurice and the warlock duke it out with soliloques and Maurice wins out. Then Samantha announces that she is to have another baby!Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Richard Baer
Guest starring: Murray Matheson, Janine Gray
Samantha, Endora, Tabitha and their warlock cousin Henry spend a day in a department store. Henry is offended by a salesman, and he turns the salesman into a mannequin and refuses to change him back. Samantha and Endora try everything, but Tabitha remembers the spell and restores the saleman.Director: Richard Michaels
Writer: Richard Baer
Guest starring: Steve Franken, Dave Madden, Herb Ellis, Jonathan Daly, Jack Collins, Robert Towers, Jack Snow, Herb Anderson
Samantha and Darrin are in Mexico City where Darrin is working on a new account for McMann and Tate. Endora puts a spell on him that makes him disappear when he speaks Spanish. Samantha gets her mother back who has the nerve to reverse the spell, this time, making Darrin disappear when he speaks English! Samantha helps him out when he delivers an excellent speech to Spanish and American patrons.Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: John L. Greene
Guest starring: Thomas Gomez, Victor Millan, Sharon Vaughn, Sandra Caruso
Edition Details
| Series | Bewitched |
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| Release Date | 2005 |
| Packaging | Custom Case |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 4 |
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