The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Sol Saks

Theme music by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller. Opening sequence animation by Hanna-Barbera.

• 001. I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha – 9/17/1964
  • Madison Avenue executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) meets an attractive girl named Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) and the two fall in love and get married. She does not reveal to her husband until after their wedding that she is in fact a witch. Her mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead) does not approve of Samantha marrying a mortal man but thinks that as soon as she tells him the truth, he will leave her. However, Darrin loves her and wants to keep her as his wife anyway…with the stipulation that she not use her witchcraft. When an ex-girlfriend of Darrin named Sheila Sommers (Nancy Kovack) finds out that Darrin has gotten married while she was out of town, she invites Darrin and Samantha to a dinner party in an attempt to embarrass Samantha by telling them that it is casual when it is really formal. She seats Samantha away from Darrin and continually flirts with him and also takes every opportunity to belittle Samantha. After a while Samantha has had a enough and uses her powers to embarrass Sheila by causing the party to unravel. Darrin forgives her but reminds her that she has promised to not use witchcraft, but when she clean up a messy kitchen with the twitch of her nose, she tells herself that she will wean off it gradually. C. Lindsay Workman is Doctor Koblin, Gene Blakely is Dave, Paul Barselow aka Paul Barselou is the bartender Al. The Narrator is Jose Ferrer. 10/18/14

• 002. Be It Ever So Mortgaged – 9/24/1964
  • Endora is still reluctant to meet Darrin face to face, so she watches her daughter greet him when he comes home from work, to the distraction of Samantha. Darrin tells Samantha that he has his eye on a house in the suburbs, and although Endora scoffs at the idea, Samantha is open to whatever her husband wants. Samantha takes Endora to check out the house, and in the process of landscaping and furnishing it through witchcraft, they nearly drive the nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz (Alice Pearce) nuts. He husband Abner (George Tobias) never sees what she is seeing because the witches undo the changes before he looks at it. Consequently he thinks his wife is going crazy. When Gladys stops over at the house to see what is going on, Darrin mistakes her for Endora and gives her a kiss…sending her fleeing back home again. 10/18/14
• 003. Mother Meets What’s-His-Name – 10/1/1964*
  • Endora cannot understand her daughter’s choice of discontinuing use of her powers, but agrees to finally meet Darrin – whom she refers to as “what’s-his-name.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Kravitz heads up the Welcome Basket committee for the Stephens, but is much more curious about the strange things that she has witnessed going on in their house. She arrives with Shirley Clyde (Hollis Irving) and June Foster (Alice Backes) and their sons and attempts to snoop around. When Endora ties up the rambunctious boys upstairs, Mrs. Kravitz can’t figure out how the third boy got tied up. She also nearly flips when a man (John Copage) arrives to hook up the phone…after she just used it successfully. That night Endora shows up for dinner and Darrin is quite relieved to find out that Endora doesn’t look like a witch. However the evening starts to deteriorate when Darrin and Endora argue about the use of her powers, culminating in Endora telling Darrin that she could turn him into an artichoke at will, and final warning that mother will be watching. Darrin is shaken up…as is Mrs. Kravitz who witnesses Endora disappearing in a puff of smoke. NOTE: This is the last episode with narration. **This episode was preempted until 10/8. The confusion caused the sequencing of this episode and the fourth episode to be erroneously switched in Screen Gems production listings. 10/20/14
• 004. It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog – 10/8/1964**
  • Darrin is about to snag a half-million dollar contract for baby food advertising for MacMahon & Tate from client Rex Barker (Jack Warden). Samantha hosts a dinner party for the firm and among the guests are his boss Larry Tate (David White), Tate’s wife Louise (Irene Vernon), Barker, and his girlfriend Babs (Grace Lee Whitney). Barker gets drunk and begins making passes at Samantha, so she turns him into a dog. When Darrin finds out, he is enraged, especially when a cat attacks him and chases him out of the yard. The dogs winds up with veterinarian David Cook (Monroe Arnold) who gives him a tetanus shot and a grooming. Samantha drops him at Darrin’s office and turns him back to human form, now with curly hair with a bow. Darrin catches him once again making a pass at his wife and punches him in the face. Darrin quits in order to prevent being fired, but Barker chooses to utilize both the company and Darrin. **NOTE: Episode 3 was preempted and shown on 10/8, which prompted this show to be held off until 6/10/1965. The confusion caused the sequencing of this episode and the third episode to be erroneously switched in Screen Gems production listings. 10/20/14
• 005. Help, Help, Don’t Save Me – 10/15/1964
  • Darrin has been staying up all night working on an ad campaign for Caldwell’s Soup and Samantha offers a few of her suggestions. Darrin loves them…but thinks that she used witchcraft to come up with them so refuses to use them. Mr. Caldwell (Charles Ruggles) doesn’t like Darrin’s idea, but still Darrin won’t use the ones he got from Samantha. When Darrin returns home, he further accuses Samantha of using witchcraft to make him supper. Samantha gets angry, makes herself invisible, and leaves the house with her mother. Darrin finally uses Sam’s ideas, but it turns out that Caldwell doesn’t like them either. This thrills Darrin and he rushes home to apologize to Sam, who materializes. When Samantha drops a well-conceived remark about soup coming between them, it inspires another presentation. Reconciled, Darrin and Sam spend a romantic evening on the beach…looking up at a billboard that says: Caldwell’s Soup…THE ONLY THING THAT WILL EVER COME BETWEEN US. 11/20/14
• 006. Little Pitchers Have Big Fears – 10/22/1964
  • A neighbor boy named Marshall Burns (Jimmy Mathers) has been coming over and visiting Samantha because his overbearing widowed mother (June Lockhart) won’t let him leave the house for fear that he won’t get sick. When Mrs. Burns comes to retrieve him, she is rude to Samantha, who can’t take her mind off of Marshall and takes him to tryout for the baseball team. When Mrs. Kravitz starts laughing at Marshall when he does poorly, Samantha uses her witchcraft to make him an ace pitcher who makes the team. Art Lewis plays a brush salesman.Marshall runs away and Mrs. Burns tracks him to the Stephens house, where she tells them to stay away from her son. When he runs away again, he is not with the Stephens, but they presume he has gone to play baseball so they drive Mrs. Burns there…as slow as possible with Sam manipulating the traffic lights. When they arrive, Marshall has been doing so well that his mom lets him stay in the game. Darrin kisses Samantha to keep her from using witchcraft during a crucial play and Marshall ends up hitting a home run on his own. Coach Gribben (Byron Keith) offers to help give Marshall some special help with his game. 11/20/14
• 007. The Witches Are Out – 10/29/1964
  • With Halloween coming up, Samantha meets with fellow witches, including her perpetually confused Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne) and two friends Bertha (Reta Shaw) and Mary (Madge Blake), to discuss the bad rap that witches take during the holiday. Meanwhile Darin’s client is a candy manufacturer named Mr. Brinkman (Shelley Berman), who wants Darrin to design a logo that includes an old ugly witch. When Samantha finds out, she is livid, so Darrin refuses to design a mean looking witch, and loses his job in the process. Samantha and her friends pay a visit to Brinkman in the middle of the night and warn him not to portray witches in a negative light, changing his face to look like a witch temporarily. Clara steals all of the doorknobs in the house for her collection. The next day Brinkman is more open to using a beautiful witch as the logo, and as a result the candy sales excel, considering they find out that dads buy most of the Halloween candy in the family. 1/1/15
• 008. Witch or Wife – 11/5/1964
  • When Larry heads off to Paris for a business fashion show with his wife, Darrin is left to pick up Larry’s workload, causing him to be away from home from morning to night for several days. In boredom, Samantha reluctantly agrees to go to Paris for lunch with her mother, and while there, they run into the Tates, who invite them to dinner. Larry phones Darrin at work to tell him that he has run into Darrin, who is naturally surprised. When Samantha returns, Darrin is drunk and sullen and says that he wouldn’t dream of holding back Samantha from her exciting life. Samantha angrily returns to Paris. Larry returns home alone, excited that he will get a few more days with his wife gone. Darrin decides to go after Samantha, who has decided to come home…and they cross paths. Samantha and Endora then fly around looking onto the planes in the sky until Samantha finally finds Darrin. They decide to go on to Paris and celebrate getting back together, where they plan to join Louise…who is sure to call Larry and have him return. Raquel Welch plays a stewardess. 1/2/15
• 009. The Girl Reporter – 11/12/1964
  • A young female reporter named Liza Randall (Cheryl Holdridge) arranges to do an interview with Darrin for her junior college newspaper about his job at the advertising agency. She comes to the Stephens house on a Friday night and immediately Samantha becomes jealous. The next morning she accompanies Darrin to his office, while Liza’s suspicious boyfriend Marvin “Monster” Grogan (Roger Ewing) is fed by Samantha to keep him from pounding Darrin. At the office Liza tries to feed Darrin alcohol which they end up spilling on themselves. Larry and their client Mr. Austen (Alex Gerry) find them in a compromising position as well. Darrin refuses her advances and they head back to his house, where they find Monster and Samantha. At this point everyone gets jealous and Monster tries to punch Darrin, but Samantha injures Monster’s hands… but allows Liza to give Darrin a good slap. 2/18/15
• 010. Just One Happy Family – 11/19/1964
  • Endora shows up in miniature form to warn Samantha that her father Maurice (Maurice Evans) is coming for a visit. Maurice assumes that Darrin is a warlock and is sure to lose his temper if he finds out that Darrin is mortal. Samantha encourages Darrin to stay away during his visit, but when Darrin gets a few drinks in him and is encouraged by Larry, he is ready to stand up to his father-in-law. Samantha locks him in a phone booth, and soon Maurice figures out from Darrin’s birth certificate that he is mortal and immediately loses his temper. When Darrin finally gets free and arrives home, Endora turns him into a newspaper to protect him, but when Maurice tosses the paper into the fire, Samantha is forced to turn him back. Maurice makes him disappear, but pleas from Samantha and threats from Endora convince Maurice to bring him back. He brings him back – one clothing item at a time – and eventually warms up to him and respects his courage, before departing in a puff of smoke. Joseph V. Perry is the TV repairman. 2/18/15
• 011. It Takes One to Know One – 11/26/1964
  • Endora vows to not let Darrin get away with anything when she finds photos of female models in his briefcase. Samantha understands that Darrin is working on the Jasmine Perfume campaign and is looking for Miss Jasmine. When the attractive Janine Fleur (Lisa Seagram) shows up at Darrin’s office, he thinks he’s found her, and when he has to cancel his dinner date with Samantha to talk to her about the job, Endora and Samantha visit the restaurant so that they can each prove their point to each other. Samantha recognizes Janine as fellow witch Sarah Baker and stops time to confront her. Sarah is resolute about seducing Darrin as Endora had originally asked her to do, and even Endora can’t convince her to stop. Darrin and Larry wind up working with Janine at her apartment, but when she attempts to use magic on them, Samantha interferes on the grounds of at least competing on a level playing field. Samantha is able to counteract Sarah’s spells, and Darrin eventually leaves of his own accord. 3/29/15
• 012. And Something Makes Three – 12/3/1964
  • Louise takes Samantha to visit the obstetrician with her because Louise has found out that she is pregnant, although afraid to tell Larry, who happens to spot them there when he is having a cavity filled. He however thinks that it is Samantha who is pregnant and tells Darrin, who then worries about whether his children will be mortal or not, picturing little witches flying around his office (among them Maureen McCormick). Louise and Samantha arrange to have dinner with their husbands so that Louise can give Larry the news, but since both Larry and Darrin think it is Samantha who is pregnant, they both fawn over Samantha and all but ignore Louise. When Louise tries to tell Larry the news, he kicks her under the table thinking that she is stealing Samantha’s thunder, insisting that Samantha deliver the news to Darrin. Finally Samantha tells Darrin that Louise is pregnant, which makes Larry ecstatic. Darrin looks forward to having kids and he and Samantha speculate on whether their child will have powers or not. Meanwhile Mrs. Kravitz sees Samantha swimming in the backyard pool that she has temporarily created, and she goes on a search to locate the pool in the Stephens’ back yard. 3/29/15
• 013. Love Is Blind – 12/10/1964
  • Samantha is bound and determined to set up her somewhat homely friend Gertrude (Kit Smythe) with husband material. Darrin is skeptical, but agrees to invite his bachelor friend Kermit (Adam West) over for dinner. Samantha helps them along a bit through witchcraft by giving Gertrude some things to talk about with Kermit. Darrin is convinces that Gertrude is a witch and tries to warn Kermit to stay away. Darrin arranges to have dinner with Kermit and invites his old girlfriend Susan (Chris Noel) to join them. Samantha comes too and makes Susan tell Kermit she never wants to see him again. Kermit ends up proposing to Susan. While at the wedding, Samantha stops time so that she can ensure that Darrin doesn’t object to the wedding. The marriage takes place and Darrin is forced to admit that love is more powerful than any witch’s spell. Ralph Bernard is the minister. 6/26/15
• 014. Samantha Meets the Folks – 12/17/1964
  • Darrin’s parents Frank (Robert F. Simon) and Phyllis (Mabel Albertson) come into town for a visit, at the same time that Aunt Clara decides to visit for the weekend. Phyllis is highly protective of Darrin and plans to teach Samantha how to take care of him. It becomes clear that Sam is already doing a great job, especially when Clara whips up gourmet food like Coq au Vin and pineapple upside down cake using her powers. Darrin has a talk with Aunt Clara about interfering, which prompts her to leave. Samantha becomes angry at Darrin and also Phyllis for not accepting her as she is. She admits that she is not the best at cooking or cleaning and that Clara had made the food. This is exactly what Phyllis needs to hear as she was afraid that she was going to be forgotten in the face of Sam’s perfection. Darrin retrieves Aunt Clara and she ends up getting along swimmingly with Darrin’s parents, dropping hints along the way that she is a witch… which Darrin’s parents chalk up to eccentricities. 6/26/15
• 015. A Vision of Sugar Plums – 12/24/1964
  • The Stevenses and the Kravitzes each visit the Westridge Orphanage to take an orphan home for the Christmas holiday. The Stevenses take the troubled child Michael (Billy Mumy), who is at odds with Tommy Becker (Kevin Tate), the boy whom the Kravitzes take, because Michael doesn’t believe in Santa Claus and picks on anyone who does. Samantha and Darrin try their hardest to instill some Christmas spirit into Michael, but it isn’t until she admits she’s a witch, dons the traditional witch garb, and whisks him off to the North Pole to meet the real Santa Claus (Cecil Kellaway) that he finally becomes a believer. He comes back with a newfound optimism and even gives Tommy a gift from the North Pole. Gladys overhears Michael talking about his night at the North Pole, but when she questions Tommy about it in front of her husband, he keeps it a secret like he agreed to. When Mr. and Mrs. Johnson (Bill Daily, Gerry Johnson), who have been interested in possibly adopting Michael, come to visit him on Christmas day at the Stevens’s house, they find his behavior much improved… the kind of boy they’d like to finally adopt. Sara Seeger is Mrs. Grange. 8/24/15
• 016. It’s Magic – 1/7/1965
  • Samantha is appointed the entertainment chairman for a hospital fundraiser, and given a $50 budget to find talent for a show they are putting on. The waiter (Cliff Norton) overhears their conversation and recommends a magician friend of his named The Great Zeno (Walter Burke). When Sam arrives to see him, he is down on his luck and drinking non-stop, after being left by his stage assistant Roxie Ames (Virginia Martin). Sam gives him the confidence to go through with the performance by agreeing to be his assistant and helping him through the act with her real magic. Zeno ends up getting a chance to perform on the TV show Variety Showcase. Roxie returns and tries to sabotage his act and make herself look talented. Samantha intervenes and make her disappear, while Darrin negotiates getting him thirteen weeks on the show. Meanwhile Gladys Kravitz tries in vain to figure out Sam’s involvement with the act. Jimmy Murphy is the floor supervisor. Warren Parker is Henry Clark. Eddie Ryder is the M.C. 8/24/15
• 017. A Is for Aardvark – 1/14/1965
  • One night Darrin falls down the stairs and sprains his ankle while going down to lock the back door. Samantha tries to tend to him without witchcraft but it becomes rough since Darrin is so demanding. She decides to make the house ‘cooperate’ with him so that he can perform his own magic to get what he needs. Endora warns her of the danger of giving a human a taste of witchcraft. Sure enough Darrin soon decides that he is no longer going to forbid Samantha to use witchcraft, tells her it’s okay to buy what she wants, and even quits his job so that she and he can travel around the world. Samantha’s strategy is to make him tired of the easy life, so everything he suggests, she one ups him. As Darrin is getting ready to sell their house, he realizes that he might now want to have no worries after all. Afraid that it might be difficult for him to give up his dream after having a taste for the easy life, he asks Samantha for one more spell… to take him back to the time before she gave him the power. Samantha refrains from using witchcraft to wait him at that point… except when it comes to making sure the back door is locked this time. 11/22/15
• 018. The Cat’s Meow – 1/21/1965
  • Darrin is working on a campaign for Countess Margaret’s Cosmetics, and the company’s president Charlie Godrey (Harry Holcombe) is convinced he’ll get their Chairman of the Board Margaret Marshall (Martha Hyer) to agree. Larry knows that Margaret will have a thing for Darrin, so he instructs Darrin not to tell her that he is married. Darrin is forced to cancel his eight-month anniversary dinner with Sam so that he can go to Chicago and work with Margaret at her home, a yacht named True Love. Captain Kelly (George Ives) brings a stray cat aboard the yacht, and Darrin is convinced that the cat is Sam spying on him. As Margaret tries to put the moves on Darrin, he is more concerned with the cat and a pelican that flies on board. Eventually Darrin admits that he is married, but he still gets the account. When he returns home, he realizes that Sam had never left the house. The pelican however shows up the house and Sam address is as “Mother”. Clarence Lung is Kujo. 11/23/15
• 019. A Nice Little Dinner Party – 1/28/1965
  • Darrin’s father Frank retires and becomes quite restless, prompting Sam to invite Frank and Phyllis over for a dinner party… along with Endora. Frank and Endora are quite friendly with each other, which causes Phyllis to become jealous and angry. Phyllis declines going to a musical, so Frank and Endora go on their own which leads to further hard feelings. Frank confesses to Sam that he misses the young girl that he married after a romantic proposal in a place called Angel Falls. She convinces Frank to make the same romantic gestures to his wife once again, which almost works until Endora tries to repair things by telling Phyllis that she is willing to ‘give up’ Frank. The fight continues and Frank heads off for a world cruise in Miami via plane, and Phyllis heads toward her mother’s home in Phoenix via train. Sam and Endora use their magic to force Phyllis to pull the emergency cord on the airplane, and the pilot Captain Harcourt (David Garner) lands the plane prematurely. Both of them end up back in Angel Falls where romance blossoms between them again. C. Lindsay Workman is the train conductor. Hap Holmwood is the co-pilot. 1/24/16
• 020. Your Witch Is Showing – 2/4/1965
  • Darrin forbids Sam from attending the wedding of her cousin Mario in Egypt, which angers Endora who promised Darrin that he is ‘in trouble.’ Later Larry gives Darrin a smooth talking assistant named Gideon Whitsett (Jonathan Daly), and immediately things start to go wrong for Darrin as he woos potential client Mr. Woolfe (Alex Gerry). Darrin comes down with the hiccups during a presentation, gets stuck in an elevator for a second meeting, and causes a fire in a model home during another presentation. Gideon also manages to steal Darrin’s ideas that Darrin only has at home, and Woolf seems to only take a liking to Gideon. Darrin assumes that Endora is behind it, and that Gideon is a warlock. Samantha puts a spell on Gideon so that she can see him as he really is. The ultra-friendly Gideon becomes mean and cynical and tells how he cheats his way to the top. Darrin punches him when he hears him, but eventually concludes he is not a warlock, but rather an unscrupulous young businessman. Darrin lays down the law about Woolfe’s company going with his ideas unless they want to suffer a significant sales decline. Woolfe decides to follow Darrin’s advice. Peggy Lipton is the secretary. 1/24/16
• 021. Ling Ling – 2/11/1965
  • Darrin’s agency is trying to find an Asian model that his client Mr. Pickering will approve of for a Jewel of the East necklace advertising campaign, but they aren’t having any luck. Samantha decides to help out by turning a Siamese cat into a beautiful model who goes by the name of Ling-Ling (Greta Chi). Darrin gets Larry to assign it to a young hotshot photographer named Wally (Jeremy Slate). His photo meet the approval of Pickering and he shoots an entire spread, falling romantically for her in the process. Darrin invites the Wally and the Tates over to celebrate, and Wally brings Ling-Ling along as his date, much to Samantha’s irritation that Ling-Ling didn’t finish her job and come back. When Ling Ling starts exhibiting cat-like behaviors like scarfing down the sardine appetizers and lapping up her soup, Sam finally tells Darrin what is going on. Darrin tries to dissuade Wally from falling for Ling-Ling, but he won’t hear of it. Sam ends up putting some catnip in Ling-Ling’s drink, and when Wally tries to take the drink from her, she hisses and scratches his face. Wally gives up the notion of dating Ling-Ling, and Samantha returns her to her cat form… but not before Gladys sees her lapping up milk in her human form. 4/5/16
• 022. Eye of the Beholder – 2/25/1965
  • While browsing Mr. Bodkin’s (Peter Brocco) antique shop, Endora becomes irritated at Samantha’s lack of interest in her past. She plants a photo of Sam with the inscription “Maid of Salem 1682” where Darrin can find it. This gets Darrin thinking about how old Sam is and how she will not age as he does. Darrin begins moping at work and around town, where he speaks to his friend Dave and his doctor Dr. Koblin, trying to come to terms with having a ‘younger’ wife. Meawhile Endora is using her magic to make him feel even older, by having a little girl named Kimmie (Cindy Eilbacher) lift a wheelbarrow that Darrin couldn’t, and making squirrels talk and repeat his conversation with Sam about age. When Larry and Officer Kern (Mark Tapscott) both phone Sam with concerns about Darrin, she sets out looking for him, finding him contemplating life by the city fountain. Darrin has decided that he loves Sam and their ages will not matter. Officer Kern finds them and thinks that Darrin is cheating on his wife since he just had spoken to her minutes earlier. Endora gets one final laugh when she ages a photo of Darrin to old age for Sam to see. Stephen Whittaker is office boy Eddy. Sharon DeBord is secretary Miss Blanding. Carter DeHaven and Georgia Schmidt are the elderly couple Henry and Agatha. 4/6/15
• 023. Red Light, Green Light – 3/4/1965
  • When Samantha sees how busy of a street Morning Glory Circle is, Samantha teams up with Dave to try and get the Mayor (Dan Tobin) to put in a traffic light. They call a meeting of citizens and arrange a protest meeting at the school, and talk Darrin into designing an blurb to advertise the meeting in the paper. Darrin works all night on the ad, but Dave adds his own suggestions which Sam likes, much to the Darrin’s chagrin. Meanwhile Endora keeps bringing every style of traffic light – plus a London bobby – into Sam’s living room, which is seen by Mrs. Kravitz and only Mrs. Kravitz. Robert Dornan is a police officer. The Mayor refuses to install the light, but Endora helps stall the Mayor’s car while his limo driver (Vic Tayback) struggles to get it fixed. By the time they leave the meeting, it is just in time to see the horrific traffic on Morning Glory Circle, prompting him to agree to a traffic light. 7/4/16
• 024. Which Witch Is Which? – 3/11/1965
  • Samantha talks her mother into going shopping with her for a big sale, and when Samantha has to get to the grocery store and miss a dress fitting, Endora offers to ‘become’ Samantha and make the fitting. Endora – as Samantha – encounters an author named Bob Frazer (Ron Randell) who is in the store signing copies of his book Helen of Troy. Endora becomes intrigued with Bob and begins dating him, under the watchful eye of Mrs. Kravitz who keeps spotting them together. Bob also turns out to be a friend of Darrin’s, and begins to fall in love with Endora. When he realizes that Sam is Darrin’s wife, he has to confess his love for her to Darrin. He is initially angry, but Sam then explains that she is really her mother with her appearance. Sam forces her mother to make an appearance. Bo assumes that she is Sam’s twin, and they leave together, with Endora promising Sam that she will end the relationship. Gladys can’t believe that she spots ‘Sam’ and Bob leaving her house together and tries to tell Darrin… only to find him with Sam when she comes to their door. Donald Foster is the elderly gentleman. Monty Margetts is the saleswoman. 7/4/16
• 025. Pleasure O’Riley – 3/18/1965
  • An attractive single ex-model named Priscilla “Pleasure” O’ Riley (Kipp Hamilton) moves in next door to the Stephens. Samantha is irritated by her flirty damsel-in-distress behavior, but Darrin tires to assist her with moving in, and when she apparently falls off a ladder. Pleasure tells the Samantha that she has had many suitors but that her ex-boyfriend to whom she’s been engaged six times, famous burly football fullback Thor “Thunderbolt” Swenson (Ken Scott) is so jealous that he has scared them all off. When Thunderbolt tracks down Pleasure’s new home, Samantha diverts him over to her house, but saves Darrin from getting him beaten up by changing him into a grandmother. Thunderbolt then visits the Kravitz home, but misunderstands a statement by Abner and punches him out. Thunderbolt is arrested by and thrown in jail. The headlines that ensue lead to Precious getting a job offer from the mayor for the city’s urban renewal program. Despite the judge issuing a restraining order against Thunderbolt, Pleasure has him driving her to the mayor’s office… whom Thunderbolt is jealous of too. William Woodson is the Police Sergeant. Norman Burton is the moving man.9/26/16
• 026. Driving Is the Only Way to Fly – 3/25/1965
  • Samantha interrupts the baseball game Darin is watching on TV by making it rain, just so that Darrin can get started with teaching her to drive so she doesn’t have to use her powers and fly any longer. Samantha’s questions during the driving lesson irritate him so bad that it leads to a massive fight. Darrin decides to hire a driving instructor from Reliable Driving School. The boss Basil Koenig (Paul Bryar) assigns his nervous brother-in-law Harold Harold, who has been passed around from job to job by his brothers-in-law, to instruct Samantha. Her driving nearly causes him to have a breakdown, with her making other cars disappear, gliding sideways into a parking spot, and especially when Endora appears in the backseat to heckle them. Harold ends up getting fired for abandoning the car and his student, but Darrin and Samantha talk Koenig into giving him another shot. Later Samantha gets Koenig to join her basket-weaving class, which fills him with more confidence and helps him be more efficient as a driving instructor. 9/26/16
• 027. There’s No Witch Like an Old Witch – 4/1/1965
  • Samantha meets with fellow witch Bertha, who asks Samantha to let her Aunt Clara stay at the Stephens’ house while she and her friends go to Miami for a witch’s convention. With Clara so inept at her spells, they fear she can’t make the trip, and hope Sam can teach her how to get along without witchcraft. Clara insists that Sam and Darrin behave as if she wasn’t there, but her first night alone in the house, she fills it with soap bubbles. The next night they try to go out with the Caldwells, they insist on taking Clara along, but when their friend Beatrice Caldwell (Peg Shirley) needs a sitter for her son Jimmy (Brian Nash), Clara volunteers. She does so well with Jimmy, that other mothers insist on utilizing her services, not knowing that she is entertaining the kids with witchcraft tricks. When Clara does her tricks for siblings Gary (Michael F. Blake) and Louise Bain (Vicki Malkin), their mother Agnes (Karen Norris) becomes concerned and reports her to the authorities. Clara has to refrain from babysitting until she comes before Judge Virgil Winner (Gilbert Green). Although Clara’s attempts to demonstrate her witchcraft for the judge are bungled, the judge finds her amusing and asks if she would could babysit his children. Clara heads back home, leaving behind a list of potential clients for the next time she comes to town. Nina Roman is Beulah. Penny Kunard is Shirley. 12/22/16 
• 028. Open the Door, Witchcraft – 4/8/1965
  • When the Kravitzes sees Samantha open the garage door using her powers, she and Darrin have to tell them that they’ve installed an automatic garage door opener, and Darrin forgoes buying a new rod and reel to actually buy one. The installers Noel (Hal Bokar) and Max (Baynes Barron) set it up wrong so that when a plane flies overhead, it picks up its airwaves and triggers the garage door. Samantha initially blames her mother, but then realizes that it’s not her. Mrs. Kravits spies Endora sarcastically filling the room with fishing equipment, but naturally it is gone by the time she gets Abner to look. Samantha tells Darrin that the garage door opener is faulty so that they can return it and he can get the money for his fishing gear. Darrin thinks she is lying, which offends her and causes her to state she will never use witchcraft again. That evening they head to the Tates – under the watchful eye of Gladys – but cannot get out of the garage since planes keep flying overhead. Samantha refuses to use her witchcraft to get them out. The Kravitzes become concerned and head over, only to spy them making up in the garage when a plane flies overhead. Finally Abner agrees there is some strangeness going on… but he thinks Darrin is the strange one. The installers repair the Stephen’s door opener and install one at the Kravitzes’ house, but Gladys drives through it when they turn it off to verify the correct settings. Eddie Hanley is the salesman at the grocery store. 12/23/16
• 029. Abner Kadabra – 4/15/1965
  • When Mrs. Kravitz witnesses Samantha moving pictures around on the wall using witchcraft, she grills Samantha for an explanation and the only one she can come up with is that it might in fact be Mrs. Kravitz who has extra sensory perception. This sends Gladys home to Abner raving about having e.s.p., a feeling which seems to intensify when she seemingly starts and stops the rain. Sam has a talk with her and tries to convince her that if she over-uses it, she may lose it, but this doesn’t seem to do any good. Samantha then asks Gladys to host a seance at her house, and then uses her witchcraft to try and scare her. This still does not work, but finally when Gladys tells Abner to ‘dry up’ and he turns into a pile of dust, she is finally convinced to give up her e.s.p. ‘abilities’ forever. 4/4/17
• 030. George the Warlock – 4/22/1965
  • One Sunday morning Darrin meets the new neighbor D.D. “Delores Danger” O’Riley (Beverly Adams), sister of Pleasure, and winds up back at her house having coffee and pancakes before Sam wakes up and catches him. When her dishwasher starts leaking, Darrin continues to stay over at her house, despite Sam’s irritation. Endora witnesses Sam’s discontentment and visits a warlock named George (Christopher George), one of Sam’s long-time suitors. Sam is not interested, but when George poses as a raven and flies into Darrin’s office and inspires one of their typewriter advertising campaigns, Darrin is forced to bring the raven back to his house to draw inspiration from in his ad campaign. Sam forces George to turn back into himself, and Darrin is angered by George pursuing his wife. George ends up turning Darrin into a penguin when he is threatened, but the whole issue is resolved when Danger visits and Sam sends George with her. Darrin is concerned about him being a warlock, and despite the fact that George tries to expose his true nature to Danger, she still wants to stay with him. Later Endora visits George and his harem to tell him that she is disappointed in him losing Sam, and he is forced to admit that Darrin is the better man. Lauren Gilbert is Porterfield. Sharon DeBord’s secretary character becomes Mrs. Thatcher. 4/4/17
• 031. That Was My Wife – 4/29/1965
  • Samantha tells Mrs. Kravitz how she and Darrin keep their marriage spiced up, with her wearing a brunette wig and the couple making a date to spend the night at the President Hotel. Later Larry spots Darrin at the hotel with this ‘brunette’, and thinks he’s having an affair. This is solidified even further when he stops at Darrin’s house to pick up his wife who said that she was going to be there, and finds Samantha there, who has temporarily returned to grab a book for Darrin. When Larry tells Louise about this, Louise calls Darrin to meet her at the President Hotel to talk some sense into him. Darrin goes along with it, but when Larry spots her there, he believes that Louise is the ‘other woman’ in Darrin’s life, prompting Larry to deliver a black eye to Darrin. Samantha helps Darrin make it right with Larry by showing up in her brunette wig and letting the Tates find them together. Meanwhile Mrs. Kravitz tries to spice up her marriage with a wig, which goes unnoticed by Abner… until she wears her hair standing straight up. Warrene Ott is Ellen, the attractive secretary. 11/2/17
• 032. Illegal Separation – 5/6/1965
  • Ready to spend a night alone together, the Stephens are visited by Abner Kravitz, who announces that he has separated from his wife. Samantha allows him to stay, but the more he gets on Darrin’s nerves, the more he pressures Sam into using witchcraft to bring them together. Sam insists on trying to get them to get back together naturally, convincing Gladys to parade in front of the window in her lingerie. Abner is completely uninterested, so Sam finally has the idea to give them both a shared dream, to re-live the day that they became engaged at the malt shop. This does the trick and when they awake they run to each other’s arms. As the Stephens are finally ready to enjoy a night alone, the Kravitzes barge in again to thank them for helping them get back together. Dick Balduzzi is the salesman. 11/4/17
• 033. A Change of Face – 5/13/1965
  • While Darrin is sleeping, Endora and Samantha begin speculating on what would make Darrin better looking, changing his hair, nose, and adding a mustache. Before they can change him back, he wakes up to the doorbell, and after scaring off Mrs. Kravitz, sees himself in the mirror and freaks out. Even after he is changed back, he becomes depressed that Sam doesn’t find him attractive, and consults Larry, his friend Dave, bartender Joe (Paul Barselou), and a doctor (Henry Hunter) about plastic surgery. When Larry tells Sam how Darrin seems depressed, she decides to disguise herself as French vixen Michelle (Marilyn Hanold) and compliment him in a bar. Darrin is appreciative but doesn’t accept her advances, much to Sam’s delight, although she’s a little disturbed that he doesn’t tell her about it. The next day when fill-in secretary Barbara Lucas (Elisa Ingram) uses a French phrase, Darrin deduces that both Michelle and Barbara are both actually Sam, and he grabs Barbara and kisses her… just as Sam walks into his office. Darrin is delighted that Sam is jealous, and she forgives him when she realizes he knew about Michelle’s true identity. Dick Wilson is the man in the bar who Sam makes drunk after taking one drink. 6/16/18
• 034. Remember the Main – 5/20/1965
  • Darrin is surprised to find that Sam has volunteered their house for a campaign meeting for Ed Wright (Edward Mallory) who is facing incumbent councilman John C. Cavanaugh (Byron Morrow). Darrin is impressed enough with Wright for attempting to expose Cavanaugh’s corruption, particularly where it concerns a new water and storm drain recently built on Morning Glory Circle, that he agrees to be Wright’s campaign manager. Darrin arranges a smear campaign against Cavanaugh’s corruption, but when the Governor finally appoints investigator Merrill Sedgwick (Justin Smith) to investigate, Sedgwick announces publicly that the water main had been built efficiently. Sam suspects that the water main is Cavanaugh’s only honest dealing so she and Endora break into his office and verify through his files that there was plenty of corruption with other projects. Endora takes it upon herself to cause the water main to collapse and flood the neighborhood… leading the investigators to re-open the case and look into Cavanaugh’s earlier projects. Cavanaugh loses the election and skips the country, but when Darrin mentions he’d like to have Cavanaugh right in the palm of his hand, that’s exactly where Endora puts him. Stuart Nisbet is newsman Charles Turner. 6/16/18
• 035. Eat at Mario’s – 5/27/1965
  • Samantha and Endora enjoy a nice lunch at their favorite Italian restaurant Mario’s, where Mario (Vito Scotti) himself is a one-man show, stating he cannot afford a staff because of the stiff competition offered by local pizza merchants, a business he refuses to engage in. Samantha thinks Darrin might be able to help with an advertising campaign, but soon finds out that Linton H. Baldwin (Alan Hewitt), C.E.O. of Perfect Pizza is Darrin’s new client. Samantha takes pity on Mario and through her witchcraft delivers him a full page ad for his restaurant. Darrin is angry at this, and makes Sam promise not to do it again. Endora however gives Mario’s another edge when she makes the emcee (Michael Quinn) of a game show sponsored by Perfect Pizza sing the praises of Mario on the air. This enrage Baldwin and he pulls his account from McMahon & Tate. Sam and Endora then do damage control and put sandwich boards on pedestrians, a billboard, skywriting, two kids, and a talking dog, all advertising for Perfect Pizza. Baldwin then asks to be returned as a client to McMahon & Tate, and Sam convinces Larry that everything was Darrin’s idea. Mario’s is now a major success, so much so in fact that the wait for the Stephens and Endora is 40 minutes… until Mario intervenes and gets a table for his favorite customers. Pamelyn Ferdin is the little girl. Leon Alton is Mr. Allen. Phil Arnold is the ice cream vendor. 1/7/19
• 036. Cousin Edgar – 6/3/1965
  • In the middle of the night one night, Samantha’s cousin Edgar (Arte Johnson), a silent elf and practical joker, pays a visit and begins playing various tricks on Darrin: causing to make a mess shaving and spilling coffee on himself for example. Samantha invites him to return for dinner, but in the meantime he follows Darrin to his office and begins harassing him there as well, causing him to draw all over Larry’s shirt. Although Darrin and Samantha initially suspect Endora, she fills Sam in that it is actually Edgar playing the tricks because he fears that Sam is miserable married to a mortal. She and Sam prepare a sleeping potion to cause Edgar to sleep through the rest of the morning, but Edgar switches drinks and heads back to the office. He pulls further tricks on Darrin in front of potential client Mr. Shelley (Charles Irving) of Shelley Shoes, who is allowing McMahon & Tate to make a pitch at the same time as their obnoxious competitor Fred Froug (Roy Stuart). When Edgar forces Darrin to pull the chair out from under Shelley, he becomes infuriated and they postpone the meeting. Darrin is livid when he comes home and finds a sleeping Sam, but she is later able to summon Edgar and tell him that by hurting Darrin, he is hurting her. This time Edgar returns to Darrin’s meeting, but pulls the tricks on Fred Froug, and even supplies an ‘elf’ related advertisement for Shelley Shoes, winning them the account. Darrin confesses that he’ll miss Edgar when he returns home, even though they never met. Edgar makes himself visible, but only briefly before departing. 1/11/19

SEASON 2

• 037. Alias Darrin Stevens – 9/16/1965
  • Samantha and Darrin are getting ready to go out to celebrate their one-year anniversary, when Aunt Clara shows up bearing gifts. She gives Darrin a hat that is too small and attempts a spell to correct it, but inadvertently turns him into a chimpanzee. She cannot remember the spell, so neither her nor Samantha can reverse it. Endora shows up to gloat over the situation, but agrees to watch over Darrin the monkey when Samantha has to go to an appointment. Samantha calls Darrin in sick, but Larry shows up to be briefed on a client. Endora gives him a warning and he escapes out the window, where he is found by Mrs. Kravitz. She and her husband take Darrin to the municipal zoo where the zookeeper (Orville Sherman) puts him in the monkey cage. Samantha returns from her appointment, which was with a doctor, who informed her that she is expecting. Clara retrieves her book of spells, and she and Sam find Darrin at the zoo. Clara’s spell reversal turns him into a seal, before Sam is finally able to bring him back as himself. Darrin is furious and begins making th/reats about never seeing her family again, but then she is able to tell him that she is pregnant and his tune changes…although he is a little concerned that the baby may be a witch or a warlock. 1/8/20
• 038. A Very Special Delivery – 9/23/1965
  • With Samantha expecting a baby, Darrin vows to wait on her hand and foot, but when he tells Larry how tired he is, Larry tells him if she takes advantage of him doing all the work, it won’t be healthy for her or the baby. Meanwhile Endora finds out about the pregnancy and insists that Sam use her powers to help raise it since she won’t be able to count on Darrin. She insists however that Darrin has been wonderful and is waiting on her every whim. When Darrin comes home though, he is exactly the opposite having taken Larry’s advice. When Endora chastises him, he says he knows exactly how Sam feels, she puts a spell on him to make him experience every symptom of her pregnancy. He wakes up nauseous with a backache, then when he gets to work, he begins getting emotional and crying, and craving pickles. He even gets in a fight with client Mr. Martin (John Graham) when he refuses to give Darrin his pickle. Larry sends him to the doctor (Henry Hunter), who advises him that his symptoms sound like he is pregnant. Both Darrin and Samantha realize what Endora has done. Darrin meets his friend at the bar, and tells Joe the bartender (formerly named Al) that he will be the first man to have a baby, having a fantasy about being interviewed by two reporters (Jon Kowal, Cliff Fields). Samantha finds him and tells him that he is only feeling symptoms. Endora shows up too and gives the symptoms to another man (Dort Clark) when he starts laughing at Darrin’s plight. Darrin goes back to waiting on Samantha, telling her that now he really knows how she feels. Carol O’Leary is the nurse.  Richard Vath is Phil. 1/8/20
• 039. We’re in for a Bad Spell – 9/30/1965
  • Darrin’s old army buddy Adam Newlarkin (William Redfield) is compelled to leave his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts and come to town and look for a job. When several strange accidents befall him, Samantha suspects his might be cursed. Aunt Clara brings over a book of ‘spellees’ and they find out that one of his ancestors with the same name had sentenced a witch and was later compelled to steal money and be branded a thief. The same will happen to Adam if they do not enact several things that will act as antidote to the spell: kiss a spotted dog on the snout, be dunked in water three times, and ride through the marketplace dressed like Paul Revere yelling that “witches are good, witches are dear.” Darrin has his suspicions, but when Adam gets a job at a bank, he decides to get Adam to do everything on the list. They first bring home a spotted dog and force Adam to kiss it before they will serve him breakfast. Darrin then meets him for a poolside lunch and pushes him in twice. When it becomes difficult to get him in a third time, Aunt Clara assists by pretending to struggle with packages and then pushes him in. Adam returns to work where through magic he unwillingly switches his briefcase with his co-worker Albert Harding (Arthur Peterson), who is heading to Rio after work. Samantha tells Adam’s new boss Mr. Abercrombie (Bartlett Robinson) about Adam’s falls into the pool, so he sends him home sick. When he gets there he finds Darrin and Clara dressed as Paul Revere and Whistler’s mother, and claims they all need to go to a costume party, and that Adam needs to dress like Paul Revere as well. He wants none of it, so they finally tell him the truth, and being from Salem, he believes them and willingly carries out the third and final task. Mr. Abercrombie has reported stolen money to Detective Lieutenant Pearson (Richard X. Slattery). By the time they get to the Stevens’ to investigate Adam, he has completed the tasks and the money has switched back to Harding, who is arrested at the airport. NOTE: William Tregoe is credited for being in this episode as Mr. Peterson but does not appear. 4/23/20
• 040. My Grandson, the Warlock – 10/7/1965
  • Larry calls from London where he is vacationing with his wife Louise, and asks Darrin and Samantha to pick up their baby boy from their ailing governess and take him home until they return the next day. Gladys Kravitz spots the Stephens leaving in the middle of the night and returning with a baby and suspects that Sam has delivered her baby. Sam’s father Maurice (Maurice Evans) comes for a visit and is led to believe by Gladys that the baby is his grandson. He takes the boy to London to visit the Warlocks Club to show off his offspring, but is embarrassed when he seems to possess no warlock qualities. Louise happens to spot them there and believes that the baby is hers, but Larry thinks it is impossible. Maurice brings in the Nannie Witch (Winnie Collins) to see the baby, and she verifies that the boy is mortal. Once the Stephens realize that the baby is gone, Sam and her mother go on a worldwide chase to find him before the Tates return. When they land at the airport and call Darrin to tell him they are on their way, Darrin insists that he come get them. He comes up with every delay possible to stall them, including spilling Larry’s suitcase twice, losing the car keys, and checking under the hood on the way home, where Sam appears and tells him they’ve had no luck. Darrin mentions that Louise told him that she thought she spotted the baby in London, so Sam heads to the Warlock Club, where she questions a warlock (Kendrick Huxham) and his Kitty Girl (Beryl Hammond) and is told that her father left disappointed. When Darrin and the Tates return to the house, Sam stalls them even more by making Louise ask for multiple drinks through witchcraft. Finally Maurice returns with the baby and is told that he is not his grandson. After the Tates leave, Gladys stops by with a gift for the baby and is told that she didn’t have the baby yet. When she sees Maurice disappear, she has had all she can take, so she dives into drinking the giant martini that Maurice left behind. 4/24/20
• 041. The Joker Is a Card – 10/14/1965
  • When some strange things start happening around the house, with Darrin thinking that Endora is playing jokes on him, and Endora thinking Sam is doing the same, they finally all realize that the jokester and practical joker Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde) is nearby. When Arthur squirts Endora in the face with chocolate cake, Darrin can’t help but laugh, which prompts Endora to give him a Beatle haircut. Arthur tries to persuade Darrin to let him teach him some magic to get even with Endora, but Darrin flatly refuses. Arthur follows Darrin to work and disguises himself as a cleaning lady and window washer as he tries to persuade him. As Darrin and Larry try to give a presentation to Mr. Foster (Douglas Evans) for an easy-open door, the door gets jammed… which Darrin blames on Endora. With that, he agrees to learn a spell from Arthur, so Arthur teaches him the incantation which involves using a bell and a duck call. After working through the spell, Arthur send shim into the living room to perform it as soon as he is antagonized by Endora. When she pulls out the chair, he goes into the song spell with bell and duck call, as Arthur watches and laughs from the other room. When Endora doesn’t vanish, he realizes he has been tricked by Arthur. Darrin and Samantha are furious, and even Endora sympathizes. Sam has an idea to get even with him, so Darrin tells Arthur that he wants to try the spell again. Arthur is amazed that he is so gullible but eggs him on. This time Darrin succeeds and turns Endora into a parrot much to the amazement and panic of Arthur, who pleads with Darrin to bring her back promising to do anything if he does. Endora returns and makes Arthur promise to stop with the practical jokes. Arthur says his goodbyes and presents everyone with parting gifts, none of which appear to be jokes to everyone’s surprise… until Endora tries out her opera glasses, which leave black ink eyes on her. 8/5/20
• 042. Take Two Aspirins and Half a Pint of Porpoise Milk – 10/21/1965
  • When Darrin’s client Mr. Norton (Lauren Gilbert) shows Darrin and Samantha his rare flower collection highlighted by a Black Peruvian Rose, Samantha begins to feel ill, so Darrin takes her home and puts her to bed, mostly concerned about her pregnancy. She then finds out that her witchcraft is on the fritz as everything she attempts fails, including breaking a window when she attempts to open it and then putting a door in its place when she attempts to fix it. Darrin wants to call a doctor, but Sam insists that only a witch doctor can help. Mrs. Kravitz sees a doctor pull up and brings some chicken soup to Sam, but while she is there she gets freaked out by the door where the window should be… and green square spots that suddenly materialize on Sam’s face. Aunt Clara comes to see Sam and informs them that the Peruvian rose was an ingredient in the spell that drove witches out of Peru. She thinks she can make a spell to counteract the effect, so she sends Darrin to see witch doctor Mr. Trigby (Philip Coolidge) to pick up the strange ingredients. He fulfills the order except for the needed ostrich feather, so Darrin tries to steal one out of a woman’s (Maudie Prickett) hat and she has him arrested. Darrin is forced to explain to the Police Sergeant (Larry D. Mann) that he never tried to take it by force. She agrees to not press charges but refuses to sell it to him. Aunt Clara tries to conjure one, but creates an entire ostrich. Even still the spell doesn’t work as Clara has forgotten that she needs four petals from the Black Peruvian Rose, so Darrin returns to Norton’s greenhouse to swipe them… which sets off the alarm that triggers the police to come arrest him and throw him in jail. Clara swaps places with him in the cell which baffles the officer Joe (Ray Hastings) on duty. Darrin adds the petals to the potion, and when Sam drinks it, her spots disappear and her magic is restored. She swaps Darrin and Clara, which makes Joe look sill after reporting the woman in the cell to his sergeant. Likewise Gladys brings Abner over to see Sam, who has fully recovered, making her look crazy as well. She runs up to get her soup bowl and check on the window door, freaking out once again when she hears Clara knocking on it from the other side which sends her running screaming from the house. Norton agrees to drop the charges and comes to visit and to see all of the Black Peruvian Roses that Sam claims to have grown. He had agreed to drop the charges in exchange for him getting a cutting from her rose bush. 8/5/20
• 043. Trick or Treat – 10/28/1965
  • Endora wakes Samantha up in the middle of the night to recruit Samantha to join her to leave town for Halloween to go to the sacred volcano. Although Sam and her mother hate Halloween because of the bad reputation it gives witches, Samantha refuse to leave Darrin, not to mention the fact that they are hosting a dinner that night for the Tates and Jack (Jack Collins) and Phyllis Rogers (Barbara Drew). When a delivery man (Skip Torgenson) brings some ugly witch decorations to the house, Sam almost gets angry at Darrin, but he finds out that Larry had sent them since they are the wares that Jack Rogers sells. Endora goes to Darrin to plead her case and convince him that they need to leave town, but he refuses, even when she sticks his feet to the floor. That night during Trick or Treat, Endora, after scaring a boy trick or treater (David Alan Bailey) who puts a phony spell on her to turn her into a tree, turns herself into a little girl (Maureen McCormick). When Darrin answers the door for this little girl, she puts a spell on him. It is revealed when Darrin starts to grow hair on his face and arms that the spell is turning him into a werewolf. Darrin tries to hide it from his guests by repeatedly shaving, but they finally catch him in full werewolf mode. He convinces them that he is merely dressing that way for the neighbors, but when he bites into a pillow, he realizes he needs to lock himself up because he is becoming dangerous. Sam and Darrin realize that the little girl is Endora and demand that she reverse the spell, but she claims she has forgotten how. Finally Sam really lays into her and tells her that she has become the witch that everyone actually fears, and that she has picked on the one man who is able to look past the stereotype. Endora apologizes and changes Darrin back, admitting that she never forgot how to reverse the spell after all. When Darrin starts to berate her, she can’t resist turning back however. The guests finally leave, and Jack nearly gets himself in trouble when he tells Endora how great her ‘costume’ is when she isn’t actually wearing one. Before he leaves, Endora gives him a tail. 11/19/20
• 044. The Very Informal Dress – 11/4/1965
  • Darrin comes home to find that Aunt Clara is visiting, and to announce that Larry is planning to host a cocktail party at the office for their client Charles Barlow (Max Showalter), owner of the health food company Mother Jenny’s, manufacturers of healthy jam and juice. When Sam laments that she doesn’t have anything to wear, Claira ‘manufactures’ a new dress and suit for Sam and Darrin. When they arrive, Clara is also helpful in moving a fire hydrant, so Darrin can park in a convenient space. A policeman (Dick Balduzzi) almost gives him a ticket, until they all prove that the hydrant is now located on car up. During the party, Agatha can’t help but be honest about how terrible the food is, even though everyone else is thinking the same thing. When Sam realizes that her new dress is starting to fall apart, she worries that Clara’s lackluster spells are becoming undone, so she warns Darrin that he better move the car. Barlow decides to leave, and Darrin offers to take him to his hotel. As they are getting into the car, Darrin’s pants disappear. The same officer returns and starts to give Darrin a ticket for both the hydrant and indecency. Clara tries to help the situation, but she keeps getting the clothes of Darrin, the officer, and Barlow mixed up. Eventually Barlow dissociates himself from Darrin, and the officer throws Darrin in jail in his underwear. Another cop (Gene Darfler) puts Darrin in the cell with the drunk Montague. (Dick Wilson) Aunt Clara tries to clothe Darrin from afar, but puts him in renaissance-style clothes and a suit of armor, all in the view of Montague. Eventually Sam comes to the jail herself to bring Darrin clothes. In court the next day, Darrin pleads his case to Judge Crosetti (Hardie Albright) and asks how he could have left the jail wearing clothes if he truly went in without them. The officer calls on Montague to explain it, but his story about Darrin’s clothing changes and the appearance of a beautiful woman appearing sound too outlandish, so the judge dismisses the case.  Shortly after Clara makes a clumsy departure, Larry comes to visit. Darrin thinks he’s getting fired, but Larry thinks that Barlow’s story about Darrin made him sound like a nut, and he has let him go as a client, preferring nice, normal people like Darrin and Sam. 11/20/20
• 045. …And Then I Wrote – 11/11/1965
  • A psychiatrist named Dr. Passmore (Olan Soule) comes to the Stephens’ door looking for Darrin because he wants them to create some promotional flyers for the upcoming pageant to commemorate the ending of the Civil War. Samantha is sure that Darrin will do it, so she gives him her word that he’ll be glad to get it done. Darrin, however, claims to be too busy to help, but feel he has no choice but to agree. In retaliation, he volunteers Sam to write the pageant play. Sam gives it a first crack, but Darrin thinks that the writing of the characters is too stereotypical and one-dimensional. In order to help her be more creative, Sam visualizes the characters, who then seemingly come to life. Soon Sam realizes she has no control when her creations Captain John Corcoran (Chet Stratton), his lover Violet (Eileen O’Neill), and an Indian (Tom Nardini) come around, and seemingly appear randomly. When Gladys spies them in the Stephens house, and then they flat out tell her that they come from Sam’s mind, it drives her to see a psychiatrist…who happens to be Dr. Passmore. Darrin and Sam bring the promotional drawings to Passmore at the same time, so they run into Mrs. Kravitz, who the doctor nearly has convinced that it is all in her mind. However when the characters all appear in Dr. Passmore’s office, he starts to doubt his own sanity. Samantha demands that the characters go back where they came from, and they tell her that they’ve been trying to leave but she keeps summoning them. They help her finish writing the play so they can leave, which includes the deaths of two men and Violet vowing to keep their memory alive. The play turns out so successful that Sam agrees to help with a vaudeville show for the Ladies League. Just after she tells Darrin she agreed to this, Mrs. Kravitz stops by the house… just in time to see two Vaudeville performers (Bill Dungan, Skeets Minto) appear in the living room. Joanie Larson is the nurse. 3/10/21
• 046. Junior Executive – 11/18/1965
  • Darrin has been working hard on a campaign for a toy model boat and falls asleep at his drawing table. Sam thinks he is cute and tell her mother she’s like to see what he looked like as a boy, so Endora changes him into a young version (Billy Mumy) of himself. Darrin is furious and calls Endora an ‘old witch’, causing her to retaliate and turn him back to a boy while he is at work, and when he meets the president of the model company Mr. Harding (Oliver McGowan). Little Darrin borrows some money from a matronly lady (Helene Winston) to call home and tell Sam what happened. She is able to conjure up a reversal of the spell and turn him back to normal size, much to the surprise of the lady. Mr. Harding likes the idea of enlisting a kid to point out what is wrong with the model campaign, so Larry insists that Darrin bring the ‘boy’ back to meet him. Sam turns him young again, but while he is heading to the meeting, he gets harassed by two boys (John Reilly, Rory Stevens) on the street. When they make fun of his boat, he uses them as a focus group to find out what is wrong the toy. They claim it does nothing once it is built… including float. Darrin goes in to the meeting with this new information, but Harding is only interested in hearing from the boy. In fact they want the boy and Darrin both in the same room, which obviously presents a problem. Darrin gets around this by making the ‘boy’ obnoxiously shoot them with water pistols and kick their shins. Then Darrin re-emerges and strongly requests that Harding listen to his research… and he finally agrees. Later Darrin and Sam encounter the two street boys and gives them both kites for helping Darrin out. 3/11/21
• 047. Aunt Clara’s Old Flame – 11/25/1965
  • As Endora is discussing with Samantha how much of a nuisance Aunt Clara has become, she shows up at the house and attempts to walk through the outside wall twice before finally succeeding… all in plain view of Gladys Kravitz, who naturally tries to explain it to Abner. When Clara gets inside the house, she tells Samantha that she wants to hide out there because an old warlock beau named Hedley Partridge (Charles Ruggles) wants to see her again, but she is too embarrassed to see him because she is so rusty with her spells. Hedley shows up at the house when no one is home, and when Gladys comes over to the house, he mistakes her for Samantha and shows her how he can make a vase of flowers dance, also mentioning that he is a warlock. Gladys rushes back to Abner to give him the update. Sam talks Clara into seeing Hedley, and tells her that if she doesn’t want him to find out how rusty she is, he wont’ find out. Sam steps in to help her along with her spells just to show Hedley that she can still do it, while he shows her that he can make the flowers dance, and tells her about others their age who have lost the ability to the spells. Clara thinks she is actually doing the things that Sam is helping her with, and suggests that they make themselves nightingales like they used to and go serenade a young couple. Hedley reluctantly agrees, but Clara makes him a baby elephant, and makes herself half-disappear. Gladys sees the elephant in the house and brings Abner over. Darrin explains that the elephant is for a swimming trunk promotion he is working on. When Gladys asks about the dancing flowers, he reveals that each flower is rigged with a wire. Abner is convinced that everything Gladys saw had a natural explanation, but she naturally isn’t too sure… but accepts it. Hedley admits that he’s lost his powers of magic long ago, but was too prideful to admit it as well. Clara and Hedley then spend a romantic evening dancing in the living room, while Endora plays her magical violin. Hedley has to leave town to attend to his business of magic supplies, but promised to take her dancing the following week. NOTE: The credits list Partridge as ‘Patridge.’7/7/21
• 048. A Strange Little Visitor – 12/2/1965
  • Mrs. Kravitz notices a normal-looking family going into the Stevens house, and they turn out to be old friends of Sam, Walter (James Doohan) and Margaret Brocken (Anne Sargent), and their son Merle (Craig Huxley). It is revealed that they all know witchcraft, when Merle moves a cake form the kitchen into the living room. The parents are called to attend a convention and ask Sam if Merle can stay with them. Sam is reluctant because of how Darrin will feel, but they make Merle promise not to perform witchcraft, so she agrees. Mrs. Kravitz later spots Merle outside turning a stick into a bird, and making water squirt form his ears. Merle and Darrin have issues when Merle won’t eat his meatloaf and wants to read at the table. He later finds Merle with a new fire engine that he made from a brush, and causes it to shock Darrin when he tries to take it away. Darrin finally realizes that Merle is a warlock, but Samantha promises to counter any spell that Merle uses, so he promises not to use it again. Meanwhile, Larry buys Louise an expensive necklace for her birthday, and asks Darrin to hold it for him. A creepy, clumsy thief (Tim Herbert) who is listening to their conversation at the bar, follows Darrin home, then later returns that night to steal the necklace. When Darrin hears him, he holds Darrin at gunpoint and ties him up. Merle hears them too but won’t use witchcraft to stop him because of his promise. Darrin finally tells the thief to take the fire engine too, but Merle then causes the engine to come alive with the siren, and squirt the robber, leading to his arrest. When Merle’s parents come to get him the next day, Darrin tells them that he behaved. Mrs. Kravitz gets on more shock when they all disappear while she is blabbing. Dick Balduzzi is the policeman. 7/10/21
• 049. My Boss, the Teddy Bear – 12/9/1965
  • Darrin is preoccupied with coming up with an idea for a slogan for honey for clients Mr. Harper (Jack Collins) and Mr. Ted Bertram (Henry Hunter). Meanwhile, Endora stops by to invite Sam to a family wedding. Sam won’t go without Darrin, and he has to work, so they decline the invitation. Endora is insistent, so she finds Larry at a toy store looking for a nodding Teddy Bear for their son. Larry is charmed by her and agrees to let Darrin off so he can go to the wedding. After Larry leaves, Endora decides to return the favor by conjuring the Teddy Bear he can’t find and dropping it off at the office with Larry’s secretary Betty (Jill Foster). When Darrin sees the Teddy Bear and finds out it is from Endora, he assumes that Endora has turned Larry into the bear so that Darrin can go to the wedding. Through his entire meeting with Harper and Bertram, he treats the Teddy Bear like it is alive, much to their irritation. Darrin even freaks out when the model Diane (Lael Jackson) takes the bear into the dressing room. Larry’s wife Louise comes into the office and sees the bear, but since she’s already found one herself, she returns the additional one to the toy store. When Darrin hears this, he and Sam rush to the store, only to find from the clerk (Lon Bentley) that the bear has been combined with 23 additional bears. Since they can’t determine which one is ‘Larry,’ they buy them all. Endora shows up at the house and is immediately attacked by Darrin for turning Larry into a bear. She is so annoyed that she completely mangles the bear and then quickly departs. Louise shows up at the house for dinner, where she planned to meet Larry, and Darrin is about to tell her that Larry – as the bear – is dead. Before he gets the chance, Larry himself shows up, much to Darrin’s relief. The next morning, Darrin also decides to use the remaining 23 bears as part of the honey ad campaign. 1/2/22
• 050. Speak the Truth – 12/16/1965
  • After Darrin compliments Samantha first thing in the morning, Endora appears to Sam and tells her that Darrin was lying, and furthermore that all humans lie all the time. In order to prove the point, Endora has a statue delivered from her friend Hagatha (Diana Chesney) to Darrin at his office and signs the card from his Uncle Herbert. The statue causes any human that comes within three feet of it, to speak exactly what is on their mind. It immediately gets Darrin in trouble when he tells an annoying client that he’s not interested in his business. Larry too is affected by the statue and admits to Darrin that he didn’t want the account anyway but wants the easier client Ed Hotchkiss (Charles Lane). Darrin also can’t help but compliment his secretary Miss Thatcher’s tight dress, and she admits that she wore it just for him. Darrin takes the statue home that night, and gets a traffic ticket, but the statue makes the police officer (Mort Mills) admit that Darrin had a yellow light and that he only wrote the ticket to get himself out of a bad mood. That night, the Stevenses have Hotchkiss and his wife Frances (Elisabeth Fraser) over for dinner. The statue causes everyone to admit the truth about various things, as Endora blinks it around the room. Darrin and Larry laugh at a slogan suggest from Hotchkiss. Darrin also tells Sam how ridiculous she looks with hair rollers in her hair. Frances even lets Ed have it about all of the bragging and tall tales he tells. When all of the couples begin to fight, Endora admits to Sam that she brought the statue to Darrin to make everyone speak their mind. The next morning, Larry comes over to see Darrin and demand an apology, and when Darrin refuses to give it, Larry tries to fire Darrin. But when Sam brings the statue near him, he admits that he needs Darrin and agrees to give him a raise and the Hotchkiss account. Sam makes sure to let her mother know that only good came from the truth. When Darrin starts to lay into Endora, she removes the statue, but Darrin still has the same hateful words for her. She disappears and then dumps cereal on him from afar. 1/3/22
• 051. A Vision of Sugar Plums – 12/23/1965
  • Christmas has rolled around again, and Sam and Darrin receive card from Michael, the little orphan boy they took in the previous Christmas. He thanks them again for showing him the true meaning of Christmas. They flash back to the events that they are talking about: The Stevenses and the Kravitzes each visit the Westridge Orphanage to take an orphan home for the Christmas holiday. The Stevenses take the troubled child Michael, who is at odds with Tommy Becker  the boy whom the Kravitzes take, because Michael doesn’t believe in Santa Claus and picks on anyone who does. Samantha and Darrin try their hardest to instill some Christmas spirit into Michael, but it isn’t until she admits she’s a witch, dons the traditional witch garb, and whisks him off to the North Pole to meet the real Santa Claus that he finally becomes a believer. He comes back with a newfound optimism and even gives Tommy a gift from the North Pole. Gladys overhears Michael talking about his night at the North Pole, but when she questions Tommy about it in front of her husband, he keeps it a secret like he agreed to. When Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, who have been interested in possibly adopting Michael, come to visit him on Christmas at the Stevens’ house they find his behavior much improved… the kind of boy they’d like to finally adopt. NOTE: This was a repeat of the season one episode of the same title, with new introductory footage added. 5/14/22
• 052. The Magic Cabin – 12/30/1965
  • Darrin has terrible writer’s block when it comes to creating a slogan for Kingsley’s Potato Chips, so Larry finally suggests that he and Samantha travel to an old cabin that he currently has for sale in the Catskills to get away from any distractions. They decide to take him up on it, but when they arrive, they are surprised in how bad of shape it is in. Sam suggests using her witchcraft to clean it up a bit, but Darrin refuses. However once it begins pouring down rain and coming through the roof, Darrin finally agrees to let Sam add a phone so they can call and check on the roads. When they find out that the roads are too washed out for them to leave and go home, Darrin is finally convinced to let Sam add a roaring fire, and then make the entire place look new, warm, and comfortable. Meanwhile, a newlywed couple, Charles (Peter Duryea) and Alice MacBain (Beryl Hammond) call Larry and are interested in buying the cabin from him. He tells them that Darrin and Sam are there, but surely wouldn’t mind them checking it out. When they arrive while Darrin and Sam are out getting groceries, they find the newly improved fully decorated version of the cabin and call Larry immediately to buy it. Darrin thinks Sam should restore it to its original version, as this one had been created through witchcraft, but Sam doesn’t have the heart when she sees how excited they are. Back home, Larry is thrilled by getting way more money than he expected for the place, and is having his secretary draw up the contract, then suddenly realizes there is no phone in the cabin. He decides to drive up there as Sam and Darrin are getting ready to leave. She has to change the place back to its run-down state. Larry can’t believe that it has fallen apart so badly. The MacBains are so excited by the place that they return just to see it again. When they enter, Sam is forced to have all of the living room behind Larry look brand new, while all of the room behind the MacBains to look horrible. When Sam hears that Larry is accepting $5000 for the place, she scolds him for taking advantage. He thinks about it and just decides to take the $1000 down payment as payment-in-full. After everyone is gone, Sam turns the entire place back to the fully-decorated version. As she and Darrin are driving home, and she mentions how satisfying it is to use witchcraft sometimes, he makes her promise to not use it any more under any circumstance. Naturally, he has to re-think this when they run out of gas in the middle of a rainstorm. She compromises with ‘half of a spell’, giving them half of a tank of gas. 5/15/22
• 053. Maid to Order – 1/6/1966
  • With Sam closing in on motherhood, Darrin doesn’t like to see her doing chores, nor does he want her to use her spells to do the cleaning, so he insists that she hire a housekeeper to help her. Samantha is against it, but agrees to interview some girls. The first lady, Mrs. Luftwaffe (Elvia Allman) comes in with her own demands as to what she will and won’t do, and asks Sam for references instead of the other way around. When she asks to see Sam’s kitchen, Sam intentionally trashes it so that Luftwaffe will refuse to work there. The second candidate (Roxanne Arlen) is a beautiful girl who brags about her rapport with the men she works for. Sam shows her a picture of Darrin, but magically changes it from a dapper photo to him looking like a hayseed, causing her to lose interest in the job. The third potential housekeeper is the accident-prone and self-deprecating Naomi Hogan (Alice Ghostley), who admits freely that she can’t cook and typically breaks dishes every day. When Sam finds out she is trying to make money to put her son through medical school, she hires her on the spot. Larry and Louise come over for dinner that night, and since Naomi legitimately cannot cook, Sam helps her through it with a little black magic. Darrin and the Tates are impressed with her job performance. In fact, when the Tates’ housekeeper has to visit a sick relative when the Tates are expecting an 8-person dinner party including one of Larry’s new clients, they ask Darrin if they can borrow Naomi. Darrin is fine with it, but when Sam hears, she becomes extremely worried since she knows Naomi can’t cook. Darrin tries to get them an invite to the party so that Sam can ‘help’ her, but he keeps shutting them down as they invite themselves. They even show up at the party, with Sam pretending she is trying to return a book. Eventually, Darrin gets angry with Larry for turning him down repeatedly and he finally says that the Tates will get what they deserve with Naomi’s cooking. Still, knowing that Louise would face the brunt of the backlash, Samantha transports herself over to the Tates’ place so she can spy on Naomi screwing up the food, and help her fix it right before Louise’s eyes. The next morning when Darrin is subjected to Naomi’s real cooking, he tries to get Sam to fire her, but Sam will do nothing of the kind while she is trying to support her son through school. However, Naomi knows she will become attached to the Sam’s baby, and that one day they’ll be forced to fire her since she is such a screw-up, so she pre-emptively quits. When they see how quickly she can calculate the amount she owes Louise in broken dishes, Sam talks Darrin into offering her a job in his accounting department. 9/8/22
• 054. And Then There Were Three – 1/13/1966
  • Sam is finally ready to head to the hospital to have her baby and gets a call before leaving from her identical cousin Serena. Later, at the hospital as Darrin is pacing in the waiting room with another expectant father named Fred (Bobby Byles), Endora appears straight from the delivery room and announces that Sam has had a little girl, prompting a rare hug shared between the two. Sam goes to see Sam and the baby, and she tells Darrin that her mother wants to name the baby Tabatha (Cynthia Black). Darrin is reluctant, and the stern Nurse Kelton (Eve Arden) notices that the baby’s ID bracelet says Tabatha. She takes the baby to look into the matter, telling an irritated Darrin that he needs to leave now. Endora reappears in the room and fills it with flowers, evoking the ire of Nurse Kelton once again. Serena then shows up and re-fills the room with flowers again, causing the nurse to again be baffled and annoyed. Looking at the baby in the nursery, Endora and Darrin argue about whether the baby looks at all like Darrin, and she offers to turn the baby into an adult for a minute to see what she looks like. She then rushes Darrin off to phone his parents, and sneaks in and takes the baby out of her bed. Darrin then returns and runs into Serena and gives her advice as to where she can buy a rattle. When he notices that the baby is gone, he realizes how much Serena looks like Samantha and thinks that Endora has turned the baby into an adult. He chases down Serena, who gets annoyed with him and sends him to the nursery with a pacifier in his mouth. Nurse Kelton sees him in the nursery, and then returns to Sam’s room, finding Endora with the baby. Darrin tracks Serena to the toy store, where he runs into his friend Dave, who makes a comment about how attractive Serena is. Darrin becomes furious and tries to protect Serena, who then puts Darrin into an Indian costume. The manager (Joseph Mell) get involved, but Endora shows up and sends Darrin back to the nursery. When Nurse Kelton sees him dressed as an Indian, she starts to believe that she is going crazy and seeks her own evaluation. Darrin returns to Sam’s room where he sees both Serena and the baby. Serena then ties him up and gags him, to which Nurse Kelton can only laugh at. Darrin and Sam then convince the nurse that he’s been playing a practical joke on her. Darrin feels bad for accusing Endora, so he agrees to allow the baby’s name to be Tabatha. Both parents wonder if Tabatha will have any of her mother’s powers. Mason Curry is Dr. Anton. Celeste Yarnell is student Nurse Foster. Judy Pace is the black nurse. 9/8/22
• 055. My Baby, the Tycoon – 1/20/1966
  • Samantha and Darrin are still unsure whether Tabatha (Heidi Gentry and Laura Gentry) will hold any special powers like her mother. When Tabatha wakes up in the middle of the night, Samantha uses witchcraft to feed her, but Darrin thinks Sam is asleep and Tabatha is doing it on her own. Finally, he learns the truth, but the question about Tabatha continues. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Kravitz bring Tabatha a gift: one share of stock from Poughkeepsie Woolens, which they purchased through Gladys’s cousin Julius Cushman (Jack Fletcher). The stock hasn’t moved at all in over twenty years, but suddenly it goes up six points, leading Darrin to believe that either Sam or her mother gave it a witchcraft push. However, once he rules them out, he starts to suspect that Tabatha herself made it happen. In order to test out the theory, he has the baby point at a stock and comes up with Nelson Aerodynamics. Darrin buys one share of the stock in Tabatha’s name to see what happens, and sure enough the stock again goes up five points. Gladys’s cousin Julius tells her that she should be getting stock tips from Darrin since he seems to have some foresight into rising stocks. Darrin tries to lecture Tabatha not to mess with the stock market, which Sam thinks is ridiculous since she’s only a baby. Before she gets a chance to talk to Darrin, she spies one of Tabatha’s dolls flying through the room thanks to Sam, and she thinks it that Tabatha is flying. The Kravitizes come in to watch Sam give the baby a bath, hopefully to prove there is only one baby. Gladys tries to search the nursery for any clues, and finds the newspaper opened up to the stock page. When Tabatha again points to one of the stocks, they decide to invest in East South Dakota Petroleum. This time the stock drops 21 points, and the Kravitz’s are forced to rent a room in their house to cover the losses. Darrin and Tabatha feel terrible that they have lost their life savings, but Sam notes that it proves Tabatha’s innocence. Darrin then orders one share of the stock in Tabatha’s name and finds out that the stock had rallied back to its last value. He also gives Darrin the scoop on what happened with the other stocks that went up suddenly and found that they all had logical financial explanations. Still, Darrin is curious when Tabatha later points to horse in the sports pages. William Kendis is a stockbroker. 12/27/22
• 056. Samantha Meets the Folks – 1/27/1966
  • Darrin’s parents send a card to Tabatha (now played by Julie Young and Tamar Young), which gets them talking about how they’d enjoy another visit, even though the last one was a bit problematic. Flashing back to the episode Samantha Meets the Folks from the first season: Darrin’s parents Frank and Phyllis come into town for a visit at the same time that Aunt Clara decides to visit for the weekend. Phyllis is highly protective of Darrin and plans to teach Samantha how to take care of him. It becomes clear that Sam is already doing a great job, especially when Clara whips up gourmet food like Coq au Vin and pineapple upside down cake using her powers. Darrin has a talk with Aunt Clara about interfering, which prompts her to leave. Samantha becomes angry at Darrin and also Phyllis for not accepting her as she is. She admits that she is not the best at cooking or cleaning and that Clara had made the food. This is exactly what Phyllis needs to hear as she was afraid that she was going to be forgotten in the face of Sam’s perfection. Darrin retrieves Aunt Clara and she ends up getting along swimmingly with Darrin’s parents, dropping hints along the way that she is a witch… which Darrin’s parents chalk up to eccentricities. 12/28/22
• 057. Fastest Gun on Madison Avenue – 2/3/1966
  • To celebrate the fact that Samantha is becoming an excellent homemaker without using her powers, Darrin offers to take her out for a nice dinner at Dundee’s. However, when she arrives before Darrin, a rude drunken man named ‘Jolton Joe’ Kovacks (Roger Torrey) begins flirting with her. Darrin comes in just in time to catch him, and when Kovacks tries to get rough with Darrin, Samantha twitcher her nose and knocks him out cold. The press at the club splash all over the headlines about the incident, stating that Darrin has knocked out the #1 contender to the heavyweight boxing title. Kovacks and his manager (Herbie Faye) come to see Darrin at his office and infer that they might sue him since all photos indicate that Darrin initiated the fight unless he agrees to go back to the Dundee’s when the press around, having Kovacks apologize to him, refuse to accept it, throw a punch at Kovacks, and then take a pulled punch to the face. They believe this will help Kovacks restore his reputation. Darrin reluctantly agrees, but when Sam gets word from Mrs. Kravitz that Kovacks is the type to stalk Darrin. She heads back to Dundee’s, and when she sees the two fighting again, she again knocks out Kovacks. Larry is incredulous when he sees the headlines. A drunk (Dick Wilson) at the bar keeps challenging Darrin. Another customer recognizes Darrin and wants Darrin to hit him in the face to prove that Kovacks merely had a glass jar. The guy turns out to the current heavyweight champion Tommy Carter (Rockne Tarkington), and Darrin accidentally trips over his own barstool, falls into Carter, and knocks him out. Darrin thinks that Sam has orchestrated and accuses the bartender Sam (Herb Vigran) as being his Sam and yells at him as if he were his wife. After being splashed on the news headlines again, Larry stops by and tells Darrin that Kovacks came to see him and that he now works at the agency and has agreed to appear at the annual charity ball where he will box four rounds with an opponent of his choice. Sam tells Darrin that she will be in Darrin’s corner, which will make him unbeatable. 6/16/23
• 058. The Dancing Bear – 2/10/1966
  • Darrin’s parents Frank and Phyllis are coming to visit and meet the baby for the first time, and Endora also shows up to help get ready for their arrival. She brings a stuffed bear for Tabatha that she seems to like. However, Phyllis also brings the exact same stuffed bear for her, so in order to make Tabatha like the bear from her baby, she puts a spell on it to make it dance and capture Tabatha’s attention. Darrin tries to hide the first bear so that his mother’s feelings are spared, but Endora puts the bear back in her crib and activates its dancing feature. The dancing bear makes Tabatha smile, while taking it away makes her cry, even when the second one is given to her. Darrin and Sam try to hide the bear’s ability from the Stephenses, but they spot it and are puzzled because it appears to be the exact same bear. Frank has been looking for a moneymaking idea to invest into so when Darrin tells him that he is the one who tinkered with the bear to make it dance, he wants to run with it and get it mass-produced. He invites Mr. Hockstedder (Arthur Julian), a toy company developer, to come see the bear. Samantha has her mother remove the spell from the bear since they have no way to explain what is making it dance. However, when Phyllis brings over a new clown for Tabatha, and she seems to prefer it to the non-dancing bear, Endora once again makes the bear come alive so that it can be the favorite toy again. When Darrin shows the bear to Mr. Hockstedder thinking that it won’t dance, it begins dancing and immediately captures his attention. He wants to produce hundreds of thousands of them. Sam then uses her powers to make the clown start dancing as well, so Hockstedder decides that he wants these as well. Sam then puts it to the mothers that right now, Tabatha is the only baby with these dancing toys, but if they mass-produce them, she’ll just be one in the crowd. Both grandmothers agree for once that they want Tabatha to be special, so they refuse to grant permission for the toys to be reproduced. Later, Sam takes the dancing toys away because Tabatha won’t go to sleep since she is watching the toys, but when she takes them away, Tabatha won’t stop crying. Sam makes a few adjustments to the toys and makes them dance much slower, which instantly puts Tabatha to sleep. 6/18/23
• 059. Double Tate – 2/17/1966
  • With Darrin’s birthday coming up, and while Sam is making a cake for him, Endora decides to give him a gift of her own. Darrin isn’t aware of the gift while he is at the office but becomes suspicious of things being awry when he wishes that the elevator would hurry up and it suddenly drips fifteen floors in about two seconds. Then he sees an attractive woman get off of the elevator, and her clothes suddenly turn into a bikini swimsuit. Meanwhile, Larry’s secretary Betty tells Darrin that Larry is in Chicago, and there is a client named Randolph Turgeon (Irwin Cherone) is in Larry’s office and refuses to leave until he talks to Larry. Darrin receives a call from Larry that he was fogged in while on his impromptu trip. He tells Darrin to think of something to keep Turgeon occupied. Larry calls Louise to tell her that he is stuck in Chicago. Back at the office, Darrin makes a third and final wish: to be Larry for a day. Betty is surprised when she sees ‘Larry’ suddenly appear in the office. Darrin then realizes that he looks exactly like Larry. Turgeon then comes out of Larry’s office and sees him, insisting that they go out to lunch so that they can talk about renewing Turgeon’s business account. There they serendipitously run into Turgeon’s niece Joyce (Kathee Francis), who wants to break into the advertising business. When Turgeon excuses himself, Louise walks into the restaurant and sees ‘Larry’ with Joyce. ‘Larry’ tries to sneak away to call Samantha, which earns a slap from Louise. Eventually, ‘Larry’ goes back to Larry’s house, where Louise has found out that Joyce is his client’s niece, so she tries to make it up to him by cooking him a nice dinner. Sam confronts her mother about why Darrin has turned into Larry, and she says it isn’t her fault that Darrin squandered his wishes. Samantha shows up over at Larry’s and tells Louise that she got lonely because Darrin has to leave town. Although Louise wants a quiet night alone with Larry, Samantha sticks around until she can try and fix Darrin, despite all of the hints for her to leave that Louise keeps dropping. Sam is unable to turn Darrin back into himself because he wished to be Larry for one day, thus locking in the spell until midnight. Just then, the real Larry comes home from his trip. When Larry goes outside to get his bags, Samantha keeps stopping him from coming back in the front door. While he works on getting back in, Darrin finally turns back into himself, but is now wearing Larry’s pajamas. Sam explains to Larry that he got wet because it rained earlier. When Larry and Louise start to argue because neither of them knows what is going on, Sam makes her fall asleep. Sam tells Larry that Louise is sleepwalking and had confused Darrin for Larry. Then Larry vows to stay home more often… and not to drink on his flights. Later, Sam asks Darrin what his first two wishes were. Darrin only tells her about the first one, and then glosses over the second one and tells her that his only true wish of having her has already come true. 10/12/23
• 060. Samantha the Dressmaker – 2/24/1966
  • Sam is working hard at designing her own dress for a dinner with an important new client named J.T. Glendon (Harry Holcombe), when Endora shows up to poke fun at her for making her own clothes instead of using witchcraft. She also insists that Sam keep her commitment to go to lunch with her. Endora then whisks her away for lunch in Paris, France. After they eat, Endora talks her into visiting the fashion designer Aubert (Dick Gautier), who refuses to see any ‘common’ customers while he is working with his models. Endora freezes everyone in the studio so they can pop in and see some of the dresses. Sam heads back home and finishes the dress on her own, but when Darrin seems disappointed in it, Sam uses witchcraft to turn it into one of Aubert’s. They head out to the dinner while Mrs. Kravitz babysits for Tabatha. At the dinner, Glendon’s wife Doris (Barbara Morrison) admires Sam’s dress and recognizes it as a Paris original, but Darrin then tells her that Sam made it herself. Both Doris and Mr. Glendon’s sister Ethel Granger (Arlen Stuart) both asks Sam to make them a dress, and Darrin is quick to volunteer Sam to do it. Mrs. Kravitz then asks for one as well. Sam buys some fabric so that she can pretend to take the three ladies’ measurements, although she fully plans to use witchcraft to replicate Aubert originals. After the three ladies are measured and head out, Sam quickly whips up the three dresses, nearly getting caught by Mrs. Kravitz. Darrin calls and invites Sam and the ladies to a cocktail party but will not tell them the surprise reason for the party. Mrs. Kravitz invites herself to go along as well. Much to everyone’s surprise, the reason for the party is for him to introduce the new client that Glendon has obtained: dressmaker Aubert of Paris. When he comes out to greet the crowd, he sees all four women wearing his dresses. He vows to sue the agency for five million dollars, being most angry that his dresses looked terrible on all of the women except for Sam. She then gets an idea, and heads over to Aubert’s hotel room and makes him freeze so she can talk to him. She convinces him that he will only be able to sell his dresses in America if he can tailor them to average looking women. When he snaps out of his hypnosis, he agrees with Sam but doesn’t think he can make the dresses again so quickly. Sam agrees to make them with the help of her mother. When he introduces them, the crowd think the ladies all look great. Even Abner is shocked how presentable Gladys now looks. Janine Grandel is Aubert’s assistant Brigette. 10/14/23
• 061. The Horse’s Mouth – 3/3/1966
  • When a horse trainer named Jack Spindler (Sidney Clute) gets out of his car to help a woman with car troubles, the horse Dallyrand that he is pulling in a trailer makes her escape into the neighborhood. While Samantha is taking care of Tabatha, she spots the horse in her backyard, and wanting to know its story, she turns Dallyrand into a human woman (Patty Regan). She tells Sam that she escaped Spindler because he never allowed her to win a race. She was always forced to set the pace for the other horses while her oldest sister Adorable Diane would hang out in the back, and then once all of the other horses were tired, she would come up and win the race. Jack snoops around looking for Dallyrand, and after taking a verbal lashing from the human version of the horse, moves on to continue looking. Meanwhile, Darrin brings home his friend Gus Walters (Robert Sorrells), an inventor who has created a new style office lamp but needs $2000 funding to get it marketed. Dallyrand, who Samantha has introduced as Dolly Rand, suggests that they go to the racetrack and that she gives him the inside scoop on the horses so that he can bet a small amount of money and get enough in winnings to move forward with his invention. Darrin becomes suspicious of Dolly and gets Sam to admit that she’s actually a horse. Dolly confesses to them that she wishes she had the chance to actually run a race and win. They all agree to go to the races, and Dolly goes around and chats with the horses. She has Gus put his money on Diamond Turkey, as she knows it is his birthday and they are going to let her win. After Gus wins a bundle on this race, Dolly advises him to place half of his winnings on Romping Rose. This time, the horse comes in second place and Gus loses his bet. Later, Sam and Dolly run into Spindler at the track, who is still lamenting the loss of Dallyrand. He admits that although the horse wasn’t a winner, he liked her a lot and misses her. He also says that Adorable Diane was lame that day and won’t be able to race. Dolly decides that this might be her chance to prove herself in a race, so Sam turns her back to a horse and she makes herself known to Spindler. Sam and Darrin tell Gus that Dolly had encouraged him to be it all on Dallyrand, but Gus is now gun shy. They finally convince him to place the bet, but he becomes so nervous that he can’t even watch when Dallyrand falls behind. However, she winds up coming from behind and winning the race. Gus gets his money, and Spindler vows to never hold back Dallyrand again. 2/14/24
• 062. Baby’s First Paragraph – 3/10/1966
  • While Sam is on the phone with her babysitter Sally, Sam notices that Tabatha has made her bottle float across the room to her. However, it turns out to be Endora who has moved the bottle. Sally cancels her appointment to babysit so that Sam can go to a business lunch with Darrin. Endora offers to watch Tabatha, and Sam eventually, albeit reluctantly agrees. While Endora is watching Tabatha, Gladys comes over with her sister Edna’s baby Edgar and begins bragging how far advanced Edgar is over Tabatha. This prompts Endora to make Tabatha speak in a clear voice to Gladys, who is amazed and runs home to tell her husband. Endora then begins telling Tabatha the tale of Hansel & Gretel, making the witch the hero of the story. When Darrin comes home, Gladys runs over to congratulate him and tells him that Tabatha is speaking. He is furious when he finds out what Endora is done, and even more so, when two reporters (John Newton, Don Hanmer) show up at the house to do an article on Tabatha. The next morning, the headlines in the newspaper read “Infant Talks Sense.” Soon the house is swarmed with reporters asking questions like: what does the baby think of the tax structure? The Mayo Clinic calls and wants to rent her to observe her. The Hollywood Palace TV show calls Sam and asks for Tabatha to emcee the show. Harvard University offers her a scholarship, even though she is a girl. Darrin can’t even get to his car unless Sam freezes the reporters in time so he can get past them. Sam decides that it is her mother who needs to make this all stop, so she tells her that with Tabatha’s fame and popularity, she is going to have start scheduling appointments to see her a few times a year. Endora wants a way for this to end when she hears this, so Darrin gathers the reporters back at the house. Endora tells them all that she used to work as a ventriloquist during her days in Vaudeville as Endora the Miraculous. Mrs. Kravitz doesn’t believe it, but when Endora demonstrates putting words into Tabatha’s mouth, as well as Gladys’s, the reporters agree to print a retraction. Sam later tells Darrin that he should apologize to her mother for some of the horrible things he said about her, and when he refuses, suddenly he starts to talk in a baby voice as well. Robert de Coy is the postman. 2/14/24
• 063. The Leprechaun – 3/17/1966
  • Darrin comes home to find a man named Brian O’Brian (Henry Jones), who claims to be a leprechaun, in his home speaking with Samantha. He initially thinks it is another of her friends or relatives, but Brian claims that he is actually a distant cousin of Darrin’s from County Cork, Ireland. He claims that his last pot of gold has been stolen by an American named James Dennis Robinson (Parley Baer), who bought the cottage where he was living and then moves the fireplace where the gold was hidden to America. This means that Brian has lost his magical powers. Darrin thinks the whole thing is hogwash, but when he looks into it, there really is a James Dennis Robinson living nearby. Darrin reluctantly goes to see Robinson when he finds out that he owns Westchester Consolidated Mills, a company every ad agency is trying to represent. Robinson makes it clear that he thinks that McMahon and Tate are too small of a company to represent him, but Darrin moves forward with his pitch anyway. He is also obsessed with checking out the fireplace, which Robinson tells him that he did indeed bring from Ireland to America. When Darrin reports back to Brian about the fireplace. Brian seems in no hurry to get the gold and starts drinking all of Darrin’s liquor. When Darrin starts to get annoyed by him, he wants to kick him out, but instead insists that Brian go after his gold immediately so that he can go home. When Brian attempts to break into Robinson’s house, he is stopped by Robinson’s two giant Dobermans, and is arrested and thrown in jail. Darrin gives Sam permission to get him out of jail, but refuses to allow her to help him retrieve the gold. Nevertheless, when she sees how defeated Brian looks, she agrees to help him anyway. This time, Samantha turns the two Dobermans into chihuahuas. Unfortunately, the gold is no longer in the spot where he left it behind the fireplace bricks. Samantha starts to lose faith in him, but then Robinson appears with the pot of gold and tells Brian that it now belongs to him. He attempts to call the police, but Samantha stops him with her powers. Now realizing that something supernatural is going on, Robinson demands the truth. When Brian tells him that he is a leprechaun, Robinson believes him, having been raised by his father with tales of leprechauns. He willingly returns the gold to Brian, but then grabs him and says that he also knows if he catches a leprechaun, he has to grant him a wish. He tells Brian that he wants to use him in an advertising campaign for his company. Brian responds that he will only do it if Robinson agrees to use McMahon and Tate as their ad agency, and Robinson agrees. Darrin is furious when Sam returns home and tells him that she helped Brian retrieve the pot of gold, but the anger melts away when he finds out that they are going to get the Westchester Consolidated Mills account. As she is kissing Darrin, Sam spots Brian outside disappearing into thin air. Jess Kirkpatrick is Officer Fogerty.  7/3/24
• 064. Double Split – 3/24/1966
  • Darrin takes Samantha to a party at Larry’s place, where they are entertaining an important client Mr. Kabaker (Martin Ashe) and his daughter (Julie Gregg). Although Darrin asks Sam to be especially nice to her, Miss Kabaker is rude, sarcastic, and condescending to Sam. After she is handed one too many insults, Sam uses witchcraft to make a messy appetizer hit her in the place. This causes the Kabakers to storm out of the party and blame Sam for the interaction. Darrin is furious and alternates between yelling at Sam and giving her the quiet treatment. The next day, Larry tells Darrin that Kabaker called him and cancelled his account with the firm, but Larry managed to talk him out of it. Darrin is apologetic, but when Larry insults Sam’s character, Darrin snaps back with insults about Louise. Their argument escalates, and after a minute of bickering, Darrin quits the firm and goes home. Sam tries to talk Darrin into reconsidering his position, but Darrin tells her that he has an interview lined up with Ames Advertising. Sam goes to visit Louise and they decide they need to come up with a plan to get Darrin and Larry back together by giving them a common enemy: their wives. Before they get started with their plan, Sam uses her witchcraft to cause Darrin to blow his interview at Ames by forcing him to talk baby talk to his with Mr. Ames (Dan Tobin). When he gets home, he is enraged as Sam again, and becomes even more so when she tells Darrin that he needs to go crawling back to Larry and beg his forgiveness since he owes his entire career to him. Darrin gets so angry that he leaves the house and goes to stay at a hotel. Likewise, Louise tells Larry that he needs to beg Darrin’s forgiveness and says that Larry owes the success of his business to Darrin. Larry also leaves and heads to the same hotel. Sam calls the hotel desk clerk (Ivan Bonar) and uses witchcraft to assign both me to the same room. Once Darrin and Larry find each other when they climb into the same bed, they both question why the other man would leave such a wonderful woman. They then realize that they each adore each other’s wives, and the two make up. Furthermore, they realize they don’t want to be away from home, so they decide to head home. They find both wives at the Stephens’ house, and Larry takes Louise home. Samantha tells Darrin that she forgives him. 7/3/24
• 065. Disappearing Samantha – 4/7/1966
  • Darrin and the Tates are planning to attend the lecture of Osgood Rightmire (Bernard Fox), an author who they represent, who is presenting a lecture called Witchcraft of the World: Fact and Fallacies. When Sam finds out about this, she insists on going along, as she knows that he is a phony who has been passing along lies for years about witches. She promises to behave, but when Rightmire puts forth a challenge to the audience for any witch who may exist to strike him down, Sam cannot resist making him stumble and fall on the stage. Rightmire makes it clear that his fall was not staged, and then puts forth an incantation for any witch in the crowd to disappear. This curse actually works, and Samantha disappears for a short period of time before returning. Making matters worse, the spell continues to work and cause her to fully or partially disappear even after they’ve arrived home. Sam calls out to her mother for help, and she goes through many books of spells, but without knowing the exact words of Rightmire, she cannot figure out how to counteract the spell. Darrin goes to see Rightmire and see if he can convince him to tell him the spell that he used, but Rightmire tells him that he doesn’t want to reveal it until his book comes out the following month. Darrin thinks they will have a second chance as they are planning to have cocktails at his house after Rightmire’s next lecture, so that he can meet Robert Andrews (Foster Brooks), the editor of Pictorial Week, who is planning to do an article on Rightmire. However, that night, Rightmire calls to cancel his visit because he has invited a young, adoring fan named Beverly Wilson (Nina Wayne) back to his dressing room. Endora casts a spell on Beverly to have her invite Rightmire out to a nightclub, but actually take him to their house. When they arrive, Rightmire introduces Beverly as his niece, and they all make their introductions. Although Rightmire is again asks what the spell was that he used to make the witch disappear, he again will not reveal it until the book comes out. However, he somehow manages to cast the same spell onto Endora, causing her to disappear, without ever uttering the incantation. This causes her to assume that Rightmire must be a warlock. They test this notion by serving him a cocktail with cayenne, red peppers, and hot sauce to see if he can endure it like warlocks can. Endora and Sam then surmise that he might unknowingly be carrying a talisman with him that can affect the spells. When they notice that he is wearing an unusual ring, they ask him about it and learn that he inquired that he got it from an old Mystic on the Nile River. They are able to get the ring off of him and the substitute it for a fake, thus taking away his powers for good. On his way out, he cautions them to never believe in coincidence, fate, or superstition. He then stumbles as he and his ‘niece’ make their way out the door. NOTE: This is the final episode featuring Irene Vernon as Louise Tate. 10/31/24
• 066. Follow That Witch: Part 1 – 4/14/1966
  • Samantha receives a visit from Abner Kravitz’s sister Harriet (Mary Grace Canfield), who is watching the Kravitz’s house while Abner has taken Gladys to visit her mother out of town. She has heard all of the tales from Gladys and is very curious to meet and investigate Sam as well. While she is there, she sees Sam painting a full-sized rocking chair with a very tiny paint bucket, and then sees that the rocking chair has suddenly become a miniature of the same chair, which leads her to believe that Gladys has been telling the truth all along. Meanwhile, Darrin and Larry meet with Mr. Robbins (Jack Collins), the owner of Robbins Baby Food Company, in order to secure a deal for them to represent their advertising. Along with Robbins is his junior executive George Barkley (Steve Franken), who insists that they do not make a decision for ten days. In that time, Barkley intends to have them all investigated personally to make sure that there are no skeletons in their closet. Barkley meets with his private detective Charlie Leach (Robert Strauss), who has done a full background check on Darrin and found out nothing. Barkley then orders him to begin investigating Darrin’s wife Samantha. He starts with interviewing Harriet Kravitz next door and is quickly told all of the tales about the magic that Samantha seems to be able to perform, including the most recent rocking chair incident that she personally witnessed. Leach begins snooping around at the Stephens’ house and witnesses Sam move Tabatha’s baby carriage at will, and then sees the tiny chair turn into a large one for himself. He poses as a consumer researcher gathering information on bottle tops. When he starts asking personal questions about how much and how often she drinks, Sam starts to get annoyed and answering his questions sarcastically. When he goes outside and begins investigating the baby carriage, Sam elevates it and beats him with it. Leach tries to investigate the rocking chair, but it also attacks him, and then a bottle of seltzer water sprays his face. Leach returns to see Harriet and gets even more information, leading him to believe that he has a case that he can blow wide open. He phones his wife Charmaine (Virginia Martin) who is hopeful that his might finally mean success for her husband. When Sam tells Darrin about Leach snooping around their house, he tells her that in order to protect Tabatha, she can do whatever she needs to in order to get rid of him. Leach does in fact return and pretends to be looking for his lost cat. Sam warns him that if he comes around again, something bad will happen to him. When he does not take her seriously, she transports him to a ledge forty stories high, where he is forced to spend the night. Now sick with a cold, he reports his findings back to George Barkley, who finds his stories ridiculous and throws him out of his office. Later, Leach is berated by his wife Charmaine for being such a failure, and it inspires him to now look at Samantha as the goose that laid the golden egg. He returns to her house and tells her that if she doesn’t make him rich, he is going to expose her to the world as a witch. Judy Pace is the secretary. NOTE: This is the first of a two-part episode. 10/31/24

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