a laugh, a twinkle in her eye, a mischievous smile and a wrinkle in her brow while twitching her nose--Samantha Stephens, 'the good witch of the north' resides in a neighborhood where it is pretty easy to fool anyone, even the nosy neiighbor, Mrs. Kravitz.

Hollywood and a man named Arnold, decided it best to feature along with My Favorite Martian and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir running, something similar but not boring. He decided to incorporate the supernatural realm into everyday situations serving as clear metaphors for problems a yreal-life oung couple might face. It is particularly evident that the tension between mother-in-law and son-in-law is less than daughter and mother who both run a 'tight ship'. Stubborn but perseverant, the two main themes are conflict between a powerful woman (Samantha) and a husband who obviously is threatened by her miraculous position. But just because he can't deal with that power and he is confronting anger with her mother, love prevails and humor brings in to the finish line.

For viewing and purchasing plusses, I found that the color set version outsells the black and white sets by a substantial margin. This is very good to know . . . and I do like the ambience a B&W offers.

The protagonuist has only one goal and that is to effectively through humor and discord, entertain us through witchcraft. Only it is not the evil sinister-stirring to plot kind of craft that makes this so appealing; this witch embraces the good vibes, the positive miracle-inducing powers, the radiant energy that could speak change if construed with some creative addressing. She stands as the kind and better witch.

For strictly a humorous response to 'getting anything you want at the twitch of your nose', Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995) debuted as America's house-witch on ABC in the fall of 1964. She was an American film and television student who became an accomplished actress who entertained audiences for five decades.

Behind her antics, nose-twitching and ridiculous ways of appeasing her husbands boring demeanor, is a fantastic not-so-famous yet writer, Norman Mailer. He wrote a satire short, a novella that glared at conventional and rose eyebrows to progressive pieces that literally birthed a series running eight long seasons involving an inter-faith{ful} galactic and cosmic bound kind of marriage between an immortal and a mortal. With the fantasy intact, the reality is a breather from chaos in the real world. It can also spark one heck of an imagination if you believe some psychic power is at your command.

The series served as a unique launchpad for several newbies in Hollywood such as paul Lynde and Alice Ghostley while more refined performers such as Jack cassidy adopted friendly ghost-like characteristics. Each of the newbies, then the seasoned actors who ventured into Sam's magickal world, so should you for even if the running lasted eight seasons and hocus-pocus has only so many familiar spells, a laugh even a cry is in store for the family watching this on a Friday or saturday night.

Bewitched finished the 1972 season locked in at the no. 72nd position in the ratings which I added to this review as flavor for tasting delishious (yes it is purposely spelled wrong) television, it leaves no bitter taste in your mouth. Bewitched did very well the first six seasons it aired, but then the ratings began to drop off in the early 1970s it was ready to put the broomstick, which we never saw her actually ride let alone mount, next to the dust mop she never used, either . . . and as far as that pot of 'food' on the stove for dinner was it ever "not a relative" ?

The ratings for each season, at the end of the season, were:

Season Ratings Rank
1) 1964-1965 #2
2) 1965-1966 #7
3) 1966-1967 #8
4) 1967-1968 #11
5) 1968-1969 #12
6) 1969-1970 #25
7) 1970-1971 #34
8) 1971-1972 #72