The essential episodes of Bewitched
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Bewitched — each pick states its reason.
- 01
I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha
Darrin and Samantha get married; Samantha later reveals to Darrin that she is a witch. Samantha uses her powers to get back at Darrin's condescending ex-girlfriend Sheila.
- 02
Darrin and Samantha buy a new house, and Sam and Endora fix it up with their magic. Their witchcraft causes a bit of an issue with Samantha and Darrin's potential neighbor, the busybody Gladys Kravitz, who sees a landscaped yard and furnished interior, and then not.
- 03
Samantha dislikes Halloween because people believe that witches are ugly and mean.
- 04
A teenage girl does an interview with Darrin about his job in advertising.
- 05
When Larry and Louise Tate stumble upon Samantha and Endora having lunch in Paris, she can't return since they think that Darrin sent her over for a mortal vacation.
- 06
Larry Tate tells Darrin that Sam is going to have a baby, but it's Louise who is pregnant.
- 07
Samantha and Darrin bring home an orphan boy for Christmas and try to raise his spirits.
- 08
Samantha turns a cat into an Oriental siren named Ling Ling for Darrin's campaign model.
- 09
Darrin is upset when he thinks he looks older than Sam, so she decides to age with him.
- 10
Driving is the Only Way to Fly
Darrin enrols Sam in a driving school, and she is paired with a nervous instructor.
- 11
There's No Witch Like an Old Witch
Aunt Clara is depressed because her magic is failing, so she becomes a babysitter.
- 12
Automatic garage door openers become popular after Sam uses magic to open the garage.
- 13
When Gladys finally catches Samantha in the act of using her powers, the quick thinking witch convinces the snoop that she possesses the gift of ESP. Things take a turn for the worse when Gladys will not stop trying to use her new "talent" in every situation, which frustrates Abner. Samantha holds a seance to scare Gladys into giving up her thoughts of having powers.
- 14
Endora makes another unsuccessful attempt to break up Samantha and Darrin.
- 15
Abner gets kicked out of his house and Samantha and Darrin let him stay with them.
- 16
After some ill-advised comments from Darrin, Endora makes him feel every pregnancy related symptom that Samantha has.
- 17
Strange things begin happening to Darrin's friend Adam Newlarkin; Aunt Clara tells Samantha he has inherited the spell placed by a witch on his ancestor who was a judge in Salem 200 years before.
- 18
While Samantha is watching the Tate's new baby, Gladys Kravtiz makes an ill-informed comment to Maurice who whisks his "new" grandson off to London.
- 19
Uncle Arthur plays practical jokes on Darrin and Endora, causing them to join forces.
- 20
Endora turns Darrin into a werewolf when he refuses to let Samantha go to a ceremony.
- 21
After Samantha mentions that she has never seen photographs of Darrin as a child, Endora decides to give Samantha a first hand look by changing Darrin into his ten year old self.
- 22
Confusion reigns when Darrin is convinced that Endora has turned his boss into a teddy bear.
- 23
Samantha and Darrin get a card from the boy they took in last year for Christmas and have an episode long flashback of the previous year's holiday episode.Note: repeat of "A Vision of Sugar Plums" (S1E15). The cold open is identical. There is one new scene, after the opening credits, in which Sam and Darrin open and read Michael's card, and go into the flashback. Two short early sequences with the Kravitzes (and which did not feature either Samantha or Darrin) are removed—the rest of the episode is identical to the original.
- 24
After nine months of waiting, Darrin and Samantha welcome their first child. In fact, Darrin is so happy that he even embraces Endora, who for the first time shows emotion as she and Darrin shed a few happy tears together. However, the fun really begins when Darrin meets Sam's lookalike cousin Serena. Unfortunately, Darrin thinks Endora cast a spell on his daughter to cause her to age overnight and he tries to catch Serena, who he thinks is a now adult Tabitha.
- 25
The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Sam
Endora casts a truth spell on a gift from Darrin to Samantha so that any mortal within vicinity of it has to tell the truth.
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