EPISODES

1. "I, DARRIN TAKE THIS WITCH, SAMANTHA" (9-17-64)

Finished Filming: 12-6-63

Written by: Sol Saks

Directed by: William Asher

GUEST CAST:

Gene Blakely as Dave

Lindsay Workman as Doctor

Paul Barselow as Bartender

Nancy Kovack as Sheila

FAN FACTS:

*This is the only episode where Samantha & Darrin are living a furnished rented house.

*Sam's spell to get rid of Endora in this episode is used again in "Toys in Babeland" to make toys disappear and again to summon Ophelia in "The Eight -Year Witch."

*This is the first of four initial episodes narrrated by Jose Ferrer.

*This episode was filmed on the day J.F.K. was assasinated.

*This episode wasn't aired until about a year after this episode was filmed.

*Darrin has a Aunt who thinks she's a lighthouse.

*Darrins' best friend is Dave.

*This is the very first episode to be played as a REPEAT on television.

Summary: Samantha and Darrin appear to be an ideally matched couple. Very much in love, they decide to marry. Darrin doesn't know that Samantha, is, of all things, a witch. On their wedding night, Samantha's mother, Endora, a witch, of course, visits her daughter. Regretting that their daughter has married an "ordinary mortal", she is bent on breaking up the marriage. After pleading with her mother not to interfere, Samantha decides to tell her husband that he has unknowingly married a witch. To convince Darrin of her magic powers, Samantha performs a series of tricks. Darrin makes her promise never to practice her witchcraft again.

Sheila, a former girl friend of Darrin's, invites the newlyweds to a dinner party. She makes every effort to embarrass Samantha before the guests. After enduring Sheila's snubs and insults, Samantha cannot resist evening the score. She employs her extraordinary powers to humiliate Sheila. Later, at home, Darrin rebukes his wife but admits Sheila deserved the tricks played on her.

COURTESY: Screen Gems