Archive of all the featured articles which appeared or currently appear on the Main Page
2025
Ottola Nesmith
Featured on May 1, 2025
Ottola Nesmith played Aunt Enchantra in the third season episode, "The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara" (1967). She was an American character actress whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1960s in both films and television.
William Froug
Featured on April 11, 2025
William Froug was the producer for the third season of Bewitched (1966-1967). He was an award-winning writer, director and producer of television and radio who was attached to such series as The Twilight Zone, Gilligan’s Island and Charlie’s Angels. A man of many talents, Froug was also a university professor, an author of fiction and best-selling educational books, and held a degree in journalism.
Mary Wickes
Featured on March 6, 2025
Mary Wickes played the powerful coven leader, Cassandra, in two Tabitha episodes (1977-1978). She was an American actress of film, television and theatre whose career spanned sixty years.
Ida Lupino
Featured on January 16, 2025
Ida Lupino directed the first season episode, A Is for Aardvark (1965). She was a British actress, director and writer whose career spanned fifty years.
2024
Kasey Rogers
Featured on November 4, 2024
Kasey Rogers portrayed Louise Tate, wife of Darrin's boss, Larry. She took over from Irene Vernon beginning in Season Three and played Louise for the rest of Bewitched's run. (1966-1972). Rogers was a film and television actress, and a writer, with a career spanning fifty years.
I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha
Featured on September 17, 2024
The pilot episode, I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha, premiered on this day in 1964, beginning eight magical years on television. Please join Bewitched Wiki as we celebrate television's most beloved, magical sitcom on its sixtieth anniversary.
Joanna Lee
Featured on May 31, 2024
Joanna Lee was a writer on Bewitched. She wrote the season one episode, "Your Witch Is Showing". Lee was an American writer, producer, director and actress whose career spanned over forty years.
Beryl Hammond
Featured on May 2, 2024
Beryl Hammond portrayed Alice MacBain in "The Magic Cabin" and Kitty Girl in "My Grandson, the Warlock" in the second season of Bewitched (1965). Hammond was a Canadian actress, dancer and psychologist whose artistic career flourished in the mid twentieth century. She was married to Bewitched producer, writer and director Jerry Davis.
Peter Palmer
Featured on April 5, 2024
Peter Palmer played Russian weightlifter Vasily Kasiroff in the Tabitha episode, Tabitha's Weighty Problem (1977). He was an actor and singer who was best remembered by Broadway and movie audiences as the title character of the musical Li’l Abner (1956, 1959), and to television watchers as the genial, hunky guy who guest-starred in practically every series from Dallas to M*A*S*H to Fantasy Island to Quincy to Leave It to Beaver, from 1960 to 1991.
Harry Ackerman
Featured on February 26, 2024
Harry Ackerman was the Executive Producer on the Bewitched television series. He produced all 254 episodes. He was involved in the production of some of television’s popular sitcom series. Though known as “The Dean of Television Comedy,” Ackerman was also executive producer of dramatic classics.
2023
Richard Bull
Featured on November 9, 2023
Richard Bull played pilgrim John Alden in the fourth season episode, "Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember".
He was an American actor of stage, film and television whose career lasted over sixty years. Bull was perhaps best known as the shopkeeper, Nels Oleson, on the popular television series, "Little House on the Prairie".
Richard X. Slattery
Featured on September 2, 2023
Richard X. Slattery played eight different characters on Bewitched, usually law enforcement officials (1965-1972). He was an American character actor of stage, television and film whose career lasted over forty years.
Jack Sher
Featured on May 24, 2023
Jack Sher wrote three episodes for Bewitched (1964-1967). He was a director, producer and an award-nominated writer of feature films and television in a career which spanned thirty years.
Samantha's Coronation
Featured on January 13, 2023
Samantha was crowned Queen of the Witches in the premiere episode of the fourth season, "Long Live the Queen" (1967). The episode guest starred Ruth McDevitt as Ticheba, Samantha's royal predecessor. Herein lies the transcription of the magical coronation ceremony. Long live Queen Samantha!
2022
Michael Johnson
Featured on December 10, 2022
Michael Johnson is a cynical orphan who spends Christmas with Samantha and Darrin in the first season episode, "A Vision of Sugar Plums". After admitting that he would believe in Santa Claus if he really existed, Samantha takes Michael to the North Pole to meet him.
Glenda Farrell
Featured on October 1, 2022
Glenda Farrell played Hortense Rockeford, the socialite wife of Darrin's snobby client, in the episode, "The Battle of Burning Oak" (1969). One of the hardest-working and best-liked stars at Warner Brothers during the 1930s, Farrell specialized in brassy blonde characters. She appeared in stage productions, film and television in a career spanning over forty years.
Dack Rambo
Featured on August 20, 2022
Dack Rambo played California State Senate candidate Ted Bingham in the Tabitha episode, "Tabitha's Triangle" (1978). Known for The Guns of Will Sonnet and Dallas, his career spanned over thirty years before it was tragically cut short by his death at 53.
Boyce and Hart
Featured on June 6, 2022
Boyce and Hart were an American singer/songwriter pop duo popular in the 1960s and 1970s. They appeared as themselves in the sixth season episode, "Serena Stops the Show" (1970).
Lisa Hartman
Featured on April 6, 2022
Lisa Hartman portrayed Tabitha Stephens as a young woman in the short-lived Bewitched spin-off, Tabitha during 1977-1978. She is an American television and film actress, and recording artist whose career has spanned over forty years.
Mabel Albertson
Featured on March 10, 2022
Mabel Albertson portrayed Darrin Stephens' neurotic mother Phyllis Stephens in nineteen episodes of Bewitched. She was an American character actress of television, radio, stage and film whose career spanned over fifty years.
Richard Baer
Featured on February 8, 2022
Richard Baer was an Emmy-nominated writer who penned twenty-three episodes for Bewitched. He wrote for more than fifty-six television shows including "Leave It to Beaver", "The Munsters", "Barney Miller", "M*A*S*H", "F Troop", "Petticoat Junction", "The Andy Griffith Show" and "That Girl".
Harold Harold
Featured on January 1, 2022
Before starring in the iconic role of Uncle Arthur, Samantha's prankster warlock uncle, Paul Lynde guest-starred as a mortal in the first season as Harold Harold, an insecure and nervous driving instructor who teaches Samantha how to drive.
2021
Jesse Mortimer
Featured on December 5, 2021
Jesse Mortimer is the Chief Executive Officer of Mortimer's Instant Soups and a client of McMann & Tate. He believes Christmas is nonsense and insists Darrin work late on Christmas Eve. Samantha decides to change him from his humbug ways with a visit to see Santa Claus.
Roy Roberts
Featured on November 2, 2021
Veteran character actor Roy Roberts played the role of Darrin Stephens' father, Frank Stephens, sharing the role with Robert F. Simon. Roberts was an American stage, film and television actor whose career spanned forty years.
Craig Huxley
Featured on September 6, 2021
Craig Huxley portrayed two characters on Bewitched, most notably as young warlock Merle Brocken in the second season episode, A Strange Little Visitor (1965). Beginning his career as a child actor on television, Huxley is now an Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated musician and soundtrack producer who has been involved in a wide range of entertainment-related projects.
Maurice Evans
Featured on July 23, 2021
Maurice Evans was a classically trained English actor whose career spanned over fifty years. He established himself on Broadway as one of the world's more illustrious interpreters of Shakespeare. Interestingly, for all his legendary performances under the theatre lights, the elegant, ever-regal stage master is probably best known to generations of audiences for his appearances on the Bewitched television series as Samantha's warlock father, Maurice.
Bruce Kimmel
Featured on June 18, 2021
Bruce Kimmel played the adult Adam Stephens in the first Tabitha series pilot (1976). Kimmel is a producer, writer and actor who, since 1993, has been one of the leading producers of theater music on CD, having produced over one hundred and thirty albums.
Robert Urich
Featured on April 7, 2021
Robert Urich played Paul Thurston, the handsome, but vain and conceited, talk show host on the Bewitched spin-off, Tabitha (1977-1978). Urich starred in fifteen television series over the course of his thirty-year career before his life was tragically cut short by cancer.
Marion Lorne
Featured on March 1, 2021
Forever embraced as the mumbling, bumbling Aunt Clara on the Bewitched television series, endearing character actress Marion Lorne had a five-decade-long career on the stage before ever becoming a familiar television household name.
William Asher
Featured on February 6, 2021
William Asher was a director and producer on the Bewitched and Tabitha television series, helming more Bewitched episodes than any other director. He was married to Bewitched series star, Elizabeth Montgomery, and together they created eight magical years on television. Asher was one of the most prolific directors in early television, producing or directing over two dozen series including Bewitched, I Love Lucy and Our Miss Brooks.
Karen Morrow
Featured on January 15, 2021
Karen Morrow played Aunt Minerva, Tabitha Stephens' larger-than-life magical aunt, on the Tabitha television series (1977-1978). Morrow is an award-winning singer and actress of musical theatre, concert performance, recordings, television and teaching with a career spanning more than fifty years.
2020
A Vision of Sugar Plums
Featured on December 13, 2020
A Vision of Sugar Plums is the fifteenth episode of the first and second seasons and the first Christmas episode of Bewitched. Samantha helps a cynical orphan boy discover the true spirit of Christmas by taking him and Darrin to visit Santa Claus. The episode guest-starred Billy Mumy as Michael and Cecil Kellaway as Santa Claus. Bill Daily co-starred as Mr. Johnson.
Charles Lane
Featured on November 29, 2020
Charles Lane was one of Bewitched's most memorable guest stars. He appeared in eight episodes, mostly as curmudgeonly clients. The veteran character actor lived to be 102.
Sol Saks
Featured on July 30, 2020
Sol Saks was the creator of Bewitched. Inspired by films like Bell, Book and Candle and I Married a Witch, Saks penned a pilot script called "I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha", which segued into ABC’s biggest hit series at the time.