Samantha on the Keyboard

Samantha on the Keyboard
Season 5, Episode 3 Series Episode 143
Airdate	October 10, 1968
Written by	Richard Baer
Directed by	Richard Michaels
Episode Guide
Previous "Samantha Goes South for a Spell"	Next "Darrin, Gone and Forgotten"

Samantha on the Keyboard is the third episode of the fifth season and the 143rd episode of the Bewitched series. The episode was completed by July 18, 1968.

Plot

Endora makes Tabitha a piano virtuoso, and her talent attracts unwanted attention from Samantha's piano instructor, Johann Sebastian Monroe, who wants to put Tabitha on a performance tour.

Gallery

Endora cast a spell on Tabitha to turn her into a virtuoso pianist.

Samantha begins her first piano lesson with Johann Sebastian Monroe.

Matthew Williams practices piano at University High School where his father works.

Samantha and Robert Williams listen to his son Matthew play Liszt on the piano.

Trivia

General

• This episode was remade in Season Eight as "Samantha on Thin Ice" (1972).

Source Music

All source music was uncredited.

• Prelude No. 6 in D Minor from The Well Tempered Clavier Book II by Johann Sebastian Bach (The fugue is also included in the link.)
  

Played by Tabitha on the miniature piano.

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 - Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The link includes the orchestra.)
  

Played by Samantha on the piano before her first piano lesson.

• Polonaise in A flat Major, Op 53 ('Heroic') by Frédéric Chopin
  

Played by Tabitha on the piano before Johann Sebastian Monroe walks into the room to hear her for the first time.

• Liebesträume No. 3 by Franz Liszt
  

Played by Matthew Williams on the piano when he is practicing at University High School.

• Born Free (piano instrumental version) by John Barry
  

Played by Samantha on the piano as the first song she learns without witchcraft.

• Turkey in the Straw - Folk song
  

Played by Tabitha on the fiddle in the closing scene.

Cast

• Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens
• Dick York as Darrin Stephens
• Agnes Moorehead as Endora
• Erin Murphy as Tabitha Stephens
• Fritz Feld as Maestro Alfredo Ferranini
• Arthur Adams as Robert Williams
• Gerald Edwards as Matthew Williams
• Jonathan Harris as Johann Sebastian Monroe

See Also

• Season Five
• Bewitched Episodes

Sources

• Samantha on the Keyboard on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on February 24, 2020.
• Bewitched, Season Five episodes on Wikipedia. Retrieved on February 24, 2020.
• Soundtracks, Samantha on the Keyboard (1968) on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on February 19, 2021.