Bewitched - The Complete Seventh Season
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time:
712 minutes
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In its penultimate season, Bewiched showed little signs of
the seven-year twitch. The season begins with an ambitious
eight-episode arc, in which the fate of mortal Darrin (Dick Sargent)
and witch Samantha's (Elizabeth Montgomery) mixed marriage is to be
decided by the Witches Council. A trip to Salem, Mass., leads to a
series of charmed misadventures, among them, encounters with a
cursed antique colonial bedwarmer with the hots for Samantha and the
real Paul Revere. In "Samantha's Old Salem Trip," spell-impaired
Esmeralda (Alice Ghostley) accidentally sends Samantha back to 17th
century Salem, but it is Darrin who is accused of witchcraft after
he is dispatched to rescue her. Disc three of this four-disc set
contains a string of inspired episodes that have all of Bewitched's
old magic. The delightful Imogene Coca appears in a two-parter as
Mary, the dissatisfied Good Fairy, who switches places with
Samantha. Dick Sargent, more settled in to his role as the
replacement Darrin, gets a crack at one of Dick York's finest half
hours in "The Return of Darrin the Bold," in which he appears in a
dual role as Darrin's 14th century ancestor, a randy, "warm-blooded
Irishman." "The House That Uncle Arthur Built" is "the last in a
long line of funnies" featuring the indispensable Paul Lynde as
Uncle Arthur, who tries to hide his true practical joker nature from
his snooty new girlfriend. This season also contains one of
Bewitched's most memorable episodes, "Sisters at Heart," a
Christmas story about racism conceived by the 10th grade English
class at Los Angeles' Thomas Jefferson High School in which Tabitha
(adorable Erin Murphy), told that she and her best friend, a black
girl, could never be sisters because they don't look the same,
conjures up polka-E20dotted equality. As Endora, Agnes Morehead
worked hard for her Emmy nomination this season, conjuring up spell
after spiteful spell for the dread "Durwood," including giving him a
pig's head, turning him into an insult comedian ("My mother-in-law
has one terrible habit--breathing."), and changing him into an old
man. And Montgomery doubles the toil and trouble in her dual role as
swinging "quicksilver" Serena. From the dancing skeleton in the
closet in "The House that Uncle Arthur Built" to Endora's commercial
for Bobbins Bon Bons in "The Mother-In-Law of the Year,"
Bewitched's seventh season will have you under its spell.
--Donald Liebenson
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast
for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth
Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Dick Sargent (1969–1972), Agnes
Moorehead and David White. It is about a witch who marries a mortal
and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife.
Bewitched continues to be seen throughout the world in syndication
and was the longest running supernatural themed sitcom of the
1960s–1970s era.
