The Best Episodes Directed By William Asher
Every TV Episode Directed by William Asher Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
William Asher Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by William Asher is "The Landlord", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by S.A. Long". "The Landlord" aired on 9/27/1972 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "That Was My Wife".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Landlord
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1972
When Howie gets a part in an all-nude play, Paul tries to prevent it from opening.
Director: William Asher
Writer: S.A. Long
10.0/10 2 votes#2 - That Was My Wife
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1965
Samantha and Darrin spend the night at a hotel and Samantha briefly changes her hair to brunette. Larry spots them and thinks Darrin is having an affair. Larry proceeds to tell Louise. Louise meets with Darrin at a hotel hoping to convince him to drop the other woman. Larry spots them and thinks Darrin's other woman is Louise.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
10.0/10 1 votes#3 - Eat at Mario's
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/27/1965
Samantha and Endora enjoy lunch at a great pizzaria owned by Mario. It seems that he is not selling pizzas and his business is going down the tubes. Samantha and Endora try to help out Mario, but ends up getting Darrin's job in danger.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
10.0/10 1 votes#4 - My Boss the Teddy Bear
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1965
Endora invites Darrin and Samantha to a wedding out of town, but Darrin is not sure that Larry will give him a day off. Endora thinks about turning Larry into an object, but thinks better of it when she asks Larry to let Darrin go. Endora learns that he is looking for a teddy bear for his son and she brings a teddy bear to his office. Darrin thinks the worst when he sees the teddy bear sitting in Larry's office, and after a series of misunderstandings, everything clears up when Larry actually walks in! It seems that Larry was out somewhere and Endora left the teddy bear in his office while he was out.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
10.0/10 1 votes#5 - Samantha for the Defense (2)
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1966
Aunt Clara remembers the spell to bring Franklin back when nosy Gladys Kravitz tells all about the Stephens' happenings. It seems that Franklin will be punished to the full extent of the law when Larry tells about how great a publicity stunt it is, with the District Attorney listening! With a little bit of magic, Samantha gets the people to root for Ben Franklin. In court, Samantha tells everyone that Ben Franklin has done no harm ever since he appeared and that he cannot be accused for stealing his own property. The judge drops all charges and Franklin is free to go.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
10.0/10 1 votes#6 - Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/21/1967
Samantha gets a mean, miserly manager named Mr. Mortimer to change his thoughts about Christmas and gets him to really think about others.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lila Garrett
10.0/10 1 votes#7 - How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1971
As the final season begins, Samantha and Darrin take another vacation- all around Europe. Their vacation begins in the Tower of London where they are taking a tour. As they are touring, Samantha gets a call from one of the paintings- a nobleman on horseback. It seems that an evil witch had placed a curse on the nobleman, trapping him into a painting for a thousand years. The witch and the noble were destined to be married during Henry VIII's reign, forgetting that he was already married, the reason why he was placed in the painting. Being a nice person, Samantha lets him out. The moment he is released, the evil witch Malvina the Terrible appears. As punishment for breaking the curse, Malvina sends Samantha back to Henry VIII's time period. Once there, Samantha forgets who she is or why she is there. She comes across a group of instrument players and joins them in entertaining the infamous king, who falls for her. Darrin gets Endora to help him find Sam and save her with a kiss so she c
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
10.0/10 1 votes#8 - The Ricardos Change Apartments
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/18/1953
Now that they have Little Ricky, Lucy insists they need more room, and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cluttering their apartment with baby things and assorted junk.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
10.0/10 1 votes#9 - Harpo Marx
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 5/9/1955
Lucy promised Carolyn Appleby she'd produce some real Hollywood celebrities. Now she's got to deliver. Dressing up as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and other celebrities, she manages to fool the near-sighted Carolyn. However, the real Harpo Marx shows up only to discover Lucy dressed up as him.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 2 votes#10 - It Takes One to Know One
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1964
When Darrin begins searching for a beautiful model to play "Miss Jasmine", Endora sees it as an opportunity to break up her daughter's marriage and sends a gorgeous witch to seduce him. Samantha recognises model Janine Fleur as Sarah Baker the witch. Sarah is determined to fulfil what she set out to do, namely seduce Darrin despite Endora calling off the contract. Samantha, who still has faith in her husband, just wants her battle with Sarah to be on an even playing field.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Jack Sher
9.0/10 2 votes#11 - Samantha Meets the Folks
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1964
Aunt Clara comes to visit when Samantha meets Darrin's parents or the first time, his mother, Phyllis feels pushed aside, but his father Frank likes Samantha, thinking she's a lovely girl. When her daughter-in-law serves a magnificent dinner, Samantha confesses that it was actually Aunt Clara who helped her with the food, and that she is still learning how to be a magnificent cook.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
9.0/10 2 votes#12 - Driving Is the Only Way to Fly
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1965
After an argument while he is teaching her to drive, Darrin enrols Samantha in a driving school. The owner assigns his nervous brother-in-law Harold to teach her. Samantha gives Harold a little self confidence.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/10 1 votes#13 - Open the Door Witchcraft
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1965
Samantha uses her powers to open her garage door as Gladys is watching from across the street. Darrin and Samantha buy an electric garage door to avoid further suspicions from Gladys, but unseen mortal technology causes additional problems and suspicions.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ruth Brooks Flippen
9.0/10 1 votes#14 - George the Warlock
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1965
While Darrin spends time with neighbour Pleasure O'Reilly's sister, Dora "D.D." Danger O'Reilly, Endora arranges for handsome warlock George to woo Samantha to break up her marriage to Darrin. But when George arrives on the scene, he isn't sure if it's Samantha he wants or Danger.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ken Englund
9.0/10 2 votes#15 - Illegal Separation
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1965
Gladys and Abner have yet another fight, but this time, the frustrated busybody kicks her husband out of the house. Abner seeks shelter at the Stephens' home and quickly wears out his welcome. Sam decides to reunite the couple by having them simultaneously dream of the day Abner proposed.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/10 2 votes#16 - A Change of Face
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/13/1965
Endora decides to experiment with different looks to Darrin's face while he is taking a nap. As Samantha forgets to change him back, a horrified Darrin sees the transformation they did to his face after he awakens. He becomes self-conscious about the way he looks. Samantha disguises herself as a sexy French sculptor to help repair her husband's tattered ego.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
9.0/10 1 votes#17 - Alias Darrin Stephens
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
The second season of the ""witch-com"" begins with wonderful news: Samantha is about to have a baby! Now, if she can only find Darrin, who's been changed into a chimpanzee by Aunt Clara...
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/10 1 votes#18 - A Very Special Delivery
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1965
Darrin has some serious labor pains in this episode. After reading a book about how pregnant mothers should be active, he starts ordering Samantha around. Endora puts a spell on him showing him how wrong he is treating Samantha. After seeing how life is when the shoe is on the other foot, he backs down.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Howard Leeds
9.0/10 1 votes#19 - Take Two Aspirin and Half a Pint of Porpoise Milk
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1965
As a result from a black Peruvian rose, Samantha starts getting sick and loses her powers. She ends up getting green spots all over her face and needs a remedy with a rare ingredient, an ostrich feather. Just when you think that getting the ostrich feather was all they needed, it turns out that they also need the petals of the dreaded rose to make Samantha feel better again.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
9.0/10 2 votes#20 - The Very Informal Dress
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1965
Samantha and Darrin need some new formal wear for a dinner party that Larry is throwing for a new client, Charles Barrows. And who supplies the beautiful clothes for them to wear? Aunt Clara, the witch with the missing links. Everything goes well, until the clothes start disappearing off the backs of the Stephens. Also, Darrin gets in trouble not only for parking in front of a fire hydrant (Aunt Clara moved the hydrant earlier, but when the clothes started wearing off, the hydrant wnet back to the original place), but for a charge of indecent exposure!
Director: William Asher
Writer: John L. Greene
9.0/10 1 votes#21 - Speak the Truth
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1965
Darrin learns that the truth does not always set you free when he is bewitched by a statue placed under Endora's spell that makes everyone tell the truth.
Director: William Asher
Writer: John L. Greene
9.0/10 2 votes#22 - The Magic Cabin
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1965
Samantha and Darrin decide to go away for a few days. Larry suggests that they stay at his cabin, which of course, is run down and decrepit. With the help of magic, Samantha turns the eye-sore cabin into a glamorous, to-die-for dream house. It catches the eye of a prospective young couple, and they insist on buying it. Darrin is mad at Samantha and makes her change it back to the eye-sore it once was, but Sam makes the couple seem like they are looking at a beautiful house.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Paul Wayne
9.0/10 1 votes#23 - Maid to Order
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1966
The Stephens hire a maid named Naomi, who turns out to be a major klutz. Samantha helps her out magically when she messes up the dinner. The Tates think that she is a wonder and wants her to cater their dinner party. When Naomi makes a mess over at the Tates' house, Samantha pops up outside the window and helps her out again. By the end of the episode, it turns out that Naomi is a perfect accounting whiz and she is offered a job with McMann and Tate.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/10 1 votes#24 - My Baby the Tycoon
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1966
As a gift, Gladys and Abner give Tabitha a share of stock which rises rapidly, making the Stephens richer by the minute. Darrin thinks that Tabitha may have her powers already. Gladys and Abner think that the baby is a hot tip for stock advice and puts the bank on whatever Tabitha inadvertently points to. When the Kravitzes lose their money, Darrin is certain that Tabitha has her powers.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/10 1 votes#25 - Double Tate
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1966
Darrin unknowingly gets three wishes from Endora. He blows the first two on fast elevators and bikini-clad girls, and he wishes that he was Larry for a day. He gets his wish and a whole lot of misunderstanding begins between Louise and the real Larry!
Director: William Asher
Writer: Paul Wayne