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Season 1
8.4/10807 votesLoading...I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964
Recently married Darren Stephens receives a shock when he discovers that his bride is a witch. Samantha uses her powers to get back at Darrin's condescending ex-girlfriend Sheila.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Sol Saks
8.3/10602 votesLoading...Be it Ever So Mortgaged
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1964
When Samantha and Darrin purchase their first home together, Samantha and Endora use their magic to see what it would be like fully furnished. But their nosy neighbour Gladys Kravitz witnesses the acts of magic and becomes shocked and hysterical.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Barbara Avedon
7.5/10545 votesLoading...It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964
When Darrin's alcoholic and lecherous client Rex Barker makes a pass at Samantha, she decides to teach him a lesson by turning him into a dog. The dog runs away, but Samantha eventually gets him back. When Rex makes another pass at her, Darrin knocks him cold. Rex does wind up giving Darrin his account.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Danny Arnold
8.5/10542 votesLoading...Mother Meets What's His Name
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964
Samantha has lunch with a few of her nosy neighbours, using magic to assist with the meal. Endora refers to Darrin as "What's his name", and that night at their first meeting, Darrin tells Endora that they can get along without witchcraft. They have a heated exchange before Endora leaves.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Jerry Davis
7.5/10507 votesLoading...Help, Help, Don't Save Me
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1964
Samantha suggests clever slogans for Darrin's Caldwell Soup advertising campaign. Darrin is thrilled until he suspects Samantha of using magic to help. A fight ensues and Samantha goes home to mother. Darrin relents and pitches Sam's slogans to Caldwell. He doesn't like them either. Darrin now realises Sam didn't use any magic.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Danny Arnold
8.2/10515 votesLoading...Little Pitchers Have Big Fears
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1964
To help a boy named Marshall Burns gain self-confidence, Samantha uses her magic to help him to become a star baseball player. After Darrin dissuades her from using further supernatural help, she instead tries to persuade the boy's overprotective mother to support him. Marshall does gain self-confidence and hits the game winning home run. His mother realises that she needs to let him do the things that little boys do.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Barbara Avedon
8.3/10498 votesLoading...The Witches Are Out
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964
Darrin's latest client wants to use a stereotypical ugly witch to promote his Halloween candy. Samantha is understandably upset, as are Bertha, Mary, and Aunt Clara, a trio of elderly witches who have dealt with prejudice for quite some time. When Darrin is fired for creating a campaign with a beautiful, curvaceous witch, the foursome teams up to give the client a taste of his own medicine.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
7.4/10492 votesLoading...The Girl Reporter
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964
Teenage reporter Liza Randall interviews Darrin for her school paper, arousing jealousy in her boyfriend Marvin "Monster" Grogan. When Samantha conjures up food to keep him distracted, Monster's appreciation for Samantha causes Liza to become jealous as well.
Director: William Asher
Writer: John L. Greene
8.5/10472 votesLoading...Witch or Wife?
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964
With her husband working overtime, Samantha is bored and agrees to have lunch in Paris with Endora. She happens to run into Larry and Louise Tate while there, creating confusion and hard feelings between Samantha and Darrin. After some missed connections, Samantha and Darrin fly to Paris together.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
8.5/10446 votesLoading...Just One Happy Family
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1964
Maurice, Samantha's father learns she's married, and wants to meet his new son-in-law, but disapproves of mixed marriages, and an argument prompts him to disintegrate Darrin. Endora is furious, and Samantha tells Maurice she loves Darrin and not to take him away from her.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
7.5/10446 votesLoading...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
7.9/10448 votesLoading...And Something Makes Three
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964
Larry sees Louise and Samantha entering an obstetrician's office and assumes Darrin is about to become a father. It is actually Louise who is pregnant, but she is afraid to tell Larry. After Larry tells Darrin, he has a daydream about Samantha having "witch" children. When the four of them have dinner that night, the truth comes out.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Danny Arnold
7.4/10444 votesLoading...Love Is Blind
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1964
Samantha asks Darrin to help her plain friend Gertrude find a beau. When a handsome artist, Kermit, is attracted to her, Darrin accuses Gertrude of being a witch. Samantha refuses to tell, leaving Darrin to try to break up the budding romance by calling on model Susan, Kermit’s ex-girlfriend.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Roland Wolpert
8.7/10444 votesLoading...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
8.5/10500 votesLoading...A Vision of Sugar Plums
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1964
The Kravitzes and Stephens participate in a program that allows orphaned children to stay with adults for the holidays. When the Stephens' young charge reveals that he does not believe in Santa Claus, Samantha takes him to the North Pole.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Herman Groves
7.4/10429 votesLoading...It's Magic
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1965
Samantha hires Zeno the Great to perform at a charity bazaar and becomes his assistant to help the magician gain self-confidence. When Roxie, Zeno's former assistant, returns to capitalise on his newly found fame, Samantha tries to stop the scene-stealing.
Director: Sidney Miller
Writer: Tom Waldman, Frank Waldman
8.6/10463 votesLoading...A Is for Aardvark
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1965
When an ankle injury confines Darrin to bed, Samantha enchants the house so it can fulfil Darrin's needs. Darrin becomes intoxicated with the idea of magic, and starts encouraging Samantha to use her powers, but the change is not all for the better. Darrin quits his job and wants to travel the world. But soon he comes to realise he likes his old life better.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: Earl Barret
8.5/10408 votesLoading...The Cat's Meow
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1965
Accompanying a beautiful, sexy client to Chicago, Darrin begins to act strangely when he suspects that her cat is actually Samantha in disguise.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Richard Sale
7.8/10393 votesLoading...A Nice Little Dinner Party
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1965
Promising to behave when she meets Darrin's parents, Endora turns on the charm and is promptly accused by Darrin's mother Phyllis of trying to steal her husband Frank's affections. Frank takes Endora to a play when Phyllis refuses to go. Phyllis wants a divorce when Frank doesn't come home that night, but he actually locked himself out and stayed at the club. Endora and Samantha use a little witchcraft to get them together.
Director: Sherman Marks
Writer: Bernard Slade
6.9/10425 votesLoading...Your Witch Is Showing
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1965
Darrin forbids Samantha to attend her cousin Mario's wedding in Egypt. Endora, who is livid, states that Darrin is in "big trouble". Darrin gets a new assistant named Gideon Whitsett. Darrin is convinced Gideon is a warlock enlisted by Endora as a series of events makes Darrin look bumbling and stupid in front of a new client, and in turn makes Gideon look fantastic. Samantha uses a little magic to find out that Gideon is actually a conniving young man.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Joanna Lee
8.5/10445 votesLoading...Ling Ling
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1965
Knowing that Darrin needs a new model for a campaign, Samantha turns a stray Siamese cat into an attractive woman named Ling Ling. Ling-Ling, who knows she's a cat brings those cat sensibilities to her human life, Wally starts to fall in love with her. Ling-Ling likes the attention she is receiving from Wally and wants to stay human. Samantha has to figure out how to tell Darrin the truth about Ling-Ling while she and Darrin try to persuade Wally that Ling-Ling is not the right woman for him.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: N/A
8.4/10405 votesLoading...Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/25/1965
While Darrin, Samantha and Endora are browsing through an antiques store, Endora believes it's time Darrin suspected that Samantha may not be as young as her mortal equivalent would be. Darrin sees a 300-year-old painting, "Maid of Salem", which bears a striking resemblance to Samantha, causing him to question her age and their relationship. As Darrin contemplates his future with Samantha under these circumstances, Samantha has to figure out a way to save her marriage if the truth truly does comes to light.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Herman Groves
7.2/10425 votesLoading...Red Light, Green Light
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1965
The mayor, ignoring his constituents' request to have a traffic light installed at a busy intersection, needs some of Samantha's witchcraft to convince him otherwise.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Roland Wolpert
8.7/10396 votesLoading...Which Witch Is Which?
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1965
To assist her daughter in a dress fitting, Endora transforms herself into a double of Samantha. While at the fitting, Robert Frazer, a young writer, becomes smitten with her. Endora decides to cavort with him as Samantha. Meanwhile, Gladys Kravitz thinks Samantha is having a secret affair. There are further complications when it turns out that Bob is an old friend of Darrin's. Endora shows up as Samantha at a dinner that Darrin, Sam and Bob are having. Bob now believes Endora is Sam's twin.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Earl Barret
7.8/10401 votesLoading...Pleasure O'Reilly
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1965
Flirtatious neighbour Pleasure O'Riley moves in next door to the Stephens. Samantha doesn't really appreciate Pleasure's ignorantly blissful helpless girl demeanour, or Darrin's seeming fawning over her at her beck and call because of it. Her incredibly jealous boyfriend, 'Thunderbolt' Swenson, mistakenly suspects both Darrin and Abner Kravitz of impropriety.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Ken Englund
8.4/10430 votesLoading...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
8.7/10414 votesLoading...There's No Witch Like an Old Witch
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/1/1965
When a depressed Aunt Clara volunteers to babysit for a friend of Samantha and Darrin's, her magical tricks with toys and games make her a success, and she quickly becomes the most popular caretaker in the neighbourhood. But after she tells her charges that she is a witch, a suspicious mother brings her before a judge for a competency hearing.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ted Sherdeman, Jane Klove
7.7/10382 votesLoading...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
8.8/10418 votesLoading...Abner Kadabra
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1965
When Gladys finally catches Samantha in the act of using her powers, the quick-thinking witch convinces the snoop that she possesses the gift of ESP. Things take a turn for the worse when Gladys will not stop trying to use her new "talent" in every situation, which frustrates Abner. Samantha holds a seance to scare Gladys into giving up her thoughts of having powers.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
8.4/10403 votesLoading...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
8.8/10392 votesLoading...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
8.5/10373 votesLoading...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
8.4/10402 votesLoading...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
7.3/10373 votesLoading...Remember the Main
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/20/1965
Samantha volunteers to work on the election campaign of Ed Wright, who is running for Morning Glory Circle councillor against long time incumbent John C. Cavanaugh. Wright wants to expose Cavanaugh's immoral and illegal dealings in past capital works projects. With Endora's help, that is what happens.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Mort R. Lewis
8.5/10381 votesLoading...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
6.8/10394 votesLoading...Cousin Edgar
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/3/1965
Although Darrin suspects Endora of using magic to break up his marriage and ruin his reputation at work again, it is actually Samantha's distant cousin Edgar, an elf who has the power to become invisible.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Paul Wayne