The Best Episodes of Bewitched Season 2
Every episode of Bewitched Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bewitched Season 2!
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Bewitched" season 2 is "Alias Darrin Stephens", rated 8.6/10 from 387 user votes. It was directed by William Asher and written by Richard Baer. "Alias Darrin Stephens" aired on 9/16/1965 and is rated 0.9 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Very Special Delivery".
8.6/10 387 votes#1 - 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
7.7/10 370 votes#2 - 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
7.6/10 367 votes#3 - We're in For a Bad Spell
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1965
The Stephens have to help out a man named Adam Newlarken who is doomed to be a thief if he doesn't break a two-hundred year old spell placed on his family. He ends up having to do Jackass style tricks to free him from the curse. It gets really serious when he ends up with a whole lot of money, which is coincidentially the exact amount his bank is missing that day!
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Bernard Slade
7.0/10 375 votes#4 - My Grandson the Warlock
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1965
The Stephens look after the Tate's baby while they are in London. When they return from the Tate's house with Jonathan, their baby, nosy old Gladys Kravitz finds Maurice and tells him that the baby has been born. Maurice then takes Jonathan, who he believes is his grandson, to a Warlock Club in London to teach him about witchcraft. After series of misunderstandings, Samantha clears everything up when she tells Maurice and Gladys that her baby is not due for a few months.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Ted Sherdeman, Jane Klove
8.8/10 404 votes#5 - The Joker is a Card
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1965
Need some amusement in your life? Call Uncle Arthur, or, in this case, don't call him. Uncle Arthur arrives playing practical jokes on Darrin and Endora while Samantha is trying to get these two antagonists to make up once and for all. After many hits and misses, Darrin needs Uncle Arthur's help in getting Endora back. This is the famous ""Yagazuzie Zim"" episode.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Ron Friedman
8.6/10 348 votes#6 - 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
8.7/10 393 votes#7 - Trick or Treat
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1965
In the second Halloween episode of the series, Endora turns Darrin into a werewolf when he refuses to let Samantha go to a witches Halloween ceremony. The worse part of it is, Darrin has to entertain a new client for McMann and Tate! Samantha tells Endora that she is acting like the witches stereotype, and Endora removes the spell.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
8.5/10 349 votes#8 - 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
7.2/10 360 votes#9 - And Then I Wrote...
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1965
Samantha sets up a play for a rest home to celebrate the end of the Civil War. As she writes, Endora brings her characters to life to help Sam out. Of course, nosy Gladys see all this and goes crazy, as usual. Sam suffers a writer's block near the end of writing, and her play characters lend a hand to tie up the loose ends.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Paul Wayne
8.6/10 356 votes#10 - Junior Executive
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1965
A lesson is learned by watching this episode: if you want to appeal to kids, you have to be a kid yourself. Of course, Darrin learns that the hard way when he is changed into a boy courtesy of Endora. This turns out to be an excellent marketing ploy when Larry suggests that Darrin as a boy to promote his new client's toy ship company. Of course, Sam changes him back to an adult, but Larry and the client like the boy so much that Darrin gets changed back and forth from adult to kid!
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Bernard Slade
8.4/10 340 votes#11 - Aunt Clara's Old Flame
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1965
Aunt Clara is embarrassed when an old boyfriend Hedley Partridge comes to see her. She is afraid that he will not talk to her because her magic is fading away, but she learns that he has the same problem, too.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Bernard Slade
7.6/10 351 votes#12 - A Strange Little Visitor
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1965
Samantha and Darrin agree to babysit a young warlock boy named Merel. Once there, Merel is given the ultimate ground rule from Darrin: NO WITCHCRAFT! Merel keeps his end of the bargain until a burglar breaks in and ties both him and Darrin together. The burglar is after an expensive necklace that Larry gives Darrin to keep for Louise, and is conned by Darrin into taking a fire engine. As soon as the burglar take it, Darrin tells Merel to hit the magic and the burglar is scared off by Merel's powers.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: John L. Greene
8.7/10 360 votes#13 - 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
9.0/10 415 votes#14 - 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
5.8/10 435 votes#15 - A Vision of Sugar Plums
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1965
A repeat of Season 1 episode of the same name, this episode begins with Samantha and Darrin getting a card from the boy they took in last year for Christmas. They then have an episode-long flashback of the previous season's holiday episode.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Herman Groves
7.8/10 370 votes#16 - 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
7.8/10 351 votes#17 - 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
8.8/10 395 votes#18 - And Then There Were Three
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
We welcome a new addition to the Stephens' family: baby Tabitha. Endora wants to see how she looks grown-up but Darrin is dead set against it. At the same time, Serena, Samantha's mischievous look-alike cousin, comes to town to visit Samantha and Darrin thinks that Serena is the grown-up Tabitha!
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
6.7/10 360 votes#19 - 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
5.7/10 394 votes#20 - Samantha Meets the Folks
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966
A reworking of the season 1 episode of the same name, this episode begins with Tabitha receiving her first letter from Darrin's parents, Samantha and Darrin then recall his parents' first visit in an episode-long flashback.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
8.0/10 335 votes#21 - Fastest Gun on Madison Avenue
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1966
Darrin Stephens another Rocky Balboa? Thanks to Samantha, Darrin knocks out a fighter named Joe Kovack. Then Kovack wants to have a make-believe fight in which he pretends to beat Darrin, but Darrin beats him again thanks to Samantha. Darrin then runs into heavyweight champ Tommy Carter and accidentally gets into a scuffle. Darrin is lost without Sam, but Carter ends up knocking himself out by tripping on the ground.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lee Erwin
7.0/10 347 votes#22 - The Dancing Bear
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1966
Endora and Phyllis, Darrin's mom, are competing against each other again. They each give Tabitha the same exact bear, but Endora gives her bear the power to ""shake its booty"". The bear discos its way into Tabitha's heart and Frank gets the idea to market the dancing bear. Using soem fast talking, Samantha dissuades a toymaker to produce bears for a next Christmas rush and Tabitha gets to keep the one-of-a-kind toy to herself.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/10 376 votes#23 - 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
8.7/10 345 votes#24 - Samantha the Dressmaker
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1966
The new rage on the fashion world is Samantha when she makes up stellar dresses for each of the women in the community using replicas of a fashion designer named Aubert she and Endora went to Paris to check out. Of course, Aubert goes to America and sees his work on display and goes totally up at arms about it.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lee Erwin
7.8/10 359 votes#25 - The Horse's Mouth
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1966
A race horse named Dalleyrand runs away from its owner and into the Stephens' yard. Samantha communicates with the horse by turning her into a woman. Darrin objects, but Samantha tells him that it is a special opportunity to really know what a horse's life is like in the races.
Director: William Asher
Writer: John L. Greene