4.2/10234 votesLoading...#1 - Darrin Goes Ape
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1971
Darrin learns that Serena is not to be messed with when she turns him into an ape.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.3/10280 votesLoading...#2 - Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1971
Sam and Darrin visit Inverness, Scotland, the place famous for the Loch Ness and its legendary monster. It seems that the monster is actually a warlock named Bruce who was transformed by Serena. To save Bruce's life, Sam calls on Serena to get him out of the spell. Once transformed, Bruce decides to get even with Serena by giving her a mermaid's tail! The reporters go crazy about the Loch Ness Monster, and Bruce wants to be a monster again. So he changes Serena back and Serena returns the favor by sending him back to the way he used to be, but with a little understanding about how important he really is.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
4.3/10232 votesLoading...#3 - A Good Turn Never Goes Unpunished
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1972
Darrin needs help on an advertising campaign and Samantha offers her help using her own mind. Darrin thinks that she used witchcraft for the ideas she gave him and decides not to use her ideas. Darrin comes up with some ideas of his own and are rejected by the client Mr. Benson. He thinks witchcraft was used in the decision, too. Call it deja vu when Darrin shows Benson Sam's ideas ande Benson rejects them as well. Darrin feels like a total jackass and apologizes to Samantha, coming up with a stellar slogan for Benson.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.5/10235 votesLoading...#4 - Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Season 7 Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1971
Endora claims that Darrin has no sense of humor, so she puts a spell on him, turning him into a comedian. His client, Mr. Jameson, does not like Darrin's new Def Comedy Jam phase when he gets a migrane headache. Darrin discovers that Endora has hexed him, and she gives him another spell- this time, making jokes of anything sad or discouraging. The Jamesons come by and at th very mention of Jamison's wife's bursitis, Darrin starts laughing. Thinking that Darrin's insensitivity will cost Larry and him the account, the Jamesons think otherwise and give McMann and Tate the account.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
4.5/10241 votesLoading...#5 - Paris, Witches' Style
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1971
Samantha and Darrin are now in lovely Paree and Endora is home with Tabitha and Adam. Maurice comes by the house and finds out that the Stephens are vacationing in Europe. He is mad because they should have stopped by in London to see how he was doing. Endora flies to Paris to warn Samantha and then Maurice appears in a scary cloud of smoke. Out of rare kindness, Endora zaps up a fake Darrin who charms and pleases Maurice. Everything just seems all right until the real Darrin comes in. Maurice notices the trick and sends poor Darrin to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Unbeknownst to him, his very appearance there makes a perfect advertising campaign for one of his clients who runs a travel agency.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
4.5/10248 votesLoading...#6 - Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1972
Sam and Darrin have dinner at a chinese restaurant and Sam orders a drink called ""The Heavenly Himalayan"" which causes her to lose her powers and to break out with stripes on her face! Dr. Bombay tells her about an antidote and Sam gets it from an Apothecary, only to break out with more stripes on her face. Dr. Bombay then tells her that she needs a feather from a Dodo bird, but then that doesn't work either. There is another important ingredient needed: a piece of Himalayan cinnamon stick from the Chinese restaurant. After Darrin gets in trouble for getting the cinnamon, he gets it for Samantha and she is cured again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.6/10244 votesLoading...#7 - Samantha's Not-So-Leaning Tower of Pisa
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1971
Next Stop, Italy! The Stephens enjoy their vacation in a hotel overlooking the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. Of course, Esmerelda pops in due to a lack of confidence. Esmerelda reveals that she made the tower lean by mistake when she was engaged to the builder. So Esmerelda takes it upon herself to right the wrong...by actually straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa! The town totally freaks out when the famous tower is straightened correctly, and Esmerelda cannot remember what happened to make the Tower lean in the first place! A trip back in time helps her to remember. It seems that she tried to twitch up a tower sandwich for the builder and to make it lean, thus making the Tower lean again.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
4.8/10236 votesLoading...#8 - Money Happy Returns
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1971
Endora accuses Darrin for being too cheap when she notices Tabitha and Adam playing in a wading pool when they should have a real pool. She blinks one up, and Darrin takes an unnecessary swim! Darrin warns Samantha to keep Endora at bay. Than, he finds a bag full of money- $100,000 to be exact! Darrin thinks Endora whipped up the cash, but it really belongs to a thug who wants his loot back.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.8/10241 votesLoading...#9 - TV or Not TV
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1971
Tabitha speaks out about violence on TV. She pops on a TV show to reprimand two aggressive puppets. Of course, Darrin happens to be watching the show and tells Sam to get Tabitha off the TV. The sponsors say otherwise and Tabitha becomes a TV star. The Stephens are dead set against this and Sam makes sure that the sponsor, Mr. Silverton, brings his own daughter to the show for back-up. Tabitha isn't quite ready for the home audience yet (until 1977 with her self-titled spin-off show) and Robin, the Silverton's daughter wins her chance to be in the spotlight.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
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4.9/10230 votesLoading...#11 - Three Men and a Witch on a Horse
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1971
Endora transforms Darrin into a gambler. Samantha inisists Endora remove the spell. Endora makes more trouble by having Darrin bet on a horse named Fancy Dancer that is bound to lose, and Darrin gets Larry and a client to place all bets on Fancy Dancer. Samantha pops to the stables to talk to Dancer about winning the race for her husband and his friends. In the race, it seems like Dancer is bound to come in last, but he pulls through and wins!
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Jurist
4.9/10237 votesLoading...#12 - Adam, Warlock or Washout?
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1971
The Witches Council wants to test out Adam to see if he is a warlock or a mortal. If he is a mortal, he wilh have to be taken away from the Stephens' household. Maurice helps Adam by giving him powers so that he will not be taken away. Adam is indeed normal, but he does have his own powers tucked away somewhere.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
5.0/10225 votesLoading...#13 - Samantha's Magic Sitter
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1972
Esmerelda's magic seems to be all wrong and is a failure as a witch. Larry says that a client of his needs a babysitter for the evening and gets Esmerelda to do the job so he can sign the contracts to win the deal. Esmerelda shows the Norton's child, Ralph, some magic and No one believes him when he tells all about it. As a result, Esmerelda is fired and Larry loses the Norton account. So Samantha sets up a dinner party with Esmerelda as a magician. Once everything is cleared up, everyone gets what they wants: The Nortons are friends again and Larry wins the account.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.1/10259 votesLoading...#14 - Samantha's Caesar Salad
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1969
Samantha wants Esmerelda to make a Caesar salad, but ends up bringing Julius Caesar instead. Samantha wants him to go home, but Caesar does not want to leave the twentieth century. So Samantha pops up Cleopatra to lure Caesar back into his own time. Darrin's client sees these two figures together and decides to use these two in her beauty ad campaign.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
5.1/10238 votesLoading...#15 - Samantha's Better Halves
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1970
Samantha and Darrin have a flashback. Darrin has to go to Japan to do business with a client, but cannot leave Samantha's side when her baby is due. Endora breaks Darrin into two people: the fun Darrin and the business Darrin, with strange and hilarious results.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Lila Garrett
5.2/10235 votesLoading...#16 - Samantha's Magic Potion
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1970
Darrin isn't doing very well creatively and decides to take a vacation. When he returns, he comes up with a sure-fire sales pitch for a very strict client, who rejects him on the spot. Darrin blames his creativity block on Endora and wants Samantha to give him some magic creativity. Samantha gives him a potion that insures great confidence and presents the client with the same rejected idea, which passes. Samantha tells him that his confidence was his own and that the potion was nothing more that soda pop.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
5.3/10244 votesLoading...#17 - Tabitha's First Day at School
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1972
"I know that Tabitha is ready for school, but is school ready for Tabitha?" warns Sam. Tabitha attends school for the first time, and has a pretty hard time because a boy is messing with her. When he refuses to give up, Tabitha turns him into a frog. The teacher Miss Peabody gets on her about the frog and tells her to put it back in the class terrarium. Tabitha grabs the wrong frog and Samantha pops into the school and changes the frogs. When the right frog is brought home, Tabitha changes it back before the boy's mother finds out.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Jurist
5.4/10240 votesLoading...#18 - Mary the Good Fairy
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1971
Tabitha loses her first tooth and is visited by the Good Fairy, who is an old friend of Samantha's. Mary, the Good Fairy, has a cold and Samantha gives her some brandy to make her feel good- a little too good! When Mary is too drunk to perform her nightly duties, Samantha steps in and takes her place....
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
5.4/10235 votesLoading...#19 - The Good Fairy Strikes Again
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1971
Samantha is not having a good time moonlighting and wants Mary to take her wings back. Mary then finds out that her costume is used as a marketing ploy for a Reducealator campaign set up by Darrin. She then wises up and takes her job back, and wins Darrin the Reducealator account.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Ed Jurist
5.4/10236 votesLoading...#20 - George Washington Zapped Here (1)
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1972
Tabitha is working on a project on George Washington for school, and needs help. Esmerelda helps out, but accidentally conjures the real George Washington! Samantha tries to keep an eye on George, but he wanders off into the park where he is caught by a policeman. The policeman lets George go on a $2000 bail. As soon as Sam and Darrin bring George home, Esmerelda remembers the spell and sends George back, without his shoes! Esmerelda brings him back, but this time, he is joined by Martha Washington....
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.4/10232 votesLoading...#21 - George Washington Zapped Here (2)
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1972
The Washingtons adjust to life in the twentieth century as they stay with the Stephens. Larry sees them both and decides that it is a great ad campaign for his new clients, the Whirlaway Washing Machine Company. George cannot tell a lie about the washer and, as a result, loses the account for Larry and Darrin. He does the same thing in the courtroom and his charges are dismissed. Then the Washingtons are finally send back to their own time.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.7/10398 votesLoading...#22 - 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
5.8/10440 votesLoading...#23 - 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
6.1/10235 votesLoading...#24 - Samantha's Magic Mirror
Season 7 Episode 26 - Aired 4/8/1971
Esmerelda is depressed because her old boyfriend is coming to visit her and if he sees that her powers are not all that great, he will not like her (Sounds like Episode 47, doesn't it?). Samantha gives her a makeover, which is not so good. Esmerelda wants to see how she looks in a mirror, and Sam enhances all of the mirrors in the house to make Esmerelda's reflection appear more attractive. When Ferdy comes by, she discovers that his powers aren't what they used to be either.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Jurist
6.2/10241 votesLoading...#25 - You're So Agreeable
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1969
Endora puts a spell on Darrin, making him agreeable to everything and everyone. Of course, this results in him getting fired from McMann and Tate. Samantha finds out about the spell and tells her mother to take it off.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Jurist
The Worst Episodes of Bewitched
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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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyFamilyDrama
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Darrin Goes Ape" is the worst rated episode of "Bewitched". It scored 4.2/10 based on 234 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/11/1971. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster".