The Best Episodes Written By Bernard Slade
Every TV Episode Written by Bernard Slade Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Bernard Slade Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Bernard Slade is "That Was My Wife", rated 10/10 from 2 user votes. It was "directed by William Asher". "That Was My Wife" aired on 4/29/1965 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "My Boss the Teddy Bear".
10.0/10 2 votes#1 - 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#2 - 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 2 votes#3 - 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#4 - 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
9.0/10 2 votes#5 - 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#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
9.0/10 1 votes#7 - Follow That Witch (2)
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/21/1966
Charlie Leach really has something over Sam's head. Charlie wants Sam to give him and his wife Charmaine an expensive apartment with an expensive car to boot. Darrin finds out about how Barkley started this whole mess and decides to cancel the Robbins account. At Robbin's office, while Darrin is telling Robbins and Barkley where to go, Samantha uses her magic to expose Barkley and gets him fired. One down, and one more to go when Samantha goes to Leach's apartment and destroys everything with her magic. When Leach finds out, Samantha twitches him to Mexico. Leach vows that he will be back....
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
8.0/10 2 votes#8 - 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
8.0/10 1 votes#9 - 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
8.0/10 1 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
8.0/10 1 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
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - 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
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Follow That Witch (1)
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/14/1966
Darrin is sure to get the Robbins Baby Food account, but Mr. Robbins wants his home life checked out. His assistant, George Barkley, wants to check out a little bit more of Darrin's life so he hires sneaky, sly Charlie Leach to spy on him. Samantha uses her magic one day and Abner's sister, Harriet Kravitz (who conveniently takes care of the house while Gladys is away), catches her and tells Charlie all about it. He doesn't believe it at first, but he catches Sam using her powers. He tells Samantha either she tells him what he wants to jknow or he will tell the entire world that she is a witch.....
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bernard Slade
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - Man's Best Friend
Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 5/12/1966
Well, it's been almost a month that Samantha has used no witchcraft and she and Darrin celebrate. What can possibly break up the moment? A warlock named Rodney who still has a flame burning for Samantha. She tells him flat out that she likes Darrin, and what does he do? Turns himself into a shaggy dog. Rodney is hell-bent on breaking up the Stephens marriage (Hey, maybe he and Endora should get together!) that even Darrin can't even take much more of it. He finds out that Rodney is indeed the dog and really lets him have it. Then Rodney gets it again when his mother comes and fetches him.
Director: Jerry Davis
Writer: Bernard Slade
7.3/10 3 votes#15 - 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
6.0/10 1 votes#16 - 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