The Best Episodes Written By Bernard Slade

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(4 votes)

   #1 - That Was My Wife

   S1:E314/29/1965

   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.

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   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - My Boss the Teddy Bear

   S2:E1312/9/1965

   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.

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   9.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - A Change of Face

   S1:E335/13/1965

   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.

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   #4 - A Nice Little Dinner Party

   S1:E191/28/1965

   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.

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   #5 - Samantha Meets the Folks

   S1:E1412/17/1964

   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.

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Take Two Aspirin and Half a Pint of Porpoise Milk

   S2:E610/21/1965

   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.

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Follow That Witch (2)

   S2:E314/21/1966

   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....

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #8 - We're in For a Bad Spell

   S2:E39/30/1965

   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!

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Man's Best Friend

   S2:E345/12/1966

   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.

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    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Witch or Wife?

    S1:E911/12/1964

    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.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Junior Executive

    S2:E1011/18/1965

    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!

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    #12 - Aunt Clara's Old Flame

    S2:E1111/25/1965

    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.

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    #13 - And Then There Were Three

    S2:E181/13/1966

    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!

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    #14 - Follow That Witch (1)

    S2:E304/14/1966

    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.....

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    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Witches Are Out

    S1:E710/29/1964

    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.

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    #16 - Samantha Meets the Folks

    S2:E201/27/1966

    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.

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