10.0/101 votes#1 - Samantha for the Defense (2)
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1966
Aunt Clara remembers the spell to bring Franklin back when nosy Gladys Kravitz tells all about the Stephens' happenings. It seems that Franklin will be punished to the full extent of the law when Larry tells about how great a publicity stunt it is, with the District Attorney listening! With a little bit of magic, Samantha gets the people to root for Ben Franklin. In court, Samantha tells everyone that Ben Franklin has done no harm ever since he appeared and that he cannot be accused for stealing his own property. The judge drops all charges and Franklin is free to go.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
10.0/101 votes#2 - Blackmail Order Bride
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 5/12/1969
Reporter Charlie Farnum tries to get a hot scoop on the life of Major Tony Nelson. He goes as far as to rig up a camera and a tape recorder in Tony's house. However, Tony and Jeannie find out about Farnum's scheme and thwart it. Farnum then resorts to blackmail when he convinces his wife and kids to lie about Tony's past and claim that they are the wife and kids he abandoned years ago.
Director: Claudio Guzmán
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/102 votes#3 - Baby's First Paragraph
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1966
Endora babysits Tabitha while promising to abstain from witchcraft, but she soon breaks it when Gladys starts ranting and raving about how smart her baby nephew is. Endora has had enough and uses magic to make Tabitha talk! Word gets around and every newspaper in the world is after a story about the extraordinary baby. Samantha and Darrin get really angry at Endora and to clear things up, Endora reveals that she is a ventriloquist.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/102 votes#4 - Twitch or Treat
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1966
While Endora throws a Halloween party, she and Uncle Arthur are still clashing over the house across the street, and Gladys is still dumbfounded.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/102 votes#5 - My Friend Ben (1)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1966
Aunt Clara tries to help Samantha fix a lamp, and conjures an electrician, none other than Benjamin Franklin. Darrin is amazed at Franklin's appearance and Larry thinks it is a great advertising campaign for his new client Franklin Electronics. Samantha agrees to take Franklin out to demonstrate how his inventions are used in the twentieth century, but he goes out alone! After a mishap with a fire engine, Ben is arrested. Out on bail, the Stephens return home, but now, Ben disappears! Clara has remembered the spell........ to be continued.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/101 votes#6 - Soapbox Derby
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1966
Samantha helps a little boy named Johnny Mills practice for a Soap Box Derby. After Gladys brags about how her nephew will do better than anyone there, Samantha helps Johnny out, repairing a wobbly wheel with a twitch. Samantha tries to get Johnny's father involved, but he wants Johhny to attend college and become a doctor, not a race car driver or mechanic. At the Derby, Gladys and Darrin keep a sharp eye on Samantha so that she doesn't help Johnny, but magic is unnecessary when Johnny wins on his own merit. The announcer wants to congratulate Johnny's father, who isn't there to see his son triumph. Samantha pop's back to Johnny's father's garage, who is too busy to break free. Samantha repairs a carberator and 3 tires, encourging Mr. Mills to rush to the Derby for his son.
Director: Alan Jay Factor
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/101 votes#7 - It's Wishcraft
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 3/30/1967
If it is not the Tates that the Stephens are protecting from Tabitha's secret, it's the elder Mr. and Mrs. Stephens. As usual, Phyllis and Endora do not get along, and she thinks that Sam and Darrin are having a lovers' quarrel.
Director: Paul Davis
Writer: James S. Henerson
9.0/102 votes#8 - A Safe and Sane Halloween
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1967
This is another eventful Halloween. Despite Darrin's concern, Samantha reads Tabitha an every day mortal Halloween bedtimestory. This time Darrin was right! Tabitha materializes 3 goblins out of the pages of her book. On Halloween, the magical pranksters follow Tabitha and Samantha out for an evening of trick or treat, with mostly tricks. After Samantha finally realizes what Tabitha has done, she pops all the goblins back to home: only Glady's nephew has traded places with one of the goblins. They end up turning Glady's nephew into a goat, and Tabitha ends up returning the ghouls to their rightful place.
Director: William Asher
Writer: James S. Henerson
8.0/101 votes#9 - 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
8.0/101 votes#10 - I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1966
When Samantha gives away Darrin's favorite jacket to Goodwill, it ends up tearing the marriage apart. The Stephens get counseling from the Tates and Endora conjures the famous Sigmund Freud to help them all out.
Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: James S. Henerson
8.0/101 votes#11 - Sam in the Moon
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1967
Darrin is mesmerized by the moon footage on TV and shows Samantha, but she is not interested because she has been there before. Endora wants Samantha to go shopping with her- in Tokyo! They go to a little place where they get warlock tea. Darrin finds the tea and thinks that Samantha really did go to the moon. He has it analyzed and the druggist brings his cousin from Nassau County (Darrin thinks it is NASA) to give him the results: It is really tea, not moon dust.
Director: R. Robert Rosenbaum
Writer: James S. Henerson
8.0/101 votes#12 - McTavish
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1968
Aunt Clara learns that Ocky has opened an old castle, which is the home of McTavish, a ghost who is scaring away visitors. Samantha suggests that McTavish find some other place to haunt, and he haunts her house! Then McTavish realizes that he is an excellent tourist attraction and decides to go back home.
Director: Paul Davis
Writer: James S. Henerson
8.0/101 votes#13 - Please Don't Give My Jeannie No More Wine
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1970
At a casual dinner at the Bellows' Household, Jeannie mistakenly gives them wine that makes them invisible.
Director: Jon C. Andersen
Writer: James S. Henerson
7.0/101 votes#14 - Jeannie at the Piano
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1969
After Jeannie places a hex on a NASA piano so that the player sounds like an expert, Tony feels that only he can play it and ends up on a concert tour.
Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: James S. Henerson
7.0/101 votes#15 - Djinn, Djinn, the Pied Piper
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1969
Djinn Djinn, the uniform hating dog, returns, wreaking havoc with General Schaeffer's dog.
Director: Claudio Guzmán
Writer: James S. Henerson
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"Samantha for the Defense (2)" is the best rated episode written by James S. Henerson. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by William Asher. It aired on 12/15/1966 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Blackmail Order Bride".