10.0/101 votes#1 - Eat at Mario's
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/27/1965
Samantha and Endora enjoy lunch at a great pizzaria owned by Mario. It seems that he is not selling pizzas and his business is going down the tubes. Samantha and Endora try to help out Mario, but ends up getting Darrin's job in danger.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/102 votes#2 - Driving Is the Only Way to Fly
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1965
After an argument while he is teaching her to drive, Darrin enrols Samantha in a driving school. The owner assigns his nervous brother-in-law Harold to teach her. Samantha gives Harold a little self confidence.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/102 votes#3 - Illegal Separation
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1965
Gladys and Abner have yet another fight, but this time, the frustrated busybody kicks her husband out of the house. Abner seeks shelter at the Stephens' home and quickly wears out his welcome. Sam decides to reunite the couple by having them simultaneously dream of the day Abner proposed.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/101 votes#4 - 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
9.0/101 votes#5 - 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
9.0/101 votes#6 - 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
9.0/101 votes#7 - Ho Ho, the Clown
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1967
Samantha and Endora take Tabitha to a taping of Ho Ho, the Clown, where Darrin's newest client, Solow Toys, is the sponsor. Because Tabitha is related to Darrin, she is prohibited from the contests. Endora does something about that and makes Ho Ho fall in love with Tabitha and gives her all the prizes. This jeopardizes both Darrin's job and causes the show to be cancelled if they don't do something soon. Samantha comes up with a terrific plan: Tabitha's appearance on the show was a publicity stint for a new Tabitha doll.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/101 votes#8 - Splitsville
Season 4 Episode 33 - Aired 5/16/1968
Samantha eyes Gladys Kravitz sitting on the curb late one night. Despite Darrin's objections, Samantha leaves the house to find out the problem: Gladys is leaving Abner. Samantha insists Mrs. Kravitz stay at their house, and Samantha sets out to reunite the quarreling couple. However, after days of enduring Mrs. Kravitz annoying health food breakfasts and beauty regimines, Samantha is forced to use witchcraft to bring the two back together. She casts a spell over the butcher, who rushes to Gladys with flowers and sympathy.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
9.0/101 votes#9 - Samantha on the Keyboard
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1968
Endora gets Tabitha to play beautifully on the piano, and Darrin dares Samantha to learn how to play the mortal way. The Piano teacher hears Tabitha play and invites a famous conducter to see her play. Without magic, Tabitha does a poor job and the conductor is stunned. Samantha then finds a real prodigy for the conductor, and wins the bet with Darrin.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Baer
8.0/101 votes#10 - Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1967
Because of a dodo bird Tabitha materializes, Endora and Clara have their powers switched! Dr. Bombay finds this out and returns the witches to normal.
Director: Richard Kinon
Writer: Richard Baer
8.0/101 votes#11 - I Confess
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1968
What would happen if everyone knew that Samantha was a witch? Darrin finds the answer when Samantha puts him under a dream spell which displays the Stephens being exploited by their friends and the Armed Forces.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Richard Baer
7.5/104 votes#12 - Sticky Wicket
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1973
Hawkeye and Frank argue over Frank's surgical ability. Hawkeye performs a difficult operation and the patient does not recover, as he should. Hawkeye begins to doubt his ability and moves out of The Swamp. He decides to open up his patients again, and discovers a nick in the colon that even Frank admits anyone could have missed.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Richard Baer
7.0/101 votes#13 - Bureaucrat
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/1975
Guests to the 12th include a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment; Wojo closes the precinct's favorite delicatessen for minor health-code infractions.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Baer
7.0/101 votes#14 - Please Buy My Violets
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1963
Uncle Joe spends Kate's money to buy cases of lousy smelling men and women's cologne to make a fast buck reselling it. The money was intended to put screens in the hotel that will keep mosquitoes from chasing away paying guests. Kate figures out a way to sell all the cologne to salesmen Mr. Blake and Mr. Gordon. The men are going to sell it as insecticide.
Director: David Alexander
Writer: Richard Baer
7.0/101 votes#15 - The Ringer
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1963
Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history. But she experiences conflicting emotions when she finds herself with an opportunity to defeat the legendary Pixley Fats. After a talk with Kate, Betty Jo decides that winning means more to Pixley Fats than to her, because that's all he really has in life.
Director: David Alexander
Writer: Richard Baer
7.0/101 votes#16 - Samantha's French Pastry
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1968
Uncle Arthur is supposed to make napoleons for dessert, but ends up bringing in Napoleon Bonaparte instead! Arthur cannot remember how to send him back and Larry wants to use Napoleon to advertise detergent. Unknowingly, Samantha says the right words and he disappears back to his own time.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Richard Baer
1.0/101 votes#17 - The Cook
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1979
Archie and Murray hire short-order cook Veronica Rooney (Anne Meara), but she insists that her gay nephew be hired as waiter. Archie's strong feelings on homosexuality present a problem.
Director: Carroll O'Connor
Writer: Richard Baer
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"Eat at Mario's" is the best rated episode written by Richard Baer. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by William Asher. It aired on 5/27/1965 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Driving Is the Only Way to Fly".