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Bewitched - Series 3 - Complete [1966]
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The introduction of colour takes a bit of the magic out of Bewitched, but adorable toddler Tabitha brings her own special enchantment to this third season, which earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. Also nominated were Elizabeth Montgomery as sophisticated, albeit domesticated, witch Samantha, Agnes Morehead as her disapproving mother Endora, and Marion Lorne as addled Aunt Clara, whose mis-spellings wreak havoc in the Stephens household, as when she unwittingly conjures up Ben Franklin in "My Friend Ben." As the season begins, "typical average baby" Tabitha reveals her heretofore dormant supernatural powers. In the next episode, "The Moment of Truth," Darrin (Dick York) is distressed to find out about his daughter. "Remember 'normal'?" he wails to his wife. "We were going to have a normal married life" Though one laments that Serena is missing in action, the return of Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay (in "There's Gold in Them Thar Pills") and Paul Lynde's practical joker Uncle Arthur are always welcome, even if Arthur's feud with Endora in "Endora Moves in for a Spell" never reaches the comic heights of season 2's "The Joker Is a Card" (the Yagazuzie Zim episode). Other venerable character actors cast their distinctive spells, including Estelle Winwood ("Hold Me, Touch Me" in the original The Producers) and Reta Shaw (Mary Poppins) as Endora's sisters in "Witches and Warlocks Are My Favorite Things; Marty Ingalls as a rival ad agency spy in "Dangerous Diaper Dan"; Norman "Mr. Roper" Fell as Sigmund Freud(!) in "I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight"; and, in a bizarre cameo, Willie Mays as one of Endora's Halloween party guests in "Twitch or Treat." ("You mean he's a...," Darrin stammers. "The way he hits home runs?" Samantha replies, "What else?"). Sandra Gould, replacing Alice Pearce, joins the cast as busybody neighbor Gladys Kravitz. One of the season's most enjoyable episodes is "A Most Unusual Wood Nymph," which allowed York to break out of his confounded husband character to portray the lusty Darrin the Bold, a cursed 14th-century ancestor. And with the sight of the ravishing Montgomery in a castle-maid costume, who needs extras in this otherwise charmed four-disc set? --Donald Liebenson
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Editorial
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Review date: 2006-11-01 Rating: 10 out of 10
I adore Bewitched, its taken a while for it to finally come to DVD but Sony are finally putting them out with season four due early 2007.
This is another wonderful season of this show where the cast is exceptional, Elizabeth Montgomery is a wonderful actress she lights up the screen and plays off well against the rest of the cast, Dick York is very manic but who can blame him for the situations he ends up in each week surrounded by witches and warlocks. This season he discovers his daughter Tabitha is also a witch.
What set this show apart was the rest of the cast they are stellar the brightest being Agnes Moorehead she is glorious as Endora, Paul Lynde as the practical joking Uncle Arthur lights up every show hes in. Marion Lorne provides a more gentle comedy but no less amusing as the befuddled Aunt Clara and Maurice Evans playing Samantha's father with Shakespeare never far from his lips you can gurantee he will always make a dramatic entrance and exit.
Theres a total of thirty three episodes on this set, they are not all brilliant but the good ones far outway the mediocre ones. The extras as always leave a bit to be desired just one short extra, I am sure there are interviews with the cast and crew in the past in the vaults it would be nice to see them, even something from the fans eye view wouldnt go a miss.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Dick York
Agnes Moorehead
Elizabeth Montgomery
Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5035822387010
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 4
Format: Box set, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL,
Release date: 2006-07-24
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region code: 2
Running time: 785 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1966
Language: Greek (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
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Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)