The BEST episodes of Bewitched
Every episode of Bewitched ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bewitched!
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
#1 - Going Ape
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1969
Samantha changes an ape into a handsome man named Harry who is instantly discovered as model potential.
#2 - The Very Informal Dress
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1965
Samantha and Darrin need some new formal wear for a dinner party that Larry is throwing for a new client, Charles Barrows. And who supplies the beautiful clothes for them to wear? Aunt Clara, the witch with the missing links. Everything goes well, until the clothes start disappearing off the backs of the Stephens. Also, Darrin gets in trouble not only for parking in front of a fire hydrant (Aunt Clara moved the hydrant earlier, but when the clothes started wearing off, the hydrant went back to the original place), but for a charge of indecent exposure!
#3 - Once in a Vial
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/4/1968
Endora hires Rollo to get Samantha away from Darrin, but her plan backfires when Rollo creates a love potion for Samantha but Endora drinks it instead. Endora is set to marry a client of Darrin's, but at the altar, the potion wears off.
#4 - That Was My Wife
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1965
Darrin and Samantha try to spice up their marriage by reserving a suite at a fancy hotel. She arrives in a brunette wig and hugs Darrin, not knowing that they are being watched by Larry! Samantha later forgets a book and pops home to get it. Larry sees her at home and this causes a great misunderstanding. Louise tries to help out the supposedly doomed marriage that Larry thinks that she was at the hotel with Darrin. After Darrin gets punched in the eye by Larry, the misunderstanding is cleared up when Darrin explains how Samantha got home and back to the hotel: She knew a short cut.
#5 - Cousin Edgar
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/3/1965
Endora is not alone when she tries to break up the Stephens' marriage. It seems that a mute elf named Edgar voices his disapproval when he begins playing dirty tricks on Darrin. As a result of these tricks, a competitor named Fred Schulwiler almost gets a shoe account. Edgar realizes that Samantha really loves Darrin and to show his appreciation, Edgar helps Darrin win the account by playing pranks on Schulwiler.
#6 - 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....
#7 - Marriage, Witches' Style
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1969
Serena decides to do the same thing that Samantha did and tries to find a mortal to date. She finds Franklin Blodgett through a computer dating service, but like all TV Land computer dating agencies, the matches always turn out to be bad. This proves this fact when Franklin insults Serena's magic when they are about to be engaged.
#8 - Witches and Warlocks Are My Favorite Things
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1966
Tabitha is being tested for her powers by Endora's sisters, who then insist that Samantha enroll Tabitha in a witches' school.
#9 - Samantha's Da Vinci Dilemma
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/28/1967
Samantha needs help painting her house, and Aunt Clara conjures up the most famous painter of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci is mad when he learns that his famous Mona Lisa painting will be used in Darrin's campaign to sell toothpaste. Samantha then gets him to create another best-selling idea.
#10 - Sisters at Heart
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1970
Darrin's friends, Keith and Dorothy Wilson who happen to be black, invite their daughter Lisa to stay with Tabitha on Christmas Eve while they go away. Lisa and Tabitha want to be sisters because they get along so well with each other, but are discouraged when someone tells them that they can't be because Lisa is black and Tabitha is white. Of course, this gets out of hand when Darrin's newest client, Mr. Brockaway, visits his home. Lisa is asked to answer the door, and Brockaway gets a shock when he sees her, thinking that she is the Stephens' child! He turns Darrin down because of his bigotry. Tabitha lets Lisa in on her witchcraft and uses wishcraft to blink polka dots on both her and Lisa. Samantha then tells them that they don't have to look the same to be sisters because they are sisters at heart. Then, after a well-deserved lesson from Samantha, Mr. Brockaway admits that he is a racist and wants Darrin to handle his account as his apology.
#11 - Samantha and Darrin in Mexico City
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/24/1969
Samantha and Darrin are in Mexico City where Darrin is working on a new account for McMann and Tate. Endora puts a spell on him that makes him disappear when he speaks Spanish. Samantha gets her mother back who has the nerve to reverse the spell, this time, making Darrin disappear when he speaks English! Samantha helps him out when he delivers an excellent speech to Spanish and American patrons.
#12 - 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.
#13 - I Get Your Nanny, You Get My Goat
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/14/1967
Samantha hires an English maid named Elspeth, much to the dismay of her previous owner, Montdrake. He is so mad that he does horrible things to Darrin to get her back.
#14 - It's So Nice to Have a Spouse Around the House
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1968
Serena is involved again. This time, Drarin takes her to the honeymoon spot where he and Samantha went. Samantha is at a Witches Council meeting and doesn't know what is going on. Darrin gets intimate with Serena, thinking that she is Samantha, and she tells him to back off. Then Tabitha is called to solve the puzzle.
#15 - The Battle of Burning Oak
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1969
Darrin is invited to join the Burning Oak Country Club, a very exclusive club. To get the right attitude, Endora changes him into a snob of all snobs.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Hippie, Hippie, Hooray
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1968
Serena lands on the front page of the morning news, which lands Darrin in a lot of trouble with the Tates. Darrin tries to convince the Tates that the photo is Samantha's cousin Serena. But when Darrin makes matters worse by insulting her, she decides to teach him a lesson.
#18 - Samantha, the Sculptress
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1969
Endora causes trouble when she zaps two living statues of Larry and Darrin in Morning Glory Circle.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Double Tate
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1966
Darrin unknowingly gets three wishes from Endora. He blows the first two on fast elevators and bikini-clad girls, and he wishes that he was Larry for a day. He gets his wish and a whole lot of misunderstanding begins between Louise and the real Larry!
#21 - I Don't Want to Be a Toad, I Want to Be a Butterfly
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1968
Tabitha goes to pre-school for the first time and meets Amy, a classmate. When the teacher groups the children in animal groups, Amy gets chosen to be a toad in the toad group, but she wants to be in a butterfly group. Tabitha misunderstands her request and actually turns her into a butterfly! Samantha, who has been watching the whole thing through the window, chases Amy the butterfly all around the city and catches her so Tabitha can change her back.
#22 - The Girl with the Golden Nose
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/2/1966
Darrin is refused a new account in McMann and Tate, but the next day, Larry gives Darrin the account. Darrin thinks that Samantha used magic to sway Larry's decision and tries to do everything to back out of it. Even the client, Mr. Waterhouse, likes Darrin's attitude and ability. Darrin feels that Samantha is behind all that has happened to him. To teach Darrin a lesson, Samantha uses magic to turn their house into an expensive mansion with servants to boot. Darrin tells Sam that he wants to earn things his own way, which is exactly what he has been doing all along.
#23 - Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1967
Endora is fed up. Samantha's loyalty to her marriage is keeping her from her responsibilities as Queen of the Witches. While Samantha is out, Endora calls Serena to impersonate Sam and make a shambles of their marriage. Darrin finally realizes that it is Serena, and plans on turning the tables--only the real Samantha has arrived home.
#24 - Mrs. Stephens, Where Are You?
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1969
Phyllis breaks bad on Samantha's family, and Serena shuts her up by turning her into a cat! Miss Parsons finds Phyllis as a cat and decides to keep her. Meanwhile, Frank is looking for Phyllis and Samantha finds her at Miss Parsons' house with a whole bunch of other cats she has collected! She then finds cat Phyllis and gets Serena to change her back to a human.
#25 - Remember the Main
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/20/1965
Election fever sweeps Morning Glory Circle, and Sam and Darrin become campaign managers for a city council candidate. Endora's magic helps bring his corrupt opponent's dirty dealings to light.