The BEST episodes of Bewitched season 1
Every episode of Bewitched season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bewitched season 1!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Pleasure O'Riley
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1965
There's a new sexy, vivacious lady in town! Her name is Pleasure O'Riley, a model who is hiding from her overly jealous boyfriend, Thor "Thunderbolt" Swenson. She calls on the Stephens late one night and needs protection from Thor, who found out her new address. Darrin agrees to help her out, and when Thor comes to look for Pleasure, Samantha makes him think that Darrin's got a thing going on with Pleasure. When Thor goes after Darrin, Samantha turns him into his grandmother. Darrin might be saved, but Abner isn't! After Abner gets knocked out for no reason at all, Pleasure's lawyer puts a restraining order on Thor to keep him away, but not before taking her to the mayor's office for an honor she has received.
#5 - Abner Kadabra
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1965
Gladys catches Sam and her magic at work when she is rearranging pictures. Of course, Samantha convinces Gladys that she's the one doing the magic, by ESP. Then, Gladys goes crazy with the notion that she had powers, so Samantha sets up a seance to scare Gladys. Using her magic, she creates ghosts and turns Abner into a pile of dust. Gladys swears to give up her powers to bring Abner back, and he returns to his original form.
#6 - I Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964
The series begins when Darrin and Samantha bump into each other, fall in love and get married. Samantha tells Darrin she is a witch, which doesn't go over well -- but Darrin decides he wants her to be a regular housewife and not to practice witchcraft. However, when Darrin's former girlfriend invites the couple to a dinner party, Samantha responds to the jealous girl's insults with a few twinkles of her nose.
#7 - A Nice Little Dinner Party
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1965
After Endora promises to curb her witchery for the evening, Samantha arranges a dinner for Darrin's parents and her mother to meet. Darrin is fearful of the results. Frank Stephens has just retired and feels lost and insecure. Endora, being utterly charming, as she has promised Samantha, plays up to Frank. Frank once more feels life is worth living, but Phyllis becomes jealous. Before Phyllis is through, she is sure Endora wants to take Frank from her. She asks Darrin for the name of a divorce lawyer. Darrin and Samantha work feverishly to save the marriage. Despite their efforts, Phyllis takes a train to Arizona and Frank boards a plane on the first step of a world trip. Samantha asks Endora's help. Using her witchcraft, Endora brings both train and plane to Angel Falls, where Frank had proposed to Phyllis years before. In the romantic setting, they both realize they are much younger than they thought.
#8 - 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.
#9 - It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964
Samantha gives a dinner party to impress one of Darrin's clients, who makes a pass at Samantha in the garden while drunk. Samantha responds by changing him into a dog.
#10 - Illegal Separation
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1965
The Kravitzes have a fight and Abner is kicked out of the house. The Stephens welcome him with open arms, and Abner decides to stay with them permanently. Samantha gets them back together by having them dream about the day they proposed to each other. It works, and Gladys and Abner run out into the street- in slow motion- and embrace each other.
#11 - Be It Ever So Mortgaged
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1964
Samantha and Endora visit the new house at 1164 Morning Glory Circle and rearrange the place with magic. Nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz and her layabout husband Abner are introduced.
#12 - A Change of Face
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/13/1965
Darrin become totally insecure about his looks after Sam and Endora play Mr. Potato Head with his face while he is asleep. Samantha tries to build up his ego, but all efforts fail. What to do? Turn yourself into a very sexy French woman and convince your husband that it's what's inside that counts.
#13 - ...And Something Makes Three
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964
When Darrin thinks Samantha is pregnant, he has visions of a family of little witches. But it's actually Louise Tate who's expecting.
#14 - Witch or Wife
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964
When Samantha and Endora twitch their way to Paris and surprise the Tates, Darrin and Samantha get into an argument that threatens their new marriage.
#15 - Ling Ling
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1965
Darrin is looking for a model for an all-important campaign. On cue, Samantha turns a cat into a Oriental siren named Ling Ling. Everything goes ultimately well, until the photographer, Wally Ames, wants to make a date with her. Samantha and Darrin each try to break them up, but to no avail. Samantha makes Ling Ling come clean about her true nature when she spikes Ling Ling's drink with catnip. Samantha then turns Ling Ling back into a cat, but not before Gladys notices Ling Ling kneeling on the ground lapping milk.
#16 - Your Witch Is Showing
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1965
After Darrin refuses to let Sam go to a wedding in Egypt, Darrin has problems with his newest account. Larry helps Darrin out by hiring an assistant named Gideon Whitsett. Endora had warned Darrin that he was going to get into a heap of trouble, and Darrin believes that Gideon is a warlock sent by her to make him fail. Actually, Gideon is mainly stealing Darrin's ideas and making them as his own. Samantha uses her magic to make him confess.
#17 - A Is for Aardvark
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1965
Darrin sprains his ankle and is confined to bed with his foot in a cast. Wearying of running up and down stairs on errands for Darrin, Samantha suggests he use her power of witchcraft during the emergency. Endora warns Samantha that she is making a mistake. After his initial wishes are granted, Darrin, as Endora had predicted, becomes drunk with power. After showering Samantha with gifts, Darrin not only decides to use his power to get a larger home, but also tells Larry Tate, his boss, that he is retiring so that he and Samantha can take a trip around the world. Samantha's initial plan to stop Darrin by showering him with new luxuries fails. Then Darrin gives Samantha flowers and a wristwatch he has purchased with his own money. From Samantha's happy reaction, Darrin realizes these gifts mean more to her than all the others. Samantha happily agrees to his request that she take back his powers of witchcraft.
#18 - Love Is Blind
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1964
Samantha's friend ,Gertrude, a nice, plain-looking girl, expresses her envy of the happiness Samantha has found in marriage. Although Darrin tries to avoid getting mixed up in matchmaking, Samantha persuades him to bring Kermit, a handsome artist, home to dinner to meet Gertrude. Kermit falls for Gertrude. Although Samantha will not admit it, Darrin suspects Gertrude is a witch and tries to break up her romance with Kermit. Darrin arranges a meeting at a night spot for Kermit with Susan, a former girl friend. There, Samantha uses witchcraft to get Susan into an argument with Kermit. Susan storms out, unable to recall what has happened. When Gertrude arrives, according to Samantha's plan, Kermit proposes to her.
#19 - George the Warlock
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1965
Darrin is spending a lot of time with D.D. "Danger" O'Riley, Pleasure's younger sister, who is house-sitting for Pleasure. Endora, as usual, tries to break up the marriage again by using a handsome male warlock named George from his harem to woo Samantha. When his plan (and Endora's) is unsuccessful, he turns himself into a raven with a lot of talent, so much talent that he creates a perfect image for Darrin's advertising campaign for typewriters. Samantha tells Darrin who is behind the raven, and George turns back into his old self and starts going after Danger O'Riley. Endora has lost again when he returns to his girls.
#20 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/25/1965
Endora tries to make Samantha seem older than she actually is by putting her face on an old painting dating back to 1690. Darrin notices this and wonders if he's growing old while she remains young. Samantha finds out that her mother is to blame for all this mess, and Endora tells her that she can age along with Darrin.
#21 - Just One Happy Family
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1964
Samantha's father meets Darrin and is disgusted that his daughter has married a mortal.
#22 - Which Witch Is Which?
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1965
DOUBLE DOPPELGANGER ALERT! Endora poses as Samantha so she can take her place at a dress fitting. But an author, Bob Frazer, falls for Endora-Samantha, the worst part being that Gladys has seen them both together. Darrin tells the real Samantha that Bob Frazer is visiting them, and Bob mistakes her for the woman he met in the department store, which was Endora. Sam confronts Endora about it, and Endora, as Sam, tries to break it up with Bob. To break the confusion in this episode, Bob thinks that Endora-Sam and Samantha are identical twins.
#23 - It's Magic
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1965
The members of the Hospital Fund Auxiliary appoint Samantha Entertainment Chairman for the group's bazaar. Limited to spending fifty dollars, Samantha hires Zeno, a broken down magician who has taken to drink. Because of this, his assistant, Roxie Ames, has left the act. Using her gift of magic, Samantha makes Zeno the hit of the show. As a result, Zeno gets a job on TV. Zeno pleads with Samantha to help him. Assisted by Samantha, Zeno runs through a very successful rehearsal. Just before the show goes on the air, Roxie appears and injects herself into the act. Hogging the show, Roxie kills Zeno's act and his confidence. She admits she returned just to get a regular spot on TV herself. Samantha turns Roxie into a comic prop for Zeno. After Zeno's successful performance, Darrin tells Samantha that his client has booked Zeno for the next thirteen weeks. Darrin attempts some magic on his own. When he succeeds, he is not certain whether his skill or Samantha's magic is responsible.
#24 - Driving Is the Only Way to Fly
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1965
Samantha wants to learn how to drive, but after an incident with Darrin, he enrolls her in a driving school. Sam is instructed by a nervous wreck named Harold Harold (Paul Lynde's first appearance). Samantha uses her witchcraft to get out of potential accidents, and Harold gets so out-of-control after hearing Endora's voice that he goes to see a psychiatrist. As a result, Harold is fired, but is turned over when Sam states that she will go to another school.
#25 - The Girl Reporter
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964
An attractive young school-newspaper reporter and her jealous boyfriend cause trouble for Darrin and Samantha.