The BEST episodes written by Richard Baer
#1 - The Lost Watch
Leave It to Beaver - Season 2 - Episode 5
While watching Wally and his friends play baseball, Beaver is put in charge of looking after everyone's coats and watches. However, after the game is over Lumpy comes to claim his watch, but Beaver has no watch to give him.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#2 - Return of Sammy
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 19
Archie's ""old friend"" Sammy Davis Jr. is in town appearing on a talk show. Archie calls him up and invites him to the bar.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Cave Woman
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 36
Kate is trapped by a cave-in just when the Shady Rest is a candidate for hosting a big convention.
Watch Now:Amazon
#5 - Wally's New Suit
Leave It to Beaver - Season 2 - Episode 10
Wally needs a new suit for an upcoming dance and he convinces his parents that he's old enough to pick out his own clothes. So he and Beaver go down to the shop and pick out the loudest, cheapest plaid suit in the entire shop.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#6 - Splitsville
Bewitched - Season 4 - Episode 33
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#7 - Samantha's French Pastry
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 7
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#8 - The Ringer
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 7
Betty Jo's skill at pitching horseshoes threatens the title owned by annual champion Pixley Fats.
Watch Now:Amazon
#9 - Eddie's Nickname
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 19
Eddie wants to quit school because all the kids there call him Shorty. Grandpa helps by fixing a potion to make Eddie grow six inches overnight. Instead, the potion causes the young Munster to grow a full beard and mustache.
Watch Now:Amazon
#10 - My Baby, The Tycoon
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 19
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#11 - The Tickets
What's Happening!! - Season 1 - Episode 18
When the guys try to scalp concert tickets, they wind up at the police station.
Watch Now:Amazon
#13 - John Doe Munster
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 9
A 300-pound safe drops on Herman's head, causing him to develop amnesia. In order to get him released into her custody, Lily petitions the court to adopt Herman as her son. Until he restores his memory, he is treated as Eddie's brother John.
Watch Now:Amazon
#15 - Samantha on the Keyboard
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 3
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#18 - Just Another Pretty Face
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 17
Herman is struck in the head by a bolt of lightning from one of Grandpa's experiments. It causes him to become so disfigured that he ends up resembling officer Francis Muldoon from CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? (or how Fred Gywnne looks without makeup). Lily hopes to restore Herman's old face with plastic surgery.
Watch Now:Amazon
#19 - Samantha's Good News
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 28
Endora and Maurice get into an argument about Maurice's new secretary and Endora makes him jealous by going out with a warlock who good in speaking Shakespeare. Then Maurice and the warlock duke it out with soliloques and Maurice wins out. Then Samantha announces that she is to have another baby!
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#21 - Samantha, the Bard
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 18
Samantha is speaking in rhymes, which turns out to be a bad thing when Darrin is entertaining a client who has been using jingles for years and is tired of them. Larry gets tired of Samantha rhyming and wants her to quit it. Dr. Bombay comes by and gets Samantha to stop rhyming. She then explains to the client that she spoke in rhymes to prove how annoying they can be.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#23 - Eat at Mario's
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 35
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#24 - Illegal Separation
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 32
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#26 - The Bureaucrat
Barney Miller - Season 1 - Episode 7
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#27 - The Fregosi Emerald
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 21
Eddie gives Marilyn a ring he found in the attic as a birthday present. Grandpa recognizes it as the Fregosi Emerald, a centuries-old ring with a Transylvanian curse. Herman doesn't believe in such a silly superstition; he is intent on proving that the ring does not bring about bad luck. He quickly regrets trying to do this.
Watch Now:Amazon
#28 - Mixed Doubles
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 21
Samantha wakes up one morning to find herself in Larry's bed and Lousie is Darrin's! Sam tries to find out what the hell is going on here when Larry knows her as Louise and Darrin knows Louise as Samantha. Dr. Bombay is called and it seems that Sam was so worried about Louise, they magically got switched.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#30 - Maid to Order
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 17
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#31 - Driving Is the Only Way to Fly
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 26
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#32 - The Musician
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 24
Grandpa's magic transforms Eddie from a rotten trumpet player into a classical music virtuoso. But when he needs to duplicate the potion for a command performance for Herman's boss, Grandpa can't remember the exact formula. Eddie is accidentally turned into a jazz-playing, jive-talking hipster.
Watch Now:Amazon#34 - The Cook
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 8
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#35 - ...And Something Makes Four
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 5
Samantha gives birth to her second child and Maurice makes sure that evryone who passes by falls in love with the baby. He takes it upon himself to put a spell on the new baby. Soon it is a threat to the Witches Council and Samantha tells her father to remove the love spell.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#37 - The Campaign of Billy Banjo
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 36
Billy Banjo, a friend of Paladin, asks Paladin to help with a fair election.
#38 - Playmates
Bewitched - Season 4 - Episode 26
Phyllis takes Samantha and Tabitha to meet the Millhowsers. Gretchen is a stickler for child psychology and does everything by clinical books. Michael, her son, wishes he was a dog not knowing that you should be careful what you wish for around Tabitha!
Watch Now:Apple TV
#39 - Please Buy My Violets
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 6
Joe goes into the cologne business.
#40 - Samantha on Thin Ice
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 18
Tabitha wants to learn how to skate, and Samantha agrees to take lessons with her in the mortal way. When Tabitha falls down constantly, Endora cannot take much more and decides to bewitch Tabitha's skates so that Tabitha becomes a terrific skater. Tabitha is bound to be the next Tara Lipinksi if Endora doesn't take that spell off of her. So Endora does and Tabitha is back to being a poor skater again.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#41 - Samantha's Shopping Spree
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 29
Samantha, Endora, Tabitha and their warlock cousin Henry spend a day in a department store. Henry is offended by a salesman, and he turns the salesman into a mannequin and refuses to change him back. Samantha and Endora try everything, but Tabitha remembers the spell and restores the saleman.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#44 - The Defiant One
That Girl - Season 3 - Episode 22
Ann befriends an African-American boy after saving him from a shoplifting charge. When he tells her he lives on Park Avenue, she does not believe him, so he invents a story of 13 brothers and sisters, fat rats, life in a dirty tenament, and a father who beats him. Appalled, Ann goes so far as to decide to adopt him! The boy then calls his father, who happened to be wealthy like he said earlier.
Watch Now:Amazon
#45 - Turn on the Old Charm
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 29
Endora? Can that really be you being nice to Darrin after all these years? Nah, it's an amulet that Darrin possesses that makes her nice and courteous. Endora knows better and makes Samantha and Darrin argue with each other. Their arguments take a serious toll when Darrin is threatened with the loss of an account by a greeting card company. Endora removes the spell and Samantha saves the account by suggesting that the greeting card company rep issue insults instead of poetry.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#46 - Serena Stops the Show
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 22
Serena wants Boyce and Hart to play at the Cosmos Cotillion, but they are booked "until 1976". Serena puts a spell on them to make them unpopular until they perform at the cotillion and sing her song. Once they perform at the Cotillion, Samantha insists Serena remove the spell.
Watch Now:Apple TV
