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| TV,
jerry carpenter,
19 February 2001 |
Rating: F4
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Get this porn fans, every morning from Monday to Friday, I wake up with a SEXY BLONDE WITCH ! Jealous ? You shouldn’t be, because I’m obviously talking a big line of BS, and the girl I’m referring to is just on a television show that’s on round about the time I wake up. She’s Samantha from the original supernatural sit-com ‘Bewitched’, and although the show isn’t anything new (heck, it started in 1961 or something ), it’s rapidly become must-see-TV for me, right up there with Buffy and Open University.
It’s a pretty simple concept – nice guy advertising exec Darrin (surely an oxymoron if there was one, but then this was the sixties I suppose ) finds out his wife Samantha is a witch on their honeymoon. Instead of doing the right thing and turning him into a bucket of faeces, she agrees to play the dutiful suburban housewife, and not use magic ever again. Of course it’d be a dull show if she never did, so we’re treated over ten years of supernatural malarkey with Sam cooking magic spinning toast, sprucing up the house with a magic broom, decorating the living room with possessed dancing chairs, all at the twitch of her magic nose. The week to week stories or all of the farcical type, usually with the magic stuff getting in the way of Darrin’s latest advertising campaign or with the bumbling couple covering up Sam’s witch status from their friends and neighbours.
It’s never laugh out loud stuff, because the laugher track is always too loud to compete with and comes in way too early. But it’s like TV comfort food, every show is the same in the nice way that every cheeseburger is nice. It’s also a joy to catch the shows where some things have changed, the introduction of characters like Tabitha, the ‘naughty’ flipside of Samantha who’s all 60’s styled and counter-cultural and frankly a bit of a dish. Then there’s the birth of their magic daughter with the always handy ability to make soft toys explode, and Sam’s mom’s safari suited weirdo boyfriend. Best of all is the strange replacement of Darrin by ‘another Darrin’, when the original actor died – the first few of these episodes are gold dust as the family show absolutely no sign of recognition at the appearance of the strange looking guy in their house. All this years before they started swapping the kids on ‘Neighbours’.
If you can get beyond the dodgy male-fantasy submissive wife stuff ( but hey, that’s one of my turn-ons ) this is the seed that grew into hundreds of similar jolly spook shows, I mean can you imagine if the writers of ‘Rentaghost’, ‘Supergran’ and ‘Ghost Dad’ had had nothing to inspire them ?. Doesn’t bear thinking about eh ?
Various directors
Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead
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