Bewitched | Tabitha Has Found A Sister For Life | Classic TV Rewind
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Tabitha (Erin Murphy) invites her friend Lisa (Venetta Rowles) over and she gives both of them polkadots to look like sisters. It's up to Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) to fix it before Lisa's parents arrive.
From Season 7, Episode 13 'Sisters At Heart' - When Tabitha wants to be sisters with her black friend Lisa, she casts a spell and they both end up polka-dotted. Through another misunderstanding Darrin's client wants him off the account because he thinks that Lisa is his daughter.
The episode "Sisters at Heart" was written by 26 African-American students from a tenth grade English class at Jefferson High School after Montgomery and her husband William Asher, the director of the episode, had the students visit the set of Bewitched.
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ABOUT BEWITCHED: United by love, Darrin and Samantha Stephens (Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery) may look like a classic American couple, but they have a secret that distinguishes them from their suburban neighbors - ad executive Darrin (Dick York) is a mortal, but Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) is a beautiful witch.
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I love that this episode was written by 26 African American high school students and was aired on Christmas Eve of 1970! Talk about “Goodwill toward ALL men...”! 👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
Oh wow didn't know that!
Ruth Frank yep all 10th graders in a English class at Jefferson high school they even got to visit the set
@@erinmefford8041 amazing!
THAT IS THE COOLEST THING EVER
Awesome ✊🏾👍🏾🤟🏾👏🏾
this is a beautiful episode. Children are really like this until evil people corrupt their innocence. And as a black woman, I don't feel this is black face.
algblessed 1
I liked it too.
The people with producing Bewitched convinced the network to respond to social inequality. Elizabeth Montgomery and husband/director had intensely work toward network policy changes. Their influence to greatly change policy failed but they were the network prize Bewitched...they owned their show and chose this timely meaningful script and that's why we have it as their good deed to show America that social control by majority was the bigger failure and a leading cause of inequality and hatred and discrimination. Dick Seargent was a major backer of equality being a closeted gay man trying to have a fair place in the industry as straight men freely were handed. There were never enough of these efforts shown on TV where the impact could be felt by the country...the government restricted progress to favor a majority...and with discrimination many times it was supported by both parties...though democrats were strongly known for equal status for all people. Here we are decades later with not the changes those of us from the 60's dreamed of...but we've come far and we all must push farther. We are the force of change...voting doesn't always work...but a peaceful spirit and strong message and shared effort for change can make negative people weak against our positive numbers. ...Keep on keeping on. You see deeply this world.
algblessed 1 I agree it was a amazing episode fun fact this episode was written by 26 African American students from a 10th grade English class
The way I was brought up, we are all human beings no matter if you are pink, yellow, green, blue, black burgundy white or pink. We are a family The Human Family 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🖤🤍🤎
SamIAm I blame the indoctrination imbedded across the board across the entire USA, your education system, your segregated attitude and above, of late, your politicians and those at the helm. How pathetically sad 😔
Let’s talk about how this show was good enough to paint tabitha with brown spots instead of black spots
Let’s talk about how this show was good enough to use spots and not paint her fully black (like literal black 🖤) with exaggerated features
Yet they still painted Lisa with white spots instead of tan spots.
That’s so Nyema I noticed that too but the white paint was out there 😂
@@lennypayne4241 I think they did their best. Remember, it was 1970 - special effects were not what they are now.
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Wow this episode was 50 years ago but still so fitting for today.
So sad
I heard somewhere this episode won some awards for promoting race relations and good things. I think it was a Peabody award. Not sure?
BLM
@@stumack9755 okay then. 👍🇺🇸
@@stumack9755 Yes they do
Elizabeth was a big supporter of equal rights. Just like the golden girls almost 20 years later... Made us think at the time. Made us think even today when its just as relevant as ever.
She did that tv movie with OJ SIMPSON,that showed me how liberal she was.R.I.P . Sam.She demonstrated her beliefs - instead of talk.
@fireice2037: That’s because you’re brainwashed. I bet you wear a mask everywhere too. You have allowed yourself to be manipulated by fear. Racism is overblown these days. It may still exist but nowhere NEAR how it was 50 years ago! When did this episode air? 1971? Elizabeth is wearing a maxi skirt, which was a very brief fad. Jim Crow had ended less than a decade earlier. Still very fresh.
@@lemurianchick You actually think a virus cares how brave you might be?
@@lemurianchick How so? Because I dont stick my head in the sand and pretend everything is normal? Because i choose to be aware of other peoples struggles? Its not political. Its human rights. Wearing a mask is also not political... Only in the us can you make a safety precaution turn into a political shitstorm... Masks prevent you from spreading covid to others (as you can be infected without symptoms) how does that have anything to do with politics? How does human rights have anything to do with politics? Its common sense... At least for most people...
@@lemurianchick the village called.....they want their idiot back. And as a healthcare student who's been in hospitals where ICUs are full of Covid patients, I can promise you that the virus is very real. I'll take the word from medical experts over some random internet trumptard anyday
This was Elizabeth Montgomery's favorite episode
yes , I'm a black male, i have this on DVD, i watch on Christmas Eve, it's a beautiful episode, Elizabeth Montgomery was beautiful, she left this planet too Soon.
courtney gates mine too.
JUST NOTICED this episode - and SEE WHY its her favorite ! ITS MINE TOO ! It's sending a clear message : SKIN COLOR DOESN'T MATTER .It only matters,if you don't like race mixing in any kind of way - which was the doctrine of plantation owners in the South during Slavery - except their immoral ways with their female slaves,the reason for high yellow slaves.What a hypocritical doctrine that was. Now today,we find ourselves living among people of every race,that still believe that doctrine - yet will have hidden sex with someone of another race .What a tangled web we weave.
I didn't know that🤔
This episode or at least the idea was sent in to the producers of the show from an elementary class who came up with the idea, and they decided to use it in an episode.
I never realized Bewitched was so ground breaking. God bless their souls.
@Lon Hixson today I got time cuz. Listen WORLD, you have every right to take whatever stance you want on God aka my Father. You see, because my Father is so merciful He gave us Free will. Love Him or don't love him two roads He has put infront of you. As for me I love Him and choose to love Him based on a personal relationship. He already proved Himself to me and if you knew me, you wouldn't even try this. Nuff of ya'll got a fictional relationship laying next to you and you don't know that but you know about a stranger on the internet. Bye your going on my prayer list.
@Margaret Gust good day and thank you for sharing I have the pleasure of being born in the 70s so no I don't know about your amazing livity. But life was pretty great in the 80 s and early 90s so I'm thankful for that bit of peacfulness. And i probably didn't get the full impact of this episode because in my home and culture growing up we never had race based conversation or issues. My culture suffers from other isms but raceism is not major.
My favorite one is "The Witches Are Out". The whole witch culture was an easy metaphor for any minority. I like any show that can flip a stereotype or trope on its head.
I’ve never seen this. Very appropriate with what’s going on.
Melinda Douglas this was a amazing episode I highly recommend watching it this episode was written by 26 African American students in a 10th grade English class
I did. I liked it. So long ago. Wow I had forgotten about it.n
Melinda Douglas I loved this show but never saw this episode.
@@happyhorse1028 Here's the full episode if you want to watch it...ua-cam.com/video/xlJC3769TD4/v-deo.html
@@tonyfreejazz20 thank you
This was the episode they encouraged a group of black teenage girls to write right?
@11STARFIRE the studio requested a group of them wrote it!
@@janaekelis If I'm not mistaken a high school class won a contest and they were able to write an episode.
I am digging Lisa’s mom’s hair!
✊🏾🙋🏾♀️
I'm digging her whole look
Was this considered progressive back then? I heard Mr Rogers sharing the kiddie pool with Officer Clemmons being a big deal at its time, I can’t imagine this Bewitched episode going under the radar!
Given that only two years prior the film Guess Whose Coming to Dinner? was released about interracial marriages and the prejudices they would have to overcome.
@@dan_hitchman007 Remember Bridget Loves Bernie? It was VERY popular, but it didn't last long. Both conservative Catholics and Orthodox Jews objected to it. In case you didn't know, it had nothing whatever to do with Bernie Sanders. The stars actually met on the show and got married in real life. Clips:
ua-cam.com/video/4kWtyc0-yvk/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/soft-6GY2HY/v-deo.html
It was written by African American high school students.
11STARFIRE wait it was always censored there???
@Deaconcharles Anthony Bridget Loves Bernice..😛
Bewitched deserves to be popular again, it’s funny, it has important lessons about prejudice and is overall a genuinely good show
Giulia B I always try and catch the reruns! I agree with you, it's comedy is timeless. Elizabeth Montgomery had such a compassionate spirit.
I know right. It has, and always will be, my favourite show ❤️
I have the complete series on DVD and I'll do a binge watch at least once a year. It's genuinely surprising how many of the episodes hold up really well today, 60 years later.
Tell that to the people who only see it as a show about an oppressed housewife. I agree with you though. Like how some of the older witches were still afraid of being burned at the stake.(I'm guessing it was only the witches with weaker powers like Esmeralda or Aunt Clara who could have been overpowered by the townspeople like that, but still...)
Beautiful episode. As Mandela said, No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Also the sentiment of "you've got to be carefully taught" from south Pacific
Had no idea they did this episode. I'm thrilled that they did.
Makes me love this old show even more.
This whole series was actually a metaphor for mixed marriages.
How so? I haven’t watched the show yet so I’m just curious
@@uhohspaghettios3316 Sam and her family are witches, while Darrin is human.
Charlie H oh ok that makes sense
Yes The mom was very prejudice
100% was!!!
Samantha dress is in style now
Right! I noticed too. It's gorgeous!
It’s beautiful and I want to make it
Love her outfit. Even the bow in her hair.
Damn! Lisa didn't waste no time spilling the beans lol.
I remember this episode it was aired so many years ago it was relevant then and it's still relevant today. I smiled when I saw this. How I wish our world would come together.
@Margaret Gust The Age of Aquarius is actually just beginning.
@@taopanda98 Probably, the planets aligned after the election.
Here's another part of the backstory. The kids at Thomas Jefferson high watched JULIA, Room 222, and BEWITCHED. The teacher wrote to all three shows and only those associated with BEWITCHED responded. Bill Asher arranged to bring the entire class to the studio by charter bus, not once, but more than once.
These kids from a low income area of LA couldn't believe what they were seeing. They had no idea that people with money even cared, but they soon realized that the Asher's did. They were shown how a TV episode was made and they were encouraged to ask questions.
They were so impressed with the kindness of the Asher's and cr,ew that they decided to do something. So they wrote this script. They brought it to the Ashers and they read it and were very impressed, so Bill Asher called in Barbara Avedon, who had written some episodes, and they both put it into script form. Avedon went to the school and she saw the run down condition of the school. She talked to the students and she discussed with them the change to a Christmas episode. They agreed. I think this was sometime in 1969.
When they were ready to shoot the episode, the kids were brought back to the studio to watch their script filmed. In fact, a student was selected to yell, Quiet on the set!
Below is a link to the full story.
www.harpiesbizarre.com/vintagesisters.htm
Of the three shows the teacher contacted, only BEWITCHED people got back with them, those people were the Ashers, who cared.
Wonderful episode.
Lisa "Venetta Rogers" was my jr. high English teacher. She was so nice, loved teaching us theatre along with english. I believe she retired years ago.
We are all brothers & sisters in humanity to each other. Love the message in this episode 😍
These were the days! I'm thankful for being able to grow up back then.
Thanks Mom and Dad
Elizabeth's dresses were from heaven. So beautiful
"Dorothy's on her way up here" - one and a half minutes later she appears - just how big is that house? Perhaps it has a Hogwart's staircase :)
HA, HA, L🤣😂L. 🧐🤔🤨🤫🤯😯
Ctfu
@@Doors2Perception RUDE MUCH. YES. 🧐🤫🤨👎😒🙄🧐🤪💩🤦♀️😾👿😡🤬😬
ha, i was thinking the same thing!
And Darrin must have opened the door for them them bolted like lightning up the stairs to get to Tabitha’s room
Gorgeous couple! Her Afro is right back in style with the resurgence of the natural hair movement.
Well said Elizabeth Montgomery!
Elizabeth montgomery was an awesome person.
Wow, this made me cry, with all the terrible things going on right now.
I love that TV shows back then like Bewitched are actually promoting equality, kudos to the people behind this great episode 👏🏻
I don't know why people think that 70s television was some how not politically correct in anyway it was the forerunner for political correctness and changing people's opinion. Also they were many progressive things that were allowed on TV back then that aren't now
This is so beautiful, it made me so happy!
Fun fact: The fake snow they used was white crystalline asbestos.
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@@ExElliexE Huh?
superbrownbrown asbestos kills people, and I didn’t know they used it here, so I went
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@@ExElliexE Well the danger wasn't really well known at the time.
superbrownbrown yes I... understand that
Wow... I’m impressed how they adressed the issue back than...
This video clip about anti-racism should go viral.
@F.R.N. F The elderly white man confessed to the girl's father that he was a closet racist, and the father forgave him.
Wow so much perfection in this episode. The fashion, the hair, the overall message, and Lisa’s hot dad (who is most likely the same age as my father so it’s creepy for me to even call him that🥴) So good!
LOL nothing wrong with admiring older men if they’re handsome
“I was a sneaky racist”
Cue scattered laughter in the audience
It was a laugh track.
I Love how you could make a statement about Our Country and race at the time , Bewitched did so ,and simply too.
Beautiful episode. Powerful message
Wow I didn't know this show was so forward and educational. Its sad that we are still battling the same issues.
Only for this episode, after this entry, Bewitched reverts back to the cartoonish slapstick, and frantic, fast moving pace that it had become since season 4. As i said in another post, the tone, and feel is more like season one or two, when the show still had heart.
If it weren't for social media, we'd still have this kind of TV.
We sure would. Its a shame
What do you mean?
Please elaborate
@@yas4346 Are you familiar with cancel culture in the U.S.?
Kinda... reality TV 📺 was already corrupting the 90’s kids in my generation 🙄
@@DonovanRobinson420 That's why they call it the idiot box.
I like how tabatha has a black baby doll
Bewitched is awesome!
I just realized these fantastic tv shows n movies have positive messages too 🙏😎
One of the many episodes that made this show cool for ever.
I absolutely love how Sam's style developed thought the series! She dresses so fun in the later seasons 😍
That ending was perfect 👌
This scene is ahead of it's time, truly amazing I was not expecting such open minded beliefs
And they didn't sugarcoat either.
Still as valid 40 years later, this is beautiful
Darren left Lisa's parents downstairs too long. 😂😂😂 They just came on in and went upstairs 😂😂😂
They couldn't find better beige foundation for Lisa's spots😂😂⚪⚫⚪⚫
There are two beautiful couples on this show.
This should be shown in classrooms all over. It's still an important lesson today. Even greedy Larry almost had enough of this man. The black face scene should not be cut because t I don't think it means anything bad. It's teaching a lesson.
Yes. All it's doing is making him see everyone as black, it's not mocking black people at all.
@@farrellmcnulty909 That scene wasn't intended to be racist. People just go overboard and read too much into things without context. The only reason the client visited the Stephenses is to find any "dark" secrets. Who does that?
Side note: Many of the students at Jefferson High, the African American school where the tenth grade class who wrote the episode attended, couldn't read or write.
I never knew this existed but dayum I'm loving everyrhing about it from fashion to moral
My favourite scene ever, i wish this was how the world was.
I think the episode did a good job with the topic
Not jumping on the bandwagon here, because I do lose patience with muck rakers of any race , gender, or age, who just can't quit being jerks.
Good luck
This show was ahead of its time
Lisa's parents are so good looking. Dad is hot.
@Margaret Gust I'm sure you're just as pretty.
A very good looking couple.
The actor playing the dad is Don Marshall. He was indeed quite beautiful
Hi, yes, and Don Marshall would also also be on Irwin Allen's Science Fiction TV series 'Land of the Giants' (1968-1970) as a Co-Pilot. Irwin Allen is also known for Movie and TV series 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' 'Lost in Space' and 'The Time Tunnel'.
@@MrSlitskirts He also played on the original Star Trek. In the episode he showed a racist attitude toward Mr. Spock, the resident non human.
This was recommended to me just now. I feel like I’ve seen this in a thousand lifetimes
This was a great bewitched episode
One of the most important episodes of ANY sitcom from this era. For the curious: an English teacher at a predominantly Black high school noticed that while the students weren’t always interested in books, they DID love analyzing television scripts. The teacher wrote to several TV producers to ask if any would be interested in a collaborative project; only “Bewitched” responded positively. The students of the class worked alongside the writing staff and Elizabeth Montgomery (a tireless crusader for human rights) to create this episode, “Sisters at Heart”; Montgomery would later state that it was both her favorite episode of the program AND the most important one they ever did. Fifty years later, the lessons still ring true. Thank you for this...
YOOOOO THE BLACK DAD IS DR BOMMA FROM STAR TREK!!
And he starred in Land of the Giants.
His name is Don marshall.he guest started on many. Tv shows.
He was also the doctor on Little House On the Prairie "Dark Sage" season 8 episode 4 which was also a race related episode :-)
This show was so ahead of its time!
One of the 26 African-American students who wrote this episode was Bob Randall, who went on to become an Emmy award winning screenwriter. Check out his page on IMDB.
I'm from India and I sow this episode I was there 13 years & now I'm 37 stil I remember all episodes
What an amazing episode. This really warmed my heart because of how sweet and wholesome it was and the good values it taught.
We could all use a dose of this
Wow....I've alway loved Bewitched....and this episode proves why
its sad, but we need stuff like this today
Oh damn, so apropos! I don't remember this and I watched this show all the time. Thank God for this. I hope so much more of this is released.
UA-cam coming through with the unity 🙌🏾❤️
Tabitha: "Remember, we'll still be sisters and you'll come visit all the time." Lisa: "Actually, my contract is for one episode only."
Their "Contract for Humanity" is forever!
This was a great episode. It was ahead of its time. 🙂
It's awesome that high school students wrote this.
When Mr. Barkway showed up he had "snow" on his jacket but if you look behind him the back drop is all green and summer not white and snowing.
I don't know this show and have never heard of it, but these scenes are really wholesome. :)
You should watch it, it was really good. Funny and pritty progressive for it's time.
I DONT KNOW HOW MANY WHITE SISTERS
I GOT & I LOVE YALL ALL💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Love you too!!
@@D_Parks How Sweet Thank You Sister Love
@Antonia Praefectus THANK YOU 💓💓
@Antonia Praefectus YOU GONNA PUT A TEAR IN MY EYE LOL BUT I THANK YOU SO MUCH 🌹🌹🌹
We love you💕
This actually happened with two little four year olds who insisted they were sisters despite different skin colors decades later. :)
Oh yeah I’ve heard of that story
they were on Maury.
The little girl, Lisa, reminded of the little girl in the book, Corduroy. The book about the bear.
Whenever happened to her anyway my friend.
"All men are brothers...even if they are girls"
Did I hear it wrongly?
I think she meant 'men' like 'humans'
Either way what's wrong?
I love it
@Margaret Gust English is a broken language boy was all the kids under 5 years and girls weren't until after the 1600s a gender distinction but didn't take until late 1700s.
@@lissanguinan chill, this isn't meant to be an heavy topic.
But thank you for taking some time to give more information. Didn't know about the lack of gender distinguishing in the early periods.
This is still so relevant.
that jump cut tho. ooof gotta love old school tv
This scene is lovely, but I also just wanna say that Samantha's outfit is AMAZING
There's no racism in the Craft.
Im a scorpio too👍🏾🦂😉
Actual witches showed up at the BLM protests
LangBellsChannel PLSSSS WAIT WHAT U DEADASS😭😭😭
@11STARFIRE the same as everyone else at the protests
I mean some wiccans look down on voodun but
Witch's honor! 💜 So beautiful!!!
My favorite episode.
Can we appreciate at the end how the man came out like a real man and was honest with himself?
My favorite episode. So sweet
Sure wish that everyone would watch this program. Powerful message that everyone should see.
My favorite episode ever!
This is why I love Bewitched$@@
Una serie que vi en mi niñez y adolescencia pero en los años 90's
Can we please go back to when we really tried to change things for the better?
I remember watching this episode as a kid on Nick-At-Nite. My only thought at the time was, "Why circles instead of a different geometric shape?" I was an interesting child.
Well, maybe if Tabitha had been a little older they'd have been hexagons?
@@FireMinstrel *Why hexagons?*
I didn't know they understood covert racism back then. Why is it still an issue?
Something a non black would ask and not really need to ask it!! Why is it something you can't figure out?
@@1NV4S10N I'm black with 4c hair, dumb ass
Terena Rosa hi. What is 4c hair? Just curious. Thank you.
@@terenarosa4790 Your dumb ass should definitely know why it's still an issue!! Wow.
@@1NV4S10N mmm...if these topics were discussed back then, you would presume it would have become better by now. That is what I assume the OP is saying.
Don't be so crude.
I LOVE THIS EPISODE OF BEWITCHED. VERY TOUCHING.
This really was heartwarming.
My heart just melted :)
Tabitha is playing with a little black doll 😀
So what.
They are so smol I just wanna hug em 🥰
USA needs more like this today.
I love this show and I love this episode
Funny part is the white spots should actually be “peach” lmao😉
@A Girl Has No Name you know ; )
Or!!! It the spots should have been orange 🍊 like the president 😉
That’s funny you say that. When I was a kid I would color black people with a brown crayon and white people with peach (or beige). So I was confused by the racial concept of “black and white.”
I was about to say those spots should be red or pink.
@@brotherman1979 technically white ppl are pink
I like how the man at the end admits that he is a racist, not shying away from the term.