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Bewitched was the bigest hit show for ABC up to that time ranking #2 in its first year on the air. It ran from September 1964 until July 1972 and produced 252 episodes.

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An Article From Time Magazine

The Girl with the Necromantic Nose
Friday, Oct. 30, 1964 Article

Many a man is convinced that a witch lives under his roof. With the arrival of the present TV season, many another is probably wishing that he could exchange his incumbent hag for Elizabeth Montgomery. Pretty and blonde with a turned-up nose, she hardly suggests cauldrons full of rat guts and eels, but she plays a thoroughbred sorceress married to an advertising executive on ABC's Bewitched.

An otherwise normal, happy young housewife, she can clean up a filthy kitchen with half a second's witchcraft or even help a neighbor's awkward kid to become a star Little League pitcher, as she was doing last week. She casts her spells not with a wave of a wand but with a twitch of her nose in a unique and peculiar manner that seems to be half allergy and half tic douloureux. Nowhere has the twitch worked better, apparently, than on the early reports of the ratings systems, for Bewitched is the surprising runaway champion of all the new TV shows.

On the Team. Thus Elizabeth Montgomery, like the little pitcher whose fantastic curve balls and looping sliders she was conjuring last week, has in a sense finally made the team herself after years of overhearing the snickers of the other players. The daughter of Robert Montgomery, she has been an actress for 13 years, but never in anything that could be called a hit. In show business many people have been almost too eager to characterize her as a living dull, getting parts only because of her father. Bewitched has set her up on her own, albeit on a broom.

Before she became sensitive about it, she used to say, "My art belongs to daddy," and similar things that would make corn blush. Born in 1933, she was raised in Hollywood. When her father moved to Manhattan to become a television star, she went to the Spence School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her professional debut in 1951 on Robert Montgomery Presents, playing opposite her father in a spy story. He did not think that he was uncovering a great talent and in fact tried to discourage her from becoming an actress, hoping that she would be sensible like her brother, who is now a customer's man in a Wall Street brokerage firm. When she would not be dissuaded, he gave her plenty of roles.

Out of the Book. Since then, taking with her everywhere the filial shadow, she has done over 200 TV shows, a Broadway play (Late Love with Arlene Francis in 1953) and three movies (she was Dean-o Martin's fiancee in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?).

She has been a divorcee herself a couple of times. Her first husband was Freddie Cammann, Harvard '51, descendant of Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury. Since Elizabeth was only an actor's daughter, she knocked Freddie out of the Social Register when she married him in 1954, just as Robert Montgomery himself had depaginated Buffy Harkness when he married her in 1950.

Cammann was not out of the book long. Elizabeth divorced him in 1955, then was married for six years to Actor Gig Young. Her current husband is William Asher, who directs Bewitched. They live in Malibu with their infant son and a Siamese cat named Zip-Zip.

She no longer gives interviews to magazines that are doing spreads on children of famous parents. She is her own girl. "Her father is a Republican," says Gig Young, reminiscing fondly, "and she is probably a Democrat." She may soon be worth a fortune on her own too. As a part owner of Bewitched, she gets 20% of the show's profits, which will amount to about $2,000,000 if the program lasts for three seasons, which it probably will.

Here is Dick York's Obituary Published by The New York Times.

Dick York, 63, Actor Who Was Husband In TV's 'Bewitched'

Published: February 22, 1992
Dick York, who played the befuddled husband of a nose-twitching witch in the 1960's ABC television series "Bewitched," died on Thursday at Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was 63 years old.

Mr. York had had emphysema and a degenerative spinal condition for several years, his family said.

For five years, Mr. York played Darrin Stephens, an advertising executive whose wife, Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery), was a witch who could work miracles with a twitch of her nose.

Agnes Moorehead played Mr. York's overbearing mother-in-law, also a witch, who perpetually mangled her son-in-law's name. A Child Actor on Radio

"Bewitched" was the second-highest-rated series of the season in its debut year, 1964-65, behind only "Bonanza," and remained in the top 10 through most of Mr. York's tenure on the show.

Mr. York was replaced on the show by Dick Sargent in 1969 when problems stemming from an old back injury, including overdependence on painkillers, forced him to leave. The show continued until 1972.

Mr. York was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sept. 4, 1928. He began his acting career as a child, performing in radio shows in Chicago, where his family moved when he was young. One of his radio roles was Jack Armstrong, "the All-American Boy."

In the 1962-63 season, Mr. York appeared in a television series based on the 1944 film "Going My Way."

In addition to his television work, he appeared in several films, including "My Sister Eileen" and "Inherit the Wind," in which he played the schoolteacher whose teaching of evolution prompted the celebrated 1920's "monkey trial."

He also appeared on Broadway in the mid-1950's in "Tea and Sympathy" and "Bus Stop."

Despite his illnesses, Mr. York was active in raising funds for the homeless, working by telephone while largely confined to his home. He called his private fund-raising effort Acting for Life.

He is is survived by his wife, Joan; five children, 13 grandchildren and a sister.

Here is Dick Sargeant's Obituary from The Los Angeles Times

'Bewitched' TV Actor Dick Sargent, 64, Dies

By DAVID E. BRADY, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Saturday, July 9, 1994

Dick Sargent, the affable actor best remembered as Elizabeth Montgomery's second television husband on the sitcom "Bewitched," died Friday. He was 64.

Ron Wise, a spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Sargent had been admitted Wednesday and died there of prostate cancer that was diagnosed in 1989.

In 1969, after parts on several failed sitcoms, Sargent replaced the late Dick York in the role of Darrin Stephens on ABC's "Bewitched." York, who left after five seasons because of a debilitating back injury and an addiction to painkillers, died in 1992 at age 63 of emphysema and a degenerative spinal condition.

As husband to Montgomery's Samantha, a winsome witch who could work magic with a twitch of her nose, Stephens tried vainly to juggle the pressures of his ad agency job along with the escapades of his wife and disapproving mother-in-law, usually with little success.

Sargent, the son of a World War I hero and a former silent film actress, was born Richard Cox. After a childhood spent in Carmel, Calif., he briefly attended Stanford University, where he appeared in several school plays before dropping out to pursue an acting career.

As Dick Sargent, he began on the big screen in the late 1950s with roles in such forgettable films as "Bernardine" and "Mardi Gras." In 1959, he was seen with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in the wartime comedy "Operation Petticoat." Later movies included "That Touch of Mink," "Captain Newman M.D.," "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken," "The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell" and "Hardcore."

He also appeared in dozens of episodic TV shows, among them "Gunsmoke," "Playhouse 90" and "Family Ties," and was a regular in the 1961 situation comedy "One Happy Family."

After "Bewitched" ended in 1972, Sargent continued to act occasionally, with guest appearances on such TV shows as "Taxi," "Murder, She Wrote" and "L.A. Law" and in B movies such as "The Clonus Horror," "Body Count," "Teen Witch" and "Rock-a-Die-Baby."

After his cancer was diagnosed, doctors were optimistic that it could be treated. However, the disease continued to spread and by early this year Sargent was seriously ill and further weakened by daily radiation treatments.

After mostly withdrawing from show business in his final years, Sargent returned to the news in 1991 when he announced that he was gay, ending what he said was an awkward facade he had maintained throughout his professional life.

"It was such a relief," he told an interviewer that year. "I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life."

A longtime supporter of the Special Olympics, Sargent was soon a highly visible advocate of gay rights as well.

"We won't be ignored," he said at a 1992 gay pride parade and festival in Orange County, for which he was grand marshal. "We deserve to be heard. People don't understand that we're everywhere."

Sargent conceded that while "coming out" may have cost him professionally, the personal rewards were worth it.

"I'll probably never be allowed to play a father symbol again," he told a reporter in 1991. "I'm afraid for my career. I'm probably gonna lose a whole lot of work. . . . I may even have to sell the house someday, but this is more important. I like myself, probably more than I have most of my life."

Here's Elizabeth Montgomery's Obituary as published by USA TOADY on May 19, 1995.

Elizabeth Montgomery dies of cancer

by Kaley Kelly
USA TODAY

Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, a pretty sorceress who Bewitched a generation, died of cancer Thursay at her home in California, surrounded by her three children and her husband, actor Robert Foxworth.

Montgomery played many roles, but every child of the 60's remembers her as the witch-with-thetwitch who tried to be a suburban housewife.

From 1964 until 1972, while the country mourned assassinated heroes and struggled with the Vietnam War, the plucky Samantha Stephens made prime-time magic. The Stephens' subtly modern home was a comfort zone where everything could be fixed with a twitch of the nose.

The tradition continues on Nick at Night, where Bewitched airs weeknights and holds the record for the highest-rated single half-hour in its history.

Montgomery ( 57 according to her family; other references say 62) concentrated on TV movies after Bewitched. Her final appearance was in CBS's Deadline for Murder May 9.

For two great reviews of this classic sitcom go to www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/bewitched/bewitched.htm and www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bewitched.htm