To my knowledge, this was the only toon credit for York and Montgomery. And while reruns of Bewitched would emigrate to ABC's morning lineup, running six days a week at one point (!), apparently, no one thought to follow up on this experiment by creating an animated version of the series. The only other cartoon associated with the franchise was a Saturday Superstar Movie that featured Tabitha & Adam as teenagers, and this was right after Bewitched had ended its run. It's a pity. Anyway, Wilma (Jean VanderPyl) & Betty (Gerry Johnson, who'd taken over for Bea Benaderet in season 4) get acquainted with "Samantha":
Edit, 6/20/22: There are no videos available to post presently. We have, however located a screencap of Darrin & Samantha in Bedrock:
I am not entirely sure if this episode would be included in the Flintstones rerun package that aired on NBC while Bewitched was still on the air. We do know that it aired in syndication, though.
Rating: B.
2 comments:
My family loved "Bewitched" so it wasn't hard to like this episode.
I had heard from someone that the VA who voiced Darin wasn't Dick York. I always made it a point to listen carefully, and as far as I can tell, it's him - even though he barely had any lines to read. Perhaps that's why I doubted it was him - if it were, couldn't he have had more involvement in the story?
Not that I minded. It's still entertaining.
Funny how you mention this episode being the closest to having an animated "Bewitched" series. If you follow the episode closely, it could easily be a live action episode of Bewitched! Most of the "magic" we see on screen could easily be duplicated on the actual show!
I also noticed on "Bewitched" that when Tabitha is small, most of her stuffed toys are that of many HB characters.
As we've noted, H-B was a sister company of a sort to Screen Gems back then, which is why SG distributed their product until the company was sold to Taft around 1968. H-B, that is.
It's definitely Dick York as Darrin. Why anyone would think otherwise is beyond me.
Post a Comment