15 Things You Never Knew About ‘Bewitched’

13. Some of the story-lines were borrowed from I Love Lucy

The show borrowed, or just straight lifted, a few story-lines that had been successful on I Love Lucy. One example is the very famous episode where Lucy and Ethel work the chocolate assembly line with laughable results. This inspired the episode “Samantha’s Power Failure” on Bewitched.

14. A Tabitha spinoff did not workout

In the 1970s there was a Tabitha spinoff show that didn’t work out as well as the original. A lot of the fans were not happy that they didn’t use the same actress (Erin Murphy) to play the adult version of Tabitha, but she would have been too young to play the role.

15. The show was the longest running supernatural themed sitcom of the era

There were quite a few supernatural themed sitcoms in the 1960s and ’70s including I Dream of Jeannie and The Addams Family, but Bewitched was the longest running and most successful one.