"Bewitched" just wasn't the same after Dick York left

[book_worm]

Watching the Season Five DVD of "Bewitched" (yeah, I admit it's one of my favorite shows) and it's sad to see how thin Dick York had gotten during his final season, but his performance as Darrin never suffered. The show was just not the same without his rubber-faced everyman. The chemistry (on-screen) between him and Elizabeth Montgomery was much better than when Dick Sargent took over.

Also, even though they replaced her, nobody made a better Gladys Kravitz than the first, the incomparable Alice Pearce. Unlike the second Gladys you kinda felt sympathy for Pearce's busy-body.

[Generic Brad]

1. Dick York

My favorite.

[wildhorses]

2. yeah. great show. what a face he could make!!

[book_worm]

3. I think he just saw Endora out of the corner of his eye!

[IntravenousDemilo]

4. When I heard they were going to make the movie a couple of years ago,

I hoped they would have two different Darrens in the same movie, one for the first half and the other for the second half, and that the rest of the characters wouldn't know the difference and they'd behave as if nothing had changed. That would have made it a good movie!

[book_worm]

5. that would have made a better movie than what they eventually did do!

[supernova]

6. What a train wreck the movie is!

Bah!!

I loved LOVED Bewitched when I was little. There were two people I wanted to grow up to be: Samantha Stevens or Emma Peel. Perhaps a combo of both! :rofl:

But I swear the movie remake completely missed the point of the original. If they had gotten the original "joke" of the TV series, what made it endearing, the movie would not have drifted off into pointlessness. Instead, the only thing the movie shows is that they missed the point of the TV series entirely.

[terrya]

7. That would have been perfect.

Of course they would have had to do the same with Gladys Kravitz. :-)

SHMILY

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. Yes indeed, two Gladyses as well.

shmily

[Deja Q]

8. Excuse me, that's creative thinking. That's NOT allowed.

Sadly, it's the same type of self-realization the makers of "The Brady Bunch Movie" had used, which is why it is arguably the only dug-up TV show made into a movie that's any good.

[WI_DEM]

10. York really was excellent in that role

He also was very good in the film INHERIT THE WIND as the teacher on trial for teaching Darwinism.

[Karenina]

11. THAT was a fabulous performance, indeed.

[soleft]

12. I was watching The Graduate last night

And I was pleasantly surprised to see both Esmarelda and Aunt Clara in the hotel scene.

Also - Dick York was great in Inherit the Wind

[WI_DEM]

13. I know isn't that something? Also Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne) is in the Hitchcock film

"Strangers on a Train"