Bewitched

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On-screen title card.

Bewitched is an American live-action fantasy sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC, with the animated opening and closing credits created by an uncredited Hanna-Barbera. It ran from 1964 to 1972, airing 254 episodes. Within that time, there was also a crossover with Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones in the 1966 episode "Samantha", which was made possible due to the fact Screen Gems was producing and distributing Bewitched and The Flintstones, respectively, and both series airing on ABC.

Samantha, a beautiful witch, marries mortal Darrin Stephens. Despite loving Samantha unconditionally, he insists that Samantha not use her magic, so they can live a traditional suburban life, and likely because it makes him feel inferior.

Samantha and Darrin had a daughter and son named Tabitha and Adam in the second and sixth season, respectively, allowing Hanna-Barbera to produce the Saturday morning movie spin-off, Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family, which aired in 1972, the year of the eighth and last season of Bewitched. The movie featured the kids as teenagers.

Samantha is played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and Darrin was played by Dick York for the first five seasons, then by Dick Sargent (because Darrin couldn't be played by an actor not called Dick) for the next three.