History Trivia / Bewitched

** In France the show is known as ''Ma Sorcière Bien-Aimèe'' ("My Beloved Witch").

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* TheOtherDarrin: Not just Darrin, but Gladys Kravitz, Louise Tate and Darrin's father, not to mention two babies and three different sets of twins playing Tabitha. The TropeNamer has the bonus of both actors being named Dick, leading fans to affectionately call it "the Dick switch". It also named TheOriginalDarrin, though the original Dick [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample never reprised the role]].
* TheProductionCurse: All three lead actors went on to die in their early 60s, two out of three of them of cancer (they were all heavy smokers). First came the two Darrin actors, Creator/DickYork in 1992 from emphysema,[[note]](he also had a crippling back injury ''and'' and addiction to painkillers as a result of said back injury)[[/note]] aged only 63; his replacement Creator/DickSargent in 1994 from prostate cancer, aged 64; and then Samantha actress Creator/ElizabethMontgomery in 1995 from colon cancer, aged 62.

* TourismBump: Salem, Massachusetts' [[SalemIsWitchCountry witch-centric tourism industry]] can trace its roots back to this show, and specifically to a number of episodes in 1970 where Samantha visits Salem and goes back in time to the witch trials, which were filmed on location there. Before the "Salem Saga", Salem actually treated the witch trials as taboo, but afterwards, it became less ashamed of talking about them and using them for tourism. Appropriately enough, there's now a bronze statue of Samantha in Lappin Park in downtown Salem, installed there by Creator/TVLand in 2005.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://bewitched.wikia.com/wiki/Bewitched_Wiki The Bewitched Wiki]].

** First, Creator/PennyMarshall was attached to direct it and produce it in 1993, and her cast was to include Creator/MerylStreep as Samantha Stephens, Barry Humphries in his Dame Edna persona as Endora, Creator/RobinWilliams as Uncle Arthur, Creator/ShelleyWinters as Gladys Kravitz, and Creator/JerrySeinfeld ''and'' Creator/BillyCrystal alternating scenes as Darrin Stephens, in a nod to the role being re-cast midway through the original series' run.

* BabyNameTrendStarter: This show increased the popularity of the name Tabitha after one of the characters bore that name, and its popularity continued long after the show ended, well into the '80s.

** Pearce, whose character was ironically stuck in a long, loveless marriage to a man who ignored her, was herself a newlywed, whose husband doted on her and was a constant presence on set (in part, of course, because he knew of her terminal cancer diagnosis and they wanted to spend what little time they had left together).

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Somewhat. Darrin and Endora despised each other in the show, but Creator/DickYork and Creator/AgnesMoorehead were very fond of each other. Reportedly, Moorehead wasn't pleased when Creator/DickSargent was brought on; on Sargent's first day on the set for a script reading, in front of the entire cast (including Sargent), Moorehead very slowly but firmly stated, "I don't like change."

* TheOtherDarrin: Not just Darrin, but Gladys Kravitz, Louise Tate and Darrin's father, not to mention two babies and three different sets of twins playing Tabitha. The trope namer has the bonus of both actors being named Dick, leading fans to affectionately call it "the Dick switch". It also named TheOriginalDarrin, though the original Dick [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample never reprised the role]].

* RecycledScript: By the end of its run, the show was recycling its ''own'' scripts.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $85 million. Box office, $63,313,159 (domestic), $131,426,169 (worldwide).

* The series itself is the TropeNamer and ImageSource for TheOtherDarrin.
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