This show does not get enough credit for being the original successful magical show. It seems some Bewitched fans feel that Jeannie "ripped off" Bewitched. In that case, it's on fair to say that Bewitched ripped off My Favorite Martian.
My Favorite Martian started in 1963 on CBS.
Bewitched was ABC's answer to My Favorite Martian and premiered the following year in 1964.
How does it not get enough credit?
Plus what do you expect from it.
looks like it inspired Mork and Mindy. Yes Mork and Mindy premiered in the 1970's. Much more restrained than Williams and obviously not on coke though
Actually I think Bewitched was more re a safe way to address the then very volitale issue of mixed marriage/intergration w out getting too overtly political. She is "just" a cute blonde suburban housewife.
There was ZERO magic in this show. It was bad science-fiction, in NO way fantasy.
Fortunately, Bill Bixby went on to better things.
Yeah, it was a progenitor of Mork and Mindy. Had no relationship at all to Bewitched.
Sheesh.
Telepathy is magic, also a sign of schizophrenia. Pointing your finger at something to move it is magic.
share"Fortunately, Bill Bixby went on to better things."
So did Ray Walston. He later appeared in The Sting. I remember him especially as the crusty, pragmatic judge on Pickett Fences. The Stand mini-series...
If you read his IMDB bio, he did steady work up until his death at age 86.