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From its debut episode in 1961 until the end of Season 5, actor Dick York played Darrin Stephens, a New York advertising executive and husband to Elizabeth Montgomery's Samantha.

He then spent several years in theater groups before moving on to Broadway and, eventually, Hollywood. Isn’t all of Bewitched a metaphor?

For those unfamiliar, yeah, all of Bewitched is a metaphor for clashing cultures, with the central marriage between a mortal and a witch allowing the show to address topics like bigotry head on… with jokes.

Before I could even grasp the notion of a deviant sexuality or gender performance, something about dissolving myself into Samantha’s colorful world -- with its unending parade of queer magical beings -- made me covet her life beyond the broom closet. Richard Deacon did five years on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Hayden Rorke was a series regular on Bewitched’s “competitor” I Dream of Jeannie.

His Broadway credits include Silk Stockings (1955), Good Hunting (1938), You Can't Take It With You (1936), Star Spangled (1936), Hell Freezes Over (1935), Paths of Glory (1935), Black Pit (1935), Sailors of Cattaro (1934), Red Rust (1929), Fiesta (1929), S. S. Glencairn (1929), The Grey Fox (1928), The Road to Rome (1928), The International (1928), and What Price Glory (1924).[2] In 1939, he signed with Warner Bros.[1] and was cast in supporting roles, many times along with James Cagney, in such movies as Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), as well as with Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941) and Irving Berlin, Ronald Reagan, and George Murphy in This Is the Army (1943).

Sounds absurd, and had it been done purely for broad laughs — like the 2005 feature film version, starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell — it might have been campy nonsense. On January 10, 1982, friends who had noted Lynde's absence from a birthday party broke into his Beverly Hills, California home and found the 55-year-old dead from a heart attack.

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And so I jumped at the chance to comment on Montgomery and meet other fans who’ve continued practicing the magic Bewitched left behind, one of whom is David Pierce, author of The Bewitched History Book.

The profit margin was Larry's primary focus, even if it meant upending all of Darrin's efforts to land a client. He was almost unavoidable on American TV in the 1960s, thanks to recurring roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Hogan's Heroes," and worked steadily over the next four decades in countless episodic series, including reprisals of Dr.

Bombay on "Tabitha" and the soap opera "Passions."

Fox had an equally long career in features, which included "The Rescuers Down Under," "The Mummy," and two appearances in films about the Titanic — 1958's "A Night to Remember" and 1997's "Titanic" (his character survived in the latter, but not in the former).

More often than not, these treatments caused havoc, much to Darrin's dismay.

Welsh actor Bernard Fox had been a staple of television series on both sides of the Atlantic since the mid-1950s. She loved working with Lynde so much that she wanted him back—permanently. (Baggett and Tobias were old friends, and she reportedly had been his girlfriend in the 1940s, but at the time of the accident she was the estranged wife of producer Sam Spiegel.) She eventually was acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of felony hit-and-run, and she spent 55 days in jail.

York had suffered from debilitating back pain due to an accident on the set of the 1959 move "They Came to Cordura." The injury was complicated by the development of a degenerative spine condition and an addiction to prescription painkillers; after collapsing on the set during the filming of the fifth season episode "Daddy Does His Thing," York left the series, and sought to control his health issues.

Though he recovered from his medication dependency, York never returned to full health.

Unfortunately, many of its beloved players have passed away since the show ended its network run. All three performers had long careers, but the British-born Winwood was perhaps the most familiar of the trio thanks to numerous appearances on Broadway and episodic television. In Herbie J. Pilato’s excellent Montgomery biography, Twitch Upon a Star, he writes that she was one of the first celebrity allies to fight for LGBTQ rights and support HIV and AIDS-related charities.

But Samantha put Mother on blast, insisting “You're acting just like those ignorant people think a witch acts ... He gained sobriety in 1980 and attempted to right his faltering career that same year by returning to "Hollywood Squares," which he had departed in 1979. Every first encounter erects new closets that even an out-queer person must address on practically a daily basis.

Although “coming out” is represented occasionally as a relief for Samantha, it also echoes real life in that it can and does often lead toward greater isolation, bullying, and/or physical danger to bodies.

Fighting for Representation

Samantha lobbied for mortals to drop their misconceptions about witches in both “The Witches Are Out” (#7) and “To Trick-or-Treat Or Not to Trick-or-Treat” (#177), and, in “The Leprechaun” (#63), Darrin's little-known mythical cousin wanted “a sympathetic and understanding presentation of mee image,” all allegories that can be applied to the straight world's LGBTQ stereotypes.

Repression Is Bad

In both “Okay, Who's the Wise Witch?” (#195) and “Samantha's Psychic Pslip” (#225), Samantha comes down with witch illnesses as a direct result of denying her true self – and she passed this knowledge to Darrin in “Adam, Warlock or Washout?” (#242) by warning him that frustrating their son's burgeoning powers “would not only be unfair, but it could be harmful.”

Coming Out Is Good

Samantha 'fessed up about herself in the first episode, but in “The Witches Are Out” (#7), her friend Mary wanted to “tell everyone that we're witches” so “they'd see what wonderful, nice people we really are.” Proving that coming out is multi-layered, Samantha repeated the process with her mother-in-law in “Samantha's Secret Is Discovered” (#188), citing “the relief of not having to pretend anymore.”

Hypocrisy

Thinking Darrin endorsed anti-witch images, Endora turned him into a werewolf in “Trick or Treat” (#43).