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“I don’t know why we don’t just tell people,” one of them sighs, before remembering that the last time they tried that, witches were burned at the stake. And for an audience who’d grown up watching Samantha and Darrin navigate their enchanted marriage, the change was jarring, and to those who worked on the show, the replacement didn’t take place easily.

In particular, the white actors who played the black characters, including Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha, appeared in blackface. Well, what do you do now? By the fifth season, it’s obvious that something is wrong if you watch the show. They used bronzer to make him look healthier and even padded his suits as he kept losing weight.

Elizabeth Montgomery and York had great chemistry, and that connection really sold the show’s central premise—a mortal man trying to live an ordinary life while married to a witch.”

That chemistry became the emotional core of Bewitched, making the outrageous believable while grounding broomsticks and magic incantations in something domestic and real.

He started to slouch. “It left the production in a very difficult place. However, fans of the show noticed that during the second season, Mrs. Kravitz seemed to be thinner and had lost some weight. It demonstrated that despite magical abilities, married couples still have arguments and disagreements that often have to be settled and worked through.

The muscles along the right side of my back tore. “Sargent took much of the blame, which isn’t really fair,” says Mark. Queerness is indelible in its central metaphor, far more than the one-off gay-of-the-week episodes that TV would provide until the late '90s. Right? For a while. “He was a very nice man, well-liked, and he tried to bring his own style to the role,” said Mark.

And the truth is, the energy on Bewitched shifted the moment Dick Sargent arrived. After taking drugs year after year to try to deal with his pain, he grew addicted.