List of Bewitched characters
Dick York was unable to continue his role as Darrin because of a severe back condition, the result of an accident during the filming of They Came to Cordura in 1959.
After collapsing while filming the episode "Daddy Does His Thing" and being rushed to the hospital in January 1969, York left the show.
Endora refuses even to speak Darrin's name correctly, alternately calling him "Derwood", "What's-his-name", "Darwin", "Dum-Dum", etc., all much to his annoyance.
But when she realizes that, after he has kissed her and disappeared, she has contracted an illness which leaves her unable to use her powers, she is furious—until Maurice returns to gives her an antidote, and take her to "the place we used to go to on the Milky Way" to have dinner.
Louise Tate (Irene Vernon, later Kasey Rogers) is Larry's wife and Samantha's closest mortal friend.
The Alice Pearce version of Gladys Kravitz was nosy and confused, but generally good-hearted and was often friends with the Stephenses.
Despite being a secondary character, the name "Gladys Kravitz" has gained wide societal use as a synonym for an annoying busybody.
He does not believe the stories his wife tells about the unusual goings-on she claims to have seen at the Stephens household—by the time she gets him to come to the window to see some magic she has just witnessed, it is invariably all over.
His sister, Harriet (Mary Grace Canfield), stayed with him once while Gladys was out of town (around the time Alice Pearce died).
The well-meaning Aunt Clara's spells usually backfire, and her entrances and exits are often a grand fumble, such as entering via a chimney or colliding with a wall.
Diane made several guest appearances in other roles, and filled in as Tabitha one last time in season 5's "Samantha Fights City Hall", because Erin had the mumps.
Despite airing only five years after the end of the original series, and being set in the 1970s as were the final seasons of Bewitched, Tabitha is depicted as a 20-something college graduate in the spin-off.
Despite her conduct and frequent co-plotting with Endora, Serena has been known to assist Samantha and Darrin, although she finds them "both a bit square".
Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde), Endora's prank-loving, joke & pun telling brother, makes several appearances.
In one episode, both Serena and Uncle Arthur go head-to-head with the Witches Council to support the Stephenses' union, only to have their own powers suspended.
Dr. Bombay (Bernard Fox) is a witch doctor and womanizer, almost always accompanied by a buxom assistant in a nurse's outfit.
A strange occurrence or condition caused by a supernatural illness is occasionally used as a plot device, and his assistance is often sought.
His first name, Hubert, was revealed in the final episode of the spinoff series Tabitha where he marries his mortal nurse.
Phyllis Stephens (Mabel Albertson) is Darrin's straight-laced mother who visits occasionally but never learns of Samantha's supernatural powers.
Phyllis makes inopportune surprise visits (which often cause Samantha to use magic to clean up the house quickly).
In the episode "Samantha's Good News", Endora threatens to file for an "ectoplasmic interlocutory" (i.e. "divorce"), only to wrangle Maurice's affection.
The two aunts arrived in a supernatural, antique car called “Macbeth” that passed through walls into the Stephenses’ living room (sometimes driven by Rasputin, other times operating without a chauffeur).
When Adam's powers were tested by Hagatha, Enchantra was absent and, instead, she arrived with Grimalda, presumably another maternal aunt or great-aunt.
Betty, the secretary at McMann and Tate, was played by various actresses, including Jill Foster (ten appearances) and Marcia Wallace.
Nancy Kovack also appears as the character Clio Vanita, Darrin's beautiful and flirtatious female client from Italy in the two-part episode "Cousin Serena Strikes Again".
Howard McMann (Roland Winters, Leon Ames) is Larry Tate's business partner, and appears only twice during the series, in "Man of the Year" and "What Makes Darrin Run".
Charlie Leach (Robert Strauss) is a conniving private investigator who attempts to blackmail Samantha, with disastrous results, in "Follow that Witch" and "Catnapped".
Wilson is also widely recognized for his role in a series of TV commercials as a grocery store employee "Mr. Whipple", famously encouraging people not to "Squeeze the Charmin".
Thanks to witchcraft, a number of interesting characters were seen, including Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Pierce, George and Martha Washington, Paul Revere, Sigmund Freud, Julius Caesar, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, King Henry VIII, Cleopatra, Bonanno Pisano, Santa Claus, Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Goose, The Artful Dodger, Hansel and Gretel, The Tooth Fairy, the Loch Ness Monster, a leprechaun, Prince Charming, Sleeping Beauty, Willie Mays (playing himself), and Boyce and Hart (playing themselves), Wood Nymph
