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...wrong which nevertheless sold well, what rival networks did with success that they could do too. Then they decide to do more of same. A study of the 34 new shows and 58 holdovers scheduled for the new fall season shows that spies are up, and so is witchcraft. Westerns are making a modest comeback, and literally every second offering will be a situation comedy. A healthy hunk of it all will be in color: NBC will color cast 96% of its shows...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The Wizard of Oz's Witch of the West, Actress Margaret Hamilton, discusses witchcraft...
...central characters: Bewitched's Darrin and about-to-be-pregnant Samantha Stephens, and The Dick Van Dyke Show's Rob and Laura Petrie. Since Bewitched's Samantha cheats, by cleaning the house, keeping her husband and generally managing the drudgery of life through her powers of witchcraft, that leaves the title of TV's favorite average housewife to Laura Petrie by default, and it's a shame. As played by Actress Mary Tyler Moore, she could beat the pants off any dozen TV actresses...
Reigning Sorcery. Brittany and western Normandy still produce a dozen stories a year of sorcery and witchcraft. Sometimes it goes beyond fun and games. In the Norman hamlet of Saint-Fraimbault last month, a woman drowned herself because she believed she was a victim of the evil eye, and a young farmer reportedly hanged himself for a similar reason. Driven to holy anger, the local priest cried from the pulpit to his tiny congregation: "You believe more in the devil's power than in God's. Sorcery reigns here as master...
Before she started acting years ago, the broomless Miss Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher in Cleveland. Inspired by seeing Gertrude Lawrence, she gave up teaching and joined the Cleveland Playhouse rep company, where she was soon stirring away as the First Witch in Macbeth. That typed her, but dramatic witchcraft could not change her basic character. She not only went on to become the hag of the half-century, she also became a member of the Beverly Hills Board of Education, and a Cub Scout den mother. Now we will be able to shut off those lights...