In Memoriam 2025...

[Magical Realist]

June Lockhart dies at 100. Here's a clip of her in 1970 defending something few dared to defend back then. Rest her soul..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN9zq3gmnAU

[C C]

That she made it to 100 is probably why I had no idea that she was even still alive. Guy Williams was only a year or so older and died way back in 1989.

Elizabeth Montgomery was an activist in that area, too, and Bewitched acquired a following during its run from the 1960s to '72. Not just because of the gay cast members and Endora's flamboyant DQ-inspiring wardrobe, but all the subtle analogies with and various subliminal messages in the show. "Should Samantha come out of the closet?"

EM would be just eight years behind June now if she hadn't died early.

[Magical Realist]

I had always know that Darren #1 and Endora and Uncle Arthur were LGBT, but the gay subtext was overlooked. I will have to go back and watch some episodes with a renewed appreciation.

[Syne]

It was Darren #2.

[C C]

I had always know that Darren #1 and Endora and Uncle Arthur were LGBT, but the gay subtext was overlooked. I will have to go back and watch some episodes with a renewed appreciation.

Since he got the back injury back in 1959, I don't know how Dick York's career lasted as long it did.

What mystified me is why they didn't explain Darren's change to the body of Dick Sargent with a magical spell that was placed on him by Endora, that for some reason turned out to be permanent. I mean, witchcraft is entailed in the very show itself, and they didn't use it! That would have alleviated the confusion of the viewing audience, which led to a further drop in ratings.

Sure, such a spell would also have to involve everyone who knew Darrin being ensorcelled in terms of memory of what he originally looked like. As well as all photographs of him being altered. But I'm not sure such "universal in breadth sorcery" was totally unknown in the show.

It could have been the prank of some super-magical entity, instead of Endora. They had "Q" in the Star Trek franchise, and Trelane is retrospectively considered a member of Q's species in the original Trek of the 1960s. Especially after the 22nd episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.