Re: Bewitched Season 6??
Now that Bewitched.net's
Bewitched Filming Schedule is back up, we have access to the original filming schedule of BW so we can take a better look at when "Prodigy", the last appearance of Alice Pearce as Gladys Kravitz was filmed.
That episode has an end date of filming of June 24, 1965. It's a bit puzzling though as the beginning and the ending of the episode definitely look like they were filmed in 1966. I think it's listed this way, though, because the "meat" of the episode finished filming in '65 and for whatever reason was shelved. For reference purposes, it happened to finish filming between "Junior Executive" and "A Strange Little Visitor".
The last episode that Alice Pearce filmed was "Baby's First Paragraph" on 1/21/66. It is very sad watching that episode even without knowing this because you can see how tired and drawn she looks even though she still gives a stellar performance. She would pass away a little over a month and a half later on 3/3/66, which happens to be the airdate of "The Horse's Mouth". I often wonder if they interrupted that episode with news of her death.
Now to take this discussion back to Season 6....it's filming schedule is also quite interesting. The first episode DS filmed was "Samantha's Better Halves", the remake of the Season Two episode "Divided He Falls". It's end filming date was 3/31/69, a little over a month after DY's last episode filmed on 2/25/69, though as there were six Durwood-less episodes before it, I'm sure it BEGAN filming much earlier...but who knows? There were two more Season Five episodes to film after that, the last one being "Samantha's Shopping Free" which completed filming on 3/11/69 a mere 20 days before the end of filming of DS's first episode.
What is interesting is the fact that EM was pregnant with her last child during this time. She filmed her last episode while pregnant - "Samantha's Curious Cravings" - on 4/24/69 and gave birth to Rebecca Asher on June 17, 1969 (which also happened to be Erin Murphy's fifth birthday). What's interesting is that this was not the last episode to be filmed showing Samantha pregnant. That would be "Samantha's Caesar Salad" on 8/22/69 followed by "Naming Samantha's New Baby" on 8/22/69 and then "...And Something Makes Four" (Adam's birth episode) on 9/5/69. From there on out the episodes pretty much filmed in the order they were aired, but it is interesting to note which episodes EM was actually pregnant in and which she wasn't.
I do have to admit though, that the schedule merely gives the end date of filming so "Samantha's Caesar Salad" could very well have filmed it's majority before EM left on maternity leave. I wish we had information about ACTUAL filming dates.
I will say that Season Seven is my favorite of the DS years.
I love that look that "Sam" shows after the joke "bombs" 
