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post #271 of 302
5/19/08 at 8:34am

Re: Bewitched Season 6??

Hey guys have you noticed when you watch episode "Samantha's Secret Spell" that the security guard Larry has is also the one sitting behind Samantha on the helicopter ride to the airport? It's funny how much you notice when you watch the episodes for a third time... they sure did use a lot of regulars this season, which i like... I think people like Sara Seegar for example plays a perfect role in all her episodes as does Charles Lane
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post #272 of 302
5/19/08 at 12:06pm

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I am thinking of picking up some of the seasons of Bewitched. I watched most of them when I was a child. What are members' feelings about the DVD release? I've read through pages of this thread, but I haven't been able to track down any criticism (positive or negative) of the DVDs themselves. Are people who own some of the seasons generally pleased with them thus far? Feedback is appreciated.
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post #273 of 302
5/19/08 at 12:47pm

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The DVDs are of themselves good-to-great quality. My only complaint is how Sony should have regarded Bewitched as one of its crown jewels in the TV DVD line. There should have been extras, restored original openings, etc. But otherwise, you are not wasting your money on any of these sets.
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post #274 of 302
5/19/08 at 1:20pm

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Originally Posted by Jude86
The DVDs are of themselves good-to-great quality. My only complaint is how Sony should have regarded Bewitched as one of its crown jewels in the TV DVD line. There should have been extras, restored original openings, etc. But otherwise, you are not wasting your money on any of these sets.
Jude,

Thanks. That's a positive recommendation. I had one of the seasons in my hands the other day, but I didn't pick it up. I believe I will now.
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post #275 of 302
5/19/08 at 2:03pm

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If you love Bewitched, you should have the DVDs
Don't know when we will see another channel (in the US) pick up the series and most likely, the episodes will be futher edited, because we all know channels want to squeeze in even further ad time.
TV Land is now eliminating the closing credits (as we knew them) in favor of miniscule retyped efforts. How long before they even eliminate the classic TV openings?
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post #276 of 302
5/19/08 at 2:20pm

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Originally Posted by Jude86
If you love Bewitched, you should have the DVDs
Don't know when we will see another channel (in the US) pick up the series and most likely, the episodes will be futher edited, because we all know channels want to squeeze in even further ad time.
TV Land is now eliminating the closing credits (as we knew them) in favor of miniscule retyped efforts. How long before they even eliminate the classic TV openings?
Jude,

Sounds like a plan. I will probably go through Amazon.com, as I've had great success with them over the years. And yes, I really don't like it when I'm taping a show off of the television, and even the closing credits are butchered in favor of showing us what's coming on next. Ugghhh.
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post #277 of 302
5/19/08 at 3:59pm

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Originally Posted by Jude86
If you love Bewitched, you should have the DVDs
Don't know when we will see another channel (in the US) pick up the series and most likely, the episodes will be futher edited, because we all know channels want to squeeze in even further ad time.
TV Land is now eliminating the closing credits (as we knew them) in favor of miniscule retyped efforts. How long before they even eliminate the classic TV openings?


Someday, someone is (even if it has to be me, but I wouldn't know where to begin) will make a classic TV channel comparable to TCM. And the shows on it will not be treated like pieces of s*** to grudgingly show in between commercials and promos for other stuff.
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post #278 of 302
5/19/08 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by Ockeghem
I am thinking of picking up some of the seasons of Bewitched. I watched most of them when I was a child. What are members' feelings about the DVD release? I've read through pages of this thread, but I haven't been able to track down any criticism (positive or negative) of the DVDs themselves. Are people who own some of the seasons generally pleased with them thus far? Feedback is appreciated.

I would DEFINITELY pick them up, all six seasons thus far! The picture quality is stupendous (with the exception of Season Five's "Cousin Serena Strikes Again", part 2...it's really saturated color for some reason) and the sound as well.

My only complaints with the sets, aside from the lack of extras and non-inclusion of original openings/credits, is the strange minor edits done is S.3 which are the removal the frame showing the glowing orb from "My Friend Ben" when Samantha zaps up the tankard of ale, the black out of the screen at the end of that episode covering up "Part 2 Next Week", the complete lack of the recap to "Samantha for the Defense" and the black out in the middle of "Nobody But a Frog Knows How to Live"...though irritating, especially from the Ben Franklin episodes, they are not a good enough reason to pass on buying the sets.
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post #279 of 302
5/19/08 at 7:42pm

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Originally Posted by David*P
I would DEFINITELY pick them up, all six seasons thus far! The picture quality is stupendous (with the exception of Season Five's "Cousin Serena Strikes Again", part 2...it's really saturated color for some reason) and the sound as well.

My only complaints with the sets, aside from the lack of extras and non-inclusion of original openings/credits, is the strange minor edits done is S.3 which are the removal the frame showing the glowing orb from "My Friend Ben" when Samantha zaps up the tankard of ale, the black out of the screen at the end of that episode covering up "Part 2 Next Week", the complete lack of the recap to "Samantha for the Defense" and the black out in the middle of "Nobody But a Frog Knows How to Live"...though irritating, especially from the Ben Franklin episodes, they are not a good enough reason to pass on buying the sets.
David,

Thank you for the information. You really seem to know this show well! Much appreciated. I'll be picking up a season or two soon.
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post #280 of 302
5/24/08 at 2:57pm
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BW is my passion and I love discussing it with people...too bad it only happens mainly on the net as in "real" life nobody seems to enjoy BW.

BTW, I read in the other thread that you picked up this season. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
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post #281 of 302
5/24/08 at 7:57pm

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Originally Posted by David*P
BW is my passion and I love discussing it with people...too bad it only happens mainly on the net as in "real" life nobody seems to enjoy BW.
I too am passionate about certain shows (Dark Shadows, The Outer Limits, and all of Trek).

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Originally Posted by David*P
BTW, I read in the other thread that you picked up this season. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for bumping this thread up a bit. For some reason, I couldn't locate it earlier this evening.

We watched the first four episodes from disc one tonight. It was great seeing the episode in which Adam is born. When the series first ran, I saw the first four seasons, and then somehow missed this segment (I believe I missed most of season five and, as I learned tonight, at least the beginning of season six). So it's great to see these episodes for the first time. I noticed that episode eight is the Uncle Arthur and Carol Wayne episode. I remember that one from childhood, so perhaps I only missed the first half dozen or so episodes from this season. The transfers look excellent, and I really love the menus.

When I put the first episode on tonight, my younger children first thought of the Roswell episode, "I Married An Alien," which uses the opening sequence (including similar, though not identical, music) to Bewitched very successfully IMO. They thought they were watching Roswell, and were quite surprised to learn that Bewitched was a show in its own right!
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post #282 of 302
5/24/08 at 9:48pm

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Got the sixth season a couple of days ago and have enjoyed it THOROUGHLY.
Dick Sargent got off some GREAT zingers to Endora and others...and I always love Alice Ghostley. The only downside is I NEVER got over missing Aunt Clara's visits. I love the one when Tabitha turned the man into a child....the boy who played him as a child was TOO funny. Looking forward to completing the series....but I DO wish there were some extras........Oh well...its great to have the UNEDITED episodes. I, like some of the other posters am SO disappointed in the way TV Land is going....some of the things that are passing for classics are FAR from it. They are butchering The Beverly Hillbillies to HELL and back.
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post #283 of 302
5/28/08 at 6:49am

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I agree -- Season Six is excellent (it's the only one I have thus far). I've been checking the packaging for the previous sets, and they all look excellent.

Over the past two nights, we have watched "To Trick or Treat or Not to Trick or Treat," "A Bunny For Tabitha," and "Samantha's Secret Spell." I thought the make-up used in the first one (for Darrin) was quite good (convincing). Our children also loved seeing a unicorn last week (in "Samantha’s Yoo-Hoo Maid" -- loved the 'unique horn'!).

All in all, great fun watching this timeless classic.
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post #284 of 302
6/1/08 at 7:00pm

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Originally Posted by Jude86
Wow--Martin!!! That was an EXCELLENT way to do the opening credits and I love the music mix

Hope I'm not intruding... I just want to informed you that I uploaded an HQ version of the same opening here: YouTube - Bewitched stereo HQ

The first version available was crippled with high compression in order to be accepted on You Tube. But now, things have changed and real High Quality and Stereo videos can be seen.
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post #285 of 302
6/1/08 at 8:21pm

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We watched the two-part episode tonight, from disc 2. I didn't know it was a two-parter, since the titles were "Daddy Comes For a Visit" and "Darrin the Warlock."

I thought Larry was hilarious in this one. And I also liked seeing John Fiedler, the voice of Winnie the Pooh and the actor who played Hengist in the Star Trek episode "Wolf In the Fold." In this episode of Bewitched, he played the son of the man whose account McMahon and Tate were trying to win (Bliss Cough Syrup, I believe).
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post #286 of 302
6/1/08 at 11:34pm

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And I LOVE that the announcement at the end of Part 1 about Part 2 was left completely intact. I hope that stays true for the S7 2-parters.
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post #287 of 302
6/2/08 at 6:54am

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And I LOVE that the announcement at the end of Part 1 about Part 2 was left completely intact. I hope that stays true for the S7 2-parters.
Well said! The freeze-frame didn't hurt, either. It came as a surprise to us, and as such was very effective.
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post #288 of 302
6/2/08 at 1:07pm
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I think "Daddy Comes for a Visit" and "Darrin the Warlock" are my favorites out of all the two parter (with the exception of the Salem episodes). I remembered these episodes as being some of the first BW episodes I ever saw, or maybe it was that they had such an impact on me. It was so cool to see Durwood using witchcraft when every other time he's always being ticked about it. I also liked it when he and Maurice were spying on the meeting over at Bliss Pharmaceuticals.

Yes, I certainly do hope for the remaining seasons that all recaps and "Next week on BW" are intact unlike the atrocity done to the Ben Franklin episodes.
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post #289 of 302
6/5/08 at 2:00pm

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Season 7 has like 3 or 4 two part episodes... a few of the Salem episodes and the Mary the Fairy ones... I agree with David, they butchered Season 3's Ben Franklin.... David, do you think the box set will contain the original? Do you guys think Season 7 will come out this year? I can't wait to see the Salem episodes in Full... On TV Land they were cut and many minutes were not used ... I just hope we get to see them all before too long...

David can you tell us anything about Season 9? Like why Liz decided not to film it or was the studio wanting to get another Samantha? I figure that Liz was just tired of the series and went on to other projects.
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post #290 of 302
6/5/08 at 2:31pm

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David can you tell us anything about Season 9? Like why Liz decided not to film it or was the studio wanting to get another Samantha? I figure that Liz was just tired of the series and went on to other projects.

My guess is ratings. It fell out of the top 30 in the 1970-1971 season and didn't pick up in 1971-1972. I doubt anyone felt there was any need for a 9th season. And if they had to go on much past that, they would have outlived Agnes Moorehead (d. 1974), and doing BW without Endora would be unthinkable.

The transfers on season 6 are superior to season 5 keeping in mind the generation loss from opticals. The fleshtones are a little too far to the pink side, but most TVs can adjust the tint settings (not me, as I have an HDTV with connections via HDMI and cannot adjust hue on my TV or receiver). This seems to be a problem with a lot of pre-1970s color movies and TV shows. I would imagine they were trying to achieve more tan fleshtones than pink in the original photography, but that's just guessing.
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post #291 of 302
6/5/08 at 2:58pm

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I heard the network was all ready for an additional season but it was Liz that didn't want to do it, and I can't blame her.

But I didn't know Agnes Moorehead died so soon after Bewitched. I wonder what they would've done if it happened mid season in Bewitched (get another actress or ignore the character)
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post #292 of 302
6/5/08 at 3:35pm

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But I didn't know Agnes Moorehead died so soon after Bewitched. I wonder what they would've done if it happened mid season in Bewitched (get another actress or ignore the character)

Yep. She died of cancer, along with many other co-stars and crew of the 1956 John Wayne fiasco "The Conqueror," which she was in. It was filmed near a place in Utah where atomic tests had been conducted. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything on Snopes.com for their opinion on the matter.

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Originally Posted by Michael Rogers
I heard the network was all ready for an additional season but it was Liz that didn't want to do it, and I can't blame her.

Supposedly she wanted to end it as early as 1969, but either ABC or Screen Gems increased her salary (and William Asher's) to keep her. In the last season, they got a production company credit (hence "An Ashmont Production" at the end). The same deal also gave Ashmont credits on The Paul Lynde Show and Temperature's Rising, the last one going off the air a year after their divorce in 1973. Keep in mind that ABC was considered the "Almost Broadcasting Company" well into the 1970s, up until Fred Silverman took control of programming in 1975.
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post #293 of 302
6/5/08 at 4:10pm
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All that has been said about EM is part of why she wanted to quit. But also keep in mind EM's personal life was in shambles at this point as there was much infidelity going on in her marriage to BW producer/director William Asher. They separated shortly after BW ended and then divorced so it would've been much too difficult to continue working together.

And as was mentioned, AM passed away two years after BW ended but she was quite ill before this and doing BW w/o her would've been very dubious to say the least. I'm sure they would've tried though and if you take a look at Season 8, she only appears in 13 out of the 26 episodes. But you can tell, especially in "School Days, School Daze" that she was not feeling well at all.

As far as the corrected Season 3 discs for the boxed set, knowing how Sony runs their show, I don't think they will

Tomorrow is the alleged date of S.7 being released in Europe but as of a couple days ago the site that Martin or John posted still didn't have artwork and that seems mighty suspicious. I would say, though, that if S.7 is released there then we should get ours sometime by the end of the year.
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post #294 of 302
6/5/08 at 4:26pm

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Originally Posted by David*P
All that has been said about EM is part of why she wanted to quit. But also keep in mind EM's personal life was in shambles at this point as there was much infidelity going on in her marriage to BW producer/director William Asher. They separated shortly after BW ended and then divorced so it would've been much too difficult to continue working together.

I had no idea. But I did know they divorced, and William Asher married the former Mrs. James MacArthur, Joyce Bulifant (Murray's wife on The Mary Tyler Moore Show), who later divorced Bill, and married Roger Perry (Headmaster Parker on The Facts of Life), who used to be married to Laugh-In's Joanne Worley.

How can I work Kevin Bacon into all this?
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post #295 of 302
6/5/08 at 7:37pm

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I read somewhere that Liz was unhappy with William Asher because he was having an affair and she was secretly seeing Richard Michaels who directed many of the episodes... I also read that ABC had planned a Season 9 which would have been the 1972-1973 season, but I guess with everything going on it just didn't work out... It would have been interesting to see what the 9th season would have been like... Probably focusing more on Tabitha in school and Adam displaying his powers... With Agnes being sick, she probably wouldn't have been in many episodes... But I can understand after 8 years Liz was probably tired of the show and the writers not writing new material just doing remakes... You can tell in the last season, that Liz was not as energetic as she was in previous seasons too! But, Bewitched was one of ABC's biggest shows of that time...
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post #296 of 302
6/5/08 at 11:07pm

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Agnes Moorehead appeared on Broadway in the musical stage version of Gigi
in 1973 after Bewitched ended. She played the aunt. It would be surprising if she was already ill during Bewitched , that she would have done the play. The musical was not a success and did not run long but still to commit to 8 shows per week when you are ill, if she knew she was ill at the time, is a little hard to believe. Is it possible she was in fewer shows due to budget cuts ?
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post #297 of 302
6/6/08 at 10:22am

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Originally Posted by Jdcrackers
... You can tell in the last season, that Liz was not as energetic as she was in previous seasons too! But, Bewitched was one of ABC's biggest shows of that time...

Raitings had droped by the 8th season - but it did hold it's own against ALL IN THE FAMILY When it was programed against it that year. Most reports say ABC was interested in a 9th Season.

Also, the series had yet to go into syndication and the network was doing VERY well with the daytime weekday (and at one point Saturday Morning)reruns (even slightly editing them for more commercial time.)

So you could see ABC's motivation for pushing for Season 9 - one more season - giving them more episodes to rerun in the daytime slots.
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post #298 of 302
6/6/08 at 12:06pm

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Originally Posted by MatthewA
I had no idea. But I did know they divorced, and William Asher married the former Mrs. James MacArthur, Joyce Bulifant (Murray's wife on The Mary Tyler Moore Show), who later divorced Bill, and married Roger Perry (Headmaster Parker on The Facts of Life), who used to be married to Laugh-In's Joanne Worley.

How can I work Kevin Bacon into all this?

You can't, but you can put in Jim Carrey- here's how:

Between her marriages to James MacArthur and William Asher, Joyce was married to late actor/director Edward Mallory of Days of our Lives fame. They had a son named Edward John Mallory, but the marriage was short-lived. When she married Mr. Asher, he adopted the boy, and he is known today as John Asher, and like both of his fathers he's a director. His best known work is a movie called Dirty Love starring Jenny McCarthy.

(wait, it gets better!)

Mr. Asher and Ms. McCarthy were married at the time, but have since divorced and she is now the steady girl of (drumroll please): JIM CARREY!!!!!
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post #299 of 302
6/6/08 at 2:37pm
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Originally Posted by Garysb
Agnes Moorehead appeared on Broadway in the musical stage version of Gigi
in 1973 after Bewitched ended. She played the aunt. It would be surprising if she was already ill during Bewitched , that she would have done the play. The musical was not a success and did not run long but still to commit to 8 shows per week when you are ill, if she knew she was ill at the time, is a little hard to believe. Is it possible she was in fewer shows due to budget cuts ?

Think about Alice Pearce, how ill she was, and yet she kept performing on BW literally up until a couple months before she passed away. True, it wasn't as many performances as the play would've been but still....

Also, Quint Benedetti, AM's road manager for her one-woman shows and former student, recalled in Charles Tranberg's biography of AM "that she had recurring bouts with the flu over the course of the [last] season. He recalls that one day she was so ill she could barely move, and she had Benedetti call in sick for her. Minutes later, the phone rang and Benedetti gave it to Agnes. She later told him that she had been bluntly told, "either you come in or you will be put on suspension." With an iron will, Agnes got herself up from her sickbed and went to the studio....She worked that day but her condition worsened and she was finally granted time off."

It later states that on February 17, 1972, she was admitted to Methodist Hospital for tests which came back positive for cancer. She underwent surgery on February 22 and remained inpatient until March 7. Agnes went to recuperate at her mother's home in Wisconsin and developed the flu there and it was there that she received a note from producer Harry Ackerman that BW was not to return in the fall. She became better by the mid year and went back to work on some TV appearances and a revival of "Don Juan in Hell" and then the next year she did "Gigi" though she was quite ill and actually left the show to check herself into the hospital....her health rapidly deteriorated from there and she would pass away on April 30, 1974.

I would HIGHLY recommend reading Charles Tranberg's "I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead". It's a very fascinating read and one of the best biographies I have ever read. It can be purchased on Amazon or directly from the printer at BearManor Media.

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post #300 of 302
6/6/08 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by MatthewA
I had no idea. But I did know they divorced, and William Asher married the former Mrs. James MacArthur, Joyce Bulifant (Murray's wife on The Mary Tyler Moore Show), who later divorced Bill, and married Roger Perry (Headmaster Parker on The Facts of Life), who used to be married to Laugh-In's Joanne Worley.

How can I work Kevin Bacon into all this?

Here's how:

Elizabeth Montgomery was in "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" with Andy Romano who was in "Ghosts of Mississippi" with Margo Martindale who was in "Rails & Ties" with Kevin Bacon LOL
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