Bewitched (TV Series) Samantha's Wedding Present (1968) User Reviews

"Abner! ...Mr. Stephens is only four feet tall!"

[jlewis77-1 · 9/10 · 25 August 2009]

"SAMANTHA!" "Ohhh... mother shouldn't have done that." Yeah, the plot is a bit familiar... but the funny lines are too many to quote in just one review.

Ironically broadcast the same week as "Land Of The Giants" with itty bitty shrinking Darrin in a world of giant coffee cups, furniture and mayo jars. (This had to be an expensive episode to produce.) A great dane from the Kravitzes (of course, Gladys purposely got a dog to help her snoop the Stephens house... "This dog will eat anything that's not nailed down.") chases him into hiding with the garbage. Fortunately, the friendly drunk (the reliable Dick Wilson: "I found a leprechaun in a bottle!") saves him before he winds up as part of the trash pickup.

This is basically an comedy version of "The Incredible Shrinking Man", with excellent props and Dick York's hilarious comic timing. Like many of York's best performances, one can watch this with the sound off and still laugh. Heck, just make a still of him sitting in the jar, saying "Sam, don't try to psychoanalyze him. Just give him his pony!"

York and Wilson

[richard.fuller1 · 10/10 · 31 October 2015]

Made excellent by both Dick York as the shrinking Darrin Stephens and always entertaining Dick Wilson, the immortal Mr. Whipple from the Charmin commercials (when Wilson passed away, numerous and I mean numerous stations ran commercial length dedications to him, as it was the likes of he who gave them their jobs).

Darrin is just a bit too insulting to Endora when she brings Samantha a gift, so she labels him a small man and proves it as he begins to shrink.

I would see many of these episodes in reruns during the day obviously while the show was still on in primetime, and this was truly one of the memorable episodes for me.

The miniaturized and utterly bewildered Darrin first in his car, then running across the yard to his house, observed by Gladys Kravitz, was hilarious.

Then Darrin shrieks for Samantha and she runs into the scene to see the indeed shrunken Darrin and knew who was responsible.

And then, as the other review notes, everything took place with Dick Wilson as the Irish bum who thought Darrin was a leprechaun.

York from his perspective and Wilson from his were both brilliant.

I think this was the first time I saw Wilson on anything, then would later see him as Mr. Whipple and eventually a policeman on Bewitched.

Delightful Bewitched episode.

And yes, the Shetland pony.