MichaelKeith
03-11-2014, 02:29 PM
Antenna TV has reached the sixth season of Bewitched weekdays, where Dick Sargent takes over the role of Darrin. Now let me first say that I loved Dick York in the role of Darrin, in fact, to me he WAS Darrin.
However, any actor, no matter who he was, would have had an enormous task trying to fill the shoes of York. And given that, I have to say that watching these sixth season shows has given me the opinion that Dick Sargent did a decent job in the role. Better than York, NO, but given the task, he did alright.
Personally I wish they had just cancelled the show after the fifth season when York departed (which in fact I believe Liz wanted to do), but the network threw more money at Liz and Asher than they could refuse so continued the show.
I've also read that York just wanted the summer hiatus to rest up and then he believed he could have finished the run of the series. Of course, in a kinder/gentler world not ruled or dictated by the bottom line--money, this would have been a nice thing for the producers/network to have done.
But let's face it, York did in fact miss almost half of season five and a good number of season four episodes and without the Darrin character, the central conflict/premise of the show was gone and to me the Darrin-less episodes were the worst of the series.
I wish Mr. York had not suffered that back injury in 1959 and his life would have been so much better. It's a shame that such a bad thing happened to such a good human being. I have loved his acting in every movie or tv show he acted in. It's just tragic that the accident happened to him.
However, any actor, no matter who he was, would have had an enormous task trying to fill the shoes of York. And given that, I have to say that watching these sixth season shows has given me the opinion that Dick Sargent did a decent job in the role. Better than York, NO, but given the task, he did alright.
Personally I wish they had just cancelled the show after the fifth season when York departed (which in fact I believe Liz wanted to do), but the network threw more money at Liz and Asher than they could refuse so continued the show.
I've also read that York just wanted the summer hiatus to rest up and then he believed he could have finished the run of the series. Of course, in a kinder/gentler world not ruled or dictated by the bottom line--money, this would have been a nice thing for the producers/network to have done.
But let's face it, York did in fact miss almost half of season five and a good number of season four episodes and without the Darrin character, the central conflict/premise of the show was gone and to me the Darrin-less episodes were the worst of the series.
I wish Mr. York had not suffered that back injury in 1959 and his life would have been so much better. It's a shame that such a bad thing happened to such a good human being. I have loved his acting in every movie or tv show he acted in. It's just tragic that the accident happened to him.