I'm going to take this from a different angle. I certainly believe Larry Hagman could have played Darrin,easily adapting to the double takes and camera mugging and verbal delivery needed to pull off the perpetually harried Darrin Stevens. Dick York was great in Bewitched, to pull off the role of Tony Nelson it would have been necessary for the writers to reimagine the role a bit to fit York's talent which lean slightly towards a more cerebal brand of comedy. He could have pulled it off but the show would certainly have been different.
Dick Sargent was completely overmatched in the role of Darrin Stevens, there is no way he coulld have played Tony Nelson effectively. If Sargent
picked up his game a bit he might have been able to play a passable Dr. Bellows, but it would have been a real step down from the great Hayden
Rorke.
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