Martin Milner

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Watching some Route66 and thinking that Marty would've been perfect as Darrin. He and Liz were about the same age give or take a few years in 1964. He wasn't movie star handsome but cute in a boy next door/golly gee way.

[missy's pop pop]

I don't think Martin Milner would have made a good Darrin. Milner was born in 1926 and Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933, so the age match wouldn't matter too much; but the match-up is more of a mismatch to me. For one thing, you don't have quite the visual contrast between Milner and Montgomery as you do with either Dick York or Dick Sargent (Milner was reddish-blond, while York and Sargent had dark brown hair).

For another, I don't think Milner was volatile enough to explode the way York did in the early years of "Bewitched." He was more like a blond Dick Sargent. If you've watched a lot of "Route 66," Tod was usually calmer and more analytical than George Maharis as Buz or Glenn Corbett as Linc. Now he did get into a few fist fights now and then--and there was the one episode he went psycho after drinking a drugged beer--but Tod always seemed to be the one who was more rational than Buz.

I understand that Martin Milner's character married Babs Riley on "The Life of Riley," and I think he dated the daughter of Stu Erwin's character on "The Stu Irwin Show." If anything, he seemed more fated to be driving something--four seasons behind the wheel of a Corvette on "Route 66" and another six years driving the patrol car in "Adam-12".

There are two weird ironies in this question. #1) Chevrolet dropped sponsorship of "Route 66" and "My Three Sons" at the end of the 1963-64 season to focus their efforts on a new situation comedy called -- wait for it! -- "Bewitched!" #2) In the two-part episode that ended "Route 66"'s original run in 1964, Tod gets married to a character played by Barbara Eden -- the future "Jeannie" of "I Dream of Jeannie!"

But Martin Milner as Darrin Stephens? He'd high-tail it out of Morning Glory Circle, leaving burning rubber in the wake of his Corvette!

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Originally Posted by missy's pop pop

I don't think Martin Milner would have made a good Darrin. Milner was born in 1926 and Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933, so the age match wouldn't matter too much; but the match-up is more of a mismatch to me. For one thing, you don't have quite the visual contrast between Milner and Montgomery as you do with either Dick York or Dick Sargent (Milner was reddish-blond, while York and Sargent had dark brown hair).

For another, I don't think Milner was volatile enough to explode the way York did in the early years of "Bewitched." He was more like a blond Dick Sargent. If you've watched a lot of "Route 66," Tod was usually calmer and more analytical than George Maharis as Buz or Glenn Corbett as Linc. Now he did get into a few fist fights now and then--and there was the one episode he went psycho after drinking a drugged beer--but Tod always seemed to be the one who was more rational than Buz.

I understand that Martin Milner's character married Babs Riley on "The Life of Riley," and I think he dated the daughter of Stu Erwin's character on "The Stu Irwin Show." If anything, he seemed more fated to be driving something--four seasons behind the wheel of a Corvette on "Route 66" and another six years driving the patrol car in "Adam-12".

There are two weird ironies in this question. #1) Chevrolet dropped sponsorship of "Route 66" and "My Three Sons" at the end of the 1963-64 season to focus their efforts on a new situation comedy called -- wait for it! -- "Bewitched!" #2) In the two-part episode that ended "Route 66"'s original run in 1964, Tod gets married to a character played by Barbara Eden -- the future "Jeannie" of "I Dream of Jeannie!"

But Martin Milner as Darrin Stephens? He'd high-tail it out of Morning Glory Circle, leaving burning rubber in the wake of his Corvette!

Cool beans that Route 66 had any connection to both supernatural shows.

But Martin Milner as Darrin Stephens? He'd high-tail it out of Morning Glory Circle, leaving burning rubber in the wake of his Corvette!