Adam - Warlock or No?

[Movie12]

Did they ever determine if Adam was a warlock or not? I remember they were trying to figure it out. If anyone knows, let me know.

[Larry Tate]

Yes it was confirmed that Adam was a warlock in the "Bewitched" episode Adam, Warlock or Washout episode # 242 season 8 Episode aired December.29, 1971.

[stevea]

Had they gone on to another season, and got away from recycling earlier scripts, maybe they would have developed that. They might have had to age him a little, though.

[Larry Tate]

They did use him and the character as the season went on but they could only do so much with a child of that age, as he grew older and more capable he would have been given more to do.

Remakes?????...........What Remakes????


#72 "What every Young man should know" from season two is a remake of the Pilot.

Remakes began as early as that not only in the last three seasons as so many say.

I would say from season 3 on there were 2,2,3,3,4,4 (out of the first 22 episodes in season 8) remakes, it was only at the end of season 8 that they were largely the case with 3 of the last 4 episodes being remakes.

These facts just show how creative & diverse Bewitched was, that although they stuck to their main premise through all 8 years they still never became formulaic or just rehashed themselves on a regular basis, quite the opposite was the case with varied &
unique episodes being the norm the vast majority of the time rather then them being glorified remakes of each other as has been suggested.

I must say as well that episodes where a spell was placed on Darrin or when he was transformed, ones time travel back & into the future, witch illness ones etc. were never remakes but all unique & creative episodes in the form of sub premises of the main premise, otherwise you might as well say that each time Samantha twitched her nose or Darrin kissed her that this made it a remake episode.

This would make as much sense as it would be to say the ones i referred to above were remakes as well,
& not the word for word of the entire episodes(which none of them ever were)which so often are claimed to be the case by those people who claim most if not all of the episodes the last 3 seasons & especially they say the last season were remakes..............they weren't needless to say.

Even when they were remakes they changed them around so much that they were dissimilar and ony had the odd line in the odd scene that was word for word the same with 98% of the dialogue utterly different from the original episode, this was not like the Japanese or Russian versions of Bewitched where they took the original scripts for each Bewitched episode and then remade them literally word for word scene for scene, when Bewitched even had a rare remake then this was not the case, far from it.


I don't think the issue was the lack of new writers but rather that if you were going to stay true to the fundamental premise & the original characterizations then one was limited in what one could do over 8 years.

The alternative would be to go off on a completely different tangent that would not have been good or healthy for the show.

The fact that they stayed true to their original intent & premise is laudable in my view.

Actually a good quarter to a third of the shows the last few years were from new writers.

To me Little Pitchers Have Big Fears", "Soapbox Derby" are the same as It's Magic and Prodigy,the sort of Good Sam helps the Mortals sub premise and therefore would not constitute a remake, same as a spell on Darrin would not even though it had been done before & the basic aspects of it were the same in premise such a spell, complications for Mortal Darrin, he freaks, he & Sam work to fix it out, she uses magic as a last resort to do so, Witches ,laughing at all the mischief they created, mortals saying did i just see that................that sort of thing, but they were not remakes either.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Larry Tate

...it was only at the end of season 8 that they were largely the case with 3 of the last 4 episodes being remakes...

I should have made it clear that this was what I was referring to. They finished things out by recycling old scripts.

The Wikipedia episode guide goes way overboard with this theme. If you go through it they manage to say that virtually everything is a remake. I think if you look at season 2 they even make the case such and such is a redo of a season 1 episode.

[tcr1701]

For years I never knew if Adam was a warlock or not because Maurice gives him part of his magic early in the episode...but in syndicated reruns the part where he removes the spell before Adam is finally tested it edited out!

Remaking Season 1 episode "Is It Magic or Imagination?" in season 8 (as "A Good Turn Never Goes Unpunished") made absolutely no sense. After 8 years of marriage and all the things they went through Darrin accusing her of lying is unbelievable and quite the slap in the face (so to speak) to Samantha.

There's an interview with Bill Asher where he says they never remade any episodes.I guess the writers never admitted where they got a few scripts that last year.

[TV Guy]

In the pilot for the “Tabitha” series (the one with Liberty Williams), Adam is a full-fledged warlock and plays the same function as Endora did in Bewitched, encouraging Tabitha to use her powers. In the subsequent series with Lisa Hartman, Adam is mortal and plays the same function as Darrin did in Bewitched, discouraging Tabitha from using her powers.

[Larry Tate]

What happened on the Tabitha show doesn't count, same as what happens in a book written about the Bewitched TV show doesn't count.

Only what actually appeared on film in an actual episode of Bewitched counts & matters in terms of such discussions.

Larry Tate