Bewitched and Beyond: The Fan Who Came to Dinner Read Online Free PDF

Incredibly friendly place, huh?!!”
    Kasey also told me many times that she “had to sit through take after take of that dreadful “Iffin” song,” (Hippie, Hippie, Hooray).
    And she recalled a Halloween episode where Elizabeth comes into the room and accidentally spills a drink down her entire front, which was not supposed to happen. “She never stopped. It was only water (supposedly the pre-requisite martini), and it must’ve been cold, but she just kind of wiped it away and kept going. You can still see that on the episode. I have to say that Liz was a consummate pro.”
    Elizabeth Montgomery could sometimes be a tad mischievous. Kasey recalled a particular scene at the Stephens’ dinner table. “It was the last shot of the day, and even though I know everybody thinks we drank like fish on the show, we didn’t. The characters did, but the actors didn’t. Let me clear the air right here, ‘booze’ is always faked. Except in this one shot, Liz had replaced the fake wine with Sangria and nobody knew! We sat down at the table and the cameras began to roll. We were saying our lines and one by one, we all took a drink, realized, and all looked over at Liz who had this impish little grin on her face the entire time.
    I also remember Bill wrapping up the filming of another evening’s shoot because I was running late to catch a cruise ship. I know a lot of people, such as Sandra Gould, had problems with Bill, but I always adored him and was never treated any way by him except nice…
    …but then again, there was this one time… I could’ve shot him!
    It’s a scene in the Tate’s bedroom. This was actually just Samantha and Darrin’s own bedroom, redressed. Anyway, I’m at the dressing table getting ready to go out [from the episode “Art For Sam’s Sake”], and Larry is in the bathroom coming out from the shower rubbing his hair with a towel.
    Well, David [White] had had a bit too much to drink the night before, and this was the first shot of the day. He was still ‘flying’ and got rather promiscuous with me. He kept picking me up and throwing me down on the bed over and over. It was awful! And no one, not even Bill, came to my rescue! David just thought it was all so funny. But it wasn’t funny to me. Finally things calmed down, we got the shot and I got out of there!
    But things did eventually settle down and the show became more fun,” she added.
    Kasey was the center of attention in one particular episode that many fans remember called “Mona Sammy.” In this episode, Larry and Louise are over for dinner and notice a ‘Mona Lisa’ style portrait of Samantha hanging over the fireplace. This had been a gift from Endora, and was originally signed by Leonardo da Vinci. Noticing Louise being quite taken with it, the ever-mischievous Endora casts a spell and changes the signature on the portrait to “Darrin Stephens.” This causes Louise to insist that Darrin paint her. Not taking no for an answer, Samantha and Darrin finally agree by deciding that Samantha will put a spell on Darrin, so he can paint a lovely portrait of Louise. Endora gets wind of what is going on, and changes Darrin’s exquisite portrait of Louise into one that is quite HIDEOUS.
    This episode would require two oil paintings of Louise Tate (“the pretty one and the goofy one” as Kasey and I always called them.) Many people ask if Kasey had to do a sitting for the artist. The answer is no. They took Polaroid shots of Kasey in different poses and then both portraits were painted from them by someone in the Screen Gems art department.
    Kasey loved that episode and said, “I remember asking Bill if I could have the paintings after the shoot. He said ‘Yes,’ and I still have them.”
    I was lucky enough to be given these same portraits by Kasey, and I will treasure them always.
    The “pretty one” always hung over the piano in the living room of the condo we shared. But every Halloween, we’d have a party and switch the