Like a lot of the holiday episodes, I enjoy watching three for St. Paddy's Day:
"The Leprechaun" (yeah, it's not very good, but it's cute, and I LOVE Liz's super 1966
flip hairdo); "A Most Unusual Wood Nymph;" the sixth season offering (forget the title)
where Endora conjures up Henry Gibson as the nasty little leprechaun.
I was just watching the wood nymph episode a few weeks ago and I noticed a big continuity error that I never noticed before.
Remember the scene after dinner when they are in the living room? Gerry O'Toole is wearing a yellow dress with a bow in her hair. Sam then goes in the kitchen and has Endora send her to the past to prevent the death of Rufus the Red and undo the curse.
When we see Darrin and Gerry later on in the living room, she is wearing a PINK dress! It's supposed to be the same evening. Why in the world did she change her dress in the middle of the evening? Just a really odd continuity error. But a funny episode.
Darrin the Bold was well named. He could've been called Darrin the Skirt Chaser.
I forgot about the Henry Gibson episode. He was a nasty little leprechaun!
"If the Shoe Pinches" is the Gibson ep, and it's one of my faves due to the high pace and energy, especially Liz, who
seems as though she was transported from the York years for this. It's actually a silly premise. We're supposed
to believe that, after nearly seven years' marriage and two children, Sam and Darrin's marriage would be ruined
by a little runt leprechaun. It makes no sense whatsoever, as he was so ineffectual. But I still love it.
I never noticed the dress mistake. I will have to check that out.
I watched "Wood Nymph" this weekend, and noted your comment on the changing of the dress. Even though it wasn't
realistic of Gerry to change AFTER the evening got under way, I don't share your feeling this is a "continuity error" at
all. A continuity error, to me, would've been if she was wearing the yellow dress all the way through, then in a
close-up, sported the pink dress for two seconds or something. Clearly, she was supposed to have changed into a more
relaxed evening dress. But I agree this change should've taken place BEFORE evening, not in the middle of it. Also,
she has completely changed her hairstyle. But this is soooooo television. There are a lot of episodes of BW, where
Sam has changed clothes - say pants, a blouse, and ponytail - to a dress and fully long hair - by MID-day. These people
were TV stars (Kathleen Nolan was a TV name then), and it gives the show a bang to see them in different clothes,
unrealistic though it may be (but since when do we watch Bewitched for realism???).
Well maybe not a continuity error, but strange! To me both dresses seemed to be at the same level of dressiness. But at least you took the time to check out the episode.
And from their point of view Samantha was only "in the kitchen" briefly. When people time travel to the past, they may be there for what seems like hours, days or weeks. But from the perspective of people in the present, they only seem to be gone a few minutes. I learned all THAT from watching Star Trek! LOL I know you're not a Trekkie though.
Yeah I've noted that Sam will often change from her casual housework attire into something dressier for dinner or even to go shopping. Lucy Ricardo used to change her clothes a lot too.
There is a continuity error (at least that's what I'm calling it!) in the episode when the Queen of the Witches wants to abdicate and picks Sam as her replacement. Samantha is dressed casually in a green slack set and sandals.
She and Endora get the Queen settled in the guest bedroom and then go into Sam's bedroom to talk. Samantha is now wearing tan colored flat shoes. Okay, did she change shoes in the hallway? lol And Samantha had so much on her mind about not wanting to be Queen. She didn't think she'd have the time OR Darrin's approval. You wouldn't think shoes would be on her mind.
I'm just guessing they filmed that scene the next day and someone in wadrobe misplaced Samantha's sandals!
You DON'T watch Bewitched for realism??? LOL
But we don't know exactly how long time has gone by when Sam goes back in time, as there are dissolves to
various scenes. My feeling is when Sam first summons Endora, it's early evening. It could be three or four
hours later, when she's in the pink dress. We simply don't know. Also, the yellow dress is very button-up/
matronly, and so is her hair...bangs and somewhat dowdy. When she's chasing Darrin, the pink dress is
low-cut and her hair is much more sexy and teased. I get what they were after, but I agree that she should've
changed when SAM changed (from the pink, knit, short-sleeve sweater and blue pants to her brown dress
and high heels). They probably wanted that extra "ping" visually for both Sam and the audience to see her
now sexy and with teased hair right at that moment when she's chasing Darrin).
Speaking of this episode, here's MY issue: I'm a guy, but my mom always told me that fashion dictated that
women never wore dark dresses with WHITE shoes. She said the shoes should be darker, or the same
color. This is the only episode I recall where Sam is wearing her brown dress and WHITE shoes, instead
of brown or black high heels. Perhaps the white beaded necklace made that work, as they match.
Incidentally, Sam wears that brown dress in "A Gazebo Never Forgets", "Aunt Clara's Victoria Victory" and
in the brief card game in "Charlie Harper, Winner." Liz must've really loved that outfit!
Yeah I see what you're saying now about Gerry. The yellow dress and bow had an innocence about them. The pink chiffon dress was more grown up looking. I just did not get why Gerry was chasing Darrin to begin with! And if Gerry went upstairs to change and redo her hair, I find it odd that Darrin would just sit in the living room without calling out to Sam or going into the kitchen to see what she was doing.
Gerry admitted to Samantha that there was a curse on Darrin. Sam travelled in the past to undo what happened. I know it was a lighthearted show, so Gerry wouldn't come right out and be specific about her intentions. But I don't think they were good ones! lol I thought she came to see to Darrin's demise, not to seduce him. I guess that was somehowpart of her plan though.
But I don't get the point of her seduction routine. I must be missing something. Was she just trying to break up their marriage?
Yes, Samantha did wear that brown dress on several occasions. I was watching some episodes from season three back to back and she has a number of outfits that she repeats. It's only natural. Women don't usually have an endless supply of clothes. About the white shoes, Sam wore white heels a number of times with darker dresses. My mom often wore white heels in the summer. It seemed to be a style thing back then.
She wore white heels when she wore that pink dress ( I loved that dress) in the episode when she was volunteering at the church bazaar and Serena, unbeknownst to Sam, was "filling in " for her at home. It may have been that Elizabeth Montgomery didn't like dark shoes.
Don't know if you ever saw Vertigo. Hitchcock had a definite idea for how Kim Novack's character would be dressed when she first appeared. It was a grey suit and black heels. Kim Novack told the designer for the film, Edith Head, that she wouldn't wear grey clothes or black shoes. For some odd reason she thought black heels made her legs look bad. Hitchcock got his way in the end though!
Anyway, Sam's style and clothing choices from the earlier seasons were a lot classier and elegant compared to some of the things she wore in the last season. imo I know styles change but the show went overboard on being too trendy. I specifically remember her mini skirts and knee socks. I read where someone asked why was Samantha dressing like Marcia Brady? lol
Well it's always fun to talk about the clothes on the show. Most guys usually have no interest in women's fashions or they don't even notice anyway!
The pink dress with white shoes looks fine; a BROWN or BLACK dress with white shoes really doesn't
look right, at least with what I know. And in "Nymph", it's the only time Sam wears this odd
assemblage. No doubt the white necklace was there to make it look better (but still odd).
"Vertigo" is one of my faves and probably Hitchcock's best film.