In love with a witch
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | In love with a witch |
| Original title | Bewitched |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1964-1972 |
| Episodes | 254 in 8 seasons |
| idea | Sol Saks |
| music | Warren Barker |
| First broadcast | September 17, 1964 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 4th 1968 on German television |
| occupation | |
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In love with a witch (original title Bewitched ) is an American television series . The series was broadcast by ABC from 1964 to 1972.
action
The plot revolves around the family life of the witch Samantha Stephens and her non-magical husband Darrin . Samantha's mother, Endora, disapproves of her marriage to Darrin , whose name she repeatedly mispronounces. Darrin himself is the typical aspiring American, he works in an advertising agency . His boss, Larry Tate, is a slick, elderly, and opportunistic businessman who immediately lets Darrin down when it comes to money and jobs. In a crisis situation he never has his back on Darrin. Nevertheless, the role is sympathetic and humorous.
Gladys and Abner Kravitz, Darrins and Samantha's neighbors, are an elderly Jewish couple - they are a gossip who likes to spy on Stephens, he a resigned, annoyed pensioner who wants some peace and quiet and thinks his wife is slightly crazy. A running gag is that Gladys overhears a lot of Samantha's magic, but can never convince her husband of these supernatural phenomena.
Other important characters are Samantha's lovable and senile Aunt Clara, who always gets everything wrong, and her uncle Arthur, a friend of puns and bad witches. From season 2, the Stephens daughter, Tabatha, appears, but she is not present in all episodes. She comes after her mother and can also do witches. A son, Adam, is born in Season 6 who hits Darrin as a non-wizard.
In the sixth season, the confused magical maid Esmeralda came in, who, just like Aunt Clara, has problems with her magic powers. The role was introduced after the death of Clara actress Marion Lorne in 1968, so the gap in the role part of a "bumbling" witch was closed.
Elizabeth Montgomery plays a double role in some scenes as the wicked black-haired cousin Serena (from season 2). Her relationship with Darrin is ambivalent and fluctuates between disgust and fascination. Elizabeth Montgomery chose the pseudonym Pandora Spocks for this role - almost identical to the English term " Pandora's Box ".
The main locations are the Stephens house and Darrin's office. You seldom see the family traveling or at other times.
At the end of the confusing turbulence, the episodes usually lead to the couple reconciling with a kiss, in the spirit of classic comedy, but sometimes this expectation is also played with and a surprising ending is developed.
meaning
Unlike other " Fantasy - sitcoms " such. B. Dream of Jeannie has Bewitched their roots rather in the traditional Liebespaar- screwball comedies -Tradition as in the cinema Ernst Lubitsch , George Cukor or Howard Hawks have shaped. The sorcery of the desperate wife Samantha becomes a corrective attempt to undo the absurdity of everyday life - a reversal of the comedy principle . Since the Stephens' biography has developed to a certain extent and thus no stagnant types have been created, the sitcom represents a milestone in television history with all the tradition consciousness - here not only new forms of series and situation comedy were tried out, but taboos were also broken for the first time . For the first time a married couple sleeps together in one bed on the screen, and for the first time a couple's life apart is benevolently demonstrated (Samantha's parents).
synchronization
Due to the different broadcast phases on German television (1970s, 1980s and 1990s), there were three phases of synchronization. 47 episodes of the first two seasons were never dubbed. It was limited to 25 episodes. A total of 86 episodes (26 in b / w, 60 in color) were dubbed for broadcast in the ARD regional program; The Kirch group did not have a further 119 episodes dubbed until the late 1980s. 25 episodes produced in black and white from the first two seasons have not been shown on German television since 1968, not even on pay TV . The German dubbing dispensed with the subtle allusions and complexity of screwball comedy , because the broadcast of Verliebt in einer Hexe in Germany was aimed primarily at children. In addition, in the later dubbed episodes, the original soundtrack was often replaced by a new accompaniment from Fred Strittmatter and Quirin Amper Jr., who had already been used for the German version of " Bewitching Jeannie ". As was common at the time, the laughs were completely eliminated. The fact that the German synchronization differs from the original in many details can already be seen in the transmission of the original title Bewitched (bewitched, enchanted). The later German version even changes the structure of the episodes, which are normally opened by an action opener , i.e. a preparatory scene, and then lead to the title animated film. Then the actual episode begins. In the German versions, the episode usually starts with the cartoon.
In March 2010, seasons 1–8 appeared on DVD, so that the originals (with subtitles) can also be seen in German-speaking countries.
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Montgomery | Samantha Stephens |
Ingeborg Wellmann (1st voice)
Karin Buchholz (2nd voice) Sabine Sebastian (3rd voice) |
|
Dick York (1st actor)
Dick Sargent (2nd actor) |
Darrin Stephens |
Michael Chevalier (1st voice)
Hans-Jürgen Dittberner (2nd voice) |
| Agnes Moorehead | Endora | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Erin & Diane Murphy | Tabatha Stephens | |
| George Tobias | Abner Kravitz | |
|
Alice Pearce (1st actress)
Sandra Gould (2nd actress) |
Gladys Kravitz | Lola Luigi |
| David White | Larry Tate |
Andreas Hanft (1st voice)
Peter Schiff (2nd voice) |
|
Irene Vernon (1st actress)
Kasey Rogers (2nd actress) |
Louise Tate | Marianne Lutz (2nd voice) |
| Marion Lorne | Aunt Clara |
Ursula Krieg (1st voice)
Ursula Diestel (2nd voice) |
| Alice Ghostley | Esmeralda | |
| Maurice Evans | Maurice | Eric Vaessen |
| Paul Lynde | Uncle Arthur |
Motion picture
In 2005, based on the series, the movie In Love with a Witch with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell was shot.
Seasons
The series was produced in eight seasons (252 episodes). One episode has the usual sitcom length of around 23-24 minutes. All episodes together are 100 hours long. It can be divided into three phases:
A - black and white seasons
- Season 1: 36 episodes. September 17, 1964 - June 3, 1965
- Season 2: 36 episodes + 2 repetitions from season 1 with a new opener. September 16, 1965 - June 9, 1966
B - color, with Dick York as Darrin
- Season 3: 33 episodes. September 19, 1966 - May 4, 1967
- Season 4: 33 episodes. Sept. 7, 1967 - May 16, 1968
- Season 5: 30 episodes. September 26, 1968 - April 24, 1969
C - color, with Dick Sargent as Darrin
- Season 6: 30 episodes. September 18, 1969 - April 15, 1970
- Season 7: 28 episodes. September 24, 1970 - April 22, 1971
- Season 8: 26 episodes. September 15, 1971 - March 25, 1972
Web links
- Bewitched in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/verliebt-in-eine-hexe
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | In love with a witch. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .