Producers only auditioned twins for the role of Tabitha due to California’s child labor laws that restricted the amount of time a child could be on set, so Murphy’s twin sister, Diane, shared the role with her. But Diane only appeared in 21 episodes of Bewitched—and sometimes as other characters, not as Tabitha.
“So, the things I’ve been told that I didn’t remember or know at the time, [producer / director] Bill Asher, who was married to Liz [Elizabeth Montgomery], said that they would bring me off set and then bring me back on set. And basically, they’d walk me off stage and say, ‘Okay, bring Diane,’ and then they would walk me back because I was so well-behaved,” she said. “So even when we were ‘working together’… we weren’t actually working together. They were kind of double-using me, which they couldn’t do today. Back in the ’60s, they got away with a lot.”
Murphy previously explained that she didn’t look exactly like her twin sister, even when they were kids, which contributed to the backhanded on-set switcheroo. “My sister and I are fraternal twins, and they were only auditioning twins for the part of Tabitha because twins can work more hours,” she told Studio 10 in 2020. “As soon as they hired us, they realized that we really don’t look that much alike.”
“There was one episode in the entire eight years of the show where I had the mumps,” Murphy recalled. “They brought my sister in for that show [ “Samantha Fights City Hall”] where she had to slide up the sliding board backwards. The network got all these letters asking, 'Why did you replace Tabitha?'"
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