In the 1960s, Erin Murphy was a child actress on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. The young star was only 18 months old when she was cast in the classic comedy series along with her twin sister Diane, to play baby Tabitha Stephens, the daughter of Darrin and Samantha (Dick York, Elizabeth Montgomery.)
Murphy’s arrival in the series in Season 3 also marked another milestone: it was the first season of Bewitched that was broadcast in color.
In a new interview with NPR’s Front Row Network, Murphy, 62, admitted that she never watched the two seasons of black-and-white episodes that predated her arrival onto the show.
“This is something I don’t say often, but I’ve never seen the black-and-white episodes,” Murphy shared. “So I still to this day, I keep thinking, oh, I’ll sit down and watch them. Maybe I’ll do like a Facebook live or something, watching the early episodes and the later ones. I’ve just never seen them. So I’ve seen clips here and there, but I’ve never seen the entire episode.”
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The first two seasons of Bewitched featured a whopping 74 episodes (36 in Season 1 and 38 in Season 2). Those seasons also featured a different actress, Alice Pearce, as nosy neighbor Mrs. Kravitz before Sandra Gould joined the cast.
“I know obviously that she was great as the early Gladys Kravitz,” Murphy shared of Pearce, who died in 1966. “But I only know Sandy Gould. Sandra Gould was the Gladys Kravitz I knew from season three all the way to eight. So when I think of the character, I only picture her.”
In the interview, Murphy also explained the big decision to move Bewitched to color just as the role of baby Tabitha became a bigger part. (Tabitha was born during Season 2 and was played by other sets of baby twins.)
“They did this huge, huge kind of casting call because right before Bewitched went to color, right before the third season, they wanted to expand the character of Tabitha,” she said. “So they had a couple of different sets of twin babies for the early black and white in season two. But then for season three, they were going to color, and they knew they wanted the character to have a bigger part. So that’s when we were brought in.”
“It was a much-anticipated episode,” she added. “Like there had been a lot of talks like ‘Will Tabitha be magic as well?’ And the show, I mean, if you watch the early black-and-white episodes and then the color episodes, it’s just such a beautiful transition. I mean, Elizabeth Montgomery is so gorgeous. So it’s nice to see her in color. But yeah, I brought color to Bewitched.”
The first episode featuring Murphy was “Nobody’s Perfect” which aired on Sept. 15, 1966.
While Murphy didn’t watch the early Bewitched episodes, she has some favorites from her years on the series. In 2025 she told ReMind magazine, “I’m going to sound so conceited: I like every episode I’m in the most. I like the episodes where I turned Amy into a butterfly, when my character went to preschool, and episodes with the storybooks like Jack and the Beanstalk and Hansel and Gretel. And any time where there were other kids or animals there, because it was the most fun to film.”
More than 60 years after it premiered on ABC, Murphy thinks Bewitched remains a beautifully filmed series.
“If something is done well, it holds up over time,” she said on the podcast. “We had an amazing cast. The scripts were great, the production values, and even the magic. I mean, I stand by the quality of the special effects. Back in the ‘60s, we were one of the first shows to use green screen. So I mean, we were kind of cutting edge, and it looks great. I mean, it’s still a beautiful show.”
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