Bewitched Season 2 Opening

[darrylhaynes]

the good old days....no mexicans in los angeles..

[BoyMeetsWorldVault]

I think I know how to improve this you should use the season two ending after the Bewitched text appears then switch to the ending theme

[cindyspaceful]

3rd season got lazy w/color

[livinlarge18]

I doubt we will see the Screen Gems Dancing Sticks Logo ever again

[kduideo]

sony is ran by non drug testing youth and jews....now offense i am jewish too.

[livinlarge18]

I plan on coloring this original intro when I get my laptop and Adobe After Effects

[livinlarge18]

The TV-G icon indicates this must have been from TV Land between 2003 & 2005

[snowpeck]

@livinlarge18 Actually Nick at Nite around 1998 or 1999.

[livinlarge18]

@snowpeck Oh cool you know until 2009 I never knew Bewitched had six different theme songs I grew up watching the pre-2000 remastered episodes

[livinlarge18]

Where did you get the music without the sponsors

[snowpeck]

@livinlarge18 The Quaker Oats version ends like that before it segues into the commercial.

[livinlarge18]

@snowpeck The Chevy version ends the song right before Sam turns her broom into the 60's Chevrolet version

[livinlarge18]

@snowpeck do you have the audio?

could you send it to me?

[cindyspaceful]

@livinlarge18 i know but answer private

[TheJBGAULIER]

Oula, on a limpression que c'est tout enrhoué ! Mais la musique , c'est celle de la fin ! Waou !sa rend bien !

[keithcop]

Geez, I had always remembered this in my mind, and now I get to hear it again!

[alanr4447a]

Watching the reruns over the years, I never realized that the second season had different opening music. And watching them in RECENT times one would never even know the animation was different from the color seasons -- notably the "separated" stove, the cabinet (left), and the doorway (right) -- since they now use the color-version even on the b&w episodes!

[acspop]

This is a great opening theme. Why didn't they ever play it in reruns or on the DVD sets?

[livinlarge18]

@acspop cause when Columbia/Sony remastered the series they decided to remove Bewitched's own theme songs and now every time the Dick York episodes play the Season 1 Theme is heard

[kgmaj]

The DVD box sets ripped us off. They should have had these openings

[wendyglowworm]

This is the worst of all the openings.

[greggbe]

I had no idea there was a different version of the theme until the internet came along..its a shame they didnt keep them intact for syndication and DVD..they use the version fr Season one on ALL of the Dick Yorks Color and B & W both..I wonder how many versions there are of the Dick Yorks yrs I assume just 3 ??

[dma124]

This, in my opinion, is the greatest of all the Bewitched themes -- Exciting and with a great beat. I always wondered why it was replaced.

[Largo3point0]

If I were ranking all the versions of the theme, this one would be last.

[RayPointer]

The theme song became a hit, which explains the tempo used in the season two opening. But frankly, it is not as exciting and energetic as the seaons one opening, which is the most familiar of the black and white episodes.

[CaptainOvide]

Samantha as a cat looks a little like Penelope Pussycat.

[americarunsondunkin]

That 'TV-G' in the top left at the opening suggests this was taped off TV fairly recently. What channel still shows the B&W Bewitched episodes with their original openings? The last time I saw those was when Nick at Nite aired the B&W episodes in the late '80s/early '90s. Ever since it's been the Season 3 opening with the color turned off (and it bugs me that this is how the show's presented on DVD too).

[njlee8785]

when N@N brought it back in 1995, they showed the original B&W openings until they stopped airing it on the network in 2000.

[DeanLeonard1]

This is WAY cool! Isn't the kitchen a little bit bigger before Darrin kisses Sam?

[maestrowick]

WOW, I always thought of myself as a Bewitched Afficionado. I fill stupid not ever hearing this one and I've been watching this show for over thirty years. Thank you for posting. This does correlate with the season two ending.

[hannahmontanafan80]

Amazing! I love this version! But season 3 is my favorite! But this is my second favorite!

[sherizampelli]

What I noticed right off the bat was a Nike swoosh in the background just before the Bewithched writing came on. I've never seen that before. This was my hypnosis as a young one. I was glued to the set for all of this.

[iiuriel]

wonderfull

[britfrenir]

I wonder if some of these beginnings can be considered as scary.

[qpr60]

Well, they are if you're very young and these images are coming out from that little box in the corner of the room...

[britfrenir]

I was a baby when the second season came out, so that one would probably. Also I was afraid of train horns.

[britfrenir]

This must be a more recent airing because that G is not there.

[britfrenir]

Sorry I do not know how the word not got there it must be a typo. I meant it is more recent because of the G being there. Sorry if I am spamming.

[britfrenir]

I recogise this from the closing credits of some episodes and first saw them on WGN in the summer of 1980 and did not have it back, but WPWR started to have all of the seasons when it aired starting in 1985 or 1986. It makes sense that the closing theme would be the same at the beginng as the end though. Some shows did not have the same beginning as the end though.

[Jude1968]

BRAVO!!!!!! People like Snowpeck put the people at Sony to shame!!

[MermaidGabriela11]

i saw this but in real life.

[toofargone68]

wow is all i can say

[fromthesidelines]

Originally, in the network prints, there'd be a sponsor logo on screen before Sam flies into sight; on alternate Thursdays, you'd hear the "Chevy" fanfare, with logo, and an announcer saying, "Chevrolet Presents..."- or Gary Owens crooning over the 'Quaker Man'/Q logo, "The Quaker Oats Company Presents...". A full sponsor I.D. followed the opening title.

[John80220]

Columbia started screwing with the Season 2 title music way back when "Bewitched" was first re-run on ABC weekdays at noon EDT in 1967. Not only was the Season 1 opening theme placed over the Season 2 titles, but the end music was also replaced on all the shows through Tabitha's birth ... until someone apparently noticed that the Season 1 closing was a couple of seconds longer and the Screen Gems end music didn't synch up. At least that problem was fixed in syndication.

[keithcop]

Just awesome to see this, never liked that first season opening and I was sure a more lively version existed. My memory wasn't faulty! Thanks...!

[guyinweho]

Because they don't care about things like this, it's just easier to use the version that they have instead of spending an extra five bucks to make it right.

[swansafc1912]

Woderfull intro full or warmth i remeber my

mum cooking tea & sitting by the warm opem fire in the early 1960s and watching the lovelly Samantha twinkle that magic nose what

a nice lady & great support from Darrin a

great partnership a screen gem.

[kbirdusa]

Nice job - why can't Sony do this?

[sexymama1966]

i wish they had also..

[Spramped1]

This is my favorite version of the theme. I do wish they'd use it again. Excellent work!

[caraqueno]

I totally agree with you. I barely remember the theme when the second season was underway but, from what I remember, it brings back wonderful memories, of when the show was reaching its peak (1965-1969).

[OldsVistaCruiser]

My favorite is the 1969 Sargent open without narration.

[ez2me2003]

What more can I say, I love it! Great mix!  :-)