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Bewitched's Holiday Ep "Sisters at Heart"
Advanced TV Herstory
English - December 14, 2016 02:47 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsFilm Interviews TV & Film History director hollywood producer actor equity herstory leadership metoo timesup womenrepresentation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Host Cynthia Bemis Abrams recounts an important and progressive holiday episode of the series, Bewitched, which aired 1964 to 1972. Cynthia first details background on how the series's development, with its Hollywood veteran Elizabeth Montgomery, along side two actors who played her mortal husband, Darren. Montgomery was married at the time to William Asher and both served as the series producers. Cynthia provides details of how the story treatment landed on the desk of noted woman television writer Barbara Avedon. The holiday episode, which aired Dec. 24, 1970, boldly addresses series underlying message of diversity and tolerance for a nation that was immersed in social change.