Bewitched is an American situation comedy starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964-1969), and Dick Sargent (1969-1972). The series was originally broadcast on ABC from 1964 to 1972. It continues to be seen throughout the world in syndication.

It is the longest running supernatural sitcom of the 1960s-1970s. The genre included I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Nanny and the Professor, The Girl With Something Extra, and the dark comedies The Munsters and The Addams Family.

TV Guide recently listed Bewitched as the 50th Greatest Television Program of All Time.

The focus of the show (which was initially entitled The Witch of Westport according to the A&E Network Biography of Elizabeth Montgomery), is on the mixed marriage of a nose-twitching witch, Samantha Stephens (Montgomery), and her mortal husband, Darrin (originally played by Dick York and later by Dick Sargent). The series, a romantic comedy, shows how true love can endure the most vexing of situations, even between a witch and a human. Samantha's mother, Endora (Agnes Moorehead), disapproves of Darrin, as indeed do most of Samantha's family.

Many episodes revolve around Endora, or another of Darrin's spell-binding in-laws, using magic to undermine the union. Although Endora casts countless spells on Darrin, she never outright banishes him from Samantha's life, or casts any spells of permanence. Endora's ploy seems to be to provoke Darrin into leaving Samantha, but the mortal's love for his wife overcomes every obstacle. Endora refuses to even remember Darrin's name, invariably calling him "Durwood", "Darwin," and even "Dum-Dum," much to his annoyance.

Bewitched is unique for the mid-1960s in that it portrays an estranged married couple - Samantha's parents, Endora (Agnes Moorehead) and Maurice (Maurice Evans). Maurice was portrayed as an urbane thespian not unlike Elizabeth Montgomery's father, Robert Montgomery. Maurice occasionally pops in with a young, attractive female escort. The couple's separation is inferred and subtextual. It was a TV era that showcased widows and widowers (My Three Sons, Here's Lucy, Mayberry RFD), as divorce was a topic deemed too hot for advertisers and the networks' "standards and practices". (Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch and Mary Richards of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, were written as divorcees, but network brass insisted on amending their histories.) In the episode, "Samantha's Good News", Endora does threaten to file for an "ectoplasmic interlocutory" (code for divorce), only to wrangle Maurice's affection.