It begins: The genesis of Blogging Bewitched

Recently we've been renting DVDs of Bewitched from Netflix, me working here at my computer while my daughters watch the show on the computer a few feet to my left. Like everyone else of my age--we who grew up in the late 60s and early 70s--I watched the series in repeats all the time in my youth. But watching it anew in adulthood, I've been finding myself surprised: by the dynamics between Samantha and Darrin, by Darrin's occasional remove to the bar for post-marital-spat solace, by, in short, the picture of 1960s suburban family and work life that the show presents. In a flurry of emails with my very clever friend Michael--who is as comfortable discussing Roman wall paintings as he is sitcoms, and who will, I hope, sometimes grace these pages as a guest blogger--the decision was made: a blog had to be born.

My intention is to work through the series in order, as time permits, from the early black and whites to the color universe of the second Darrin, blogging about each episode as I go. I'll not be offering a complete episode guide per se. That's been done well already: see my links to the right.

Readers wondering who I am will find a partial list of my other sites in the sidebar, with complete (more or less) information to be had at dhamel.com. To sum up: I am a mother and author, a blogger and amateur book reviewer, the creator of BAFAB and TwitterLit and KidderLit. I'm in search of an easy means of describing my endeavors.

And here's something Bewitch-y to start the ball rolling. Are you aware that the theme song to Bewitched had lyrics? I didn't know this until the aforementioned Michael pointed it out to me earlier. Here's the song as sung by Steve Lawrence, in a video celebrating another witch of note.

Tags: Bewitched, lyrics, Steve Lawrence