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Rising young Advertising executive with "McMann and Tate" on Madison Avenue, Darrin Stephens' life would never be the same after "bumping" into Samantha one fateful day in Manhattan. On their wedding night Samantha told Darrin that she was a Witch. He reacted in typical style - he freaked ! After much soul searching he decided the only way to cope with life with a witch-wife was to lay down the rule of "love, honour and no Witchcraft". Very much a self made man, Darrin seriously resented his wife's occasional supernatural assists in his life and career. Prone to temperamental outbursts he nonetheless loved Sam and put up with all the magical shenanigans. Wanting only to provide for his family and live a normal life, Darrins idea of normalcy was often threatened by Endora. Resenting his glamorous, high living Mother in law , he was often quick to insult Endora, often getting himself into more trouble. A proud individual, the attaché toting ad man was often perplexed with the problems of witchdom and yearned for simpler problems such as the Mortgage, taxes and getting a pay rise. In later years Darrin changed, quite literally, but could still be as pig headed as ever. However through all their problems Darrin was devoted to Sam, Tabitha, and Adam and loved them dearly.. What "normal red blooded American man" would put up with being turned into a Chimp, sent back in time and being shrunk if he didn't? |
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As a struggling actor, Dick Sargent sustained his hopes and needs with a variety of nontheatrical jobs. He even dug ditches. Leaving a position as a department store salesman, he journeyed to the colonial city of San Miguel Allende in Mexico to enter the import-export business. He later began collecting art. He returned to Hollywood and TV roles in Medic, Playhouse 90, Gunsmoke, Ripcord, West. His first major role in a motion picture was as P. F. Wilson in 1957's Bernadine, for which he received a Laurel Award from the nation's film exhibitors. His other movies include Operation Petticoat (1959), The Great Imposter (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), Captain Newman, MD. (1963), For Love or Money (1964), and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). Sargent appeared in twenty-three motion pictures, four made-for-TV movies, and five series of his own.
His most recent regular series, Down to Earth, was supernaturally premised like Bewitched--only instead of having a witch for a wife, he had an angel (Carol Mansell as Ethel) for a maid, Sargent, like Dick York, was dedicated to ridding the world of hunger and offered hope and support in places where there was little of either. About three years before his death by prostate cancer on July 8, 1994, Dick Sargent revealed that he was homosexual. The high rate of suicide among young gays was the reason for his decloaking from the closet. He wanted them to have a role model, to have his message live on. "Gay and lesbian people," he said, "are just like everybody else." |
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