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DVD : Tabitha - The Entire Series |
- A Guilty Pleasure You Can Arrest Me for Loving!I was absolutely in love with this show for the short time ABC aired it back in the late 70s and had the sense to ignore the negative reviews here when I ordered it last week. Verdict: I'm still guilty of loving the very young Lisa Hartman as Tabitha Stevens.
Now, true, there is a thin resemblance to Mary Tyler Moore, but there is enough Bewitched to make a die-hard fan like myself smile in total approval. Lisa Hartman wears her hair, wears clothes similar to, and acts enough like Elizabeth Montgomery to pass herself off as Samantha Stevens' magical daughter, while David Ankrum plays mortal brother Adam, who happens to be a chip of the old "Derwood" block. The late Robert Urich as egomaniacal Ted Baxteresque on/off love interest Paul serves to work up some notable sparks, and Karen Morrow as Aunt Minerva is so bewitching all by herself that she often steals the show away from the rest of the cast just by showing up for as little as 2 minutes in a given episode. Of special note, check out the original pilot with Liberty Williams and Bruce Kimmel to see how much better I think the show might have gone had Adam been kept a warlock.
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- Kind of disappointingI REALLY, REALLY wanted to love this show - in 1977 and in 2005. When I was 13, the pilot premiered on ABC as a "Special" in the Spring of '77. It then moved to a regular weekly slot in the fall of '77. I watched it sporadically, and what bothered me then - still bothers me now. Lisa Hartman is indeed a delightful presence, and is totally believable as Elizabeth Montgomery's "daughter". But the show was inconsistent with the BEWITCHED backstory (Her brother Adam is powerless, while on BEWITCHED he did indeed possess his mom's gifts), Aunt Minerva (Karen Morrow)seems intent on getting Tabitha into morally questionable situations and there was a disturbing "occult" overtone in some episodes (which I didn't feel was present on BEWITCHED). There were a few enjoyable episodes, though, and the "guest spots" from original BEWITCHED cast members (the Kravitzes, Dr. Bombay) are fun. Maybe I was hoping for a duplication of the joy I felt / still feel from the first show. As far as the dvd itself is concerned, the picture quality and sound are EXCELLENT, and the bonus feature - the first (and in my opinion, superior) TABITHA pilot from 1976 is included (with a totally different cast).
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- It could be magic...if it tried a little harder...This spinoff series to Bewitched, one of the greatest sitcoms of all times, tries very hard to capture the magic of the original but just misses. It's cute in it's own way and fun to hear the soundeffects from the original series reused as well as some of the characters such as Dr. Bombay (played again by Bernard Fox) and the Kravitzes (played again by Sandra Gould and George Tobias). And who can deny how cute Lisa Hartman as Tabitha is.
The problem though is that the characters don't seem to be fleshed out until the last couple episodes but by then it was too late. And the fact that this show started in 1977 only five years after Bewitched ended makes you wonder how Tabitha grew up so fast.
The video and sound on this DVD release is awesome! Crystal clear and vibrant!
If you're looking for some light fun you should check this out.
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- A 70s flashback with a new twitch!!After reading the reviews, I was a bit hesitant, so I rented it instead. I will say the show is a bit on the bad side, but it does has a good side too. I really like the more youthful look of the 70s that the show has like the bubble gum lamp in her apartment or her VW bug she drives. And the cameos from some Bewitched stars like Dr. Bombay do may a nice little trip back to the 70s. So if you just want to watch something for a night that you have nothing to do watch this!!!!
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- Tabitha and Adam Are Older Then They Should Be but The Show is Good Anyway!I remember watching Tabitha on TV in the 70's when I was a kid and liking it and being very disappointed when it was cancelled. Sure it was a piece of fluff but it was an entertaining piece of fluff. Okay it has some weird plot points that don't make sense like for example Tabitha has been aged to be in her 20's and it appears that Adam is older than her when he was actually her younger brother. I'm not sure how old exactly Tabitha really should be. The twin actresses who played her in Bewitched, Erin and Dianne Murphy were born in 1964 and that was the year the show began on TV and Tabitha was born sometime in the 1965-1966 season so logically that would make Tabitha only about 11 or 12 years old in 1977 when Tabitha aired on TV but they aged the character but the show is still good anyway and we can always pretend that a spell by bumbling aunt Clara had backfired and it made Tabitha and Adam older and the spell couldn't be reversed.
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