Tabitha

1977-05-07 | en

Lisa Hartman Robert Urich Mel Stewart

Comedy Sci-Fi

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Seasons & Episodes

EP0 Original Unaired Pilot

Apr. 24,1976

Actually this first pilot had Adam as warlock trying to convince Tabatha to use her powers. In the show Bewitched for the first few years the name was spelled ""TabAtha"" with an A in the credits. It later was changed to an ""I."" See http://www.brucekimmel.com/tabitha.html.htm For more information on the first Tabatha pilot

EP1 The Pilot

May. 07,1977

Young witch Tabitha Stephens has inherited her mother Samantha's magical gifts much to the irritation of her mortal brother Adam. They both work at Los Angeles television station KXLA and she is an administrative assistant to the producer for the Paul Thurston Show. The conceded Paul Thurston wants to interview a former beauty queen even after Tabitha lined up an author of a book about recycling and the energy crisis. After Tabitha stops by his apartment, he keeps losing his electricity and running out of gas enough that when he gets to the studio all he wants to talk about is energy so ...

EP2 Tabitha's Weighty Problem

Sep. 10,1977

Tabitha seems to have cold in her nose and just before she sneezes whatever she last said happens. Also her witchcraft is on the fritz. Her station is doing the on-site reporting for a weight lifting tournament for ABC Wide World of Sports and Tabitha gets to be escort for an amorous Russian weight lifter. When Tabitha says that she'll flatten him after another advance from him, she sneezes and he is flattened and winds up in a poster. Dr. Bombay shows up and diagnoses her with an allergy. Tabitha is cured and the Russuian returns and wins the contest.

EP3 Halloween Show

Sep. 10,1977

Paul Thurston is victimized by a hold back witch who refused to grow up.

EP4 A Star is Born

Nov. 19,1977

When Minerva and Tabitha try to have dinner at an Italian restaurant, they wait as Paul Thurston and the new weather girl get star treatment and are seated immediately. Wanting the same thing for Tabitha she delays the weather girl and Tabitha fills in and then gets the job. In fact the people love her and now she can be the star.

EP5 Minerva Goes Straight

Nov. 26,1977

Bored with her witchy life and the many warlocks she has recently been going out with, Tabitha suggests that Minerva try the mortal life. Minerva enthusiastically agrees, moves in with Tabitha and tries to get a job at her television station. Producer Marvin Decker's secretary suddenly wins a trip to Hawaii and Minerva volunteers to fill in. She can't stop using magic to get her job done. Paul Thurston and his fellow employees are going up to a ski lodge for the weekend and Minerva tags along. She falls for the womanizing French ski instructor and tries to learn to ...

EP6 Mister Nice Guy

Dec. 10,1977

Tabitha admits to Minerva that she likes Paul Thurston, but he is so arrogant and conceited and that he can't pass a mirror without looking in it. Minerva zaps him so that every time he looks in a mirror he'll become a nice guy for one hour. Tabitha likes the new Paul and she starts to go out with him. When she invites him in he can't get the least bit romantic because he don't want to take advantage of her unlike the old Paul. On his show the formerly obnoxious and confrontational host is now being walked all over by his guest and his producer wants it to stop. ...

EP7 Arrival of Nancy

Dec. 17,1977

Tabitha's childhood friend Nancy Kravitz, the niece of Gladys Kravitz, shows up at KXLA to start a new life in California away from her interfering aunt. Nancy is a bit naive and when she follows Tabitha's advice to rent a car she ends up with a Rolls Royce. Tabitha helps her out and takes he back to her apartment where her Aunt Gladys and Uncle Abner show up to take Nancy home. Aunt Gladys gives her two days to get a job and she ends up working as a masseur in a disreputable establishment. Tabitha rescues her after the place is raided and gets everyone off. She also ...

EP8 Tabitha's Triangle

Dec. 24,1977

Paul Thurston interviews a handsome guy running for the state senate who can really stand up to him on the air. Fireworks really fly between him and Tabitha and Paul is acting quite jealous. He takes Tabitha with him on his political stops and even asks her to marry him. Before another appearance on Paul's show, Tabitha has them both to dinner with Minerva interfering by infecting their watches with truth spells. Both guys get very truthful while on the air which seems refreshing for a politician. Afterwards he starts to tell Tabitha how to dress and that and wants ...

EP9 That New Black Magic

Dec. 31,1977

Tabitha's high school friend Portia shows up and has a thing for producer Marvin Decker who is just celebrating his twentieth anniversary. After he resists her advances, she sends him a velvet coat that turns him into a swinger. Tabitha is determined to save him, so she heats him up and he removes his coat. Portia counters with another spell and begins remaking her "Papa Bear." Tabitha helps Marvin's wife by dressing her up like Portia and then using her sense of humor they laugh together about how ridiculous hey look. Portia gets angry when people laugh at her, so ...

EP10 What's Wrong with Mister Right?

Dec. 31,1977

The director that is making a commercial at KXLA starts to romance Tabitha who likes the guy and the attention. A warlock who wants to make Tabitha one of his conquests convinces her that the director is really the warlock that is after her. To get rid of him Tabitha who is in the commercial uses her witchcraft to mess up the shoot until she learns the truth.

EP11 Paul Goes to New York

Jan. 07,1978

Paul Thurston announces on his show that he is going to New York to host a national game show. While the station scrambles for a replacement Tabitha finds a local gossip columnist to take over. His replacement attacks the guests and sets the members of the production staff against each other. Tabitha and Minerva go to New York and find that Paul is just a backstage announcer for a game show and they convince him to return. Since they can't fire the new host they both do the show while stepping all over each other. Tabitha gives the "catty" gossip columnist the ...

EP12 Tabitha's Party

Jan. 14,1978

When the Witches Council declares that there must be a mixed marriage this year, they order Tabitha to marry Paul Thurston immediately. To help them along, Minerva and Cassandra unleashes a love potion at one of Tabitha's parties and everyone else finds themselves falling in love.

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Tabitha Stephens is the daughter of the bewitching Samantha and her mortal husband, Darrin Stephens. As a young, single working witch, Tabitha adds a little magic and fun to the lives of her relatives and friends.

Tabitha Audience Reviews

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

earlytalkie I confess that I forgot about this show until I saw a few episodes listed on YouTube. This show was an attempt to revive the magic of Bewitched in a hipper, more "with it" setting for the late seventies. The attempt to emulate the single woman in the TV workplace dynamic of The Mary Tyler Moore Show is all too obvious, right down to the giant "T" on Tabitha's apartment wall. Lisa Hartman was not bad in the lead, but she does try to channel Elizabeth Montgomery in the earlier show. The show uses characters from the old series like Dr. Bombay and the Kravitzes, then completely ignores details from the old series like the fact that on Bewitched, Adam was shown to be a warlock. The attempt to re-create the Darrin/Samantha conflict of Bewitched by making Adam a stuffy mortal simply does not work due to the fact that this is a brother and sister instead of a husband and wife. The fact that the two siblings are in their twenties instead of the age they would have been in actuality could be explained by the odd "aging process" of the characters in Bewitched. No one knew exactly how old Samantha, Endora and the rest were. This show tries to pick up where Bewitched left off in 1972, the year it was cancelled. Music cues and the "twitch" are all riffs on the earlier show. It is my opinion that Bewitched lasted about 5 years longer than it should have. The later seasons, are, for me, nearly unwatchable due to the poor writing and recycled stories from earlier seasons. Tabitha's story lines are a slight improvement over the stale final seasons of Bewitched, but they are no great shakes. Karen Morrow as Aunt Minerva is pretty good, but Robert Urich is wasted here as the stereotypical stupid, lecherous, handsome stud who hosts a show at the TV station Tabitha works for. For some reason, Sony seems to have shelled out some money to make the film quality of this show look almost new. The colors are bright and the sound is fine. The few episodes I've seen are watchable time wasters, but just watch an early episode of Bewitched to see how good and entertaining the supernatural Stephens can be.

ddmod This was a great little show and I know that I am one of the few that remembers it. This is the show that made me a fan of the beautiful and talented Lisa Hartman (Clint I hope you know how lucky you are). This was a great premise based on the daughter Tabitha (hence the name) from the TV Show Bewitched, But little Miss Tabitha is all grown up now and dealing with the world on her own. Over the years I have mentioned this show to many because this is where my mind goes when I think of Miss Hartman since I was never a fan of the prime time soaps. Great little show that deserved a better shot and maybe it's time it got another one.

BuffSpike As a child in the 70's I grew up watching reruns of Bewitched and I loved that show and I remember when I was around 12 years old that they came out with this spin-off series Tabitha and I'm sorry but I liked this show. Okay I agree that Bewitched was a better show but Tabitha was good too and I thought the show was cute and I really liked Lisa Hartman as the adult Tabitha though I wonder why they aged Tabitha and Adam? Tabitha was born during the 1965-1966 television season so in 1977 she should have only been around 11 or 12 years old but despite that I still enjoyed watching this show which unfortunately only lasted one season but now that they have put it on DVD I will have to think of buying it!

TequilaMockingbird63 As another person wrote What WERE they thinking?! Lisa Hartman was very cute in 1977 but her acting was just plain bad. Perhaps the director told her eye rolling, pouting, huffing and over reacting to "frustrating" situations is funny. I'm also wondering if she was told to try to act like and mimic the wonderful Elizabeth Montgomery as her vocal inflections and reactions are suspiciously very similar. OK It was 1977 a long, long, long time ago so I will cut it some slack. If you watch it for the time warp factor alone (The clothes, the bad disco music, the cheesy laugh track, and the horribly written dialog complete with lines like "Right On" "Foxy Mama" and "Shed those groovy threads") its bearable. Other than that her brother Adam (who i really don't remember much in the original Bewitched) is a dweeb, Aunt Minerva is obnoxious at best and Robert Urich seems completely out of place. Its filmed very similar to many of the TV shows of the 70's - like Wonder Woman the music swells at every commercial break and every ending has to have a close up freeze of Wonder Woman (Diane Prince) smiling and or laughing telling us stupid at home viewers that everything turned out fine. Tabitha has its same bad endings but now we forced to watch Tabitha and the rest of the cast mugging and laughing to idiotic dialog. If it ever finds it's way to TV again its worth seeing just to say I'm embarrassed for everyone involved.2/10