Washer and Vac on Bewitched

Have seen that site before and even bookmarked it for future reference. Truly amazing work, and lots of effort.

As if anyone does not know, most televison shows both then and now will usually show a home/building for the outside shots, but inside shots are done on a studio/back lot. As the interior of the Stephen's house was configured it would not have matched the exterior, so Adam goes about creating how the home really would look. IIRC one can purchase his desing prints and have one's very own "Morning Glory Circle" house.

Think also the man has done the same for the Brady Bunch house amoung others.

Lots of televison interior spaces do not match the houses shown from the outside. Take the "Golden Girls" home for instance. Each of the girls had their own bedrooms, yet there was no way from the outside that house had that many. Also for a house that big, and not very old it would be unusual for their to be only one bathroom, well unusual to moi.

Have always like Darrin's and Sam's house. It had the "open" layout on the ground floor everyone is in love with today. Large but not too large for a young mother/wife to take care of on her own or at least with the help of a daily girl. Good size for entertaining, especially when one adds the patio off the living room area. Good sized back yard for the children and entertaining. All Sam needed was a pool.

One of my favourite Bewitched episodes is when the Stephen's first buy the house and Sam along with Endora go to take a look. What woman wouldn't love to decorate by zapping in/moving about furniture. Guess the old standby of husbands moving about stuff, will have to do. *LOL* My favourite line is when Sam wants to walk (this alone gives Endora shudders), up to see the bedrooms. Endora says "up there?" "Why can't we just bring it down here"?

L.

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Post# 149154 8/19/2006 at 12:45 (6,453 days old) by sudsman ()
Checkrate/Likes The washer in some of the Bewitched series I think was a Frigidare Rapi Dry 1000 and The vac was a Hoover Dial A Matic by partner sez I am not right but cannot remember what the washer was any takes on this one .

Post# 149156 , Reply# 1 8/19/2006 at 12:53 (6,453 days old) by mixfinder ()
Checkrate/Likes *Frigidaire* The appliances were Frigidaire in Samantha's new home, in 1964. The range was a 40 inch double oven Flair. The refrigerator was a Gemini, with the freezer on the bottom. On the door of the fridge was a GM logo, that was a button to activate a door opener. When you pushed the switch, it caused an arm to spin and push the door open. The washer and dryer were TOL Frigidaire, but Jet Action and Rapid Dry weren't in machines or trademarks yet. All of Samantha's Frigidaire appliances were yellow Kelly

Post# 149160 , Reply# 2 8/19/2006 at 13:38 (6,453 days old) by mustangman ()
Checkrate/Likes *Thanks Kelly* Kelly, Very informative and I have always loved Seattle. Also if you remember Darrin always drove Chevys and the show was sponsored by Chevrolet which was a GM product thus the Frigidaire/GM appliances in the Bewitched set. I was 11 when Bewitched was on and bragged about the Flair stove which we had in our house since my dad was a traveling salesman for Frigidaire. Thus the bragging rights. I don't remember seeing any shots of the washer or dryer. Maybe they were like the 1964 Frigidaire DCIF-64 dryer I have been trying to get repair advice on here for sometime. We also had the matching washer for the dryer which I don't know the model number since my late dad got rid of it, I guess when it was unrepairable and instead bought a used 1-18 which I use today.

Post# 149163 , Reply# 3 8/19/2006 at 13:49 (6,453 days old) by timborow (Georgia)
Checkrate/Likes *Try this website* Shows all appliances and many shots of the house. It's pretty cool. Tim CLICK HERE TO GO TO timborow's LINK

Post# 149176 , Reply# 4 8/19/2006 at 17:48 (6,453 days old) by mcmodern ()
Checkrate/Likes *That website!* WOW! That guy really likes Betwitched! Sure enough, the Frigidaire kitchen shows the classic orginals, their TOL stuff, to be sure. But hey, their sponsor was GM! I remember when the house went more colonial, out with the Heywood-Wakefield and Jens Risom (too bad) but don't remember which season. Adam has spent a lot of time renering plans and 3D views of the Stevens' home, most are pretty life-like. If you haven't checked it out, do so. Thanks for sharing this, Tim!

Post# 149182 , Reply# 5 8/19/2006 at 20:17 (6,453 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)
Checkrate/Likes The appliances changed as the years went by, none of those pictured are 64 models. More like '67 by the square-dial on the washer & dryer. I think Robert posted the pictures of the kitchen when they first moved into the house and the washer & dryer were not TOL yet. Rapidry had been around since 1947 and taking a brief break in the Multi-tragic models from 62 to 64, it returned with the introduction of the Rollermatic mechanism in late 64 model year production. The pictured, push-button refrigerator was a Custom Imperial, introduced in 1966 with the wing-swept doors and pushbutton opening food compartment door. 1966 was the first year that Frigidaire put the "Custom Imperial" label on a refrigeration product, Imperial was the TOL prior to '66.

Post# 149248 , Reply# 6 8/19/2006 at 23:13 (6,453 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There�s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes Have seen that site before and even bookmarked it for future reference. Truly amazing work, and lots of effort. As if anyone does not know, most televison shows both then and now will usually show a home/building for the outside shots, but inside shots are done on a studio/back lot. As the interior of the Stephen's house was configured it would not have matched the exterior, so Adam goes about creating how the home really would look. IIRC one can purchase his desing prints and have one's very own "Morning Glory Circle" house. Think also the man has done the same for the Brady Bunch house amoung others. Lots of televison interior spaces do not match the houses shown from the outside. Take the "Golden Girls" home for instance. Each of the girls had their own bedrooms, yet there was no way from the outside that house had that many. Also for a house that big, and not very old it would be unusual for their to be only one bathroom, well unusual to moi. Have always like Darrin's and Sam's house. It had the "open" layout on the ground floor everyone is in love with today. Large but not too large for a young mother/wife to take care of on her own or at least with the help of a daily girl. Good size for entertaining, especially when one adds the patio off the living room area. Good sized back yard for the children and entertaining. All Sam needed was a pool. One of my favourite Bewitched episodes is when the Stephen's first buy the house and Sam along with Endora go to take a look. What woman wouldn't love to decorate by zapping in/moving about furniture. Guess the old standby of husbands moving about stuff, will have to do. LOL My favourite line is when Sam wants to walk (this alone gives Endora shudders), up to see the bedrooms. Endora says "up there?" "Why can't we just bring it down here"? L. L.

Post# 149268 , Reply# 7 8/19/2006 at 23:47 (6,453 days old) by washinsheen ()
Checkrate/Likes Bewitched is, to this day, my favorite show!! When Dick York had to be replaced by Dick Sargent and Samantha was pregnant with Adam, the house's interior changed. Apparently, there was a fire at the studio and the interior set was damaged, thus the Stephans family remodeled. It was then that they got a harvest gold Maytag washer & dryer. My favorite episode, too, is the one where Samantha & Endora go to see the new house. I loved it after Samantha came back downstairs and saw Endora sitting in an easy chair that she had zapped up and was massaging one of her aching feet, and Samantha said, "Oh, it's lovely!" Endora replied, "Oh thank you; have one..." and she zapped up a matching chair for Sam.

Post# 149273 , Reply# 8 8/20/2006 at 00:09 (6,453 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There�s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes *Those Slippers!* When Sam insisted Endora walk to see more of the house, Endora zapped the coolest pair of slippers onto her feet. LOL Looking at the old episodes now, Sam lived the very comforable lifestyle of an upper middle class woman. She had Pucci, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, the whole bag of tricks. My favourite guest star would have to have been a young Rachel Welch (she played a familar and a airline hostess). She had the kind of figure a girl had to start laying down plans at 13 in to achieve. Today of course it's all plastic surgery.

Post# 149362 , Reply# 10 8/20/2006 at 10:33 (6,452 days old) by hoover1060 ()
Checkrate/Likes *Samantha's vacuum* Was a model 1100 Hoover Dial-A-Matic, new in the stores in 1963

Post# 149452 , Reply# 11 8/20/2006 at 17:45 (6,452 days old) by mcmodern ()
Checkrate/Likes *Laundress, check this out* You're right, most TV exteriors didn't match the plan, and many of those plans could never be built (apartments with a window on the same wall as a door into the hallway??) There's an interesting book by Mark Bennet called 'TV Sets' including floor plans he created as closely as possible based on interior and exterior shots from different shows. Not to scale and there are some rather poor room layouts, but it's a lot of fun. Published by TV Books, Inc. But, we're moving off topic here... Kelly

Post# 149307 , Reply# 9 8/20/2006 at 01:47 (6,453 days old) by washinsheen ()
Checkrate/Likes *Samantha Does Laundry, Too!!* I wish Samantha would come and do my laundry!!!