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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 238844" data-attributes="member: 5079">My opinions on BEWITCHED have shifted considerably through the years.  For a long time, I would have said I favor the color Dick York years; somewhere along the line, I preferred the B&W seasons.  Now -- well, so many of these classic sitcoms that I once loved now look stale and formulaic.  I can still dip into BEWITCHED for a few random episodes, but I grow tired of it real fast.  So it surprises me that GILLIAGAN holds up as well as it does.  It's never been one of my favorites and I wouldn't make any arguments about its quality, but its so confident in its preposterousness that it just kind of works.  The vampire episode from the 3rd season was one of my favorite pieces of TV when I was a kid; I still kind of like it, even though it lacks the faux-spookiness if it had been filmed if B&W.  I found myself watching a similar episode of THE MONKEES on Youtube recently, and got bored in about 7 minutes.I don't think Sherwood Schwartz had too many tricks up his sleeve.  I think GILLIAGAN is the only good (-ish) thing he did.  I know THE BRADY BUNCH has its adherents and I guess it's kinda watchable, but Robert Reed's sourpuss assessments of the show were pretty spot-on.  And then there was this monstrosity:[MEDIA=youtube]PXB79q-XFac[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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