Moorehead admired York’s talent on the screen and wasn’t pleased when he was replaced with Dick Sargent. A few episodes were filmed with no Darrin at all.
It’s hard to forget the lovable but bumbling character of Aunt Clara. In the show, Aunt Clara’s obsession with door knobs was based on actress Marion Lorne’s real-life obsession with them. The actress had a collection of more than 1,000 antique door openers.
The character Darrin was constantly at odds with the fact that Samantha was a witch, a tension that carried over to most of her relatives. However, despite this strangeness, Aunt Clara was able to endear herself to Darrin. How could you not fall in love with the lovable lady?
When Larry and Louise Tate were blessed with a son on Bewitched, the actor who played Larry, David White, requested that he be named Jonathan. White had a son off-screen named Jonathan who he’d raised as a single father after his wife died of complications during her second pregnancy.
Tragically, Jonathan was a passenger on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. David died of a heart attack two years later and the pair is buried together at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.