Alice Ghostley maid named Naomi, who was hired by Darrin Stephens (played by Dick York) to assist his wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) during her pregnancy. Towards the end of the 1965-66 season, actress-comedian Alice Pearce, who was featured as nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz on "Bewitched", died. The producers of the series immediately offered the role of Gladys to Ghostley, who refused it. As a result, in the fall of 1966, character actress Sandra Gould assumed the role of Gladys. In September 1969, after the death of actress Marion Lorne, who played Aunt Clara, Ghostley joined "Bewitched" as a semiregular in the role
Bewitched series, written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, had been on the radar of several major networks, including ABC, after Sony began shopping the project to interested parties. On August 23, 2018, ABC announced that it had bought a pilot for a single camera Bewitched remake from "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris. This is Barris's last new project for the network before his exclusive contract with Netflix goes into effect. After completing its original run, ABC Daytime and ABC Saturday Morning continued to show the series until 1973. "Bewitched" has since been syndicated on many local US broadcast stations from 1973–82