Bewitched and Beyond: The Fan Who Came to Dinner by Mark Wood Read Free Book Online Page B

he’s actually been under their very noses the entire time, but having never practiced any spells, they were unable to see him in the crystal ball.
    With the help of his “familiar,” an alligator bag (see picture) he was placed in as a baby, they find him and implore him to sign an official Son-of-A-Witch contract before all hell breaks loose at midnight on Halloween, his 31st birthday. It’s a fun story with a lot of humor and Sam even saves the day in the end by twitching his nose, to which the other witches ask “Where did you learn that?”
    “Reruns!”
    Son of a Witch would have boasted quite a memorable cast. Mrs. Gladstone was to be played by Sandra Gould. Bernard Fox would play Professor Hawthorne, a modern day witch hunter (whose daughter, Judy, Sam is engaged to), and Marla Gibbs would rule the roost as the rather imposing witch Tituba.
    Rose Marie would round out the cast as the Reverend Mother (bow well hidden under habit).
    Sam would teach grade school history, paving the way for kids to be introduced to the episodes, greatly adding to the fun as they help the witches convince Sam about his past.
    Unfortunately, the project was never given the green light, so one can only imagine what a fun show that would have been.
    During this same time, the Internet began to pick up steam, Kasey and I happened upon one of the first web sites about Bewitched ; one sponsored by Nick-at-Nite. Kasey was fascinated by its potential, so we immediately began surfing the web.
    I certainly can’t blame them, but most Nick-at-Nite fans wouldn’t believe that it was actually KASEY ROGERS answering their questions on the Bewitched message board. A few of them got downright mean-spirited about it, thinking someone was pulling their leg, but we just used to laugh. So if any of you doubters are reading this, and I hope you are, guess what?! That really was “Louise Tate”!
    We actually met a few of those fans, first from the Nick-at-Nite site, and later from a website run by our soon-to-be-dear friends, Joe and Wendy. Some of these fans, including Joe, even flew out to attend our infamous Halloween parties. If you look at Joe and Wendy’s site, you can still find many pictures from those halcyon days of Hallowe’en.

Publicity still for our script Son of A Witch (NOT to be confused with Bewitched… Again!). The “Alligator Bag” was going to have vicious looking teeth put into its mouth as it was not supposed to like “Elliott” (Kasey)!

Me at the famous Munsters House while preparing to be a Universal Tour Guide.

Kathleen Freeman, the doddering witch, Edna, would be computer proficient and cast spells by looking them up under “spell check”.

Chapter 13
    Witches in Clouds, Monsters in Trees; Happy Times with Mark and KR
     
    Yes, silly title.
    Kasey and I had the uncanny knack of being able to “see” the exact same figures in clouds. It’s funny — we would see witches on brooms all the time! At the beach, at dinner, in the leaves of a tree by the lake across the street, and once even in a cloud at her brother’s house on Thanksgiving! We got everyone to see that one!
    But it didn’t stop there.
    Often we’d pass two very distinctive looking trees. One looked like a monster on its hind legs holding a rag doll and another looked like an angel’s wing open for flight. (Even Sandy Gould once saw that one!)
    Clouds and trees weren’t the only things we could “see” things in. We were also pretty good with puddles!
    The things we’d “see” in puddles usually made us laugh because invariably, they were “dirty” pictures. We even began shooting photos of our finds and wanted to put a book together called “Pornographic Puddles,” but we never did. (In the attempt of keeping this book rated “G,” I won’t be including any of those photos!) Speaking of visceral subjects:

Chapter 14
    The Poop Deck
     
    Once when Kasey and I were getting ready to go somewhere, I needed to let Wink out so he could go