Bewitched: Sisters At Heart

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Bewitched: Sisters at Heart

Once upon a time there was a typical American girl, who happened to bump into a typical American boy. She kept bumping into him until one day they decide they had better sit down and talk this over before one of them had an accident.
They became good friends and found they had a lot in common. The boy found the girl hard to resist so, he did what any red-blooded American boy would do. He asked her to marry him. They had a typical wedding, they went on a typical honeymoon. It wasn’t until the Honeymoon, that she reveals that she’s a witch.
In the following years to come Darrin and Samantha Stephens would have a daughter named Tabitha, and a son Adam. This episode is a lesson in racial intolerance and bigotry.
Keith, his wife Dorothy, their daughter Lisa, and Keith's boss, Larry, visit the home of the Stephens family, with who Lisa is to spend a few days while Keith is away on a business trip for Larry. Lisa’s family is
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It Was the season 7 episode 13 and was written by 26 Black students from a tenth-grade English class at Jefferson High School. Most students at the school were unable to read, write, or comprehend at a high school level, with 44% reading at a third-grade level and very few students reading at a level much higher than that. Sargent said that the students, "who might have been stuck in the ghetto for the rest of their lives, loved Bewitched, and with just a little approval and motivation, came alive on the set. “Montgomery considered "Sisters at Heart" her favorite episode of the series, and said that it "was created in the true spirit of Christmas ... conceived in the image of innocence and filled with truth. “The episode received the Governors Award at the 23rd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1971. Montgomery's biographer Herbie Pilato wrote that "no episode of the series more clearly represented the cry against prejudice" than "Sisters at

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