The original was better

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• Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You should never change Dicks halfway through

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m surprised by, but happy to see, random posts about old TV shows.

  York was the better of the two Dicks. :)

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  • rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Any I definitely should look into?

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• zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dick York (left), and Dick Sargent (right) both as the character Darren Stephens on the old American sitcom Bewitched.

    Sargent replaced York late in the series and fans then and now widely agree that York played the part much better.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Elizabeth Montgomery just loved wiggling her nose at a couple of Dicks.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I always got weird vibes from the bewitched guy. Like maybe he was a bad dude.

  Anyone else ?

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dick York actually had some very serious health issues and that is the reason he was replaced

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  • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As an actor or the role?

    I recently watched some of a random episode on YouTube and it happened to be about how he and Samantha first met, literally the night before he was gonna marry someone else, and he throws it away because he’s infatuated with her after she barely speaks to him. Is this what passed for romance in the 60s? Fuck.

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    • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe both. I can’t quite put my finger on it. But he seemed sketchy. Maybe the actor. Because it was consistent.

      I never knew the backstory. Yikes.

      I some times watch old retro shows on the free channels on TV. Put them on when I’m cleaning or something.

      Caught a few episodes that way.

      The thing about old TV shows is this. 1. They were presented as promoting morals and the better social norms.

      I rember an episode of Dick van dike where his secretary argued she didn’t need to be paid as much as a man because she was just waiting to get married.

      The episode was dick and some other guy doing secretary work for the day and messing it all up.

      I guess showing it’s hard work. But at the end the woman was like. “But I don’t need paid better”.

      And presented as totally respectful. So bizzare. The blatant sexism and toxic relationships always catches me off guard.

      I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.

      How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dick Sargent, of Parts: The Clonus Horror fame.

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