‘Bewitched’ Star Erin Murphy Recalls the Unsettling Way the Show Ended: ‘There Was No Goodbye’

Bewitched alum Erin Murphy revealed that the cast had an unusual experience saying goodbye to both the show and one another when the show was finally canceled in 1972.

Murphy, 61, appeared on the Wednesday, May 6 episode of The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan, where she discussed growing up on the show and its inevitable end.

“We went on hiatus, which is our break, and we had contracts to do two more years of the show. So it wasn’t like we were canceled. People always ask, ‘Why was Bewitched canceled?’ and it wasn’t,” she explained. “We had a contract to do two, and I think it’s like an addendum to do three. It was a guaranteed thing.”

At the time, she had plans for the break to go to Girl Scout camp and see her friends — that’s when everyone got the news that the show was ending.

“We all got telegrams and letters saying, ‘We have decided not to do the show.’ Bill Asher and [Elizabeth Montgomery] were going through a divorce, and they just, she especially, decided not to do the show anymore,” Murphy explained of the show’s director and star.

“So there was no goodbye. So it wasn’t like how at the end of a school year, you cry, you sing. None of us had that,” she added. “We had the, ‘See you soon. We’ll be back.’”

According to Murphy — who was around 8 years old when the series ended — all she remembers at the time was that she was able to go to school full-time and be an average kid.

Bewitched ran from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. Murphy joined the cast in season 3.