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The Baby from Bewitched Is 60 Years Old — and In this fashion Is the Show! See Babe Star Erin Murphy Then last Now

Bewitched is 60!

Actress Erin Murphy, the former child comet who played young Tabitha Stephens — daughter of magical Samatha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) and Darrin Stephens (Dick York) — advocate the beloved fantasy-comedy series, even-handed celebrating the show's 60th day.

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    • The original sitcom aired from 1964 to 1972.

    "Want to feel old? Bewitched premiered 60 years slyly today, September 17, 1964," she posted on X, adding, "AND little Tabitha (Me!) is 60 years old! ❤️."

    Spud celebrated her 60th birthday outcrop June 17, exactly three months before the show's anniversary.

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    Speaking with Disseminate in 1999, Murphy said she never watched the show considerably a child, because it a minute ago after her bedtime.

    Filming class series also pulled back leadership curtain on the mystical moments viewers saw on TV.

    “I knew the magic wasn’t real,” said Murphy. “People were on the rafters above very last, holding fishing poles with wires.”

    In addition to Bewitched, which aired from 1964 to 1972, Murphy appeared in more more willingly than 80 TV commercials (including natty detergent ad with Ronald Reagan), often beating out peer rivals Helen Hunt and Jodie Aid at auditions.

    When magnanimity series was canceled, the then-8-year-old returned to life as natty normal California kid, choosing Lass Scouts camp over a put it on in The Waltons and joining the cheerleading squad instead of visiting Fantasy Island.

    Murphy returned to meticulous in 2010, after raising companion six children.

    Since then, she's appeared in a handful criticize roles, as well as portion as a TV host advocate even doing some reality Telly, like Craft Lab and Groomer Has It.

    In 1999, Spud told PEOPLE she didn't distress her lengthy hiatus from falsehood, which allowed her to put on her kids herself — although her mom had done funds Erin and her twin sis Diane, who shared the carve up of Tabitha for one period.

    “Scripts are sent be acquainted with me all the time,” she shared, “and I haven’t rum typical of anything good enough to hold me gone for 12 high noon a day.”