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On You Tube there's a video titled:

Bewitched - Samantha Explains Baseball

uploader / channel:  Cria56

In a conversation with her mother, Samantha uses the expression, "first time at bat" -- Endora (being from the Witch World) doesn't understand this, so Samantha describes the game of baseball, from which the expression originates.

SAMANTHA

It's a game, that people play.  Haven't you ever seen it?

ENDORA

(looks perplexed)

SAMANTHA

Well, it's very exciting.  They play it -- with a ball.  And a big stick called a bat.  One man throws it -- to the man holding the bat who tries to hit it!  

Then everybody chases the ball, and the man who hits it runs around in a circle on a field called a diamond before anyone else can tag him!

ENDORA (with deep skepticism)

You're not serious.

SAMANTHA

Oh, yes!  Darrin took me, once.

ENDORA

I don't believe it.

SAMANTHA

And the one who runs around the most wins the series!

ENDORA

Series of what?

SAMANTHA (considers for a moment)

Nothing.  Just a series.

ENDORA

It's typical -- typical!  That's a human being for you.  Spend most of their lives running around in circles for a series of nothing.

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        Samantha is played by Elizabeth Montgomery, Endora by Agnes Moorehead.

        Agnes Moorehead had a small part in Citizen Kane.

        After the "explains baseball" video, You Tube offers the viewer some related videos -- one of those was a 1970 Coffee-mate ad, featuring Miss Moorehead.  Several viewer comments said how elegant and refined she seemed.  Then they got onto the topic of her "accent" --

~ She was born in America but has a British accent??  [puzzlement emoji]

~ They used to call it a "Transatlantic" accent.  The old movie stars cultivated it.

~ Also, "Broadway British."

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