Lentorama 2023: It Happened on Holy Saturday

Day 21: TV twofer

April 15, 1933 gave us not just one iconic TV figure, but two, as it was the birth date of both Elizabeth Montgomery and Roy Clark.

Montgomery is best known for playing Samantha Stevens on Bewitched (making this the second mention of the show during this Lentorama, which is two more than I was expecting). Clark parlayed his music career into hosting the country variety show Hee Haw for nearly 30 years (as well as being a common guest host for The Tonight Show during the 1970s). 

Both would work steadily after their best-known TV work ended, Montgomery focusing on dramatic roles while Clark would focus more on music, and was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Montomgery passed away in 1995 from cancer, while Clark would outlive Montgomery by more than two decades, passing from complications of pneumonia in 2018.