Martin Ashe

Darrin asks Samantha to play up to the daughter of J. Kabaker, an important client. Samantha tries to be nice, but the girl is a nasty snob. Unable to take any more, Samantha twitches her nose and a canapé hits the girl in the face. At home, the Stephens get into an argument about the incident. However, at the office the next day, when Larry criticizes Samantha, Darrin quits his job. He tells Samantha he has another job lined up at Ames Advertising. Samantha and Louise Tate decide to bring Larry and Darrin together again, and feel the best way to do this is to give them a common enemy. Samantha makes sure Darrin doesn't get the other job. Then, following Samantha's plan, both wives start arguments with their husbands. Darrin and Larry head for their club, where Samantha arranges for them to share the same room. Both men confess they have acted foolishly and go home. Samantha admits she used magic to brig about the happy reunions but Darrin tells her he couldn't care less.

Summing up "My Friend Ben" Samantha tells how Aunt Clara, trying to summon an electrician to fix a lamp, produces Ben Franklin instead. Ben is arrested for stealing a fire engine. Aunt Clara makes Ben disappear just after Darrin puts up a thousand dollars bail to guaranty Ben's appearance at the trial. Assistant DA Chuck Hawkins feels Ben's appearance is a publicity stunt. He tells Darrin that Ben, or whoever he is, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Aunt Clara finally manages to bring Ben back. Darrin tells Ben his trial for stealing the engine will be held in two days. Samantha and Aunt Clara go to work to turn public opinion in favor of Ben. The prosecution produces a series of witnesses. Most of their testimony, calculated to damage Ben's case is skillfully refuted by Ben himself, but he feels that Darrin and Gladys Kravitz have weakened his cause.

Greg and Marcia run against each other for student body president, and their campaigns become very competitive and ugly.

Darrin plans to decorate the tree with Samantha on Christmas Eve. At the office he finds Larry Tate with a new client, J.W. Dortimer, of Mortimer's Instant Soups, who loves only his soups and his clocks. Mortimer, who hates Christmas, insists that they work out the campaign at his house. When Darrin leaves because it is Christmas Eve, Mortimer threatens to take his account to another agency. Later, when Darrin is home asleep, Samantha nose-twitches herself into Mortimer's bedroom and takes him to meet Santa Claus at the North Pole. Forcing him to help Santa pack, Samantha warns him to be careful with a unique Betsy Brusily Doll. Samantha, Mortimer and Santa ride in the sleigh to the home of Hawkins, Mortimer's old butler, who has had to sneak out to play with his grandson Jamie. When Hawkin's daughter calls Mortimer a skinflint, the butler defends him as a lonely old man. When Samantha returns Mortimer to his mansion, he can't under-stand what has happened. In the morning, Mortimer arrives at the Stephens' with a case of his soups for a Christmas present and accepts an invitation to dinner. Samantha freezes everyone when Santa comes down the chimney and gives Tabitha the Betsy Brusily doll. Later, Mortimer doesn't know why he recognizes the doll. Samantha smiles at him and wishes him a merry Christmas.

Paige and Greg may finally be singing the same song; Claudia intends to tarnish the holidays for Anne; Gary takes care of the twins in Val's absence; Mack means to save Jason from a terrible fate.