The Stephens' play host to a little black girl and Tabitha's spell to make them the same color gives both girls polka-dot complexions. The subsequent misunderstanding has a client of McMann & Tate (Mr. Brockway) thinking Darrin is in a mixed marriage.
This is a fan-favorite but not one of my top episodes, Xmas or otherwise. I suppose it gains favor because of the message and the fact it was written by a 10th Grade English class from Thomas Jefferson High School in L. A. I just find it very heavy-handed. Lisa, the little black girl, talks like a 40-year-old in an eight-year-old body. Why is she staying there in the first place? Is it necessary for her mother to accompany the husband on a business trip?
The second half is much better than the first, when Lisa's parents return. The best scene is when Mr. Brockway shows up at the Stephens' Xmas party and assumes Darrin and Lisa's mother are a couple. Sam gives the girls a speech about Sisterhood which makes Tabitha reverse the spell. In perhaps the only instance in the whole series, Larry actually dumps the client - because of his racism. So the episode deserves an extra star for that. For some reason, Sam then twitches so that Mr. Brockway sees everyone at the party - including himself - in blackface. This makes him return on Xmas day to own up to being a closet racist, who acknowledges he needs to reform.
A 6/10 but I gave it an extra star for Larry's uncharacteristically moral stand.
There is a whimsical-sounding instrumental version of "Jingle Bells" over the closing credits instead of the usual BEWITCHED theme, only the second of two times the regular closing theme was not used in 254 episodes.