He is the clean-cut, well-groomed, promising young advertising executive you see in bunches on the New Haven 5:37 going up to Connecticut. Once he has divested himself of the charcoal grey suit and the black attaché case, however, he becomes an individualistic, charming, sometimes-impatient, usually affectionate, often-critical, intermittently apppreciative, irritating, likeable - in short, very normal - husband.

She is the attractive young wife whom you see meeting him in the station wagon - that is, when she isn´t angry at him - which is no more or less than any self-respecting young wife is angry at her intermittently critical, usually affectionate young husband.

They have, added to the usual adjustments every young couple must make, one unusual one - she´s a witch. No, that´s not a typographical error, it´s spelled with a w.

Well! You can imagine the problems that causes. Or perhaps you can´t. But that doesn´t matter, because we have imaginative writers who can.

So, added to the problems any young bride has, we have a girl who was learning how to brew rare herbs and strange incantations, while others were studying home economics. Whole the others were doing the Bossa Nova and copying recipes for and upside-down cake, she was practicing levitation and making people disappear.

Doesn´t seem like much of a problem, does it? How often has your wife said, "I´m only human, you know," or "I´ve only got two hands." Well our girl is not bound by either of those restrictions. On the other hand, her education and background have hardly prepared her for the very demanding, highly specialized, almost impossibly difficult role of Connecticut housewife.

Even the considerable advantage of having supernatural powers (you have no idea how handy that can be in avoiding dishpan hands and pesky door-to-door salesmen) is of little help because she has solemnly promised - well as solemnly as she can - that she will not make use of these powers. Obviously the practice of witchcraft is not seemly in the wife of a young executive with ambitions to gain a position professionally on Madison Avenue and socially in Westport.

Also, if she is able to abstain from witchcraft for a certain prescribed period of time, she will become mortal - a very desirable state for a young witch who is hopelessly in love with a mortal and wants very much to live a normal life as his normal wife. However, the temptation for using witchcraft is well-nigh irresistable (for our purposes it is irresistable) in trying to cope with the mechanics of living as an average young housewife. Look how difficult it is just to give up smoking.

The conflict in general, therefore, is the usual one of a young couple´ss adjustment to each other, her problem of adjusting to a normal life, embellished by her endevours to become normal.

What will the stories be like? Well, they will have all the more desirable elements of a domestic comedy, plus the above intriguing complications.

To indicate a few:

1. A young witch trying to fit into the conventional status of the suburban housewife.
2. The in-laws coming to dinner.
3. Her mother coming to dinner (she´s a witch, remember, but it´s still her own mother).
4. The superstitious client´s wife who believes in astrology, witchcraft, and fortune telling, forcing Liz to take the opposite side.
5. A costume ball with some of her supernatural friends and relatives insisting on attending (you can´t tell the witches from the mortals without a score card).
6. An absent-minded lapse into witchcraft at a very inopportune time.
7. Her mother insists on meeting her mother-in-law and promises to behave normally ? you are afraid she won´t ? and she doesn´t.
8. The professional magician performing at the Charity Ball who drafts Liz as his subject, and she inadvertently out-mystifies him.
9. Her husband trying to explain to his mother how the ineradicable spot got out of the rug; and a well-meaning friend wants to bottle the great spot remover and market it.
10. Hallowe´en, of course (when that witch comes to the door, trick or treating, you´re never sure she´s wearing a costume).
11. The neighbor child who accidentally happens upon a genuine incantation and every time the child repeats it, and increasingly angry witch keeps reappearing.
              ... et cetera, et cetera, and always underlying every problem the temptation to lapse into witchcraft, and her husband´s admonition against it.

Fertile areas for stories are the background of commuter surbanite living, if you are familiar with it; the advertising business if you aren´t self-conscious about it, and a bewitched - and bewitching - housewife in this setting if you can imagine it.

The supporting cast of characters also offers a wealth of material:

Her mother - a sophisticated, modern witch.
Her father - a sweet, absent-minded confused witch (there he was on the Fourth of July with pumpkins under his arm), who is afraid to go out in daylight because he might meet people.
His mother, who can trace her lineage back to the Mayflower - and often does - in sharp contrast to that of his matter-of-fact, down-to-earth (if you´ll pardon the expression) mother-in-law.
His younger sister, a sweet, outspoken teenager who "digs" Liz.
His older sister, basically nice (we have no villains in this series), who is valiantly trying to help Liz fit into Connecticut society.
His bachelor friend - they want through school, the army and now the advertising business together. He knows all the answers but is unfamiliar with some of the questions.

We fill in the background with a motley of her relatives and friends of the other world, their neighbors, his office (including his superior who likes to meet the young executive´s wives to see if they are proper helpmates) and assorted clients.

These, in general, and only hitting the high spots, are the situations, people, problems, and background of our series. Enough, certainly, to offer interesting stories for at least five years, which is the minimum length of time we expect this series to run.

SOL SAKS