Sabrina: The Animated Series
| Sabrina: The Animated Series | |
|---|---|
| File:Sabrinaanimatedseries.jpg Sabrina Spellman and Salem the cat, as they appeared in Sabrina: The Animated Series. | |
| Created by | Savage Steve Holland |
| Starring | Emily Hart as Sabrina Spellman Nick Bakay as Salem Melissa Joan Hart as Aunt Hilda Spellman Lalainia Lindbjerg as Katy Jason Michas as Slugloafe the School Bully David Sobolov as Spookie Jar Chantal Strand as Gemini Stone Cree Summer as Chloe Jay Brazeau Bill Switzer |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC / Syndicated |
| Release | September 6, 1999 – February 22, 2000 |
Template:Infobox TV ratings Sabrina: The Animated Series is the name of an American animated television series based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina, the Teenage Witch produced by DiC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time. Additionally, a movie, Sabrina: Friends Forever, and a continuation-spinoff series, Sabrina's Secret Life, were produced, this time without the ownership of Disney.
The series debuted in 1999. The Archie Comics star had already graced the Saturday morning airwaves in the 1970s (courtesy of Filmation), but the popularity of the live-action Sabrina, the Teenage Witch sitcom in the 1990s formed part of the basis for this spinoff series.
The series ran on UPN and in syndication (on Disney's One Too weekday afternoon block) and on ABC (on Disney's One Saturday Morning block) for one season with 65 episodes produced. In October 2002, a made-for-television movie based on the series was produced for cable channel Nickelodeon. This was soon followed by a follow-up animated series, Sabrina's Secret Life. The original series at that time began airing on cable channels Disney Channel and Toon Disney, but recently has reverted once again to airing in syndication. During the 2006-2007 television season, the series returned as part of CBS's new KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS.
Unlike previous versions, Sabrina in this series was depicted as a 13-year-old attending middle school. As in the original comic series, Sabrina lives with her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, and Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina's sarcastic cat (voiced by Nick Bakay, the voice of Salem in the live-action Sabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom), all of whom advise Sabrina on the use of her powers (thereby contradicting the live-action show's premise of not having those powers prior to her sixteenth birthday; thus this series is essentially a "retelling" of the story, similar in concept to The New Archies, a previous Archie Comics-based DiC production).
In this series, the two aunts little resemble their comic counterparts in appearance (Hilda becomes a brunette, while Zelda's hair is turned reddish-blonde in color). They appear to be young (thanks to having been de-aged as part of an undefined punishment by the Witch's Council), but in the episode "Witchery Science Theatre", Zelda claims to be over 65 years old, and proves it with a scroll from an Egyptian Pharaoh. In the episode "Working Witches", they claim to have been hired by the king of Troy to "help interior decorate his fortress" by bringing in the Trojan Horse, followed later in the episode by remarking that "we have 300 years under our belt, but our bodies are 16."
An original character created for this series is Uncle Quigley, Sabrina's maternal great-uncle and the household's adult guardian.
Sabrina's best friends in this series were Chloe Flan (voiced by Cree Summer) and Harvey Kinkle. Chloe, an African-American girl, is the only "mortal" (the name that witches give to ordinary humans) besides Quigley that knows that Sabrina is a witch. Harvey, meanwhile, is the boy that Sabrina has a crush on. Together, the three friends lived in the fictional town of Greendale, and would engage in numerous adventures.
Most episodes centered around the typical problems of middle school, along with those that stemmed from Sabrina's inexperience with or misuse of witchcraft. Sabrina and best friend Chloe would often use magic (often from the "Spooky Jar"—a cookie jar containing a genie-like being—in the family's kitchen) for all sorts of perceived emergencies, ranging from trying to fit into skinny new clothes to making Sabrina's boyfriend Harvey into a superhero. By the end of each episode, the magic would backfire. Sabrina would learn that using magic usually wasn't the solution to her day-to-day problems.
Sabrina's chief rival in the series is Gem Stone (voiced by Chantal Strand), a wealthy snob and Sabrina's classmate.
Melissa Joan Hart, title star of the live-action sitcom, acted as producer of this series, but her younger sister, Emily Hart, voiced Sabrina. Melissa instead voiced Sabrina's two aunts, Hilda and Zelda.
Savage Steve Holland (whose previous credits include producing Eek! The Cat) was the executive producer of Sabrina: The Animated Series. As such, the series reflected some of the irreverent style of humor seen on Eek! The Cat. Celebrity voice cameos in this series included Mr. T and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Episode list
- 09/06/99 - "Most Dangerous Witch"
- 09/07/99 - "You Said a Mouse-ful"
- 09/08/99 - "Boogie Shoes"
- 09/09/99 - "Tail of Two Kitties"
- 09/10/99 - "The Senses-Shattering Adventures of Captain Harvtastic"
- 09/11/99 - "Witch Switch"
- 09/12/99 - "Picture Perfect"
- 09/13/99 - "Field Trippin'"
- 09/14/99 - "No Time to Be a Hero"
- 09/15/99 - "Extreme Harvey"
- 09/17/99 - "Shrink to Fit"
- 09/18/99 - "Has Anyone Seen my Quigley?"
- 09/19/99 - "Wag the Witch"
- 09/20/99 - "Witchy Girls"
- 09/21/99 - "Paranormal Pi"
- 09/23/99 - "Anywhere But Here"
- 09/24/99 - "Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Something from a Coven"
- 09/25/99 - "Once upon a Time"
- 09/26/99 - "Documagicary"
- 09/27/99 - "The Grandparent Trap"
- 09/28/99 - "I Got Glue Babe"
- 09/29/99 - "Boy Meets Bike"
- 09/30/99 - "Upside Down Town"
- 10/02/99 - "The Importance of Being Norma"
- 10/03/99 - "Stage Fright"
- 10/09/99 - "Witchitis"
- 10/10/99 - "My Stepmother the Babe"
- 10/16/99 - "Absence of Malissa"
- 10/17/99 - "This Is Your Nine Lives"
- 10/23/99 - "Planet of the Dogs"
- 10/25/99 - "Hex-change Students"
- 10/29/99 - "Saturday Night Furor"
- 10/30/99 - "Scare Apparent"
- 11/04/99 - "The Hex Files"
- 11/05/99 - "Stone Broke"
- 11/06/99 - "Salem's Plot"
- 11/07/99 - "Molar Molar"
- 11/08/99 - "Harvzilla"
- 11/10/99 - "When in Rome"
- 11/11/99 - "Field of Screams"
- 11/12/99 - "Driver Ed"
- 11/13/99 - "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?"
- 11/14/99 - "Send in the Clones"
- 11/15/99 - "Feats of Clay"
- 11/16/99 - "Generation Zap"
- 11/18/99 - "Board & Sorcery"
- 11/19/99 - "Enchanted Vacation"
- 11/20/99 - "Moldy Oldie"
- 11/21/99 - "Xabrina, Warrior Witch"
- 11/22/99 - "Straight Outta Paris"
- 11/23/99 - "Strange New World"
- 11/24/99 - "Witchery Science Theatre"
- 11/26/99 - "You've Got a Friend"
- 11/28/99 - "Hexcalibur"
- 11/29/99 - "Brina Baby"
- 11/30/99 - "Witchwrecked"
- 12/01/99 - "Fish Schtick"
- 12/12/99 - "Witchmas Carole"
- 01/15/00 - "Truth or Scare"
- 01/22/00 - "Generation Hex"
- 02/06/00 - "Working Witches"
- 02/13/00 - "Wiccan of the Sea"
- 02/20/00 - "Key to My Heart"
- 02/21/00 - "La Femme Sabrina"
- 02/27/00 - "The Bat Pack"
DVD Release
On October 17, 2006, Shout! Factory released a 2-disc best-of collection of Sabrina the animated series featuring 14 episodes.
other titles
German:Simsalabim Sabrina Polish:Sabrina serieal animowany Brazil:A Bruxinha sabrina Portugul: Sabrina France: Magic Sabrina
Broadcast history
- USA
- Disney Channel (2001-2004)
- ABC (1999-2000)
- CBS (2006-2007)
- Cartoon Network (2008-future)
- UK
- Disney Channel (UK) (2000-2006)
- ITV2 (2006-Present)
- Australia
- Asia
- Disney Channel Asia (2003-present)
- The Netherlands and Belgium
- Germany
- Poland
- Zigzap
- Finland
- Japan
- Portugul
- Spain