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Charmed Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 0
Unaired Pilot
30 mins
Phoebe returns to San Francisco after losing her job to live with her older sisters, Prue and Piper. During their first night together in their grandmother's house, Phoebe finds a book of witchcraft and recites an incantation that leaves the sisters three with powers they were destined to have.
Episode 1
Something Wicca This Way Comes
Wed, Oct 7, 199842 mins
Phoebe returns to San Francisco after losing her job to live with her older sisters, Prue and Piper. During their first night together in their grandmother's house, Phoebe finds a book of witchcraft and recites an incantation that leaves the sisters three with powers they were destined to have.
Episode 2
I've Got You Under My Skin
Wed, Oct 14, 199842 mins
Phoebe meets a photographer who turns out to be a demon who sucks the youth out of young women in order to remain young. While Phoebe is with him, Piper sees her friend Brittany Reynolds, who is now elderly and has a poor memory after being attacked by the photographer. Brittany recognizes the address of the photographer, allowing Prue and Piper to arrive in time to vanquish the demon named Javna and reverse the damage it had done.
Episode 3
Thank You for Not Morphing
Wed, Oct 21, 199842 mins
When the father of the Halliwell sisters, returns, Prue doesn't trust him whilst Piper and Phoebe, on the other hand, adore him, they invite him to have dinner with them. Meanwhile, neighbours of the Halliwell's are mutants who try to steal the book of shadows.
Episode 4
Dead Man Dating
Wed, Oct 28, 199842 mins
Piper encounters and eventually develops romantic feelings for the amiable ghost of a recently murdered Chinese-American man named Mark Chao (John Cho), who needs her help to be properly buried before an ancient Chinese spirit, Yama, can harvest his soul, and to settle the score with the Chinese gangster who had killed Mark in order to fake his own death to evade the police. Phoebe takes a job as a hotel psychic to pay for Prue's birthday present, and when foreseeing the death of a hotel guest, she has to try to keep him from being hit by a car. In the end, Piper exposes the criminal who is killed by Andy in self-defense. The being Yama appears and Mark throws the criminal's soul to him, sending him to Hell. Piper is able to convince Yama to leave Mark alone and after his burial, he moves on after saying a tearful goodbye. The encounter with Mark causes Prue to change her mind about celebrating her birthday and her sisters throw her a surprise party back at the Manor.
Episode 5
Dream Sorcerer
Wed, Nov 4, 199842 mins
Prue finds her sleep disturbed by strange dreams in which she is stalked and taunted by a wheelchair-bound man who is actually a sleep researcher named Whitaker Berman (Matt Schulze). He kills women who he feels scorned him by visiting them in their dreams where he has absolute power. While Prue is fatigued and driving home from work in her car he attacks again and successfully causes her to drive into a telephone pole. As Prue is unconscious, he unsuccessfully tries to kill her. With encouragement from her sisters, she uses her telekinesis in the dream world to throw him off a building, killing him.
Episode 6
The Wedding from Hell
Wed, Nov 11, 199842 mins
A demonic bride-to-be, Jade D'Mon, suddenly replaces a human bride, Alison Michaels, a week before her wedding, by having a magical contractual 'hold' over the grooms' mother, Grace Spencer, as well as by casting a spell over the groom, Elliot Spencer. The Halliwell sisters gradually discover the strange events about the wedding, as Piper is catering the event. Alison and the sisters formulate a plan to stop the demonic wedding. Grace helps Alison and the Halliwell sisters, resulting in the defeat of Jade and the reconciliation of Alison and Elliot.
Episode 7
The Fourth Sister
Wed, Nov 18, 199842 mins
Aviva, a young girl is used by an evil sorceress that wants to steal the sisters' powers. Piper and Phoebe compete for the attention of Leo, their handyman. Andy gets fed up with Prue after she cancels numerous romantic encounters and doesn't offer any explanation why.
Episode 8
The Truth Is Out There... and It Hurts
Wed, Nov 25, 199842 mins
Acting on Phoebe's premonition of a woman electrocuted magically through the center of her forehead, the sisters race to stop a mysterious warlock, who came from the future for killing those responsible for creating a vaccine against warlocks. Prue casts a truth spell to find out how Andy will react to her secret. Prue sadly finds out that Andy cannot handle the knowledge of her powers and the magical parallel reality she has to deal with. She breaks up with him while Prue and Piper vanquish the warlock before he can kill a pregnant woman whose baby he is truly after.
Episode 9
The Witch Is Back
Wed, Dec 16, 199842 mins
Matthew Tate, a warlock cursed by the sisters' ancestor, Melinda Warren, in the 17th century in colonial New England, is inadvertently released by Prue from a cursed locket which will open only to a Warren descendant. Aware of the situation, the sisters resurrect Melinda to combat him. Together they trap him back in the locket, but their secret is revealed to Prue's boss, Rex, and coworker, Hannah, who are warlocks.
Episode 10
Wicca Envy
Wed, Jan 13, 199942 mins
Rex uses astral projection to control Prue's mind, tricking her into stealing a tiara from a vault in the auction house. Prue ends up in jail. Rex blackmails the sisters into giving up their powers to him, but Leo, revealing himself as some kind of supernatural protector of the sisters, returns their powers to them. Now fully empowered, Prue, Piper and Phoebe defeating Rex and Hannah who are vanquished by evil forces for their failure.
Episode 11
Feats of Clay
Wed, Jan 20, 199942 mins
Phoebe's ex-boyfriend from New York, Clay, comes to town with a mysterious Egyptian urn and asks if Prue could sell it for him on the auction block. Phoebe convinces Prue to try to sell Clay's urn, but Prue soon finds out that the urn is cursed with evil magics.
Episode 12
The Wendigo
Wed, Feb 3, 199942 mins
When Piper's car breaks down, she is attacked by a vicious werewolf-like beast that they later find out is called a Wendigo. Piper is saved by a man named Billy, but she starts to turn into a Wendigo since she was scratched by the one that attacked her. The Wendigo turns out to be FBI agent Ashley Fallon, who had apparently been tracking the beast. Fallon kills Billy and tries to kill Andy, but Prue and Phoebe go after her with a flare gun as fire is the Wendigo's weakness. Piper shows up as well and they nearly accidentally vanquish her instead, but she freezes the flare and Prue sends it into Fallon, killing her and curing Piper.
Episode 13
From Fear to Eternity
Wed, Feb 10, 199942 mins
The Halliwells' mother warns them about a demon from the underworld who comes around every 1300 years on Friday the 13th to literally scare witches to death and feed on their fear. Meanwhile, Phoebe has misgivings about her expected duties at a new job.
Episode 14
Secrets and Guys
Wed, Feb 17, 199942 mins
When a boy who has powers is kidnapped by two thugs who plan to use him in a robbery, the sisters get a message that he needs help. But they don't know who or where he is. Meanwhile, Leo returns for a visit and accidentally reveals his true identity to Phoebe.
Episode 15
Is There a Woogy in the House?
Wed, Feb 24, 199942 mins
Phoebe is possessed by the "Woogyman", turning her against her siblings. Under the orders of the Woogy, she possesses humans as well. When Prue has people from the Auction House over for a work mixer, Phoebe possesses one of Prue's associates. Piper and Prue are about to get possessed but Phoebe chants the spell after having a future vision of Grams defeating the Woogy from a picture frame when she was younger.
Episode 16
Which Prue Is It, Anyway?
Wed, Mar 3, 199942 mins
When Phoebe has a vividly disturbing vision of Prue being stabbed to death, it coincides with a War Lord named Gabriel coming to town in order to kill the eldest witch-sister as he had to the sisters' great-great-great-aunt. Prue casts a spell to further develop and strengthen her powers, but ends up making two clones of herself. Her clones are killed off, but working with her sisters, she manages to vanquish Gabriel.
Episode 17
That '70s Episode
Wed, Apr 7, 199942 mins
The Halliwells encounter a warlock that has been waiting for years to get their powers. The warlock is immune to the powers of the Charmed Ones after making a deal with their mother to spare her life in the past. In order to save themselves, the girls cast a spell which returns them to mid-70s when the deal was made, their grandmother and mother are still alive, Prue and Piper are playful little witches and Phoebe is still unborn and in the womb.
Episode 18
When Bad Warlocks Turn Good
Wed, Apr 28, 199942 mins
Prue befriends a soon-to-be priest, but discovers that he has a dark past: a history of warlocks runs through his family, and his two older brothers are trying to force him to join them in their tradition of evil. Phoebe tries to help Piper make a love connection.
Episode 19
Out of Sight
Wed, May 5, 199942 mins
When Prue tries to stop a kidnapping in the park during a birthday party, a reporter sees her using her strong telekinetic abilities to psionically separate David from the demon. Phoebe and Piper attempt to learn more about the demons who stole the child, who turn out to be Grimlocks, demons which sense people's auras and steal children's eyesight. At the same time, they must try to stop the reporter from exposing Prue and themselves. The sisters are not exposed, but Andy does find out about their powers. The sisters vanquish the demons and a former victim of theirs who survived convinces the children they rescued not to tell the truth.
Episode 20
The Power of Two
Wed, May 12, 199942 mins
The evil spirit of a serial killer (Jeff Kober) escapes from Alcatraz Island seeking revenge on his judge and jury. Phoebe and Prue must figure out how to vanquish this evil spirit and stop him from killing again without Piper, who is in Hawaii. Eventually, Prue drinks a concoction that temporarily stops her heart and vanquishes the spirit with a spell that can only be cast on the astral plane by a ghost before Andy revives her.
Episode 21
Love Hurts
Wed, May 19, 199942 mins
A gravely hurt Leo appears at the manor, asking the Halliwell sisters to protect an innocent woman returning to San Francisco under his guidance. Daisy (Lisa Robin Kelly) is being stalked by a Darklighter who hunts and kills present and future Whitelighters with poisoned arrows. The Darklighter Alec (Michael Trucco) fell in love with her. Leo reveals that the Darklighter's poison is very deadly, and Piper finds an ability-switching spell in the Book of Shadows so she can use Leo's innate healing power on him. Unfortunately, this has the side-effect of switching everyone's respective abilities and they all have to try to learn to properly use them. While Prue and Phoebe manage to control each other's powers, Piper is unable to heal Leo and he dies. Afterwards, she admits her love for him and discovers that it is the trigger for his mystical ability and succeeds in healing him fully. She then tracks down Daisy, and Prue vanquishes Alec by utilizing his own magical ability against him.
Episode 22
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Wed, May 26, 199942 mins
Phoebe experiences a powerful and deadly premonition of death at Halliwell manor which shows Inspector Rodriguez unmasked in a demonic attack on the sisters, resulting in Andy being killed. Vowing to prevent Andy's death, Prue heads to the police department to warn Andy that Rodriguez is a demon working undercover. As the Rodriguez makes plans for his attempt to kill the Charmed Ones, he receives a visit from Tempus (David Carradine), a demon who can turn back time that was sent by The Source to help in case he fails. Tempus rewinds time each time Rodriguez fails to kill the Charmed Ones until the warlock succeeds in killing all the sisters. Andy is waiting in his car, after being told by Prue to stay away because it was dangerous. He sees Rodriguez entering the house and goes in to protect Prue. Andy bursts in before Rodriguez can harm the sisters and attempts to shoot him, but Rodriguez fires an energy ball at Andy, killing him. Piper freezes Rodriguez and she and Phoebe are shocked to find Andy dead. Prue receives a vision from Andy's spirit, which helps her to move on. The sisters vanquish Rodriguez and attend Andy's funeral.
