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Sabrina the Teenage Witch Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
Pilot
Fri, Sep 27, 199630 mins
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman is informed by her aunts, Hilda and Zelda, that she, along with everybody on her father's side of the family, is a witch. However, Sabrina doesn't believe that she has magical powers until she unintentionally turns the head cheerleader at school into a pineapple.
Episode 2
Bundt Friday
Fri, Oct 4, 199630 mins
Sabrina slips Libby some truth sprinkles to make her confess to spreading nasty lies, but her plan backfires when the goodies make Jenny reveal she's sweet on Sabrina's love interest, Harvey. Meanwhile, Hilda prepares for a date with Drell - despite his having stood her up over 1,000 times in the past.
Episode 3
The True Adventures of Rudy Kazootie
Fri, Oct 11, 199630 mins
While babysitting a cranky toddler and trying to have a study date with Harvey, Sabrina accidentally casts a spell transforming him into a grown man. Unable to figure out the mystery behind the spell, a frantic Sabrina tries to locate her aunts for assistance before Rudy's parents arrive home and realize they've missed an immense portion of their son's life.
Episode 4
Terrible Things
Fri, Oct 18, 199630 mins
Sabrina makes three wishes come true for her unsuspecting friends: Jenny gets elected student president, Harvey becomes a football star, and Mr. Pool becomes rich. Soon she learns the truth of her aunts' warnings that one shouldn't meddle with the fate of others: Jenny is crushed when she learns the student president is merely a rubber stamp assistant to the principal, and resigns in favor of Libby, Harvey really can't play football and is injured on the field, and Mr. Pool's success at alchemy turns him into an obnoxious blow hard.
Episode 5
A Halloween Story
Fri, Oct 25, 199630 mins
When she's forced to attend a family affair, Sabrina sends a clone to Harvey's party, where the simple-minded stand-in (who can only speak three sentences) agrees to streak naked in order to liven up the festivities. Meanwhile, the real Sabrina desperately tries to ditch her relatives: an obnoxious socialite and her brat of a daughter, whose hobby is putting people she dislikes into jars. Knowing Harvey plans to dress as James Dean, Sabrina muses about the real star, but when her aunts give her a special Halloween present of a half hour with the dead person of her choice, she opts for her beloved grandmother instead, because "Halloween is really about family."
Episode 6
Dream Date
Fri, Nov 1, 199630 mins
Sabrina's bummed when Harvey agrees to go to the dance with Libby, so she decides to skip the event until her aunts use some "man dough" to create her perfect date. Actually, he's a little too perfect, Sabrina has to admit to herself that she prefers Harvey, but can only tell him so when she temporarily freezes him. Harvey prefers Sabrina as well, but is too shy to tell her. Meanwhile, Hilda and Zelda's dough dates aren't too well blended either, and Libby fall for the dough boy and is devastated when he disintegrates, thinking he has dumped her.
Episode 7
Third Aunt from the Sun
Fri, Nov 8, 199630 mins
Sabrina visits an aunt in Pleasuredome---a realm where every wish is granted---and decides to stay for good.
Episode 8
Magic Joel
Fri, Nov 15, 199630 mins
Hoping to catch Harvey's eye, Sabrina becomes an assistant to Joel, a shy teen magician, but the act is more comical than bewitching when the trickster's tricks misfire. To save him from embarrassment, Sabrina makes the magic man temporarily invisible - then discovers that he likes it and doesn't want to reappear, especially when he can scope out the girls' locker room. Meanwhile, Aunt Zelda entertains an old colleague who has been too shy to admit his attraction to her.
Episode 9
Geek Like Me
Fri, Nov 22, 199630 mins
Sabrina tires of Libby's constant teasing-- which worsens when Sabrina joins a science club-- so she gives the tormentor a taste of the taunting by turning her into a nerd. Meanwhile, Zelda wants Hilda to throw out some very old items. Tired of watching Libby treat people badly, Sabrina decides to give Libby a taste of her own medicine by transforming her into a geek. However, when Libby succeeds in turning her fellow geeks against the entire school, Sabrina must find a way to unite her classmates before the plan backfires.
Episode 10
Sweet & Sour Victory
Fri, Dec 6, 199630 mins
Sabrina learns a hard lesson in witchcraft when she tries to make Harvey notice her by using her powers to become an instant kung-fu expert under Mr. Pool's astonished tutelage. She easily defeats the standing champion, but must face the disapproval of her aunts and the jeers of the (magically animated) trophy she won. Meanwhile, Aunt Hilda tries out for first violin in the local symphony the mortal way, but loses to her longtime rival Gustav.
Episode 11
A Girl and Her Cat
Fri, Dec 13, 199630 mins
After Salem stows away in her backpack and gets her thrown out of the local pizzeria, Sabrina washes her hands of the cat, feigning unconcern when the feline fails to return for Christmas dinner with visiting cousin Monty. When she discovers that Salem has in fact been catnapped by a stubborn little boy named Rex, Sabrina launches a desperate plan to rescue him by impersonating Santa Claus.
Episode 12
Trial by Fury
Fri, Jan 3, 199730 mins
When Sabrina's bitter math teacher Mr. Rothwell singles her out for unfair treatment, and her aunts are unable to make him see reason, the witch trio decide it's time to teach him a few of their own spellbinding lessons. When he's hauled into traffic court, they replace the human judge with a magical substitute who's been hibernating in a deep freeze "to prevent media bias." Meanwhile, Salem panics when his ex-girlfriend decides to pay him a surprise visit especially since she has no idea that he has been turned into a cat.
Episode 13
Jenny's Non-Dream
Fri, Jan 10, 199730 mins
When Sabrina is apprehensive about inviting Jenny to spend the night because of her "unique" home life, Hilda and Zelda assure her that she has nothing to worry about. But when Jenny accidentally enters the other realm through the linen closet, Drell cites the rule against mortals entering his world and turns her into a grasshopper, so Sabrina and her aunts must find a way to convince her that the whole experience was just a dream.
Episode 14
Sabrina Through the Looking Glass
Fri, Jan 17, 199730 mins
A stressed-out Sabrina gets a monstrous wart, which only worsens her foul mood. And despite everyone's efforts to cheer her, she seeks solace and solitude in an alternate world inside her mirror, where she becomes trapped in her own bad mood. To Jenny for ignoring her, to Harvey for ridiculing his use of a puppet spider monkey to get them through a school assignment she flubbed, and to Libby for turning her into a goat.
Episode 15
Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years
Fri, Jan 31, 199730 mins
When Sabrina is disappointed that her aunts won't let her stay out late to see the famous rock band Violent Femmes, Hilda and Zelda decide to transform themselves into teenage chaperones as a compromise. But they're the ones causing the trouble when "Hillary" clashes with a security guard and a high-school boy falls for "Zellery." After proving that even teenage aunts can be embarrassing, they apologize by giving Sabrina her very first flying lesson -- aboard a vacuum cleaner.
Episode 16
Mars Attracts!
Fri, Feb 7, 199730 mins
A starry-eyed Sabrina hates to leave Harvey for a family skiing trip to Mars, but Doug, the good-looking and magically talented ski coach she meets there, soon has her forgetting to phone home while they spend a romantic evening together. Meanwhile, Hilda meets a man who claims to be a secret agent on a dangerous mission, which she assumes is just another holiday-on-Mars fib; and Salem takes the opportunity to host a riotous cat party at home.
Episode 17
First Kiss
Fri, Feb 14, 199730 mins
A Valentine's Day episode shows that while dating is tough when you're a teenager, it's even tougher when you're a teenage witch. Just as Sabrina and Harvey are about to share their first kiss, Salem desperately interrupts them. Sabrina's cat isn't trying to be a pest, and no, he's not jealous; rather, the feline knows that a kiss from Sabrina will turn Harvey or any boy for that matter into a frog. In order to reverse the tragic spell, Sabrina must pass the Witches' Council's "Test of True Love" to prove that her feelings for Harvey are genuine.
Episode 18
Sweet Charity
Fri, Mar 7, 199730 mins
Hoping to encourage more students to join the Adopt-A-Grandparent program, Sabrina finds a mischievous way to get trend-setting Libby to participate: she impersonates her, necessitating quick Superman-style telephone booth transformation whenever the real Libby turns up. But Sabrina's well-meant scheme goes wrong when Libby bonds with Sabrina's adopted grandmother Nana, who claims to know most of Hollywood's young hunks personally. Meanwhile, Zelda can't decide whether to continue dating a man who is centuries younger than she is; and Hilda and Salem eat too much of a magical "hair soup" that causes their hair to grow at an exponential rate.
Episode 19
Cat Showdown
Fri, Mar 21, 199730 mins
Sabrina has blown her allowance, and Salem has maxed out his credit card over the phone, so they decide to enter a cat show to earn the prize money, but soon find themselves wrapped up in a blackmail scheme to force the judge to throw the competition, and, to avoid being caught, Sabrina has to transform herself into a contestant. Meanwhile, Hilda and Zelda seek out a magical perfume that will make Zelda repulsive to their love-sick mailman Dirk, and Hilda gets shrunk as a punishment for taking free samples in the magical "Full Moon" shop.
Episode 20
Meeting Dad's Girlfriend
Fri, Apr 4, 199730 mins
Preparing for her father's monthly visit, Sabrina anticipates the teenage trauma of introducing her father to her boyfriend (actually, Edward and Harvey do reasonably well), but isn't prepared for the teenage trauma of meeting your divorced father's new girlfriend, an attractive supernatural lawyer named Gail. Initially hostile, Sabrina is persuaded by her aunts to see reason and tries to make amends by asking whether Edward and Gail plan to get married. When they simultaneously answer "Yes" (Gail) and "No" (Edward), Gail furiously dives into Sabrina's magic book.
Episode 21
As Westbridge Turns
Fri, Apr 25, 199730 mins
Sabrina, bored with her life, opens a magical can of worms which instantly transforms Sabrina's life into a dramatic soap opera. However, things don't go exactly as the teen witch originally planned, especially when she gets accused of being a thief.
Episode 22
The Great Mistake
Fri, May 2, 199730 mins
Sabrina hits a really bad day: disregarding her aunts' warning, she buys a "tomorrow" ball from a supernatural traveling salesman, and believes its prediction that she will get an "A-" on her science project. Unfortunately, Mr. Pool doesn't share that estimation of her work, and gives her a C- and a chance to redo the project overnight. Instead, Sabrina tries to sneak out of the house aboard her trusty vacuum cleaner to attend a "Smashing Pumpkins" concert, but gets pulled over by a flying motorcycle cop and cited for flying over the town "with a full bag and bad dust emissions.
Episode 23
The Crucible
Fri, May 9, 199730 mins
Sabrina's fears become reality when she takes part in a re-creation of the Salem witch trials and is accused of sorcery while defending Jenny's honor. Libby made up a bunch of lies, just to get rid of Sabrina and Jenny, accusing them of practice witchcraft. At the end, all teachers realizes that she was lying, and Sabrina casted a spell on her as a revenge.
Episode 24
Troll Bride
Fri, May 16, 199730 mins
When Sabrina can't find her homework, she follows Salem's advice to consult a professional magic finder, but when troll Roland appears and quickly uncovers her missing notebook, he demands her hand in marriage as payment. Following him home to attempt reason she is trapped in his castle and can only be rescued by the prince she loves: Harvey. Has the moment come when he will learn the truth about Sabrina's unusual family?