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The New Worst Witch Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 2005 - 2005

Episode 1

Give a Witch a Bad Name

Today it is Mildred Hubble's cousin Hettie's first day at Cackle's Academy For Witches and like Mildred, she makes her friends and enemies. Strangely though, Hettie makes friends with a Hallow. Mildred has already finished Cackle's but we see her at the beginning of this episode, dropping Hettie off.

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Episode 2

The Confidence Trick

Cressie is going to fail her Broomstick Test. When she does, Hettie persuades Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom to let her try again. Mona and Hettie try to think of ways to inspire her confidence.

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Episode 3

Rules, Rules, Rules

Hettie is sick of the traditional rules of Cackle's Academy, so she asks how the others feel as well. Most of the school feel the same way, so Miss Cackle lets the girls follow Hettie's rules for one day.

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Episode 4

No Place Like Home

Cressie is missing home, so Hettie tries to cheer her up. A new girl arrives on a Charity Scholarship, Cynthia Horrocks and immediately makes an enemy out of Mona. This is because Mona's dad took over Cynthia's dad's factory and she was forced to leave Pentangle's and go to Cackle's.

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Episode 5

Trick or Treat

It is Halloween and Hettie, Mona and Cressie have been selected by Miss Nightingale to sing to the Grand Wizard. It turns out, the Grand Wizard is ill, so his place is taken by wizard author Richard Avalon. Hettie gets into trouble while trying to prove a point and is replaced by Belladonna to sing in the ceremony. Hettie decides she must prove who Richard Avalon really is.

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Episode 6

Truth or Lies

Hettie shows the wrong Bella an interesting book when she hungers for a potion that will do her homework for her.

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Episode 7

Deadly Doubles

End of term competition leads Bella to poison HB.

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Episode 8

The Levitating Boomerang Broomstick

Hettie accidentally does a very famous broomstick trick whilst trying out for the Open Day Broom Formation. She takes all the glory, but then is thrown in the deep when Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom decide to drop the broom formation and expect Hettie to perform the trick for Open Day and in front of the last witch to do the trick, Araminta Hexley-Gore.

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Episode 9

The Visitors

Pentangle's School is forced to share with Cackle's after their school floods, causing fights between the two schools.

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Episode 10

The Bewitching of Mona Hallow

It's Hazlemass, a special Hedge Witch ceremony, but to Cressie's disappointment, Miss Hardbroom tells her that Cackle's does not celebrate Hazlemass. Hettie and Mona decide to help Cressie celebrate it anyway, but when the girls leave the celebration cake unattended, Belladonna puts a bewitching spell on it. Mona persuades the others that she can look after the cake without touching it. She just has a taste and immediately becomes enemies with Hettie and Cressie.

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Episode 11

The Black Hole Club

Hettie rediscovers the "Black Hole Club" and Belladonna and Cynthia push their way in, to the dismay of Hettie, Mona and Cressie. Belladonna causes chaos with the Book of Trivial Magic and soon things become desperate.

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Episode 12

Time After Time

Cressie discovers she is a Time Witch, a witch who can tamper with time, so Hettie pressures her to go back in time with her to patch a falling out with Mona.

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Episode 13

The Enemy Within

Belladonna's granny Bindweed and Miss Cackle's twin Agatha try to take over the school yet again by using the End of Term prize, the very powerful Golden Broomstick.

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