The BEST episodes of The Worst Witch

Every episode of The Worst Witch ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Worst Witch!

Mildred (Milly) Hubble came to Cackle's Academy to start her new life as a witch. On the first day of school, she arrived late to school, crashing into the school grounds – not a very good start to the first day of school at all! Even though her spells turn into a disaster and she can't fly her broomstick, she always saves the day!

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Never on Friday
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#1 - Never on Friday

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2001

A new teacher arrives at Weirdsister, American Dr. Andy Starfinder. A machine that stores up all The Foster's Effect created by the school during the week goes haywire. Mildred, Cas, and Ethel learn that rules are there for a reason.

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The Gargoyle
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#2 - The Gargoyle

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2001

After Starfinder sets the class some homework, Hobbes decides to take things "out of his league". Hobbes makes a stone Gargoyle come to life.

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All That Jazz
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#3 - All That Jazz

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/2001

Mildred gets super-charged with magic, after Ethel lets go of her hand while being given a magical boost. Millie receives special powers because of Ethel and causes chaos when she decides to attend a jazz concert at Misery's.

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Dr. Foster, I Presume!
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#4 - Dr. Foster, I Presume!

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/17/2001

Dr. Starfinder is working on a machine to "get around" the Fosters effect; little does he know that Foster comes to him. The students are informed of the Fosters Effect. This rule, discovered by Doctor Foster, prevents magic being used for selfish or trivial reasons. Mayhem ensues as the 'missing' Doctor Foster contacts the college after having gotten caught in a spot of bother.

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Shaky Foundations
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#5 - Shaky Foundations

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/2002

Professor Shakeshaft starts pining for someone he once knew, so attempts to invent a spell to travel back in time; little does he know that Hobbes want his share.

The Whisperer
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2 votes

#6 - The Whisperer

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/7/2002

With the help of Hobbes, Starfinder has created the Accumulator - A machine which captures and stores negative magical energy inside special eggs. Hobbes has another cunning plan and with Ethel's help they secretly create 12 eggs to continue the research of Misgone Magic. As the power from the eggs surges forth a ghostly specre of a man emerges from the wall and sucks away Hobbes's will. Is this the end for Nick Hobbes?

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The All-Seeing Eye
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#7 - The All-Seeing Eye

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2001

Mildred Hubble is now at Weirdsister College. To her dismay she finds her new roommate is none other then Ethel Hallow. She meets a cad named Hobbes but finds a new friend in Cas Crowfeather. Millie sheds some excess hair. No uniforms and boys. The new students of Weirdsister are put through a test, to see if they are strong enough.

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The Golden Cauldron
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1 votes

#8 - The Golden Cauldron

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/4/2002

The students celebrate the founders day of the College. The witches take on the wizards at the Agony games. Who will win? Hobbes is back to his old tricks. And he and Ethel clash. Is this the end of their friendship ?

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The Seventh Sense
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9.00
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#9 - The Seventh Sense

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/28/2002

Elaine finds out that she has the seventh sense; meanwhile, Tabby (Mildred's cat) gets into some bother. Mildred is distraught when a spell used to freeze her cat causes him to fall ill. Ben also finds out Milly's true identity and finds it all a bit to much after a near death experience.

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Secret Society
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9.00
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#10 - Secret Society

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2000

Welcome to the third season, which starts off with Mildred and her friends looking very snazzy and dancing in one of the classrooms. Miss Drill walks in and doesn't stop them (she thinks it's as neat as the rest of us do) but then Miss Hardbroom shows up and tells everybody off. Meanwhile, Miss Bat has been replaced by Miss Crochet, the new chanting teacher, with some sort of weird musical device that she can't play properly. It sounds like a squashed bagpipe. Miss Drill, by now, comes to Miss Cackle, complaining that Miss Hardbroom has ""gone too far"" this time. She wants to leave and go work at the adventure center with her BOYFRIEND Serge. Miss Hardbroom, on the other hand, complains to Miss Cackle that ""Mildred and Friends"" need to be ""squashed"" before they get out of hand. Miss Cackle suggests making them members of the Cauldron Club, of which Miss Hardbroom is honorary lifetime president. Miss Hardbroom balks at the idea, but promises to discuss it with the current head Cauldronit

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Good Friends
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8.50
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#11 - Good Friends

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/5/2002

Enid Nightshade, an old friend of Millie's from Cackle's Academy, arrives at the college, and Mildred gets more than she bargained for.

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Learning the Hard Way
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8.33
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#12 - Learning the Hard Way

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/2000

It's potions class and Drusilla turns into a tree. Ethel points out that the dangers of turning into a tree include getting chopped down, woodpeckers, etc... Miss Hardbroom asks how they would be able to tell which tree Drusilla was if they were in a forest. Mildred says she'd be the one that dropped a branch on them. HB doesn't think that's funny, and makes Mildred drink her tree-turning-into potion next. Mildred turns into something ""prickly and annoying"". HB tells the class that they're getting a student teacher from Weird Sister's College named Gabrielle Gribble. Not too long later, the staff discuss the new student teacher, and Miss Cackle says that Gabrielle's last assignment didn't go too well, and that, as a favor to the college, they're letting her have another go at Cackles. Miss Crotchet gracefully moves so that Miss Gribble can have the broken chair. Gribble arrives, and everyone but Miss Hardbroom leaves (because the bell rings). Gribble's late because of the up draft outs

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Art Wars
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8.25
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#13 - Art Wars

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/19/2001

Lynn Lamplighter, an artist who lived in the village near Cackle's, is coming to the school for Art Week, and it's all terribly exciting. Of course, there's one person who's angry about it; Ethel. She comes stomping up the hall with Drusilla and they make some uncalled for remarks to Mildred, who's sitting on the stairs minding her own business. They make fun of Maud too, until Mildred hits Ethel with a blob of green slime. Maud and Mildred run upstairs with Ethel and Drusilla chasing after them. They run back down again, with Ethel and Drusilla hurling slime at them. Mildred ducks into the room with Lamplighter in it, and the artist is mistakenly slimed. HB doesn't think having the artist show up is a good idea either, and she doesn't like Lamplighter's pants. Cackle says that she promised everyone would take part. The third years and the staff listen to Miss Lamplighter talk about art for a while. She asks HB what her favorite color is, ""Black"" and they talk about weather it's actual

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Better Dead Than Co-Ed
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8.25
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#14 - Better Dead Than Co-Ed

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/2001

Everybody arrives at Camelot College (a wizard school). Just as they're about to land, Mildred crashes her broom into a tree. Bars and Gars watch her through a telescope and pretend they're airport control. They call HB the secret weapon when they see her. ""All is not well, mon capitain!"" Everyone runs over to see if Mildred's all right. She is. Cackle says that it's a good thing Mildred landed prematurely, because it reminded her that you should always greet wizards on foot. ""We witches sometimes have a clear advantage. Wizards aren't so good at flying."" They walk up to the castle and Hellibore makes an ostentatious entrance, calling his pupils forth and making them recite a lame poem that they all look suitably embarrassed to recite (particularly the ones that look to be nineteen or so??). Mildred and co. notice Charlie standing in their midst. They talk to him inside, and he explains, ""Miss Cackle knew how much I wanted to be a witch... I mean, wizard."" So she wrote to Hellibore and

Directors: Andrew Morgan
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It's a Frog's Life
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8.00
4 votes

#15 - It's a Frog's Life

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/1999

At the beginning of the show we find Mildred telling everyone how Miss Hardbroom changes people into frogs and that there is a girl in the pond that HB changed into a frog. Later Mildred gets into another fight with Ethel. Ethel takes revenge on her by turning her into a frog. HB finds frog-Mildred and carries her around in her purse for a while and then puts her in a jar during potions class. Mildred escapes and gets out to the pond. She meets the frog in the pond who actually turns out to be a wizard turned into a frog by a rival wizard. She promises to get him turned back. Mildred's friends find her and get Ethel to turn her back and then Mildred has to convince HB that she was actually a frog. Both Mildred and Ethel are told they are not allowed to go to the upcoming wizard's class.

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Just Like Clockwork
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#16 - Just Like Clockwork

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2000

Miss Cackle's off to visit her sickly auntie Gertrude (maybe not Gertrude, but I think that was her name) and for some reason, Mr. Hallow (who looks really, really a lot older than he did before) is there to help see her off. He sticks his nose in where it doesn't belong and suggests finding someone to be a temporary replacement, ""a witch between jobs to fill in"". Because they're very polite, Cackle and HB agree. Ruby has invented a machine that somehow allows you to travel from one place to the other without having to walk there - sort of the way HB disappears and reappears. This involves wearing a cooky headband and having Ruby push all sorts of buttons on a gizmo. It doesn't work properly, and it makes Mildred disappear and reappear all around the room really, really fast. Ethel catches up with her father and has a pow wow with him in the hallway. He explains that he was having trouble finding someone, but then he thought of the perfect person, tracked her down by phone, and she was

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The Hair Witch Project
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#17 - The Hair Witch Project

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/2000

Mildred shows up with a big wad of old rotten gum that she's been sticking under her bed every night. Enid's happy about this. She pours a pink potion all over it and explains to the others that she and Mildred have been working on a way to give gum back it's flavor. Enid hands Mildred back the gum, and Mildred tastes it, proclaiming that it tastes just like new. Then she blows a bubble while Enid argues with everyone else about weather or not they're going to be allowed to submit that as their third year witch project. Eventually, Mildred's gum turns into one giant bubble, and escapes out the open door. Meanwhile, Miss Crotchet and Miss Drill walk under some third years (who are walking up the wall sans gravity) and Miss Drill just finishes saying how much she hates the third year witch project week when Mildred's bubble floats in and bursts on her. Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom tell everyone off for using their disgusting, banned bubble gum in a project, and tell Mildred and Enid th

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An Unforgettable Experience
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#18 - An Unforgettable Experience

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/16/2000

Ms. Cosey, who we all remember from Let Them Eat Cake, has been taken ill, and Miss Cackle, benevolent soul that she is, sends Mildred, Maud, Ethel and Drusilla to help her out for the weekend. For the very same weekend, the rest of the third years are subjected to Miss Drill's outdoor survival training (which involves face paint, and lots of running). Ethel, being Ethel, takes charge of everyone as soon as they arrive at the tearoom (Ms. Cosey has popped off to see the doctor) and everyone grumbles about how she's not pitching in to help clean up. Ethel gets to talking with Drusilla, and they discuss how stupid looking to tearoom is. Ethel blasts it (you're not supposed to use magic in the tearoom, donchaknow) and makes it look really cool. Then she blasts her classmates and makes them look really cool (and they do look very nice). All of that is just in time for a group of Japanese tourists to show up at the door. Miss Hardbroom, meanwhile, lures Miss Cackle off in the direction of t

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Green Fingers and Thumbs
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8.00
3 votes

#19 - Green Fingers and Thumbs

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/2000

In second term all the witches at Cackles have to pass a potion exam. Mildred is trying to study for hers in the greenhouse with Mr. Blossom (even Blossom knows her potions better than her), while he feeds his plants tea leaves. Meanwhile, a farmer from the town comes to the academy. Miss Cackle premtively apologises for scaring the cows, but it turns out that he only wants to host the vedgetable show at Cackle's. For the good of the academy, they agree, and the man sneaks out to the greenhouse, and has an altercation with Mr. Blossom about who's going to win the marrow growing contest. Later on, Mildred and her friends are practicing for their test, but the only way she can remember the ingrediants is to sing them, but Miss Hardbroom tells them to shut up and informs them that they can't practice any extra curricular magic. Ethel gets a wonderful idea and sneaks out to the greenhouse with Drusilla. She pours a sticky potion on the ground and they watch as the farmer comes back and dra

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Fair Is Foul and Fouls Are Fair
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#20 - Fair Is Foul and Fouls Are Fair

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2000

As the hot weather sets in again, the students get distracted and Ethel decides it would be a funny joke to cast a spell on Mildred and her friends to make them cause a ruckus in class. Miss Hardbroom complains about their inattentiveness at the next staff meeting, and Miss Drill suggests that they start a basketball team as an extracuricular activity. So, willing or not, the second years are brought outside and informed that they're a basketball team. ""I have no problem with team work, as long as I'm not on the same team as them,"" Ethel complains. Alas, everyone's on the same team and they retreat to the great hall to practice. For once, Mildred's not the worst. Ethel couldn't bounce a basketball to save her life, (Ethel: What do you lot think you're laughing at? Drusilla: They're laughing at you, Ethel) and everyone has a good chuckle at her until she magics the ball and shows them all up. At that point, Miss Drill makes strict rules about not using magic in basketball games. She als

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Up in the Air
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8.00
4 votes

#21 - Up in the Air

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2000

Charlie Blossom makes his illustrious return to Cackles and is instantly greeted by the flying Fenella and Griselda. He tells his uncle that he wishes he could go to witch school so that he could learn to fly. Frank helplessly promisses to ask Miss Cackle if hecan enroll. Miss Cackle, being swayed by Charlie's claim that her school was the best in the world, decides to let him write an enterance exam created by Miss Hardbroom (whom Charlie's decided he likes). Since Charlie's worst subject is math, HB naturally chooses to test him on that. He's doing terribly and she leaves the room, sure that he'll fail. Enid and Mildred take the oportunity to magic his test, but Mildred casts the wrong spell and the answers keep multiplying. Mildred tries to stop them with another messed-up spell, and the numbers leap off the page and float around the room. The numbers from Miss Drill's sports day results do the same and Miss Hardbroom returns to the testing room just in time to hear Mildred sugest t

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Crumpets for Tea
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7.83
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#22 - Crumpets for Tea

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/1999

Now that Millie is human again she has not forgotten that she met the wizard Algenon. A prominent wizard comes to the school for a lecture. Millie and Ethel are banned as punishment for their feuding. Millie tries to convince her friends to switch places with her or at least take her frog to the lecture so that he can change her frog back to a wizard. When they won't do that Mildred tricks Drizzila into coming into her room and then ties her up and takes her place in the Great Hall where the lecture is being taken. Ethel finds Drizzila tied up in Millie's room and they rush down to the Great Hall to catch Mildred red handed. They burst in when the wizard is trying to teach Maude a new spell and tell on her. She is forced to confess why she came to the great hall. She gets her frog turned back into a human. When asked what she wants as a reward she asks for crumpets since her frog wizard told her that he missed that the most.

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When We Feast At The Midnight Hour
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7.83
23 votes

#23 - When We Feast At The Midnight Hour

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1998

Mildred and her friends can hardly stand the food they're given to eat at lunch, and she gets caught trying to dump it in the garbage bin by Miss Hardbroom (by spilling it all over her!) Miss Hardbroom of course takes the issue to Miss Cackle, who decides that she should eat whatever the girls are given to eat. Mildred finds herself in the kitchen, and finds out that the cook is able to make incredibly good food (including pizza!) but isn't allowed to because of school policy. Miss Cackle decides that the food the girls are getting is barely edible, and so sneaks down to the kitchen at night to have some pizza herself. In the end, Miss Cackle declares Saturday to be 'pizza day' and Mildred is applauded as a hero by the other girls.

Writer: Martin Riley
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The Inspector Calls
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7.75
4 votes

#24 - The Inspector Calls

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1999

This episode starts at a committee meeting where they talk about how many witch schools are failing and that they are going to send an inspector to the school. At the school the first scene is of shelf falling on the floor after Mildred sets an empty beaker on it. One of the full beakers on the shelf has a strong hiccuping potion that sets the whole class hiccuping. When the class is over Mildred and her friends run into Sybil Halloway (Ethel's sister) on their way out of the class. Turns out Sybil is completely infatuated by Mildred since Mildred was the only one who was kind to her when she first arrived. However her hero worship makes Ethel mad and gives Mildred the creeps. When the teachers learn that they are getting inspected they panic after HB informs them that the inspector they are getting is the worst one there is.(""Be afraid, be very afraid"") HB was a student of hers and labels her as the most demanding and tyrannical teacher ever. The teachers go into a frenzy tryi

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The Witchy Hour
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7.75
4 votes

#25 - The Witchy Hour

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/30/2000

Ruby is fixing up a radio in DOBS so that everyone can listen to The Witchy Hour hosted by Icey Stevens, who, apparently, looks really hot. The undefeated champions are Pentangles, and Mildred cheers for them (even though they're the academy's rivals) because it ""wouldn't be any fun"" if nobody cheered for them. At the end of the program, Miss Drill shows up and Mildred accidentally turns her into a dog. (She's reciting the spell for turning someone into a sausage dog, and accidentally gets Miss Drill). Icey draws the name of the next academy to appear on the show and it's... Cackles! Surprise! It turns out Mildred and Jadu entered their school as a joke. Miss Hardbroom and Miss Cackle look over Pentangles new brochure which ""must have cost a fortune"", right before they find out that they're about to be on a radio program. Miss Hardbroom (who seems to be taking the whole thing with Pentangles very personally) is even more enraged than usual. Unfortunately, before they can decide what's

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