The WORST episodes of The Worst Witch (2017)

Every episode of The Worst Witch (2017) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Worst Witch (2017)!

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Last Updated: 4/14/2024Network: CBBCStatus: Ended

6.94

36 votes

#1 - Out of Bounds

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/2017

As the end of year exams loom, Miss Cackle's secret is still weighing heavy on Mildred's mind.

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6.96

26 votes

#2 - Bat Girl

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2018

Enid takes a practical joke too far and is threatened with expulsion. Mildred turns herself into a bat but can't remember how to turn herself back. Clarice struggles to understand the appeal of practical jokes.

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7.06

34 votes

#3 - Tortoise Trouble

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2018

It's the first day of term and Mildred is feeling positive... until she has a hand in a wing of the school falling down.

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7.10

30 votes

#4 - Ethel Everywhere

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2018

Ethel's clone spell spirals out of control.

7.11

27 votes

#5 - Hollow Wood

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2018

Mildred can't understand why the girls are so scared of collecting potions ingredients in the woods until she comes face to face with an unusual creature.

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7.11

61 votes

#6 - Selection Day (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2017

After she visits Cackle's Academy with her new witch friend Maud Spellbody, Mildred attempts to enrol by taking the magical exam.

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7.12

25 votes

#7 - Miss Cackle's Birthday

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2018

Maud is stressed out directing Miss Cackle's birthday show so Mildred and Enid try to help, but they accidentally turn her into a baby. Miss Cackle struggles with pressure from the Magic Council.

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7.20

25 votes

#8 - Love at First Sight

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2018

It's Halloween, but Mildred's more interested in meddling in Miss Bat and Mr Rowan-Webb's relationship. Her good intentions backfire when her love spell goes wrong. Sybil gets caught up in Ethel's plan to get Esmerelda back in school.

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7.21

28 votes

#9 - The Extraordinary Esper Vespertilio

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2018

Mildred makes a stand about equality when a mysterious witch arrives in school. Miss Bat's chanting performance reveals a secret about her past. Beatrice's allergy is exposed with disastrous consequences.

7.28

32 votes

#10 - Mildred's Family Tree

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2018

A lesson on family trees gets Mildred thinking about finding her dad. Ethel can't resist making a cruel joke at Mildred's expense. Sports Day pushes Maud to take desperate measures.

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7.29

34 votes

#11 - The Friendship Trap

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2018

Mildred and Ethel are more at odds than ever, so Miss Cackle sets a friendship trap on them, pushing them too close for comfort.

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7.32

19 votes

#12 - Gertrude the Great

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/2020

Enid's attempt to help Mildred win her first head girl challenge backfires.

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7.33

27 votes

#13 - The Wishing Star

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2019

Mildred enters the Great Wizard's broomstick-flying contest to win a Wishing Star.

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7.41

22 votes

#14 - The Three Impossibilities

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2020

When a botched potions experiment leaves Mildred with a whole new look, can she complete three impossible challenges and reverse the spell before the sun goes down?

7.42

24 votes

#15 - Finding Joy

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2019

When Mildred masquerades as Indigo’s lost friend Joy in a bid to cheer her up, Miss Hardbroom is soon onto them and Mildred’s trick is revealed. Indigo is betrayed - is the girls’ friendship damaged beyond repair?

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7.47

55 votes

#16 - Tabby

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/2017

Mildred learns that having a scaredy cat makes life at witching school tough - especially when Ethel Hallow is determined to see her fail.

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7.50

22 votes

#17 - Starstruck

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2019

When Indigo disappears after being humiliated by Miss Hardbroom again, Mildred and Maud track her to a TV talent show in a nearby city and wangle their way into the studio.

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7.50

26 votes

#18 - A New Dawn

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2018

Miss Pentangle brightens the gloom at Cackle's by teaching modern witching workshops, but Mildred is determined to see Miss Cackle reinstated. Sybil finds the workshops too much and Mildred takes a risk to help Miss Cackle.

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7.50

28 votes

#19 - Miss Softbroom

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2018

Miss Cackle goes to meet her fate at the Magic Council and Mildred is determined to help her. The first years are unimpressed with Miss Hardbroom as acting head teacher and decide to soften her up.

7.51

55 votes

#20 - New Girl

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2017

Everyone's excited at the arrival of Enid, a witch from the famous Nightshade family.

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7.52

25 votes

#21 - All Hallow's Eve (1)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2018

Esmerelda attempts to give the powers back to the stone and Miss Cackle allows the pupils to play magical tricks on the staff without fear. The girls use the Family Trees to try and find out how the Founding Stone was re-ignited the last time. Halloween celebrations mask magical mayhem as the castle starts to freeze. Someone makes a surprise sacrifice.

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7.54

46 votes

#22 - Maud's Big Mistake

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2017

Maud's panic about parent's evening pushes her to use a forgetting powder, meanwhile Mildred wonders if her mum is a witch after all.

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7.55

33 votes

#23 - The Worst Headmistress

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/29/2017

Agatha takes over the school, and without Mildred there, who will save the day?

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7.56

93 votes

#24 - Selection Day (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2017

Mildred Hubble's world changes when she learns about selection day at Cackle's Academy.

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7.63

40 votes

#25 - The First Witch

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/2017

Mildred goes on a hair-raising journey while looking into her magical heritage, meanwhile Ethel thinks she's queen bee when she grows a wart.

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