The WORST episodes of The Worst Witch
Every episode of The Worst Witch ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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!
#3 - The Heat Is On
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1998
Miss Hardbroom and Miss Bat have a falling out. Miss Cackle magics up a drink for the witches, and then sets them the task of recreating the drink, but they aren't allowed to use magic. The witches try everything of which they can think, even cheese! Eventually, Ethel and Drusilla decide not to work with the others and try to do it by themselves, but using magic. The others wonder whether or not flowers could be used to make the drink. With the help of Miss. Bat they find that they can and proceed to make the delicious drink! But, the night before the tasting, Ethel and Drusilla put something hot into the others drink.... On the day of the testing, the drink made by Mildred and her friends doesn't go down to well. However, Ethel's and Drusilla's does go up quite well, with a little help of the Dr. Foster effect.
#4 - The Lost Chord
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2001
Miss Crotchet and her choir get back from some music contest type thing where they won a silver cup for best unaccompanied chorus. Miss Drill's very happy for them. Crotchet explains that Griselda and Sybil filled in for Enid and Mildred. Clarice is sick. Fenella and Griselda tell Miss Drill that there was a professor from Vienna at the contest who was quite taken with Miss Crotchet. Crotchet brushes it off, ""It's just the girls having a bit of fun. You know how excitable they are."" She's wandering around singing and making a spectacle of herself the next day. Just then, who should show up but Professor Von whatever his name was. He comes into the school and invites the choir to give a performance in Vienna. Clarice doesn't hear properly because she has cotton in her ears. The Professor has lunch with Miss Crotchet and Miss Drill. Fenny and Gris show up and say that there isn't anything to eat, because Ms. Tapioca is on holiday or something. They have a plate of bananas or something. T
#5 - The Genius of the Lamp
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/2000
The show starts with Miss Batt bringing the first years back from a field trip where Sybill has gotten chased by a bull and stung by hornets. The first years are hating life under Miss Batt and Miss Drill. The girls, begging to do something quiet are allowed to have cooking lessons. Claris and Sybil make a dancing potion for the students more energy but the teachers get it instead. Claris and Sybil get punished. Sybil tells Claris how she never wanted to be a witch, she wanted to be a computer expert like her father but was made to come to Cackles since all the Hallow girls go to Cackles. She complains how she never gets anything she wants. To cheer her up Claris gets permission to make an everlasting source of light. What she is *really* doing is making a magic lamp for Sybil. Sybil starts wishing for all kinds of things. She won't stop wishing and the power the lamp is using is drawing from the castle itself. It starts pulling the castle apart, breaking dishes, decomposing fo
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Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/22/2001
The academy is all desolate and deserted. The only person who seems to be about is Miss Drill, and she's trying to set up a volleyball court in the courtyard. She looks up and sees everyone else returning on broomsticks. The three teachers land, but no one even bothers to say hello to her. She shakes it off and talks to Mildred and her friends, and asks about their trip to Miss Blackcat's something or other. They all talk about how amazing it was, with the potions and the spells and the broomstick displays and then they say she should have come. She says she would have liked to, but that she had things to do at the academy. Miss Cackle shows up just then and says hello and how do you do and things like that. Miss Drill mentions her volleyball tournament and Miss Cackles makes that ""Oh, yeah..."" face one makes when they've forgotten something and says, ""I need to talk to you about that."" Then she tells everybody that Miss Blackcat is coming to do a presentation on Friday, and that she's
#7 - Carried Away
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1999
The start of the show has HB and Miss Cackle telling Mildred that she can't keep Tabby and that she must change Tabby for a regular witch's cat. After Mildred leaves Miss C tells HB that she has to go with them on retreat because Cackle is sure that HB is going to burn out. The witches get ready to leave on their trip and have to go get their cats. Mildred switches her new cat, Ebony out for Tabby. On their trip their Tabby (who doesn't like flying) starts yowling. At the retreat (they go to visit the wizard that Mildred helped change back from a frog) they find Loppy there as a wizard's apprentice. The wizard tells them about the history of his and how a dragon lord then a powerful wizard lives there. Later in her room Mildred goes for a walk trying to find a place to let Tabby out so that no one will see her and know that Mildred switched places. She finds Loppy practicing magic and tells him about switching Ebony for Tabby. So they go and hide Tabby down by the dock because i
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Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/2001
The third years are writing their last exam and Mildred is drawing a picture of Miss Hardbroom (an unflattering one) while she waits for the exam to end. It does, and they all sing, and dance and throw magical confetti. ""Last one, last one, last one!"" -- to the tune of ""three two, three two, three two!"" as sung by Baz and Gaz in the first season. Miss Drill thinks it's fun and they magic her some daisies. Miss Hardbroom shows up and tells them all off. Mildred and co. go back to DOBS where Fenella and Griselda are playing chess. They complain that it's not fair to keep them at school when all their exams are done. Fenny and Gris tell them that there's a fair in town, and they'll make sure no one notices if they skip off (only there's a British term for it that made me blink). They get dressed in normal clothes (they look so much better in normal person clothes) and go wandering off. HB and Drill argue about whether the display in the corridor (with the confetti and wot not) was all in
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Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/1999
It's deathly cold at the school as the girls return from vacation. Since no one on the staff feels like lighting a fire, the girls start running laps up and down the stairs when who sould arrive but Rowan-Webb, Helliobore and his three stuges (Gary, Basel and Loppy). Hellibore (a bit put out that Rowan-Webb started a snowball fight with him) imediatly lights a fire for everyone to warm up by.Thinking this to be the end of the interruptions, the teachers let it go until Rowan-Webb gets the bright idea to put his showey title to good use and declare an upside-down day. Everyone who's not a student (including Hellibore and excepting Rowan-Webb) is disgusted. But never the less, they all go along with it. Basel and Gary are assigned to organize games in the great hall, and Fenella and Griselda are assigned to teach a potions class full of teachers. Of course, Bas and Gary's idea of a fun game is a version of hot potatoe where the box they're passing always explodes on eithor Loppy or Mildr
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#10 - A Bolt From The Blue
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1999
It's the end of the year for the student witches, and Mildred's incantations still don't seem to work as well as intended. To cure a case of hay fever brought on by one of Mildred's errors (""Exfoliatus!"" ""A CHOO!"") the other teachers give Miss Cackle what they assume to be a remedy potion, but which is in fact a mislabeled experiment of Miss Hardbroom's. The other teachers make no mention of the mishap, even when Miss Cackle's behaviour takes a turn for the malicious. It is Mildred and company, however, who realize that it is not Miss Cackle, but her evil twin back to cause more trouble. Mildred saves the day, for which she earns a raise in her final grade from C-- to A+.
#11 - Sweet Talking Guys
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1999
The Grand Wizard visits the academy to give a lecture, and he's accompanied by three trainee wizards, one of whom, ""Loppy Luggs"", could be described as the Worst Wizard.... The trainee wizards decide to make their visit into a boys vs girls affair.... During the lecture they cast a spell which makes some of the girls raise their hands but then become unable to speak. Mildred ends up firing a rubber from a ruler, which hits the Grand Wizard's head! She is then sent to her room.... The teachers organize a debate between the wizards and witches to find out who is better. The wizards get Loppy to make a potion which will give them an unfair advantage.... Mildred finds that she's left her potion book in the potion lab and so goes there to get it. There she finds Loppy, who is really called Merlin.... She finds out from him what the wizards are up to. The potion they made helps them to speak more confidently! She takes some of the potion and enters the hall where the debate is tak
#12 - The Battle Of The Broomsticks
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1998
We find Mildred walking through the forest on the first day of school, trying to find her way so she can make it on time. Ethel (who can already fly a broomstick) flies up behind her, and taunts her, reminding her that she wouldn't want to be late on the first day. Mildred accidentally hits Ethel in the face with a tree branch, though Ethel thought she did it on purpose. When Mildred arrives at the school (late), the gate is locked and so she has to try and fly over it on her broom, crashes horribly, breaking her broomstick and making a rather poor introduction for herself. Maud takes a liking to Mildred and decides to help her pass the upcoming broomstick-flying test, and she needs the help considering she's scared of heights (and the dark!). A virtual reality broomstick flying training machine arrives at school, and so Mildred, Maud, Jadu and Ruby sneak down in the middle of the night to practice.
#13 - The Great Oudoors
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1998
Mildred and the girls are forced into the woods by Miss Drill and Miss Hardbroom for their half term trip. Arriving at their campsite, they find it occupied by Rocky Mountain Rangers, with whom they share it. The two groups also share in each other's activities. Although the trip is intended to be magic free, Ethel's evil heart once again forces Mildred's friends to fight back, and chaos ensues....
#14 - Alarms and Diversions
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1999
In response to Miss Cackle's request for a new alarm system, Frank Blossom builds one. When he comes to demonstrate it he suggests that everyone covers their eyes as it could get quite loud. The alarm is activated and the academy is filled with deafening...silence! The alarm appears to have a malfunction.... Later, in potions class, the second years are learning about finger sparks. Whilst applying the potion to their fingers Mildred gets distracted by Sybil who is outside the window having difficulty flying. Mildred spills far too much off the potion onto her hands! When it comes to her turn to practice her finger sparks she blasts a hole in the blackboard! Sybil has failed her broomstick test! But she has been told that she can retake it as many times as she needs to until she pasts, even though students are usually expelled if they fail the broomstick test! Ethel has been told to give her lessons. During lunch Enid decides to try the ""Semolina Bowl Trick"". When Miss H
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#15 - A Mean Hallowe'en
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1998
This is the first of a two-parter. Mildred fails a potion test, she was supposed to have made a laughing potion but instead, because she believed the potion should have been green, she ends up making an invisibility potion. She is sent to Miss Cackle to explain. Mildred then decides that it's time to buck her ideas up and to make an effort to improve, which she does by passing the following potion test successfully. For the upcoming Hallowe'en celebrations, Mildred's class has been asked to put on a broomstick display. However, only one of them actually has to fly in it, and Mildred is the one who is chosen. Her broom, which was damaged during her crash landing on her first day, isn't up to the job, so Ethel lends Mildred hers, but she has evil intentions. At the display itself, Mildred crashes into the Grand Wizard, but it wasn't her fault! Ethel had instructed her broom to make Mildred look stupid deliberately...
#16 - Monkey Business
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1998
It's the start of the summer term, and it begins with Mildred having a dream that she is being put on trial for being the worst witch. A new girl, Enid Nightshade, joins the academy, and Mildred is asked to show her around. However, this leaves little time for Mildred to spend with Maud. Enid ends up getting Mildred into all sorts of trouble. Then Mildred discovers a monkey coming from Enid's room. It turns out that the monkey is really a bit of a pussycat....
#17 - A Pig In a Poke
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1998
The witches' cats arrive, but they're one short.... The caretaker's nephew, Charlie, visits the academy, but he doesn't believe that the witches are real.... Mildred ends up turning Ethel into a pig, which was bad enough, but it was suppose to have been a frog! Ethel then gets mistaken for an escaped pig from the local farm so she is taken there. The only person who knows the reversal spell is Charlie so he and Mildred rush to the farm to save Ethel. When they find her, Charlie casts the spell, but it ends up making Ethel go a little quackers....
#18 - Cinderella in Boots
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/24/2000
Hellibore arrives at Cackles for a Christmas Pantomime, which he loaned out Dragonsbane and Grailquest for. Backstage, everything's falling apart. Miss Hardbroom (in a strange little white dress) has been cast by Miss Crotchet as the fairy godmother. ""I'm just not that kind of witch!"" Crotchet explains that the point is to cast people against character. Mildred can't remember any of her lines, she has terrible stage fright, and Ethel's chopping at the bit to take her place. Crotchet tells Mildred that the fact she doesn't want to be Cinderella is exactly what makes her perfect for the part. Ruby's rigged up some sort of lighting device with a potion. Drill is stage manager, Charlie is assistant stage manager, and some sort of lightening shoots out of the lighting device and fries the pumpkin. Curtain is very soon, and Maud shows up to tell Drill that the ugly stepsisters are on strike. Meanwhile, Hellibore's reading the program and he's quite befuddled. He thinks that Pantomime is mime
#19 - The Dragon's Hoard
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/1999
Mildred borrows HB's broomstick, planning to bring it back before her teacher finds out, and starts off after the boat. She lands and sees Miss Hardbroom sprawled on the deck. Tying off the broom, she orders it to pull them back, but the rope breaks when the boat fetches up on some rocks, and the broom sails away into the distance. Meanwhile, Merlin's practicing his magic in the cave again when he hears a voice in the rocks. He unwittingly frees a very angry dragon lord, who's convinced that Rowan-Webb stoled his treasure and sets off for the house with Merlin in tow. The rest of the students are grudgingly reading a balad about the very same dragon lord, when Drusilla asks to be excused. Seeing her oportunity, Maud follows her and corners her demanding to know where Mildred is. Just then, the dragon lord arrives and traps everyone except Maud and Drusilla in the living room. Miss Cackle and Algernon try to talk some sense into him, but he simply grows more adgitated. Learning the whol
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Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1999
A New Term Begins At Cackles Witch Academy with new withes, potions, spells, excitement , action and comedy. New Girls Sybil Hallow and Clarice Crow are two deceiving friends. Sybil Hallow is Ethel Hallows sister but Ethel's tells Sybil not to tell anyone but Sybil's identity doesn't keep a secret for long. meanwhile Mil red Hubble meets up with her friends Maud, Enid, Ruby, Shadu, Finny And Gris. This Episode Is one of the best episodes of The Worst Witch.
#21 - Let Them Eat Cake
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1999
After being foiled in a plot to steal sweets from Mildred and her friends, Ethel decides to lure them to an out-of-bounds tea room in the woods to get even. The girls meet a nature-loving businessman named Sam, who has trouble standing up to his overbearing boss. Meanwhile, Miss Cackle is already at the tearoom, but she can't let Miss Hardbroom find her.... When they find out about Sam's role in a web of deceit to swindle the tearoom's owner out of her land, they also find out that his boss is planning to build a polluting factory on the land! They then help Sam stand up to his boss by driving Sam barking mad. And after avoiding the wrath of Miss Hardbroom they gorge themselves on sweets!
#22 - Miss Cackle's Birthday Surprise
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1998
Mildred is warned that if she doesn't behave, she may not be allowed to go on the half term trip. Mildred does her very best to behave. No one believes she can manage it. On the last day before the trip, Mildred feels that she can do it. It's also Miss Cackle's birthday. Just before they enter the hall for the celebrations, Enid drags Mildred into a cupboard and Ethel locks the door. Mildred is upset, as she now believes that she won't be going on the trip after all. They see a window from which they might be able to escape, but it's too high. They find an old broomstick and decide to fly out. The window ends up leading straight to the hall where the birthday celebrations are taking place!
#23 - Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/1998
Mildred finds that not all of the witches in town are from the academy, some evil ones have shown up and are planning to take over the academy by turning everyone into frogs whilst they're asleep. They discover her and they cast a spell on her making her unable to move. When they're gone, Miss Drill comes to help her.
#25 - The Uninvited
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/2001
This episode starts where the last one left off. Mildred and Jadu follow HB down the hall and she puts them to work in a stuffy little room, copying pages out of old books. That's what suspended students do until their parents come and get them. Maud and Drusilla come to visit and tell them not to lose hope. Miss Drill complains to Miss Cackle some more about giving Mildred and Jadu the chop. She says Maud's running for head girl, and that her campaign platform is freeing Mildred and Jadu. Miss Hardbroom says that Ethel's going to win. Cackle hasn't mailed the letters to Mildred and Jadu's parents yet. Miss Hardbroom offers to, but Miss Drill says to hang onto them for a day and see how she feels about it later. They have a tug of war until Miss Cackle snatches them back. Drill and Crotchet want to make sure Miss Hardbroom doesn't fix the election, and they talk Cackle into magically locking up the ballet box. Mildred draws a drawing of prince Percy who fought a dragon (as they read wh