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!
#1 - The Gate of Power
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2002
Hobbes wants to open the gates of power; unfortunately for him, Mildred and her friends are on the case.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The End of Misery's
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/2001
Money worries abound and all the students are in trouble as the college tries to fund a new time-traveling project. Misery's cafe, the local hangout, is nearly shut down. Luckily Millie and the gang know what to do.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Dreamcatcher
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/2001
Hobbes has feelings for Millie, and wants to ensure she has feelings for him too. Hobbes experiments with his new dream catching invention and makes Milly wake up with a crush on him.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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 ?
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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?
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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!
#15 - 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.
#16 - Sorcery and Chips
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/1999
Mildred is looking after 'Bonzo', who is Ruby's cyberpet (well, at least it isn't one of those ruddy Tamagotchis!). After the potion lab is destroyed, Bonzo goes missing.... Ethel's dad, who's on the board of directors, visits the academy, and convinces the teachers to set up a computer system. Bonzo makes his return, but he has been affected by magic as a result of the potion lab's destruction.... Bonzo connects up to the computer system and uses it to hypnotize everyone to try and help him take over the world when the system is connected to the net.... Mildred, with some help from a third year, are able to break Miss Hardbroom from the spell who then proceeds to defeat Bonzo just in time!
#17 - 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!
#18 - 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
#19 - 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....
#20 - The Unfairground
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
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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+.
#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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.