The BEST episodes written by Martin Riley

When We Feast At The Midnight Hour
star
7.83
23 votes

#1 - When We Feast At The Midnight Hour

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 2

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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
star
7.50
14 votes

#2 - Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 5

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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Sorcery and Chips
star
7.50
6 votes

#3 - Sorcery and Chips

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 10

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!

Watch Now:Amazon
The Uninvited
star
7.50
2 votes

#4 - The Uninvited

The Worst Witch - Season 3 - Episode 14

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

Watch Now:Amazon
Let Them Eat Cake
star
7.40
5 votes

#5 - Let Them Eat Cake

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 11

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!

Watch Now:Amazon
Old Hats and New Brooms
star
7.38
8 votes

#6 - Old Hats and New Brooms

The Worst Witch - Season 2 - Episode 1

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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Cinderella in Boots
star
7.33
3 votes

#7 - Cinderella in Boots

The Worst Witch - Season 3 - Episode 8

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

Watch Now:Amazon
A Pig In a Poke
star
7.31
16 votes

#8 - A Pig In a Poke

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 3

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....

Watch Now:Amazon
A Mean Hallowe'en
star
7.22
18 votes

#9 - A Mean Hallowe'en

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 4

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...

Watch Now:Amazon
The Great Oudoors
star
7.11
9 votes

#10 - The Great Oudoors

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 8

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....

Watch Now:Amazon
The Battle Of The Broomsticks
star
7.00
30 votes

#11 - The Battle Of The Broomsticks

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 1

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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Sweet Talking Guys
star
7.00
4 votes

#12 - Sweet Talking Guys

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 12

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

Watch Now:Amazon
The Heat Is On
star
6.29
7 votes

#13 - The Heat Is On

The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 9

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.

Watch Now:Amazon