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The Worst Witch

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TV Series

The Resume

    (October 22, 1998-January 26, 2001)
    Based on the book series written and illustrated by Jill Murphy (1974– )
    Georgina Sherrington as Mildred Hubble
    Jessica Fox as Enid Nightshade
    Felicity Jones (series 1) as Ethel Hallow
    Holly Rivers as Drusilla Paddock
    Emma Brown as Maud Moonshine
    Kate Duchene as Miss (Constance) Hardbroom
    Clare Coulter as Amelia / Agatha Cackle
    Una Stubbs as Davina Bat (series 1-2)
    Claire Porter as Imogen Drill
    Joanna Dyce as Ruby Cherrytree
    Harshna Brahmbhatt as Jadu Wali
    Katy Allen (series 2-3) as Ethel Hallow
    The misadventures of a kindhearted but incredibly clumsy student – with no sorcery lineage – at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches

Why The Worst Witch might be annoying:

    The series was an outgrowth of a 1986 TV special, re-aired every Hallowe’en for about a decade, with a Canadian in the title role and an American as one of the educators.
    The titular character only got accepted into the academy because of a poem.
    The token minorities – a black (Ruby) and a South Asian (Jadu) – were at best minor characters, though far from invisible.
    Agatha Cackle was actually a minor character, the genuinely evil twin of the upright academy headmistress.
    Oh, how many times the school had to be saved and how many times the staff and student body had to save each others' skins.
    When Allen took over for Jones in the role of Ethel, it was attributed to a ‘witch-over’ (or magical makeover; it was still an explanation).

Why The Worst Witch might not be annoying:

    Waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy before Hogwarts…
    Murphy also did all of the drawings for the books.
    Similar to the books, almost all of the cast was female.
    The first two seasons dramatized two books apiece; the third was not based on any book.
    It put a human, or non-greenish, face on the witch stereotype (also alluded to in the academy song).
    It spawned at least two spinoffs — the short-lived 'Weirdsister College,' which reunited Mildred and Ethel and featured a host of non-Brits; and 'The New Worst Witch,' featuring Mildred’s younger and no less clumsy sister (which lasted a year).

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 40 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying