Sabrina: The Animated Series
Genre	Animated sitcom Fantasy
Based on	Sabrina the Teenage Witch by Dan DeCarlo,George Gladir, &Archie Comics
Developed by	Savage Steve Holland Kat Likkel
Directed by	Peter Ferk Karen Hyden
Voices of	Emily Hart Nick Bakay Melissa Joan Hart Jay Brazeau Bill Switzer Cree Summer Chantal Strand
Opening theme	"Sabrina (She'll Bewitch Ya)" byB*Witched
Ending theme	"Sabrina (She'll Bewitch Ya)" (reprise, instrumental)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	65
Production
Executive producers	Savage Steve Holland Paula Hart Andy Heyward Robby London Michael Maliani
Producers	Kevin Murphy Michael Silberkleit Richard Goldwater Dianne Dixon Savage Steve Holland Cydne Clark Steve Granat Dan Studney
Animator	Hong Ying Animation Company Limited
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Riverdale Productions Kent/QMA Savage Studios Ltd. Hartbreak Films DIC Productions, L.P.
Original release
Network	UPN (Disney's One Too) ABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning)
Release	September 6 (1999-09-06) – November 19, 1999 (1999-11-19)
Related
Sabrina: Friends Forever (2002) Sabrina's Secret Life (2003)

Sabrina: The Animated Series is an Americananimated television series based on theArchie Comics seriesSabrina the Teenage Witch.^[1] Produced by Savage Studios Ltd. and Hartbreak Films in association withDIC Productions, L.P. (owned byDisney at the time), the series is an animated prequel of the 1996–2003 live-action seriesSabrina the Teenage Witch.^[2]

The series aired onABC andUPN from September 6 to November 19, 1999. Sixty-five episodes were produced.

Unlike previous incarnations,Sabrina Spellman in this series is depicted as a half witch and half mortal attendingschool. As in the original comic series, Sabrina lives with her paternal witch aunts,Hilda Spellman andZelda Spellman, and her loud-mouthed blackcatSalem Saberhagen, all of whom advise Sabrina on the use of several magics. Most episodes center on the typical issues of middle school, along with those that emanated from Sabrina's inexperience with or misuse of severalmagic,witchcraft and extremely powerful and complexspells. Sabrina and her best friend Chloe Flan would often use magic (often from the "Spooky Jar": acookie jar containing a green genie-like being in the family's kitchen) for all types of perceived emergencies, ranging from trying to fit into skinny new clothes to turning Sabrina's crush Harvey into asuperhero. By the end of every episode, Sabrina's innate magical abilities would unintentionally backfire and she would learn that using magic usually is not the solution to her everyday issues.

• Sabrina Spellman (voiced byEmily Hart) is awitch-mortalhybrid who lives in a comfortable house with her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda, and her black pet cat, Salem, in the fictional town of Greendale. Sabrina won't become magically empowered until she turns sixteen, but she is still able to borrow spells from Hilda and Zelda using a magical "Spooky Jar," which she often does. However, she usually finds that her meddling turns situations from bad to worse. Sabrina's friend Chloe is aware of her magic, but Harvey Kinkle, another friend and her romantic interest, is not. Whenever she casts a spell, the magic is made in pink and yellow.Emily Hart isMelissa Joan Hart's real-life sister who played Sabrina's cousin Amanda in several episodes of theSabrina the Teenage Witch TV series.
• Hilda Spellman andZelda Spellman (both voiced byMelissa Joan Hart): While Hilda suggests they bend the rules sometime, and use magic to get ahead, Zelda is determined to say "No" right up until the moment she gives up. Hilda is more carefree and reckless than her cautious sister, Zelda, and, although they do butt heads sometimes, they are still sisters. In this series andSabrina's Secret Life, Hilda and Zelda both have the appearance of teenagers, as this was the punishment they received from Enchantra for "abusing magic" in the past. Whenever Zelda casts a spell, the magic is always made in blue and yellow. When Hilda casts a spell, the magic is made in purple and yellow. Melissa Joan Hart is best known for playing Sabrina in theShowtime film adaptation and theABC series.
• Salem Saberhagen (voiced byNick Bakay) knows the right buttons to push to talk Sabrina into just about anything, and he does it guiltlessly—until he's caught. Salem was once a powerful wizard, but he was locked into a cat-form because he was constantly trying to take over the world. However, he makes up for his predicament with magical charms that help Sabrina in some situations. Whenever Salem casts a spell, the magic is made in purple and blue.Nick Bakay is the only cast member to reprise his role from the 1996Sabrina, the Teenage Witch TV series.
• Uncle Quigley (voiced byJay Brazeau) is an original character created for the animated series, he is Sabrina's maternal great-uncle and the household's adult guardian, often behaving as a father figure to Sabrina. Despite all his eccentricities, Uncle Quigley does not have any magic powers; like Sabrina's mother, he is a mortal.
• Chloe Flan (voiced byCree Summer) is Sabrina's best friend who, other than Uncle Quigley, is the only mortal who knows Sabrina's secret.
• Harvey Kinkle (voiced byBill Switzer) has a cute and sweet personality. While he only admits to Sabrina that she is his "best pal," he likes her very much. However, Harvey is unaware that Sabrina is a witch, although he often sees the results of the magic himself.
• Gem Stone (voiced byChantal Strand) is a snobby, popular, mean and spoiled girl who lives in amansion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stone, down the street. Gem occasionally sees Sabrina as her main competitor for Harvey's attention (whom Gem is interested in as well), though Harvey usually likes Sabrina more. She is inspired by Libby Chesler (Jenna Leigh Green) in the TV series.

• The Spookie Jar is agenie who resides in apurplecookie jar in Sabrina'skitchen. Whenever Sabrina needs a special spell, she can get one from the Spookie Jar, but they rarely turn out the way she expects. Spookie Jar speaks entirely inrhymes.
• Perry "Pi" McDonald is Harvey's best friend and Sabrina and Chloe's friend, too. He is very smart and quite unusual in his own special way. His eyes are never seen because hispork pie hat obscures them. He has been described by Sabrina as "totally out of it and really smart at the same time." According to the episode "Upside Down Town," it is implied that he is of Chinese descent.
• Horace Slugloafe is an occasional bully to Harvey, though at times shows him respect. He usually refers to others by their surnames.
• Bernard is a small, bald, nerdy boy with glasses who is friends with Sabrina, Pi, Chloe and Harvey. He is often bullied by Slugloafe and easily bossed around by Gem.
• Tim is a witchhunter who appears in "Most Dangerous Witch," "Documagicary" and "Enchanted Vacation". He was previouslybullied bywitches as a child due to his lack of magical powers, except hisimmortality, even though his mother was a witch. For this reason, he viewedwitches as evil and so he collects them as trophies for revenge along with his sidekickaardvark named Elton. Tim wears a hat with a witch cauldron marked with a prohibition sign on it.
• Queen Enchantra is the ruler of all witches and head of the Witches' Council. When she casts spells, the magic is made in red and purple.
• Mr. and Mrs. Stone are Gem's parents and the richest people in town. They first appeared in "Witch Switch"; when Sabrina wishes herself to be rich, they almost sent Sabrina toCambridge when they found out she got a C in her report, but later changed their mind after Sabrina is not wished herself as being rich. They also appeared in "Stone Broke" when they lost their money and had Gem move into Sabrina's house until their dog struckoil.
• Edward Spellman is Sabrina's long-lost father who is a very strong witch and Zelda and Hilda's older brother. Some years after he and his mortal wife, Diana, mutually separated, he ended up falling for another human named Futura, whom he intended to marry until a jealous Sabrina tried to break them up.
• Diana Spellman is Sabrina's human mother and Quigley's sister who is an archeologist and works at a dig site in Egypt. She is heard in the episode "Picture Perfect".

Sabrina had previously appeared in an animated format onThe Archie Show (animated byFilmation), but the popularity of the live-actionSabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom formed part of the basis for this spin-off series. The series was developed bySavage Steve Holland and Kat Likkel and Holland served as showrunner and executive producer of the series. As such, the series reflected some of the irreverent style of humor seen inEek! The Cat. Celebrity voice cameos in this series includedDowntown Julie Brown,Mr. T,Long John Baldry and"Weird Al" Yankovic.Melissa Joan Hart, who starred as Sabrina in the live-action sitcom, served as producer of this series, but her younger sister,Emily Hart (who played the recurring character Amanda on the sitcom), voiced Sabrina. Melissa instead voiced Sabrina's two aunts, Hilda and Zelda, originally played on the live-action series byBeth Broderick andCaroline Rhea, respectively.Nick Bakay reprises his role as Salem from the live-action series. The theme music is performed by the Irish girl groupB*Witched.

The series was announced to be in production in November 1998, where 65 episodes were commissioned by Disney to air onUPN's then-upcomingDisney block, and would also air onABC. Disney'sBuena Vista Television was announced as the television distributor for the series while DIC Entertainment andViacom Consumer Products would share merchandising rights.^[3] In January 1999, it was announced thatBuena Vista International Television would handle international television sale rights.^[4] Disney's rights to the series expired in 2004, and the rights were sold back to DIC.

The series aired in syndication onUPN (onDisney's One Too weekday morning-afternoon and Sunday block) and onABC (onDisney's One Saturday Morning block) from September 6 to November 19, 1999; it remained on ABC until October 13, 2001 (replaced byMary-Kate and Ashley in Action!) and UPN until September 6, 2002 (replaced byDigimon: Digital Monsters). Around the same time the show was pulled from UPN, the series moved to bothDisney Channel (from September 9, 2002^[5] to September 2, 2004) andToon Disney (from September 3, 2002^[6] to September 5, 2004 before it was replaced bySabrina's Secret Life).Sabrina: The Animated Series returned to syndication as one of the launch programmes broadcast on theSyndicatedDIC Kids NetworkE/I block on September 1, 2003, followed by the spinoff seriesSabrina's Secret Life which premiered the following November.

On September 16, 2006, the series returned as part ofCBS' newKOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS and was briefly part of theKEWLopolis cartoon lineup until October 27, 2007, when the series along withTrollz were replaced withSushi Pack andDinoSquad the following Saturday. On September 19, 2009, the series returned to CBS, this time as part of the network'sCookie Jar TV cartoon lineup, later joined by the sequel series,Sabrina's Secret Life on September 18, 2010, before both shows were replaced withHorseland andTrollz on February 5, 2011. Reruns aired onThis TV through the "This Is for Kids" block, from September 24, 2012, to October 25, 2013.

From 2017 to 2020, reruns of the series started airing on theStarz channel, Starz Kids & Family; the series is also available on Starz Play. As of 2024, the series is also available onPluto TV's Rainbow Squad channel.

In Canada, the series aired onTeletoon from October 1999 to December 2003, before being replaced by the sequel series,Sabrina's Secret Life on January 5, 2004, reruns of the series eventually returned to the network in August 2004, which would continue until Spring 2005.^[7] The French version of the seriesSabrina Apprentie Sorcière, aired onTélétoon in Québec.^[8] But unlike the English version, the French version continued to air on the network as late as around 2006 or 2007. The sequel series never aired on the French network. The series also aired on manyDisney Channel networks internationally.

Beginning in 2004, many broadcasters who already aired the series began to air it as part of a package withSabrina's Secret Life titled "Totally Sabrina." The package was pre-sold toTF1 in France,RTÉ in Ireland,Mediaset in Italy,ORF in Austria,Alter Channel in Greece,FORTA in Spain,SBT in Brazil,Teletoon in Canada,Super RTL in Germany,Arutz Hayeladim in Israel and Saran in Turkey, in addition toDisney Channel andToon Disney networks in the United Kingdom, Asia, Taiwan, Australia, France, Latin America, Brazil, the Middle East and Spain.^[9]

The series also aired in India onCartoon Network.^[10]

In February 2001, DIC announced the formation of their home video subsidiary DIC Home Entertainment, and thatSabrina: The Animated Series would be one of the shows from their catalogue released through the division.^[11]

In thePhilippines,Viva Video and Cookie Jar Entertainment released a few DVD sets in the countries.

In theUnited Kingdom, budget distributorPrism Leisure andFremantle Home Entertainment released "Sabrina in Love" and "Salem's World" on DVD which had the same 2 episodes as the US VHS releases respectively, but including an additional episode. An exclusive UK DVD titled "Witchy Girls" was also released in the same year, also containing 3 episodes.^[14]

Common Sense Media gave the series a three out of five stars and said, "Parents need to know that this tween cartoon -- a spin-off of the live-action sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch -- features similar lighthearted witch humor. Storylines focus on the trials and tribulations of being a tween: friendships, school assignments, and dealing with increasing responsibility. Many of the characters set positive examples of what it means to be a good friend."^[15]

Viacom Consumer Products and DIC Entertainment co-released merchandise based on the series.^[16]

An 11-inch Sabrina fashion doll was released by the company Bambola.^[17] Several other small plastic toys, including a few figurines and aPolly Pocket-esque Sabrina doll were sold in stores while the series was in production.^[18]

On August 17, 2000,Simon & Schuster Interactive'sKnowledge Adventure and Havas Interactive officially announced the video gameSabrina The Animated Series: Magical Adventure for theMicrosoft Windows andMacintosh computer systems. It was released in October 2000,^[19] and followed bySabrina The Animated Series: Zapped! for theGame Boy Color system, released on November 22, 2000.^[20]

On September 4, 2001, it was announced thatSimon & Schuster Interactive had acquired the rights to the series, under license from Viacom Consumer Products based on the video game license. They subsequently releasedSabrina The Animated Series: Spooked! (which contains the first levels forGame Boy Color platform). It was released on November 6, 2001.^[21]

In November 2000, following their separation and re-independence from Disney, DIC Entertainment announced they would produce a spin-off based on Salem the Cat, simply titledSalem. The series was planned to have 52 half-hour episodes, each budgeted at $275,000 to $325,000, and would air in the Fall of 2001, with DIC holding all worldwide distribution rights. The series never saw the light the day after its initial announcement, meaning it likely never got off the drawing board.^[22]

The series would have focused on Salem's attempts to become a warlock again by proceeding to do enough good deeds, but lets his attitude and wit get the better of him.^[23]

A TV movie, titledSabrina: Friends Forever aired onNickelodeon in the United States on October 13, 2002, as part of theNickelodeon Sunday Movie Toons series of television movies. The movie was later pre-sold internationally to various Disney Channel networks, among others.

The movie centers on Sabrina going to Witch Academy to become full witch, but is unsure if she will be accepted due to being half-witch, until she meets Nicole, a girl who is also half-witch like she is.

A sequel series, titledSabrina's Secret Life was co-produced with DIC's French subsidiary Les Studios Tex and broadcasterTF1, and premiered on DIC'ssyndicated television blockDIC Kids Network in November 2003 before being pre-sold internationally.

The series centers on a 14-year-old Sabrina attending High School and also attending special witch classes with rival Cassandra, who unlike Sabrina, is a full-witch.

WhileSabrina: The Animated Series was airing,Archie Comics printed a comic spin-off for the show. The first issue was dated January 2000 (meaning it was on-sale in late 1999), and it lasted for 37 issues. In order to tie the plot in with theirSabrina series, it was stated in the first issue that Repulsa the Goblin Gueen had sent Sabrina back in time to relive her pre-teen years, so that she would be out of the way while Repulsa attempted to conquer Enchantra's realm. In issue 38, the Repulsa plot was resolved, and the comic book returned to chronicling the teenage Sabrina in the next issue.

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