Opening sequence

The opening titles of seasons 1-3 shows Sabrina in front of a mirror posing with four different costumes and outfits as the cast members’ names quickly flash on the bottom of the screen. The first three outfits are always the same, but the fourth one changes from episode to episode. At the end, Sabrina would say some sort of pun that related to the last outfit, then magically disappear.

The opening sequence of season 4 features the characters in bubbles.

The opening credits of seasons 5-7 are accompanied with a vocal theme song and feature Sabrina at various locations around Boston: Harvard Bridge, Boston Common, Union Oyster House, Massachusetts State House, Quincy Market, Newbury Street, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Beacon Hill. In the credits of seasons 5 and 6, after leaving Newbury Comics on Newbury Street, Sabrina walks down a flight of stairs and then the computer graphics morph Sabrina into her room, lying on her bed next to Salem. In the final season, however, they morph her into arriving at Scorch. Upon pushing the door open, she is revealed to be walking into her house to greet Roxie, Morgan, and Salem.

[edit] Plot and premise

The show chronicles the adventures of Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart), a girl who discovers on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch. As a novice witch, her spells often go awry. Hilda and Zelda Spellman (Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, respectively), her aunts, counsel her on the proper use of her magic and give her moral advice. Additionally, Hilda and Zelda must take care of Salem Saberhagen, a warlock turned into a black cat for trying to take over the world. Sabrina’s basic premise and “genial loopiness” earned the show comparisons to the 1960s television series Bewitched.[4][5][6]

Whereas the comic book series was set in the fictional Greendale, it was relocated to fictional Westbridge, Massachusetts, for the television series. The Spellmans’ house is located at 133 Collins Road.[7]

[edit] Plot summary
Main article: List of Sabrina the Teenage Witch episodes

The pilot episodes opens with Sabrina asleep on her sixteenth birthday, levitating above her bed. In the morning, her aunts reveal to her that she is a witch, but Sabrina does not believe them until she has a magical talk with her father from inside a book. After a rough day at school, Sabrina accidentally turns Libby Chesler, “the most popular girl in school”, into a pineapple. Fearing that she will appear “weird” to her crush, Harvey Kinkle, Sabrina asks the Witches Council to let her re-live that day.

At the beginning of the second season, Sabrina turns seventeen and learns that she must earn her witches’ license or otherwise lose her magic. However, she neglects her aunts’ warnings to study for the test to obtain the license and consequently fails it. She then has to attend witch boot camp to earn the chance to take a makeup test. She passes the makeup test, but only receives a learner’s permit. Her aunts explain that she will be able to earn her license when she turns eighteen (”when [she] can pay for the insurance”) and that she will be tested throughout the year by a Quizmaster, a witch whose job is to instruct witches earning their licenses. She earns her license at the beginning of the third season, but then learns that in order to use her license, she must solve her family’s secret. Throughout the season, family members visit her and provide clues. At the end of the season, she solves the family secret (”Every member of the Spellman family is born with a twin”).

In the fourth season, Sabrina is assigned to be a mentor, which is like a Quizmaster, except “Quizmasters get paid”.[8] Sabrina’s charge is Dreama, a witch newly immigrated from the Other Realm. A new student, Brad Alcero, transfers to Sabrina’s school. Because Brad has a witch-hunter gene (which allows him to turn a witch into a mouse if the witch reveals his/her magic), Sabrina must keep herself and Dreama from using magic in front of Brad. Also, Sabrina begins working at Bean There, Brewed That, a coffee shop, where she meets and is attracted to Josh, a college student who is the manager of the shop. At the end of the season, Harvey reaches his “spell quota” (meaning that no spells can be used on him anymore) and discovers that Sabrina is a witch. Also, Sabrina enrolls at Adams College.

At the beginning of the fifth season, Sabrina moves out of her aunts’ house and into a dormitory at Adams. Her roommates are Morgan Cavanaugh, a shallow girl; Roxie King, an anti-social feminist; and Miles Goodman, a geek who is obsessed with science fiction and the paranormal. Hilda and Zelda, feeling lonely since Sabrina moved out, find ways to stay close to her: Hilda buys Bean the coffee shop where Sabrina works and Zelda becomes a professor at Adams. At the end of the sixth season, Hilda gets married, and she and Zelda move to the Other Realm. At the beginning of the seventh season, Sabrina, Morgan, and Roxie move into Hilda and Zelda’s old house. Sabrina gets a job as a writer for the entertainment magazine Scorch and meets Aaron, the man whom she becomes engaged to. In the series finale, Sabrina calls off her wedding with Aaron and runs off with Harvey.