Sabrina, the Animated Series
| Sabrina: The Animated Series | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Adventure Fantasy |
| Based on | Sabrina the Teenage Witch by George Gladir & Dan DeCarlo |
| Developed by |
Savage Steve Holland Kat Likkel |
| Voices of |
Emily Hart Nick Bakay Melissa Joan Hart Jay Brazeau Bill Switzer Cree Summer Chantal Strand |
| Opening theme | "Sabrina (She'll Bewitch Ya)" by B*Witched |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Savage Steve Holland Paula Hart Andy Heyward Robby London Michael Maliani |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Riverdale Productions and Kent/QMA Savage Studios Hartbreak Films DIC Entertainment |
| Distributor | DHX Media |
| Release | |
| Original network | UPN, ABC |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | September 6, 1999 – February 27, 2000 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Sabrina: Friends Forever (2002) |
Sabrina: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It was produced by Savage Studios Ltd. and Hartbreak Films in association with DIC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time.
The cartoon is a non-canon spin-off of the live action series that ran on ABC (also owned by Disney). In 2002, a movie, Sabrina: Friends Forever, and a spin-off series, Sabrina's Secret Life, were produced by DiC, this time without the ownership of Disney.
Unlike previous incarnations, Sabrina Spellman in this series is depicted as a 12-year-old attending middle school. As in the original comic series, Sabrina lives with her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, and her loud-mouthed cat Salem Saberhagen, all of whom advise Sabrina on the use of magic. It is considered a spin-off of the live-action series and borrows certain elements from it, but is obviously set in an alternate universe, as it contradicts the live-action show's premise of Sabrina not knowing about magic prior to her sixteenth birthday.
Most episodes center on the typical problems of middle school, along with those that stemmed from Sabrina's inexperience with or misuse of various magic, witchcraft, and extremely powerful and complex spells. Sabrina and her best friend Chloe would often use magic (often from the "Spooky Jar"; a cookie jar containing a genie-like being in the family's kitchen) for all sorts of perceived emergencies, ranging from trying to fit into skinny new clothes to turning Sabrina's crush Harvey into a superhero. By the end of each episode, her innate magical abilities would unintentionally backfire and Sabrina would learn that using magic usually is not the solution to her day-to-day problems.
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