Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV series)
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| Genre | Fantasy sitcom |
| Created by | Nell Scovell |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch by Dan DeCarlo George Gladir |
| Developed by | Jonathan Schmock |
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| Voices of | Nick Bakay |
| Theme music composer |
Danny Lux (entire run) Paul Taylor (seasons 5–7) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 163 (+ 3 television films) (list of episodes) |
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| Camera setup | Film; Single-camera Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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| Original network |
ABC (1996–2000) The WB (2000–2003) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo surround sound |
| Original release | September 27, 1996 – April 24, 2003 |
Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie Comics series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996, on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its “T.G.I.F.” line-up.
The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, an American teenager who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts, witches Hilda (played by Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (played by Beth Broderick), and their magical talking cat Salem (voiced by Nick Bakay) at 133 Collins Road in the fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, Massachusetts through most of the series.
The series' first four seasons aired on ABC from September 27, 1996, to May 5, 2000; the final three seasons ran on The WB from September 22, 2000, to April 24, 2003.
The unofficial pilot of the series was the 1996 TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch in April that year. The movie, produced by Viacom and Hartbreak Films and aired on Showtime, starred Melissa Joan Hart as the title character, Sabrina Sawyer, and Charlene Fernetz and Sherry Miller as Sabrina’s aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively. When the television series debuted on ABC later that year, Hart became Sabrina Spellman, and Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick replaced Fernetz and Miller. In 2000, the show was dropped by ABC and picked up by The WB. When viewership began to wane, the show was canceled after seven seasons. The television series was produced by Hartbreak Films and Viacom Productions with Finishing the Hat Productions being there for season 1 only. Later it was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television on reruns. Paramount Network Television absorbed Viacom Productions in 2004, and two years later, Paramount's TV operations were renamed to CBS Paramount Television (now CBS Television Studios), whose name is seen on the season 1, 2, and 3 DVDs. Then in 2007, the syndication arm was renamed from CBS Paramount Domestic Television to CBS Television Distribution, whose name is on the season 4, 5, 6, and 7 DVDs. The official copyright holder for the series (as with all series originally produced by Viacom Productions) is CBS Studios Productions, LLC.
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