![]() ![]() Her family was non-conventional not only because she was a half-mortal, half-witch but because she was raised by her 650-ish-year-old aunts Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick) – the former silly and garrulous the latter straight and sensible. Only now do I appreciate what an outlier Sabrina was. Gilmore Girls: 20 years on, Lorelai and Rory are still teaching me how to grow up Sabrina – who valued loyalty, friendship, and was more focused on getting good grades at school than being popular – reluctantly embraced her abilities, begrudgingly accepting sly moral lessons after using magic to cut corners, being punished by the Witches’ Council, or from a visit through the hall closet from the Other Realm from some creature of legend (the Sandman, Santa Claus, witch hunters or leprechauns made as regular intrusions into her life as guest stars like Britney Spears). In ‘First Kiss’ (1997), Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) ignored Salem’s warning that her kiss would turn Harvey into a frog (Photo: ABC) Sabrina’s magical misadventures are seared into the earliest recesses of my TV-memory – when she forced vicious bullying cheerleader Libby to eat “truth sprinkles”, when she served a giant flan in the school cafeteria, when she accidentally turned herself into a zebra, when her evil cousin Amanda shrunk her into her doll’s house. I knew it must be good, because it was the only “laugh-track comedy about rich American teenagers” my mum would sit down with us for, when it hit six o’clock on Nickelodeon, or Saturday mornings on SMTV: Live (where a new episode would be preceded by a love letter from Declan Donnelly). In my house, Sabrina was appointment television: brilliantly funny, intelligent, modern, and imaginative. Magic should have made Sabrina’s life easier, but until she learned to use them responsibly (and keep them secret from her mortal friends) it only got her into mild (occasionally mortal) peril. ![]()
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