The books were released along-side the episodes so that Sabrina's biggest fans could prove their dedication. Not only were there movies, but Sabrina the Teenage Witch books were also made to go along with the TV series. Moreover, the actress that plays Sabrina's best friend in the TV show plays a different character in the Sabrina Down Under Movie. Her friends are also not in these movies. Sabrina's boyfriend Harvey is not part of these movies. These films are interesting because they occur entirely outside of the Sabrina The Teenage Witch storyline that is established in the TV series. These were Sabrina Goes to Rome, and Sabrina Down Under. Two made for TV movies were released as the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV series aired. This Sabrina is focused on fitting in as a high school teenager, and opposed to her trickster original, the typical plot line of a Sabrina the Teenage Witch show portrays Sabrina as getting in trouble when using her magic to help family or friends with their problems. Moreover, this incarnation took another step away from the character that was developed in the 1960s Archie comics. This was Sabrina's first live-action television series. In these 1970's versions of Sabrina, she was less of a trickster, and more of a teenager trying to fit into a mortal life.Īfter the success of her first movie, another Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV series was released in 1996. These second incarnations of Sabrina showed the beginning of the change in her character. Mortals around her fall in love and how she’ll alter the score of a high schoolīasketball game for no purpose other than to take the edge off her own ennui.”Īlthough Sabrina's appearance in her first Archie comic was supposed to be for one occasion, because of her popularity, in the 1970's she received her own cartoon and then her own comic (Pop culture Addict 2011).

In this first incarnation of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, she is a trickster andĬhris Sims (2014) writes that 'there’s something sinister in thatįirst appearance, with all the bits about how she uses her magic to make the This first story introduces Sabrina, her aunts, and Salem andĭescribes a bit about her magical powers and struggle to fit in-or not- with

These comics deal with monsters and ghouls, aliens and mad scientistsĪnd magicians. The Mad House comics were a spin-off world of the Archie comics most of us might think of. Number 22 of the Archie Comics Mad House comics. Sabrina made her debut in 1962 when she was featured in

Sabrina the teenage witch movie.