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Mildred Hubble - Young apprentice witch featured
on the British fantasy comedy THE WORST WITCH/ITV/1998-2000 and the sequel
series WEIRDSISTER COLLEGE: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE WORST WITCH/ITV/2001.

Mildred attends a special school for witches called Miss Cackle's Academy where
she lives in a cold, windowless room with her cat, Tabby. Mildred earned a
scholarship to the school by writing a creative essay. But, she herself was not
born into a family of witches, but she aspires to master the arts of magic and
earn her Witches Higher Certificate. And even though the school's gentle-nature
headmistress, Miss Cackle, dubbed Mildred "The Worst Witch" she overlooks
Mildred's mistakes because she sees that Mildred has the potential to be a truly
good witch one day.
The first day of school Mildred started off on the wrong foot by flying into a
bunch of dustbins. Luckily, she was rescued by fellow student Maud Moonshine, who
along with Ruby, Enid Nightshade (a prankster) and Jadu Wali became her friends.
Mildred's nemesis is teacher's pet, Ethel Hallow. She belittled Mildred by
telling her "You have to come from a witch family to be a real witch." Drusilla
Paddock is Ethel's nasty sidekick.
The Academy staff consisted of Miss Cackle, the headmistress (Agatha is her evil
twin sister), Miss Constance Hardbroom (a strict disciplinarian, former
headmistress and potion mistress), Miss Davina Bat, (Chanting Teacher), Miss
Imogen Drill (P.E. Teacher), Mrs. Tapioca (school cook), Edgar Hellibore, the
Chief WIzard of Hellibore's Academy (a visiting professor), Algernon Rowan-Webb
(a wizard in training who used to be a frog) and Mr. Blossom (the Handyman).
After passing her basic witch training, Mildred Hubble transferred to a special
school for witches and wizards called Weirdsister College to further develop her
unique and emerging abilities and hopefully learn to cope with her fear of the
dark.
TRIVIA NOTE: The TV series are based on the
best-selling Worst Witch books written by Jill Murphy. Prior to the 1998 series
and the 2001 spin-off Weirdsister College, a sixty-minute movie entitled THE
WORST WITCH produced by Central-HBO aired in 1986. It featured Fairuza Balk as
Mildred Hubble; Diana Rigg as Miss Hardbroom; Charlotte Rae as Miss Cackle; Tim
Curry as The Grand Wizard; and Sabrina Franklyn as Miss Spellbinder.
The Worst Witch is a UK/Canada co-production, filmed at Twickenham Studios and
on location in Surrey and Canada. It is a United Productions/Global Arts/GalaFilm
co-production for HTV, YTV and TFO and transmitted in the UK on the ITV network.
In 2005, the series THE NEW WORST WITCH continued the adventures of Cackle
Academy but this time with Mildred's cousin Henrietta 'Hettie' Hubble (Alice
Connor) who causes just as much trouble.
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THE WORST
WITCH/ITV/1998-2000 |
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Cast Credits |
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Georgina Sherrington |
as |
Mildred Hubble |
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Felicity Jones |
as |
Ethel Hallow |
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Emmea Brown |
as |
Maud Moonshine |
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Clare Coulter |
as |
Miss Amelia Cackle |
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Kate Duchêne |
as |
Miss Constance Hardbroom |
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Una Stubbs |
as |
Miss Davina Bat |
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Claire Porter |
as |
Miss Imogen Drill |
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Berwick Kaler |
as |
Frank Blossom |
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Annette Badland |
as |
Mrs. Tapioca |
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Jessica Fox |
as |
Enid Nightshade |
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Holly Rivers |
as |
Drusilla Paddock |
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Joanna Dyce |
as |
Ruby Cherrytree |
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Harshna Brahmbhatt |
as |
Jadu Wali |
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Algernon Rowen-Webb |
as |
Paul Copley |
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WEIRDSISTER
COLLEGE: The Further Adventures
of the Worst Witch/ITV/2001 |
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Georgina Sherrington |
as |
Mildrid Hubble |
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Felicity Jones |
as |
Ethel Hallow |
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Abeille Gelinas |
as |
Cas Crowfeather |
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Bobby Barry |
as |
Nick Hobbes |
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THE NEW WORST
WITCH/ITV/2005 |
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Alice Connor |
as |
Henrietta 'Hettie' Hubble |
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Dominique Jackson |
as |
Roseanne Speedwell |
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Caroline O'Neill |
as |
Miss Hardbroom |
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Francesca Isherwood |
as |
Belladonna Bindweed |
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Stephanie Lane |
as |
Miss Swoop |
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Anabel Barnston |
as |
Mona Hallow |
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Clare Coulter |
as |
Miss Cackle |
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