Charmed (season 1)

Charmed Season 1
DVD cover art
No. of episodes	22
Broadcast
Original channel	The WB
Original run	October 7, 1998 (1998-10-07) – May 26, 1999 (1999-05-26)
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1	February 1, 2005 (2005-02-01)
Region 4	May 18, 2005 (2005-05-18)
Season chronology
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List of Charmed episodes

The first season of Charmed, an American supernatural drama television series, created by Constance M. Burge, premiered on October 7, 1998 on The WB. Airing on Wednesdays at 9 P.M., the season consisted of 22 episodes and concluded its airing on May 26, 1999.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the complete first season in a six-disc box set on February 1st, 2005.

Synopsis

The Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendants of a long line of witches when they inherit a house from their grandmother and find the family's Book of Shadows. They learn that they each have a unique power. The strong-willed Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) can move objects with her mind, reserved Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) is able to freeze time, and the uninhibited Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) sees the future. Together they have the "Power of Three", which they must use to fight demons and warlocks, and protect the innocent.

Each episode contains a personal storyline alongside a magical one, showing the bond between the sisters and the troubles that being witches could cause in their 'normal' lives. These story lines often brought the sisters to an innocent in need of protection or a demon whom they must destroy. Several episodes also centred around the Halliwell sisters understanding and learning about their magical heritage.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
• Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
• Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
• Ted "T.W." King as Andy Trudeau (Does not appear in "That '70s Episode")
• Dorian Gregory as Darryl Morris (Does not appear in "Thank You for Not Morphing", "Dead Man Dating", "The Fourth Sister", "The Truth is Out There… and It Hurts", "Feats of Clay", "The Wendigo", "Which Prue is It, Anyway?" and "That '70s Episode")

Recurring cast

• Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
• Jennifer Rhodes as Penny Halliwell
• Finola Hughes as Patty Halliwell
• Neil Roberts as Rex Buckland
• Leigh-Allyn Baker as Hannah Webster
• Shawn Christian as Josh
• Cristine Rose as Claire Pryce
• Carlos Gómez as Inspector Rodriguez
• Billy Drago as Barbas

Episode list

See also: List of Charmed episodes

№	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Something Wicca This Way Comes"	John T. Kretchmer	Constance M. Burge	October 7, 1998 (1998-10-07)	1498704
The Halliwell sisters are reunited in the grand Victorian home of their childhood. Phoebe discovers The Book of Shadows in the attic and, when she reads the spell on the first page, their powers are activated. The sisters must try to keep their powers secret, while Prue's ex-boyfriend, Inspector Andy Trudeau, is investigating a serial killer whose victims are all witches. Piper narrowly escapes death when she discovers that her boyfriend Jeremy, an evil warlock, is the killer. When the sisters try their first spell, Jeremy is vanquished, and they discover the Power of Three.
2	2	"I've Got You Under My Skin"	John T. Kretchmer	Brad Kern	October 14, 1998 (1998-10-14)	4398001
Phoebe meets a photographer who turns out to be a demon who sucks the youth out of young women in order to remain young. While Phoebe is with him, Piper sees her friend Brittany Renolds, who is now elderly and has a poor memory after being attacked by the photographer. Brittany recognizes the address of the photographer, allowing Prue and Piper to arrive in time to vanquish the demon and reverse the damage it had done.
3	3	"Thank You for Not Morphing"	Ellen Pressman	Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin	October 21, 1998 (1998-10-21)	4398003
The sisters' estranged father Victor returns, and is immediately at odds with Prue who cannot forgive him for being an absentee father. He confesses he's trying to save the girls from the risks of having their powers by removing the Book of Shadows from the manor. However, it appears he has teamed up with the new neighbors, who are shapeshifting demons trying to steal the Book of Shadows. The girls get a handyman to perform ongoing maintenance around the old house, marking the debut of Leo (Brian Krause, later a series co-star).
4	4	"Dead Man Dating"	Richard Compton	Javier Grillo-Marxuach	October 28, 1998 (1998-10-28)	4398005
Piper encounters and eventually develops feelings for the amiable ghost of a recently murdered Chinese-American man named Mark Chao (John Cho), who needs her help to be properly buried before an ancient Chinese spirit, Yama, can harvest his soul, and to settle the score with the Chinese gangster who had killed Mark in order to fake his own death to evade the police. Phoebe takes a job as a hotel psychic to pay for Prue's birthday present, and when foreseeing the death of a hotel guest, she has to try to keep him from being hit by a car.
5	5	"Dream Sorcerer"	Nick Marck	Constance M. Burge	November 4, 1998 (1998-11-04)	4398002
Prue finds her sleep disturbed by strange dreams in which she's stalked and taunted by a wheelchair-bound man who is actually a sleep researcher, named Whitaker Berman (Matt Schulze). He kills women who he feels scorned him by visiting them in their dreams where he has absolute power. While Prue is fatigued and driving home from work in her car he attacks again and successfully causes her to drive into a telephone pole. As Prue is unconscious, he unsuccessfully tries to kill her.
6	6	"The Wedding from Hell"	Richard Ginty	Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone	November 11, 1998 (1998-11-11)	4398004
A demonic bride-to-be, Jade D'Mon, suddenly replaces a human bride ,Alison Michaels, a week before her wedding, by having a magical contractual 'hold' over the grooms' mother, Grace Spencer, as well as by casting a spell over the groom, Elliot Spencer. The Halliwell sisters gradually discover the strange events about the wedding, as Piper is catering the event. Alison and the sisters formulate a plan to stop the demonic wedding. Grace helps Alison and the Halliwell sisters, resulting in the defeat Jade so that Elliot and Alison are reconciled and united.
7	7	"The Fourth Sister"	Gilbert Adler	Edithe Swensen	November 18, 1998 (1998-11-18)	4398006
A troubled teenage witch, Aviva (Danielle Harris), seeks out the sisters and befriends Phoebe with the hopes of joining the sisters, but is an unwitting pawn of an evil sorceress-priestess, named Kali. Egged on by Kali, Aviva manages to spend some time with Phoebe. The sisters investigate, identify the sorceress, and counter her influence on Aviva ultimately saving her.
8	8	"The Truth Is Out There… and It Hurts"	James A. Contner	Zack Estrin & Chris Levinson	November 25, 1998 (1998-11-25)	4398007
Acting on Phoebe's premonition of a woman electrocuted magically through the center of her forehead, the sisters race to stop a mysterious warlock, who came from the future for killing those responsible for creating a vaccine against warlocks. Prue casts a truth spell to find out how Andy will react to her secret. As so, Prue sadly finds out that Andy can't handle the knowledge of her powers and the magical parallel reality she has to deal with.
9	9	"The Witch Is Back"	Richard Denault	Sheryl J. Anderson	December 16, 1998 (1998-12-16)	4398008
A warlock, Matthew Tate, cursed by the sisters' ancestor, Melinda Warren, in the 1600s in colonial New England, is inadvertently released, by Prue, from a cursed locket which will open only to a Warren descendant. Aware of the situation, the sisters resurrect Melinda Warren to combat him.
10	10	"Wicca Envy"	Mel Damski	Brad Kern & Sheryl J. Anderson	January 13, 1999 (1999-01-13)	4398009
Rex uses astral projection to control Prue's mind, tricking her into stealing a tiara from the auction house's vault and Prue ends up in jail. Rex blackmails the sisters into giving up their powers to him, but Leo, revealing himself as some kind of supernatural protector of the sisters, returns their powers to them.
11	11	"Feats of Clay"	Kevin Inch	Michael Perricone & Greg Elliot & Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin	January 20, 1999 (1999-01-20)	4398010
Phoebe's ex-boyfriend from New York, Clay, comes to town with a mysterious Egyptian urn and asks if Prue could sell it for him on the auction block. Phoebe convinces Prue to try to sell Clay's urn, but Prue soon finds out that the urn cursed.
12	12	"The Wendigo"	James L. Conway	Edithe Swensen	February 3, 1999 (1999-02-03)	4398011
When Piper's car breaks down, she is attacked by a vicious werewolf-like beast that they later find out is called a Wendigo. Piper is saved by a man, Billy, but she starts to turn into a Wendigo since she was scratched by the one that attacked her. The Wendigo turns out to be FBI agent Ashley Fallon, who had apparently been tracking the beast.
13	13	"From Fear to Eternity"	Les Sheldon	Tony Blake & Paul Jackson	February 10, 1999 (1999-02-10)	4398012
Barbas, the demon of fear, spends Friday the 13th scaring witches literally to death. He tries to drown Prue in the shower, as Prue's greatest fear is drowning. Barbas realizes that Phoebe's greatest fear is losing a sister, so he tries to drown Prue again with Phoebe watching. This time, Prue feels the presence of her mother and manages to release her fear and vanquish Barbas.
14	14	"Secrets and Guys"	James A. Contner	Constance M. Burge & Sheryl J. Anderson	February 17, 1999 (1999-02-17)	4398013
Prue helps a young witch who has been kidnapped, and renews her own faith in having children. Meanwhile, Phoebe finds out that Leo is really a guardian angel for good witches, and this causes Leo to break up with Piper.
15	15	"Is There a Woogy in the House?"	John T. Kretchmer	Zack Estrin & Chris Levinson	February 24, 1999 (1999-02-24)	4398014
Phoebe's possessed by the "woogyman", turning her against her siblings.
16	16	"Which Prue Is It, Anyway?"	John Behring	Javier Grillo-Marxuach	March 3, 1999 (1999-03-03)	4398015
When Phoebe has a premonition of Prue being stabbed to death, it coincides with a warrior coming to town in order to kill the eldest sibling witch as he did to the sisters' great-great-great-aunt. Prue casts a spell to triple her powers but ends up making two clones of herself.
17	17	"That '70s Episode"	Richard Denault	Sheryl J. Anderson	April 7, 1999 (1999-04-07)	4398016
A powerful warlock shows up claiming that he made a pact with the sisters' mother in which he spared her life in exchange for the girls' powers. Fleeing him, the three sisters go back in time to the 1970s when their mother was still alive and they try to prevent the pact.
18	18	"When Bad Warlocks Go Good"[1]	Kevin Inch	Edithe Swensen	April 28, 1999 (1999-04-28)	4398017
Led by Prue, the Charmed Ones help a young man named Brendan (Michael Weatherly) who wants to become a priest in order to avoid fulfilling his predicted destiny as a warlock along with his brothers. They begin attacking people who are close to Brendan in order to coerce Brenden to give into his darker side.
19	19	"Out of Sight"[2] "Blind Sided"	Craig Zisk	Tony Blake & Paul Jackson	May 5, 1999 (1999-05-05)	4398018
When Prue tries to stop a kidnapping in the park, a reporter sees her using her powers. Phoebe and Piper attempt to learn more about the demons who stole the child, which turn out to be grimlocks, demons which sense people's auras and steal children's eyesight. At the same time, they must try to stop the reporter from exposing Prue. The sisters are not exposed, but Andy does find out about their powers.
20	20	"The Power of Two"	Elodie Keene	Brad Kern	May 12, 1999 (1999-05-12)	4398019
The evil spirit of a serial killer (Jeff Kober) escapes from Alcatraz Island seeking revenge on his judge and jury. Phoebe and Prue must figure out how to vanquish this evil spirit and stop him from killing again without Piper, who's at Hawaii.
21	21	"Love Hurts"	James Whitmore, Jr.	Chris Levinson & Zack Estrin & Javier Grillo-Marxuach	May 19, 1999 (1999-05-19)	4398020
A wounded Leo appears at the manor, asking the Halliwell sisters to protect an innocent woman returning to San Francisco under his guidance. Daisy is being stalked by a Darklighter who hunts and kills present and future Whitelighters with poisoned arrows. The Darklighter Alec (Michael Trucco) fell in love with her. Leo reveals that the Darklighters' poison is deadly, and Piper finds a power switching spell in the Book of Shadows so she can use Leo's healing power on him. Prue switches powers with Alec and uses his own powers against him.
22	22	"Déjà Vu All Over Again"	Les Sheldon	Brad Kern & Constance M. Burge	May 26, 1999 (1999-05-26)	4398021
The beginning of this episode has Phoebe experiencing a powerful and deadly premonition of death at Halliwell manor which includes Inspector Rodriguez unmasked in a demon attack on the sisters resulting in the killing of Andy. Vowing to prevent Andy's death, Prue heads off to police headquarters to warn Andy that Rodriguez is a demon working undercover for evil's causes. As the demon makes plans for his attempt to kill the Charmed Ones, he receives a visit from Tempus, a demon who can turn back time that was sent by The Source to help Rodriguez in case he fails. Tempus rewinds time each time Rodriguez fails to kill the Charmed Ones until the warlock succeeds in killing all the sisters. Andy Trudeau is waiting in his car, after being told by Prue to stay away because it was dangerous. He sees Rodriguez entering the house and goes in to protect Prue. Andy bursts in before Rodriguez can harm the sisters and attempts to shoot him, but Rodriguez fires an energy ball at Andy, killing him. Piper freezes Rodriguez and she and Phoebe are shocked to find Andy dead. Prue receives a vision from the spirit of the now deceased Andy, which helps her to move on. The sisters vanquish Rodriguez and attend Andy's funeral.

References

1. ^ Correct title is "Go" not "Turn" per Comcast rebroadcast of episode January 14, 2009
2. ^ "Out of Sight" aired under the title "Blind Sided" during reruns on TNT on November 5, 2009

External links

• List of Charmed episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Charmed season 1 episodes at TV.com
• Charmed at epguides.com