The New Worst Witch

- Season 1

(2005)

Today it is Mildred Hubble's cousin Hettie's first day at Cackle's Academy For Witches and like Mildred, she makes her friends and enemies. Strangely though, Hettie makes friends with a Hallow. Mildred has already finished Cackle's but we see her at the beginning of this episode, dropping Hettie off.

Cressie is going to fail her Broomstick Test. When she does, Hettie persuades Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom to let her try again. Mona and Hettie try to think of ways to inspire her confidence.

Hettie is sick of the traditional rules of Cackle's Academy, so she asks how the others feel as well. Most of the school feel the same way, so Miss Cackle lets the girls follow Hettie's rules for one day.

Cressie is missing home, so Hettie tries to cheer her up. A new girl arrives on a Charity Scholarship, Cynthia Horrocks and immediately makes an enemy out of Mona. This is because Mona's dad took over Cynthia's dad's factory and she was forced to leave Pentangle's and go to Cackle's.

It is Halloween and Hettie, Mona and Cressie have been selected by Miss Nightingale to sing to the Grand Wizard. It turns out, the Grand Wizard is ill, so his place is taken by wizard author Richard Avalon. Hettie gets into trouble while trying to prove a point and is replaced by Belladonna to sing in the ceremony. Hettie decides she must prove who Richard Avalon really is.

Hettie shows the wrong Bella an interesting book when she hungers for a potion that will do her homework for her.

End of term competition leads Bella to poison HB.

How to be honest about a broom flying trick. Mention of year 5.

Pentangle's School is forced to share with Cackle's after their school floods, causing fights between the two schools.

It's Hazlemass, a special Hedge Witch ceremony, but to Cressie's disappointment, Miss Hardbroom tells her that Cackle's does not celebrate Hazlemass. Hettie and Mona decide to help Cressie celebrate it anyway, but when the girls leave the celebration cake unattended, Belladonna puts a bewitching spell on it. Mona persuades the others that she can look after the cake without touching it. She just has a taste and immediately becomes enemies with Hettie and Cressie.

Hettie rediscovers the "Black Hole Club" and Belladonna and Cynthia push their way in, to the dismay of Hettie, Mona and Cressie. Belladonna causes chaos with the Book of Trivial Magic and soon things become desperate.

Cressie discovers she is a Time Witch, a witch who can tamper with time, so Hettie pressures her to go back in time with her to patch a falling out with Mona.

Belladonna's granny Bindweed and Miss Cackle's twin Agatha try to take over the school yet again by using the End of Term prize, the very powerful Golden Broomstick.