Charmed
Something Wicca This Way Comes
TV Flash files “Something Wicca This Way Comes” as a desk essential hour — Charmed (1998–2006) on The WB, season 1, episode 1, aired 1998-10-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 178 in the Charmed guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1998-10-07 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “I've Got You Under My Skin” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Something Wicca This Way Comes”. Something Wicca This Way Comes: three sister witches, manor as set, WB soap already wearing a demon-of-the-week engine.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Reunited in the grand Victorian home of their childhood a trio of sisters; Prue, Piper & Phoebe discover they are gifted witches. Little do they know that their new-found powers mean that they are now prey to evil forces
Viewer FAQ
Where does Something Wicca This Way Comes sit in the Charmed guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 178 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Charmed S01E01 air?
Something Wicca This Way Comes aired 1998-10-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Prue seasons or Paige seasons?
Doherty's Prue exits after season three; McGowan's Paige is the recast that still starts fights. Sisterhood is the constant; the lineup is the argument.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Three sister witches, a Halliwell manor, and a demon-of-the-week engine dressed as WB soap. Female-led genre television learning serialization: spells, sisterhood, and the Prue-to-Paige recast that still starts fights. Supernatural comfort with glossy darkness — long enough to become a brand, soapy enough to binge, girl power as a family business.
Window: **1998–2006**, The WB. Three sister witches, a Halliwell manor, a demon-of-the-week engine dressed as soap. Rex can keep the old-network hex; this is a syndication forever brand with a recast that still moves the chart. Constance M. Burge built female-led genre television that learned serialization on the job. The Halliwell sisters discover their destiny as the Charmed Ones, battling demons while keeping jobs and love lives intact — witchcraft as sisterhood drama in a manor that becomes a brand. The…
Filed against
- Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
Alyssa Milano’s Samantha Micelli minted a star in Who’s the Boss? real time — 1980s catalog gender-flip multi-cam, then Charmed recasting the kid as a Halliwell witch in WB soap darkness. TV Flash files her as the daughter who grew a…
- Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
Holly Marie Combs’s Kimberly Brock grew up on Picket Fences’ postcard-gone-sideways — 1990s catalog Kelley small-town fever, then Charmed recasting the kid as a Halliwell sister in WB demon-of-the-week soap. TV Flash files her as the…
- Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
Shannen Doherty’s Brenda Walsh dropped Minnesota twins into Beverly Hills, 90210 and taught Fox that teens would show up weekly — peach-pit romance, Luke Perry mythology, Very Special Topics — then spelled sisterhood as Prue on Charmed.…
- Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews
Rose McGowan's Paige Matthews recast Charmed mid-flight — three sister witches, a Halliwell manor, demon-of-the-week engine dressed as WB soap, the Prue-to-Paige swap that still starts fights. Spells, sisterhood, glossy darkness. TV Flash…
- Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
Brian Krause played Leo Wyatt on Charmed — the Whitelighter in a Halliwell-manor engine of sister witches, demons of the week, and WB soap. Spells, sisterhood, and a recast that still starts fights. TV Flash files him as 1990s…
- Julian McMahon as Cole Turner
Julian McMahon’s Cole Turner made Charmed a demon with a romance problem — 1990s catalog WB sister-witch soap, then Nip/Tuck stretching the jawline into Miami surgical freefall. TV Flash files him as the half-demon who became a plastic…