1971?
So the version they made in 1996 was just recreated from the 1971 version, but not animated and different because if it is they done a gr8 job i been a fan from start to finish...
shareno, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch was originaly created by Archie Comics, then it was made into a cartoon, then into a T.V movie, then into a hit T.V series, and in 2007 a theatrical relase will hit the cinemas.
shareoh great thankyou i just read something from somewhere and got confused i knew it was a tv movie i forgot about the animation it's great you gave me all this info thanks alot for that.lol
shareSabrina the teen aged witch came about much the same way that Josie of Josie and the Pussycats had done; the cartoon was created simultaneously with the character's appearance in the comic book and they went out hand-in-hand. I think Sabrina was mostly inspired by Elizabeth Montgomery's Bewitched show.
Josie, however, began in 1963 as largely a female Archie. It seems there are several characters who began like this that I had never heard of, female characters.
After the success of ARchie's cartoon, Archie comics decided to launch Josie in a cartoon, but this time around, they approached Hanna Barbera, and we received Josie and the Pussycats.
Its interesting to get older Josie comic books and then see the transition and addition of Alan M. and Valerie, who appeared in the cartoon (1970).
Josie would alter her comic book stories to include these two, and likewise exclude previous Josie characters who didnt make it into the cartoon, such as Pepper, Sheldon, Albert and beatnik Clyde Didit.
Sabrina's comic book stories never really included the Groovy Goolies (none that I saw anyway), but they did have Salem, Hilda and Zelda in them. Hilda had orange hair and was tall and thin, Zelda was short and fat and had green hair. Salem was a red cat. No idea if they have made him black now in the comic books.
After the Melissa Joan Hart show, I would see the aunts altered in the comic books to look more hip, but they still maintained that orange and green hair color.
Have no idea what they look like now.
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g-conner: "Shame I wasnt born in America in 70s
But I was born at the very end of the 80s in England.
I would of loved to have seen this cartoon when I was a child, I am a huge Sabrina fan and I am looking forward to buying the comics in the market (The only place I can find them).
Is it better than the 1999 Animated Series or worse?"
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Wouldn't know. I've never seen the '99 series. But if it looked like revamped comic books that came out about then, I wouldn't think so, but it is a generational thing. I grew up with the Sabrina cartoons from '71.
Even tho it is Jane Webb doing Sabrina's voice, she gives the character a slight English accent, perhaps a New England tilt. I watched the dvd set (I had to return them to be replaced cuz a couple of the episodes wouldn't play) and at one moment there, Sabrina all but goes "cahn't" when she says "can't", if you follow my meaning.
The bulk of the Archie cartoons watch the same, but I think the very first season is the most bearable.
I have one faint memory of Sabrina in a mine or something, she wasn't trapped, but she was crying, and Moose of all characters was trying to console her.
Whereever this scene came from, it wasn't in the Sabrina series. It must have been one of these follow up shows, perhaps that last one that barely aired in my area, circa 1977 or '78.
And my mother is English by the way.
We may have had the Archie cartoons and Sabrina, but we didn't have Doctor Who. lol!
Didn't get Tom Baker until after he had quit the show in the 1980s.
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I think Sabrina was mostly inspired by Elizabeth Montgomery's Bewitched show.
So was Sabrina an adult who married a mortal decided to give up on her magic, Sabrina's family dislikes the mortal and put some nasty spells on him.
I suppose if she had married Aaron and they made another Season it could of been like Bewitched.
Ever seen the Cousin Susie episode? Samantha and her family would hate her because Susie is the stereotype witch.
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