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Three sisters, one Book of Shadows, and the Power of Three. Charmed premiered on The WB on October 7, 1998, to 7.7 million viewers, the network's biggest debut ever, and ran eight seasons through 2006, surviving the exit of its eldest sister to become, for a while, the longest-running hour-long show with all-female leads in American TV history.
The Disney Channel movie that turned every October into a ritual. Halloweentown premiered in 1998, but its real reign was the 2000s — three sequels, endless reruns, and a generation's gateway to comfort-food spookiness with Debbie Reynolds as the world's best witch grandma.
The Sanderson sisters — Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy — resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, chasing children and belting "I Put a Spell on You." A box-office flop in 1993 that became the ultimate Halloween rewatch tradition.
Melissa Joan Hart pointing a finger to zap her problems away, with a wisecracking talking cat named Salem and two witch aunts. A staple of ABC's TGIF block, Sabrina turned a teenage witch's coming-of-age into must-watch Friday-night TV.