And thus was my penchant for unattainable actors cemented, much to my own dismay.īut before all of that, there was Mildred Hubble and her adventures. And my first screen crush is in both Annie and The Worst Witch in the form of one Timothy James Curry, otherwise known as Rooster Hannigan, The Grand Wizard, and (again, fast-forwarding to my teen years when I discovered The Rocky Horror Picture Show) Dr. Return to Oz and The Worst Witch both star a young Fairuza Balk, who was destined to later be a model for teenaged me when she played Nancy Downs in The Craft. What connects all of these things, you ask? If you do not yet know, then I deduce you are probably not a late Gen-X female. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. If I’m remembering correctly, it really only lasted as long as it took for the Chicago Bears to win the 1985 Superbowl and then until the end of the contract with the cable company. My parents quickly realized that cable was 1) very expensive and 2) did not allow for any oversight of what my brother and I might be watching - parental controls were yet to be invented, much less available - so our experience with cable television was short-lived. Her books set the tone for everything I look for in a witchy story.Īs a child of the ’80s, my media consumption was dominated by the introduction of cable TV, Star Wars, MTV, and a VHS machine that could record movies off HBO.
Author Jill Murphy’s first several books in the series came out while I was learning to read, so I’ve been a fan of Mildred and her magical shenanigans for essentially my entire life. If you’ve been enjoying The Worst Witch on Netflix for the last few seasons, it may come as a surprise to you that the show has a long history, starting with the publication of The Worst Witch in 1974.
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