Episodes American Broadcasting Company January 15, 2005 and March 26, 2005[]
Season 1 (2004 2005) American Broadcasting Company January 15, 2005 and March 26, 2005[]
Episodes American Broadcasting Company | Title | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date
USA |
Prod.code | U.S. viewers
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101 | "It Begins"
Series Premiere |
Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Jean-Jacques Prunes and Christophe Villez | January 15, 2005 | 101 | |
Will arrives at the town of Heatherfield. Her classmate Hay Lin invites her, Irma, Taranee and Cornelia to lunch, where her grandmother, Yan Lin, reveals to the girls their true powers, and passes to Will the mystical Heart of Kandrakar. Meanwhile, in Meridian, Caleb, the leader of the Rebellion against the evil Prince Phobos, is running for his life after a failed attempt at a storage raid. He leaps through a portal, interrupting the new Guardians' first training session. Overcome with fear, Will does not close the portal until one of Phobos' servants, Lord Cedric, drags Caleb through. | ||||||
102 | "It Resumes" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Jean-Jacques Prunes and Christophe Villez | January 22, 2005 | 102 | |
Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin must travel to Meridian after Will is captured by Cedric and Vathek. They cannot transform without Will, who dropped the Heart of Kandrakar in the struggle. The Heart leads them to find its keeper. The girls make their way through Meridian, finding Will's pit-like prison, where she is kept with Caleb and a smelly creature named Blunk. They throw the Heart down to Will and transform to escape the castle. A one-eyed Gargoyle ambushes them at the portal, pulling Irma back, but Will closes the portal on his hand. In the end, Hay Lin names the girls W.I.T.C.H. (the first letters of their names). | ||||||
103 | "The Key" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Olivier Poirette and Isabelle Rifaux | January 29, 2005 | 103 | 0.6/3 (0.7/3) |
Caleb discovers that Blunk took the key he was supposed to leave behind in Meridian for Vathek, so the girls go back to Meridian to return the key. Cedric and Phobos discover that Vathek is a spy for the rebel army. They plant the key on General Raythor so that he, instead of Vathek, will be thrown into the Abyss of Shadows. In the B-story, Hay Lin decides to create some new clothes for Caleb to help him blend in on Earth. | ||||||
104 | "Happy Birthday Will" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Thomas Astruc and Patrick Lambert | February 5, 2005 | 104 | 1.1/4 (0.8/4) |
It is Will's thirteenth birthday and she does not want a party. The girls manage to throw one anyway and everything is going well until Cedric shows up at City Hall looking for birth certificates for a certain teenage girl.The girls sneak away from the party and battle Cedric at City Hall. He flees, saying he has found what he needs. In the B-Story, Yan Lin gives her granddaughter a map of the portals. | ||||||
105 | "A Service to The Community" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Miguel Gaban and Bruno Issaly | February 12, 2005 | 105 | |
While helping out on Community Service Day, Will and Hay Lin find strange Meridian graffiti which the Mage identifies as belonging to a beast living in Heatherfield in human form. Will suspects her History teacher, Professor Collins, who is dating her mom. The girls form a plan to force the suspected monster into revealing his true form. It turns out Collins is not the beast. They fly him back home, accidentally dropping him onto trampolines and into swimming pools on more than one occasion. In the B-story, Cornelia's little sister torments her, but Cornelia gets her back in the end. | ||||||
106 | "The Labyrinth" | Nancy Callaway and Trey Callaway | Jean-Charles Andre and Luc Blanchard | February 26, 2005 | 106 | 1.0/4 (N/A) |
The students at Sheffield Institute get their midterm results; everybody is happy with their grades except Taranee. Cedric's disguise as a bookseller attracts Cornelia, Elyon, Irma, Taranee, and Hay Lin to the store to look for history books and to admire Cedric. While in the bookstore, the W.I.T.C.H. girls inadvertently touch an inversion point and find themselves in the middle of a Labyrinth inside Phobos' castle. Blunk, who was in the store at the time, manages to get word to Will. Will and Caleb launch a rescue mission. Meanwhile, the others are smuggled out of the castle by a kitchen worker named Trill, who tells them about Phobos' sister. The Tracker, a hunter working for Phobos, arrives and chases the girls through the woods until Will shows up with the Heart. They quickly defeat the Tracker. In the B-story, Caleb starts work at the Silver Dragon restaurant. | ||||||
107 | "Divide and Conquer" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Thomas Astruc and Patrick Lambert | March 5, 2005 | 107 | 0.8/3 (0.6/3) |
The W.I.T.C.H. girls and Elyon go on a school skiing trip to show up Sondra, a Swiss exchange student who seems to have mesmerized all the boys at Sheffield. Sondra steals Matt from Will, and the two girls compete in a one-on-one skiing competition. Will tries to cheat by skiing in her guardian form (with a coat and hat to cover it up). Hay Lin flies above her and uses her powers to keep Will steady. Unknown to them, Phobos wants to take advantage of this trip to divide them and separate the other four Guardians from Will and the Heart of Kandrakar. The girls defeat the plan and find out that Sondra is not a Swiss exchange student at all, but an ordinary girl who tries to steal all the boys. The girls (and Elyon) are pleased when Sondra sprains her ankle. In the B-story, Caleb is trying to show the girls that he can have fun. | ||||||
108 | "Ambush At Torus Filney" | Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers | Miguel Gaban and Olivier Poirette | March 12, 2005 | 108 | |
Phobos and Cedric start a rumor about the Seal of Phobos to trap Caleb with a sand monster called Sandpit. He tries to find out whether or not there is a spy in the castle. In the B-story, the W.I.T.C.H do a performance at the school, but after discovering Caleb is in danger, they create Astral Drops. After the real girls leave, the Astral Drops ruin the performance. | ||||||
109 | "Return of The Tracker" | Andy Guerdat and Steve Sullivan | Bruno Issaly and Laurent Jennet | March 19, 2005 | 109 | |
Prince Phobos sends the Tracker after Caleb in an effort to recapture the rebel leader. Meanwhile, the girls try to go see a movie starring their favorite actor. They struggle to save Caleb and still get to the show on time. In the B-story, Will and Hay Lin's parents won't let them go to the cinema; Will is grounded and Hay Lin's parents are overprotective. | ||||||
110 | "Framed"
Series Finale |
Andy Guerdat and Steve Sullivan | Thomas Astruc and Patrick Lambert | March 26, 2005 | 110 | 0.8/3 (0.9/4) |
While trying to capture the feeling of the Middle Ages at the art museum for their school carnival, Will, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin get sucked into the painting they are studying. Unbeknownst to the girls, Phobos knows they are trapped and sends Frost the Hunter after them. The girls escape with the help of Elias Van Dahl, the imprisoned artist of the painting. Irma, Caleb and Blunk have to stall for time at the Medieval Carnival and figure out how to get the girls back to Heatherfield. Cedric and his goon platoon enter the painting to get the Heart of Kandrakar and Hay Lin paints furiously to get away. Irma and Caleb rescue the girls from the painting salvage the school carnival thanks to the number of people they brought back with them from the painting. | ||||||