
Scripted series · The WB
Charmed
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Charmed actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Charmed reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and World Building.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
The run
Seasons
8 seasons · 178 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
199814 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Unaired Pilot

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
199822 episodes
7.0IMDbThe three Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendents of a line of female witches. Each has a special ability (stopping time, moving objects, seeing the future), and they can also combine their abilities into the "Power of Three" to fight demons, warlocks, and other evils.
Best episode · S01E16 Which Prue Is It, Anyway?

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
199922 episodes
7.4IMDbThe sisters continue to balance their personal lives with their magic as they begin to gain more control over their powers. The sisters also find themselves traveling to both the past and the future throughout the season, in addition to facing their own family history when they are forced to destroy the demon that was responsible for their mother's death.
Best episode · S02E02 Morality Bites

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
200022 episodes
7.4IMDbThe third season of Charmed sees many dramatic changes in the sisters' lives. As Cole/Belthazor moves his way into The Charmed Ones' lives, he becomes conflicted between his duty toward The Triad and his love for Phoebe.
Best episode · S03E22 All Hell Breaks Loose

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
200122 episodes
7.3IMDbSeason 4 brings big changes in the lives of the Halliwell sisters. As they face the loss of a sister, Paige Matthews arrives - half sister to the Halliwells. As Piper and Phoebe cope with the death of their sister, they learn to accept Paige and teach her the ways of witchcraft all while perfecting the use of their own growing powers.
Best episode · S04E07 Brain Drain

Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
200223 episodes
7.1IMDbSeason 5 ties up loose ends and brings in new characters. Piper deals with being a Charmed One while being pregnant. After the birth, and learning that she is the mother of a very important and powerful child, Piper must then face various demonic forces who intend to either kill or capture her son.
Best episode · S05E12 Centennial Charmed

Season 6 · Complete
Season 6
200323 episodes
7.3IMDbThe sixth season focuses on new characters as well as The Charmed Ones. Leo leaves on a quest making life hard for Piper as a single mother to Wyatt. Chris travels back in time and we learn about his true connection to the Halliwells.
Best episode · S06E11 Witchstock

Season 7 · Complete
Season 7
200422 episodes
7.4IMDbThe sisters question themselves after Gideon's betrayal. Phoebe is such an emotional wreck that her boss lets her take a break and hires a ghost writer -- a man with whom she takes awhile to warm up to but eventually develops feelings for. Finally, darkness surrounds the sisters in the form Zankou, a demon who had been locked away by The Source.
Best episode · S07E22 Something Wicca This Way Goes

Season 8 · Complete
Season 8
200522 episodes
6.7IMDbThe sisters have to live under false identities to be free of demons. Each sister remains unhappy and eventually decides to return to their Charmed lives. Paige, however, begins helping a young witch named Billie, who eventually discovers the sisters' magical secrets but agrees to keep them under wraps in exchange for witchcraft training.
Best episode · S08E22 Forever Charmed
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S04E07
Brain Drain
The Source sends Piper into a deep coma, where she perceives an alternate reality. Phoebe and Paige must find a way to return her to reality and save her from giving up her powers while she is delusional.
- Directed by John Behring
- Written by Curtis Kheel

S08E22
Forever Charmed
Piper & Leo, with help from Coop's ring, must travel back in time to change the events that lead to the deaths of Piper's sisters. Meanwhile, Billie uses her power of Projection to do the same thing; many familiar faces gather to help Piper in her time of need.
- Directed by James L. Conway
- Written by Brad Kern

S03E22
All Hell Breaks Loose
When the Halliwell sisters are exposed as witches on nation-wide television, they form a pact with The Source to reverse time and undo the damage. However, in the process, one of the sisters makes the ultimate sacrifice, placing the Power of Three in mortal danger.
- Directed by Shannen Doherty
- Written by Brad Kern

S07E22
Something Wicca This Way Goes
When the sisters try to divert Zankou's attention from the Nexus, he hatches a plan to absorb all their powers. But when the girls realize what Zankou is up to, they are forced with a life-altering decision: sacrifice their powers or their lives.

S03E14
The Good, the Bad, and the Cursed
When Phoebe feels the pain of an injured American-Indian ghost she sees in a deserted town, Prue travels back in time to the mid-1800s to save the man, and Phoebe, from death at the hands of a local thug.
- Directed by Shannen Doherty
- Written by Monica Owusu-Breen, Alison Schapker

S03E08
Sleuthing with the Enemy
When the sisters discover that Cole is Belthazor, Phoebe must make one of the toughest decisions of her life: either vanquish her boyfriend or keep one of the most dangerous demons known to exist alive.
- Directed by Noel Nosseck
- Written by Peter Hume
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Constance M. Burge
Showrunner
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Brad Kern
Executive producer
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E. Duke Vincent
Executive producer

Aaron Spelling
Executive producer
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Julie Auerbach
Writer
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Michael Gleason
Writer

Peter Hume
Writer

Monica Owusu-Breen
Writer

Liz Sagal
Writer
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Krista Vernoff
Writer
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Andrea Stevens
Writer
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Whip Lipsey
Writer
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Rob Wright
Writer
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Chris Levinson
Writer
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Alison Schapker
Writer
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Vivian Mayhew
Writer
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Paul Jackson
Writer
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David Simkins
Writer
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Debra J. Fisher
Writer
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Cameron Litvack
Writer

Daniel Cerone
Writer
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Elizabeth Hunter
Writer
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Michael Perricone
Writer
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Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Writer

Nell Scovell
Writer
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Greg Elliot
Writer
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Sheryl Anderson
Writer
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Zack Estrin
Writer
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Natalie Antoci
Writer
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Andy Reaser
Writer
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Doug E. Jones
Writer
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Valerie Mayhew
Writer
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Laurie Parres
Writer
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Sheryl J. Anderson
Writer
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William Schmidt
Writer
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Mark Wilding
Writer
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Erica Messer
Writer
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Henry Alonso Myers
Writer
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Scott Lipsey
Writer
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Curtis Kheel
Writer
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Tony Blake
Writer

Edithe Swensen
Writer
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Jeannine Renshaw
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Brad KernExecutive Producer
- E. Duke VincentExecutive Producer
- Aaron SpellingExecutive Producer
- Holly Marie CombsProducer
- Alyssa MilanoProducer
- Constance M. BurgeExecutive Producer
Writing
- Julie AuerbachWriter
- Michael GleasonWriter
- Peter HumeWriter
- Monica Owusu-BreenWriter
- Liz SagalWriter
- Krista VernoffWriter
Direction
- John BehringDirector
- Stuart GillardDirector
- Michael ZinbergDirector
- Michael GrossmanDirector
- Robert GintyDirector
- Don KurtDirector
Cinematography
- Rick F. GunterDirector of Photography
- Jonathan WestDirector of Photography
- Thomas Del RuthDirector of Photography
- Kris KrosskoveDirector of Photography
- Michael NegrinDirector of Photography
- Geoffrey SchaafDirector of Photography
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