List of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch Characters - Relatives

Relatives

Throughout the series, Sabrina met members of her family who were also witches. Throughout Season Three, relatives would come to the Spellman house for a visit, and at the end of their visit, they would give Sabrina a clue to the family secret. Sabrina did not solve it until the Season Three finale: "Every member of the Spellman family is born with a twin". Here are some of Sabrina's relatives.

Cousin Amanda Spellman-Wiccan: Amanda (played by Melissa Joan Hart's real life sister Emily Hart) appeared several times throughout the series. She appears once in Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, but appeared numerous times in Season 7. She is mischievous and typically causes trouble with her magic. In her first appearance, she is shown to have the habit of shrinking people she does not like into jars. In another appearance, she turns Sabrina into a doll before being outsmarted and changed into a doll herself. In another appearance, she develops a crush on Harvey, before being shown that she does not want to grow up. In another appearance, she was visited by Sabrina in Witchright Hall, a school for maladjusted young witches. This episode was a pilot for a spin-off featuring Amanda, although the series was not picked up. Amanda's character slowly grew into a slightly more caring and respectable person, often helping Sabrina when possible. Such was the case when she appeared in the series finale "Soul Mates", where she gives Harvey his soul stone, which matches Sabrina's. Amanda eventually became taller than Sabrina. Amanda is actually Sabrina's second cousin as her mother, Marigold Spellman-Wiccan, is a cousin of Hilda and Zelda.

Cousin Ally Spellman-Wiccan: Ally (played by Melissa Joan Hart's real life half-sister Alexandra Hart-Gilliams) is Amanda's little sister. She appeared in the season 3 episode The Matchmaker.

Grandma Lydia Spellman: Lydia (played by Shirley Jones of The Partridge Family fame) appeared in only one episode ("Little Orphan Hilda" in Season 4). She is shrill and overbearing and is the mother of Vesta, Zelda, Hilda, Ted and Sophia. When Zelda and Hilda were little, the envious Vesta turned Lydia and her husband into pigs due to the attention that Hilda and Zelda had. Lydia spent 200 years of violin lessons on Hilda, and literally exploded when she learned Hilda had given up her violin to buy her clock shop.

Cousin Zsa Zsa Goowhiggie: Zsa Zsa (played by Sheryl Lee Ralph) appeared in only one episode ("What Price Harvey?" in Season Three). She was a notorious prankster who sold a line of "Ambition" products. Salem pinched some concealer from her make-up bag to try to hide some bags under his eyes, but he used too much, and made himself invisible, and she also gave Hilda and Zelda some Walk-a-Mile moccasins which switched their personalities. Sabrina sought Zsa Zsa's help when Harvey told her he was not going to college, so she sold her the whole line of Ambition products. Unfortunately, they turned Harvey into a ruthless businessman. Zsa Zsa was forced to import some perspective which came in the form of an eyeball which Sabrina used to make Harvey normal again. At the end of her visit, Zsa Zsa gave Sabrina her clue to the family secret: a snake.

Great Aunt Dorma Spellman: Dorma (Voiced by Rosalind Ayres) is (quite literally) the black sheep of the Spellman family. She appeared in "The Big Sleep". She sleeps for ten years at a time, and to wake her would be a huge mistake. When Sabrina woke her up to ask her about the family secret, Dorma took her revenge by sending Other Realm poppies to the Spellman house which put both Hilda and Zelda to sleep, but they had a different effect on Sabrina as she was half-mortal; they only made her drowsy. Sabrina eventually dealt with the poppies by causing it to snow in her house (just like in The Wizard of Oz). Aunt Dorma appeared at the end of the episode to apologize, and she thanked Sabrina for waking her up as she had left her oven on, then gave her a clue to family secret; she conjured up several birds (quite possibly the aviary clue). She is one of Lydia's sisters.

Cousin Pele: Pele (portrayed by Kellye Nakahara) is a Hawaiian goddess of fire who appeared in the last episode of Season Three. She gave Sabrina the final clue to the family secret: a ball of twine. When she first meets Sabrina, she also introduces herself as Sabrina's cousin. She also gives Sabrina her official witches license at the end of the episode.

Uncle Nicholas: Santa Claus is revealed to be a Spellman in Season Three (in episode 61, "Christmas Amnesia"). In an episode in one of the earlier seasons, however, it is said that Santa Claus's name is Bob. It was also hint at the end of the episode, Uncle Nicholas was also the father of the holiday Bobunk (a holiday Salem erased in his younger years). His clue to the family secret was a picture of Robert E. Lee.

Aunt Vesta Spellman: Sabrina's Aunt Vesta (played by Raquel Welch) appeared in the season one episode "Third Aunt From the Sun". She lives in the Pleasure Dome in the Other Realm. She appeared disguised as a substitute teacher after she gave Mr. Pool a twenty-four-hour bug—which turns out to be a real giant bug that terrorizes Mr. Pool. After class, she introduced herself to Sabrina, and took her on a shopping spree. In Paris, Vesta told Sabrina that while Hilda and Zelda enjoyed living on Earth, she herself could not stand mortals for too long. She is later mentioned in the second season finale as taking her mother shopping, bringing Hilda and Zelda to the conclusion that Vesta was their mother's favorite daughter.

Cousin Susie: Susie's appearance made Sabrina uncomfortable because she had green skin and warts, making looks like The Wicked Witch of the West. To teach Sabrina a lesson about caring about looks, she cast a spell on Harvey which turned him into a furry beast. However, once Sabrina had learned her lesson, the spell was lifted, and Susie gave Sabrina her clue to the family secret; a whip. She gave Sabrina another clue, telling her "We all have good and bad parts", possibly referring to the answer to the family secret. Despite her hideous appearance, she has a good heart, at times taking time to heal the sick or feed homeless witches. It is mentioned by Hilda that she is illegitimate. She was played by Sonje Fortag.

Great Aunt Irma Spellman: Irma (played by Barbara Eden) is the matriarch of the Spellman family, and, as Zelda described her, "Dreaded holy terror of the Other Realm". She first appeared in A Birthday Witch in Season Six where she tried Harvey to be sure he could keep the fact that Sabrina was a witch to himself. Harvey passed Irma's test, and she let him go, but she turned Hilda, Zelda and Salem into three pigs after Hilda called her "prune face" (it was easy to tell which pig Salem was as one of the pigs was all black). Sabrina bravely stood up to Aunt Irma (which nobody else has ever done), and Irma removed her spell; when Sabrina confronted her, she mentioned that she was busy frying her brother-in-law. When her daughter Phyllis told a mortal that she was a witch, Irma trapped her daughter in a snow globe. She appeared in two more episodes (Season Six's The Arrangement and Season Seven's A Fish Tale). The casting of Barbara Eden is a reference to her role of Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie. In the show The IT Crowd, the character Jen's period is referred to as "Aunt Irma visiting."

Cousin Marigold Spellman-Wiccan: Marigold is the mother of Amanda and Ally and the first cousin of Hilda and Zelda. She first appeared in Season One's A Halloween Story in which Salem learns from M'lady, Marigold's cat that Marigold is divorcing her husband. She later appeared in Season Three's Sabrina the Matchmaker where a romantic dinner with a mortal plumber named Emil was ruined by her two daughters, Amanda and Ally, and Marigold ended up revealing to Emil that she was a witch. Emil ran off, but later returned and kissed Marigold. Because she had revealed she was a witch to a mortal, Marigold lost her powers, but she told Sabrina that she had never been happy in all the years that she had had magic. She also gave Sabrina another clue to the family secret; a heart shaped card with rough edges. In her two appearances, Marigold was played by two different actresses (by Robin Riker in the first, and by Hallie Todd in the second).

Cousin Mortimer: Mortimer (played by the late Dom DeLuise) was a magician who appeared in Season Three's The Pom Pom Incident. When Valerie decided to try to become a cheerleader, Sabrina, fearing she may end up being as mean as Libby, sought Mortimer's help, and he gave her a coin that she had to just slip into Valerie's ear. It put Valerie off the idea, but not for long as she still expressed her wish to be a cheerleader, but, this time, Sabrina used her magic to convince Libby to give Valerie a second chance. Meanwhile, Mortimer put on a magic show for Harvey's little brother for his birthday, and, unfortunately, ended up sending him to Calcutta, India. Luckily, he managed to bring him back. At the end of his visit, Mortimer revealed he had hidden a clue to the family secret somewhere in the house. Sabrina found the clue under a cushion; a picture of a man in a Superman-type outfit with ABC on his chest (meaning "Spellman"). It was later suggested, by Aunt Hilda, that she and Mortimer were originally scheduled to sit next to each other at Sabrina's wedding, much to Hilda's dismay. Mortimer was never seen on-screen during this episode.

Kong: Kong was one of the last relatives to give Sabrina a clue to the family secret. Kong made a hand-only appearance at the end of Silent Movie. He had a blond woman (who was supposed to be Fay Wray) sitting on his palm. Hilda told Sabrina that Kong is a third cousin with a pituitary problem. Sabrina put the Fay Wray clue with a picture of herself and a picture of Robert E. Lee, and she then knew that the family secret was about the Spellman family.

Edward "Ted" Spellman: Ted is Sabrina's father. He and Sabrina's mother divorced when Sabrina was ten years old, and he later gained a new girlfriend named Gail Kipling. Ted was played by Robby Benson when he appeared in the pilot episode and Meeting Dad's Girlfriend (Season 1 episodes), but was played by Doug Sheehan of Knots Landing fame in his later appearances (Season Four's No Place Like Home and the series finale where he arrives to walk Sabrina down the aisle). A few times in Meeting Dad's Girlfriend, Ted speaks in a loud, booming voice, possibly a reference to Disney's Beauty and the Beast in which Robby Benson provided the voice for Beast.

Diana Spellman: Diana is Sabrina's mother. After the divorce, she became an archaeologist in Peru. Diana is mortal, and therefore has no magic. Also, she is unable to be with her daughter because of a term set by the Witch's Council; if they lay eyes on each other, Diana will turn into a ball of wax. Diana appeared four times in the series; she first appeared (briefly) in "Meeting Dad's Girlfriend" when Sabrina used the Sneak-a-Peek magnifying glass, but the identity of the actress playing her is unknown as it was an aerial shot, although some have speculated that it is Melissa Joan Hart's mother, Paula. In her second appearance (in Season Two's "Mom vs Magic"), Diana actually got to see her daughter after Sabrina was forced to choose between her mother and her magic after she sent her a letter (she later discovered that this was a test), and the two had a heart-to-heart when Sabrina was not sure whom to choose between Harvey and Dashell (she was played by Pam Blair). In her next appearance (in Season Six's "The Whole Ball of Wax"), Diana was turned into a ball of wax, and though Sabrina was able to bring her back, she was told by her aunts that if her mother turned into a ball of wax again, nothing would bring her back. Diana did manage to attend Sabrina's wedding in the series finale, but at a price as Zelda was temporarily turned into a candle (in her last two appearances, Diana was played by Alley Mills).

Gail Kipling: Gail is a witch, lawyer and Ted's girlfriend introduced in the First Season's episode "Meeting Dad's Girlfriend", when she quarreled with Ted over Sabrina questioning whether they would get married or not. Over the course of the next two years their relationship further developed upon the point of getting married, thus Gail became Sabrina's step-mother. Sabrina temporarily moves in with her and Ted when her life on Westbridge takes a stumble in "There's No Place Like Home", when it's revealed that she has a son called Donald and is fluent in French. She has a strange blood type, just like Ted.

Donald Kipling: Gail's son and Ted's step-son who is never actually seen but is mentioned by Gail in "There's No Place Like Home". Donald's magic is shown to be a cyan, circling beam of light.

Great Aunt Beulah Spellman: Beulah (played by Jo Anne Worley) is Sabrina's great aunt. She appeared in Season Three's "Good Will Haunting". She sent Hilda and Zelda invitations to her Halloween party over the centuries, but they always said they could not go for one reason or another (these excuses included the two World Wars and the Chicago fires), but they eventually ran short of excuses, so they would have to go. Sabrina convinced Zelda to let her stay home (because Valerie had invited Harvey and Justin round to Sabrina's house to watch scary movies (in the end, they ended up watching The Bridges of Madison County)), and Aunt Beulah sent Sabrina a Molly Dolly. Unfortunately, the doll had a life of its own, and while it terrorized Sabrina and her friends, sealing the doors and windows, Hilda and Zelda ended up trapped in what they thought was an insane asylum, and had their brains switched with those of two chickens. When Sabrina arrived to seek help, Hilda and Zelda learned that Aunt Beulah's parties were theme parties. Travelling to the Spellman household, Beulah stopped the Molly Dolly, who had unleashed a group of monsters, by singing in a high operatic voice. She is one of Lydia's sisters.

Cousin Doris West: (played by Carol Ann Susi) Appeared in the episode "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Season Opener" as the official to issue Sabrina her witch license and took her photograph. Doris was supposed to be the first family member to reveal a clue to the family secret, but we never see what it is. However, Sabrina was too preoccupied with her romance (Harvey versus Dashell) dilemma. Doris, unfortunately, has a bit of a temper, and when she gets angry, she emits a green, slimy goo from her fingers. She later shows up at Sabrina's school where a spell to help Sabrina decide between Harvey and Dashell has gotten completely out of hand, and the two of them are dressed as ninjas and are fighting each other. Sabrina accidentally manages to make Doris lose her temper again, and Doris shoots slime at Harvey and Dashell. Sabrina knocked Harvey to the floor and Dashell got slimed. Doris then left, saying she'll be back later, yet she was never seen or heard from again.

Boyd, Racine, and Maw-Maw: (played by Gary Grubbs, Loni Anderson & Edie McClurg) Seen only in the episode "Witch Trash", husband and wife, Boyd and Racine, Hilda and Zelda's hillbilly cousins, upset that Hilda and Zelda were in possession of the magic book, sealed the windows and doors of the Spellman house. Sabrina later brought Boyd and Racine, along with Maw-Maw over from the Other Realm to talk things over, but to no avail. Later, when the hillbillies levitated her, Sabrina was ready to give them the book when Great-Granny arrived to set the record straight. Great-Granny told the hillbillies they chose her money while Hilda and Zelda got the magic book. Eventually, Racine unsealed the house and Great-Granny send them home.

Great Granny: Granny (played by the late Alice Ghostley) appeared in only one episode, "Witch Trash". She is Hilda's and Zelda's grandmother and Sabrina's great-grandmother. She arrived to settle the feud among Hilda, Zelda and their hillbilly cousins. Granny owned the magic book but passed it down to Hilda and Zelda in one of her many wills. She hates to be interrupted, and will disiplince those who try to by levitating them into the corner and making them face the wall, which is what she did to Zelda for telling Boyd, Racine, and Maw-Maw to "Let Great-Grandmother talk" right after Great-Granny had given them a warning. Zelda was still floating in the corner as the episode ended.

Cousin Monty: Monty (played by Dana Gould) appeared in "A Girl And Her Cat", the first series' Christmas episode in which Zelda invited him to Christmas dinner. Monty arrived at the Spellman house with his familiar, Newt (a talking newt, voiced by Billy West), and a wheeled suitcase from which a circus performer named Lulu (played by Kerry Norton) emerged. Newt was one of Salem's underlings in his bid for global conquest, and Salem apparently promised him Denmark, and Monty told Hilda and Zelda Lulu was poor. However, an angry Sabrina left Salem in a dumpster after he stowed away in her bag and got her kicked out of the Slicery. Later, he was kidnapped by a little boy with a lisp who refused to give him up, but Sabrina managed to rescue him. In the end, after accepting Monty's marriage proposal, Lulu revealed she was not poor after all; she had a rich father.

Jezebelda: Jezebelda is Zelda's evil twin. Her Dolly Parton-style hair and Southern drawl make her distinguishable from Zelda. She shares a cell in the Other Realm Prison with Sabrina's twin, Katrina. Jezebelda appeared in two episodes ("You Can't Twin" and "Deliver Us From E-Mail"). She apparently caused the bubonic plague.

Katrina: Katrina is Sabrina's evil twin. She was the tertiary antagonist in the series. Unlike Zelda and Jezebelda, Katrina is physically indistinguishable from Sabrina. She and Sabrina faced a series of tests to determine which of the two was the good one and the bad one. When Sabrina was dubbed the evil twin because she had cheated in solving the family secret, she was sentenced to be pushed into a volcano. Katrina pushed her in, but the judge then said that no good twin has ever had the heart to push her evil twin in, but he points out that Hilda almost did (Hilda's twin was never seen on-screen). This last test proved Katrina was the evil twin; Sabrina was saved from the volcano, and Katrina was sent to prison. In her next appearance (in Season Five's You Can't Twin), Katrina stole Sabrina's passport, and slipped into the mortal realm, determined to destroy Sabrina's life. Fortunately, Sabrina was able to get a message to her aunts, who rescued her, and Katrina was sent back to prison. She was last seen in Season Six's "Deliver Us From E-Mail". Sabrina sends Katrina a rude e-mail, fed up over her limericks about a witch from Helsinki who did something with her pinky. In return, Katrina, under the pseudonym "Nasty Girl" e-mailed Sabrina a computer virus which turned Sabrina into a bimbo. Harvey noticed a change in Sabrina's behaviour and took her to her aunts to see if they could find what was wrong with her. Zelda confronted Katrina in the other realm prison, and had to give in to a bribe from her own twin, Jezebelda to get the information she wanted. With Harvey's help, Hilda and Zelda were able to return Sabrina to normal. In the end, Sabrina got her own back on Katrina by e-mailing her a "Kill Them With Kindness" spell. Katrina was last seen giving Jezebelda a pedecure, swearing revenge on Sabrina.

Aunt Sophia Spellman (also played by Melissa Joan Hart) was only seen in "Sabrina Goes to Rome", as it was revealed that Sophia was one of Edward's sisters, who was lost in time during an incident centuries ago. She is identical to her niece, Sabrina.

Uncle Noonie (unseen) is a Spellman uncle who is deaf and attended a Halloween celebration in the Other Realm during "A Halloween Story".

Uncle George (unseen) is a Spellman uncle who attended the Spellman Family Reunion in Hawaii with his fat second wife, Ruby (played by Lisa K. Wyatt).

Uncle Danny (played by David Alan Graf) is a Spellman uncle who attended the Spellman Family Reunion as well, who loves to drink after a celebration.

Aunt Bootsie (unseen) is a Spellman aunt who apparently has a moustache and loves to kiss everyone. She was mentioned in "The Good, The Bad and the Luau".

Uncle Clyde (unseen) is Sabrina's uncle, and Cousin Susie's father, mentioned only in "Sabrina and the Beast".

Cousin Stanislav (unseen) is Sabrina's cousin, mentioned in Sabrina, the Sandman. He gave Sabrina a clue to the family secret; a picture of Sabrina.