Television and Film
- Astoroth, the medieval wizard whose spells are central to the plot of the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
- Catweazle of the British TV series with the same name. A magician fleeing from the Normans to modern England.
- Sorcerers and sorcery are a staple of Chinese wu xia fiction and are dramatically featured in many martial arts movies.
- Max Russo, Alex Russo, and Justin Russo are all wizards in the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards of Waverly Place.
- Serinda Swan portrayed the magician Zatanna in the Smallville television series, episode Hex.
- Sabrina Spellman, her family and various others in the movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch and its later television adaptations. Interestingly, the term "witch" is used for both male and female spellcasters.
- Chris Halliwell, Wyatt Halliwell, Prue Halliwell, Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, Paige Matthews, Patricia Halliwell, Penny Halliwell, Melinda Warren are witches in the television series Charmed.
- Samantha, the main character of the 60s and early 70s television series Bewitched.
- Ursula the Sea Witch in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or film:
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)