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Sabrina Down Under is a 1999 television film produced for ABC. It is a sequel to Sabrina Goes to Rome and is a companion to the Sabrina the Teenage Witch television series.

The film features only two characters from the TV series: teenage witch Sabrina Spellman (played by Melissa Joan Hart), and talking cat Salem Saberhagen (voiced by Nick Bakay). Lindsay Sloane was also a regular actress in the TV series, but plays a different character in this film. Tara Charendoff reprises her role as Gwen from Sabrina Goes to Rome. As the film is set in Australia, none of the scenes are filmed on the original set of the TV series.

The film was directed by Kenneth R. Koch, who helped to produce Sabrina Goes to Rome. He also directed many episodes of the television series and was a prominent producer of the show.

Unlike Sabrina Goes to Rome, which is included in the season 7 DVD release of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV series, Sabrina Down Under was not included in any of the season sets. It was later released on a stand-alone DVD on February 7, 2017.[1] Prior to this, the film has been released on VHS,[2] and is available to stream on Hulu.[3]

Plot[]

Sabrina travels to Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Gwen, a fellow witch from England, for a week-long vacation where they try to help protect a hidden mermaid colony whose habitat is threatened by ocean pollution, and by local marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin, who is determined to find the colony as his claim to fame. While Sabrina finds a friendship with Barnaby, a "merman" from the mermaid colony, Salem the cat finds a possible romance with another witch-turned-into-a-cat named Hilary, but finds Sabrina's problems interfering with his plans. In order to prevent Julian from launching a search for the mermaid colony, she casts a spell to create a storm to keep him in port, which succeeds except that a lightning bolt knocks Sabrina unconscious, and when she comes to she learns she has lost her powers, at least temporarily.

Cast[]

  • Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, a teenage witch, visiting Australia to discover the Great Barrier Reef, and meet marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin. She discovers merman Barnaby, who she gives legs when she sees that he is ill.
  • Tara Strong as Gwen, a British witch whose spells never go the way she plans. She and Sabrina go on holiday to Australia together. Gwen was introduced in Sabrina Goes to Rome.
  • Scott Michaelson as Barnaby, a merman who turns into a human for 48 hours, thanks to Sabrina's magic.
  • Lindsay Sloane as Fin, Barnaby's mermaid sister who initially despises humans.
  • Nick Bakay as the voice of Salem Saberhagen, a 500-year-old witch, sentenced to spend 100 years as a cat as punishment for attempting to take over the world. While on his yearly vacation, he is surprised to find Sabrina there. He quickly falls for Hillary who is also a cat, however the two break up when her sentence is up and she is turned back into a woman. While taking a picture he discovered who had been polluting the ocean.
  • Peter O'Brien as Dr. Julian Martin, a marine biologist who spends his time protecting the reef.
  • Rebecca Gibney as Hilary Hexton, a witch imprisoned in the body of a cat. She begins to date Salem, however when she is turned back into a witch she says goodbye to him.
  • Conrad Coleby as Jerome, a boy whom Gwen gets attracted to. He is cute, sweet and funny, but he is often hard to understand due to his use of Australian slang.
  • Ben Lawson has a small appearance as an employee of the resort.

Books[]

As part of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch book collection, a book titled Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Sabrina Down Under is available. The book is written by Ellen Titlebaum. It is unnumbered, as is the first film's book adaptation. The other books in the series are numbered in reading order.

Differences between the film and the television series[]

  • Lindsay Sloane, who played Valerie on the TV show, plays the mermaid Fin in this movie. The fact that the two characters resemble each other greatly is not mentioned (or apparently noticed) by Sabrina.

Music[]

  • The song "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna is heard at the opening credits.
  • Melissa Joan Hart's cover version of "Octopus's Garden" by The Beatles can be heard during the underwater scene.

10,000 leagues by K ser during the first dive scene.

  • A cover version of "Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin can be heard during the montage sequence.

On February 7, 2017, the film was released on DVD with changes to the musical score due to copyright issues.

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series logo)
Media
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (film pilot)Sabrina the Teenage WitchSabrina the Teenage Witch: Sabrina Goes to RomeSabrina the Teenage Witch: Sabrina Down UnderSabrina the Teenage Witch: SpellboundRiverdale
Characters
Sabrina SpellmanHilda SpellmanZelda SpellmanSalem SaberhagenHarvey KinkleLibby ChesslerJenny Kelley
Locations
New JerseyBostonThe Other RealmRiverdale (location)Greendale
Episodes
Season One: "Pilot" • "Bundt Friday" • "The True Adventures of Rudy Kazootie" • "Terrible Things" • "A Halloween Story" • "Dream Date" • "Third Aunt From the Sun" • "Magic Joel" • "Geek Like Me" • "Sweet and Sour Victory" • "A Girl and Her Cat" • "Trial by Fury" • "Jenny's Non-Dream" • "Sabrina Through the Looking Glass" • "Hilda and Zelda: The Teenage Years" • "Mars Attracts" • "First Kiss" • "Sweet Charity" • "Cat Showdown" • "Meeting Dad's Girlfriend" • "As Westbridge Turns" • "The Great Mistake" • "The Crucible" • "Troll Bride"
Season Two: "Sabrina Gets Her License (Part 1)" • "Sabrina Gets Her License (Part 2)" • "Dummy For Love" • "Dante's Inferno • "A Doll's Story" • "Sabrina, the Teenage Boy" • "A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It • "Inna Gadda Sabrina" • "Witch Trash" • "To Tell a Mortal • "Oh What A Tangled Spell She Weaves" • "Sabrina Claus" • "Little Big Kraft" • "Five Easy Pieces of Libby" • "Finger Lickin' Flu" • "Sabrina and The Beanstalk" • "The Equalizer" • "2x18- The Band Episode" • "When Teens Collide" • "My Nightmare, the Car" • "Fear Strikes Up a Conversation" • "Quiz Show" • "Disneyworld" • "Sabrina's Choice" • "Rumor Mill" • "Mom vs. Magic"
Season Three: "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Season Opener" • "Boy Was My Face Red" • "Suspicious Minds" • "The Pom Pom Incident" • "Pancake Madness" • "Good Will Haunting" • "You Bet Your Family" • "And The Sabrina Goes To..." • "Nobody Nose Libby Like Sabrina Knows Libby" • "Sabrina and the Beast" • "Christmas Amnesia" • "Whose So-Called Life Is It Anyway?" • "What Price Harvey?" • "Mrs. Kraft" • "Sabrina and the Pirates" • "Sabrina, the Matchmaker" • "Salem, the Boy" • "Sabrina, the Teenage Writer" • "The Big Sleep" • "Sabrina's Pen Pal" • "Sabrina's Real World" • "The Long and Winding Shortcut" • "Sabrina, the Sandman" • "Silent Movie" • "The Good, the Bad and the Luau"
Season Four: "No Place Like Home" • "Dream a Little Dreama Me" • "Jealousy" • "Little Orphan Hilda" • "Spoiled Rotten" • "Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace" • "Prelude to a Kiss" • "Aging, Not So Gracefully" • "Love Means Having to Say You're Sorry" • "Ice Station Sabrina" • "Salem and Juliette" • "Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose" • "Now You See Her, Now You Don't" • "Super Hero" • "Love in Bloom" • "Welcome Back, Duke" • "Salem's Daughter" • "Dreama, the Mouse" • "The Wild, Wild Witch" • "She's Baaack!" • "The Four Faces of Sabrina" • "The End of an Era"
Season Five: "Every Witch Way but Loose" • "Double Time" • "Heart of the Matter" • "You Can't Twin" • "House of Pi's" • "The Halloween Scene" • "Welcome, Traveler" • "Some of My Best Friends Are Half-Mortals" • "Lost at 'C'" • "Sabrina's Perfect Christmas" • "My Best Shot" • "Tick-Tock Hilda's Clock" • "Sabrina's New Roommate" • "Making the Grade" • "Love is a Many Complicated Thing" • "Sabrina, the Muse" • "Beach Blanket Bizarro" • "Witchright Hall" • "Sabrina, the Activist" • "Do You See What I See?" • "Sabrina's Got Spirit" • "Finally!"
Season Six: "Really Big Season Opener" • "Sabrina's Date with Destiny" • "What's News" • "Murder on the Halloween Express" • "The Gift of Gab" • "Thin Ice" • "Hex, Lies & No Videotape" • "Humble Pie" • "A Birthday Witch" • "Deliver Us from E-mail" • "Cloud Ten" • "Sabrina and the Candidate" • "I Think I Love You" • "The Arrangement" • "Time After Time" • "Sabrina and the Kiss" • "The Competition" • "I, Busybody" • "Guilty!" • "The Whole Ball of Wax" • "Driving Mr. Goodman" • "I Fall to Pieces"
Season Seven: "Total Sabrina Live!" • "The Big Head" • "Call Me Crazy" • "Shift Happens" • "Free Sabrina" • "Sabrina Unplugged" • "Witch Way Out" • "Bada-Ping!" • "It's a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas" • "Ping, Ping A Song" • "The Lyin', the Witch and the Wardrobe" • "In Sabrina We Trust" • "Sabrina in Wonderland" • "Present Perfect" • "Cirque du Sabrina" • "Getting To Nose You" • "Romance Looming" • "Spellmanian Slip" • "You Slay Me" • "A Fish Tale" • "What a Witch Wants" • "Soul Mates"
Songs
"Walk of Life" • "Abracadabra" • "Hey Mr. DJ (Keep Playin' This Song)" • "One Way or Another" • "Kate" • "Show Me Love" • "Giddy Up" • "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)" • "Magnet and Steel" • "So I Fall Again" • "Smash" • "I Know What Boys Like" • "Doctor Jones" • "Soda Pop" • "Amnesia" • "Blah Blah Blah"
See also
Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The AlbumSabrina: The Animated Series
Related
George GladirDan DeCarloNell ScovellJonathan SchmockDanny LuxArchie ComicsHartbreak FilmsFinishing the Hat ProductionsViacom ProductionsCBS Paramount TelevisionParamount Global Content Distribution
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