Starring Catherine Bell, James Denton, and Catherine Disher, Hallmark‘s Good Witch is one of the network’s most popular franchises. Mixing magic with hope and a small-town sense of community, the Good Witch franchise is a pop culture icon in its own right.
Airing first in 2008, it all began with the movie titled The Good Witch, and from there, fans fell in love with Cassandra Nightingale and couldn’t dream of a future without her. Luckily, they never had to experience one, as the first film kept audiences so captivated that several films, a television series, and even more spinoffs from that have been born in the witchy era.
If you’ve yet to dive into the Good Witch franchise and want to begin following the story, there’s a great formula to watching the series from its sparkling beginnings. With spooky season drawing to a close, there’s no better time than the present to begin this watch, feeling a lot of magic and love as you navigate each new chapter in Cassandra’s story. So, let’s take a look at how to get started.
What is Good Witch about?
Good Witch started out as a 2008 made-for-TV movie following the life of Cassandra Nightingale, a woman who moves to the small town of Middleton to set up a store. The thing is, Cassandra isn’t your average small business owner; she’s actually a witch who sells herbs and other magical tinctures. While the people of Middleton are suspicious of her and her motives at first, a budding romantic relationship with police officer Jake Russell convinces Cassandra to stay despite what others may think. As her journey continues through more films and a spinoff, fans get the privilege of growing alongside Cassandra and taking a journey through the ways in which her life has changed.
As she builds a life for herself, navigating new relationships in friendship and romance, we see her life begin to flourish in ways she didn’t expect. Middletown soon begins to truly feel like home, and as she crafts a life that she loves, she invites people to do the same, inspiring them to find magic right where they are.
With the core television series, five TV specials, and seven films, Cassandra’s story is one of the most beautiful that we’ve seen in a long time, full of joy and adoration for the present and all of the glory you can find there if you simply believe in it.
What happens in the Good Witch franchise?
All in all, the Good Witch franchise follows the story of Cassandra as she navigates some of the most beautiful and tragic things in this life, allowing herself the honor of feeling them, staying true to her heart, and recognizing the beauty and despair one can feel in the same lifetime. When we first meet Cassandra, she’s falling in love and starting a beautiful new chapter; we see her as she experiences a beautiful marriage and then suffers a great heartache at a tragedy several years later.
The road for Cassandra gets bright again as she welcomes love back into her heart, and she does all of it: the good and the bad, the brilliant and the less than stellar, with friends who adore her and have her back every step of the way. In each new chapter, we uncover yet another layer of Cassandra’s beautiful story, and this is the order in which they were released.
The Good Witch
Good Witch follows Cassandra, as we said above, as she moves to Middleton and attempts to set up her store and build a business for herself. As she does so, she meets some unwelcoming townspeople, but she finds a home and a community of people to do life with. The Good Witch also allows us to look at Jake Russell, the man who holds her heart.
The Good Witch’s Garden
Cassandra has settled in now, and in addition to continuing the life she has grown to love, there’s something else she’d like to do. She wants to open a bed and breakfast to welcome people to the town she loves and give them a once-in-a-lifetime experience. However, a stranger arrives in town, saying the original owner of the house left it to him, throwing this plan into turmoil.
The Good Witch’s Gift
The plans for Cassandra’s wedding are in full swing, but things soon become difficult due to intense emotions and bureaucracy. Making things worse, a criminal that Jake put in jail has been released, and he’s keen to get revenge on the police chief.
The Good Witch’s Family
Cassandra and Jake are now married. Jake’s kids from an earlier marriage live with the couple, creating a wonderful family atmosphere. However, a new bridge development throws Cassandra into politics while she also plans to reconnect with a family member.
The Good Witch’s Charm
Cassandra has a baby and experiences a new chapter in motherhood while also carrying duties as the town mayor. The job surprises her with how stressful it is, and we all know that when it rains, it pours. Cassandra’s estranged mother visits her, complicating her situation further, and her stepdaughter also gets into some trouble of her own.
The Good Witch’s Destiny
Everyone gets ready to celebrate Cassandra’s birthday. However, a series of unfortunate events make the family wonder if Cassandra is cursed and if this curse may be linked to the house’s original owner. Might magic have existed in the town long before anyone knew as much?
The Good Witch’s Wonder
Cassandra drops the title of town mayor to prepare for her stepson’s wedding. To help things run smoothly, Cassandra hires town newcomer Audrey to help, but Audrey’s strange past soon catches up to her and creates a storyline that no one could have imagined.
Good Witch – Season 1
Cassandra and her daughter Grace embark on a magical adventure together due to their shared magical abilities. This causes issues for their new neighbors, Dr. Sam Radford and his teenage son. As well as the rest of town.
Good Witch – Halloween/Something Wicked
Planning for Halloween causes drama to erupt across the town. Dr. Sam and his son attempt to build a hay maze, and Cassandra tries to turn her house into a haunted attraction. To top it off, Joseph, a mysterious stranger, has just appeared in town.
Good Witch – Season 2
Cassandra and Sam develop feelings for each other but have to pull back when problems erupt for both of them. Sam has to deal with old family issues, and Cassandra’s life is turned upside down when John, an old friend, arrives in town. Also, Grace has to learn to navigate the world while being different.
Good Witch – The Secrets of Grey House
Author Jessica Carrington comes to stay at Cassandra’s house and plans to launch her new book there. However, her stories seem weirdly familiar, and they soon lead to Cassandra uncovering some surprising things about her home and herself in the process.
Good Witch – Season 3
Cassandra and Sam try to negotiate the perils of new love and relationships. One of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle is getting their children to like each other, and instead of giving up, they spend a lot of this season attempting to help them find common ground to stand upon.
Good Witch – Spellbound
Cassandra finds an old photo and a sheet bearing a mysterious prophecy, and these objects throw her head-first into a new adventure. As the Perriwood prophecy starts to come true, a stranger arrives in town, forcing Cassandra to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Good Witch – Season 4
Cassandra and Sam plan their wedding, but as usual, it isn’t a smooth process. Especially as they have to prepare their children for this big step, it’s also an adjustment for Cassandra and Sam as individuals; the other people in town are also dealing with romantic dramas, and Cassandra is the one they call for help.
Good Witch – A Tale of Two Hearts
Middleton’s bicentennial Halloween Harvest Festival is coming up, and the town decides to spice it up by holding a contest with neighboring town Blairsville. However, when a gem is stolen, the already tense community reaches boiling point, forcing Cassandra to find a solution.
Good Witch – Season 5
Cassandra and Sam try to navigate married life while their children deal with their final year of high school. Elsewhere, the town’s relationship with Blairsville becomes strained when a curse seems to take effect. If things couldn’t get more intense, an ancient map hints at a secret treasured buried somewhere in the town.
Good Witch – Curse from a Rose
Cassandra’s college roommate, Autumn Delaney, arrives in town. Unfortunately, Cassandra and Autumn harbor an old grudge that soon causes problems. Sam also gets a good luck charm that starts to cause issues and mess with his romantic plans, so is the good luck really all that good?
Good Witch – Season 6
After their kids graduate, Sam and Cassandra adapt to living alone. However, when Joy Harper comes to town, life gets strange. As it turns out, Joy is very interested in Cassandra’s family history, and she starts to investigate things, which forces Cassandra to learn things about her past she never anticipated.
Good Witch – Season 7
The secret discovered in the last season puts Cassandra in the middle of another enormous family mystery, and this mystery has significant ramifications for the entire town and their lives while also revealing a massive secret that rocks Cassandra to her core.
How do you watch Good Witch in order?
Watching Good Witch in order is pretty easy, as the release order is the same as the chronological order. This means you don’t need to jump back and forth to get the complete experience. The main issue is keeping track of what order the TV specials go in, as they were often released between TV seasons.
So, the watch order for Good Witch is:
- The Good Witch (2008)
- The Good Witch’s Garden (2009)
- The Good Witch’s Gift (2010)
- The Good Witch’s Family (2011)
- The Good Witch’s Charm (2012)
- The Good Witch’s Destiny (2013)
- The Good Witch’s Wonder (2014)
- Good Witch – Season 1 (2015)
- Good Witch – Halloween/Something Wicked [Special] )(2015)
- Good Witch – Season 2 (2016)
- Good Witch – The Secrets of Grey House [Special] (2016)
- Good Witch – Season 3 (2017)
- Good Witch – Spellbound [Special] (2017)
- Good Witch – Season 4 (2018)
- Good Witch – A Tale of Two Hearts [Special] (2018)
- Good Witch – Season 5 (2019)
- Good Witch – Curse from a Rose [Special] (2019)
- Good Witch – Season 6 (2020)
- Good Witch – Season 7 (2021)
As we said before, there’s no time like the present to start a re-watch or to dive in for the first time, and we hope your journey with the Good Witch inspires you to find the magic in the life you already live, and then to share it with anyone who needs it.