<Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> September 27, 1996 (1996 - 09 - 27)--April 24, 2003 (2003 - 04 - 24) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie Comics series of the same name . The show premiered on September 27, 1996, on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line - up . </P> <P> The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, an American teenager who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers she has magical powers (a departure from the Archie Comics, where she has known of her magic powers since an early age as revealed in the "Sabrina--That Cute Little Witch" storylines in many "Little Archie" comic - books). She lives with her 600 - year - old aunts, witches Hilda (played by Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (played by Beth Broderick), and their magical talking cat Salem (voiced by Nick Bakay) at 133 Collins Road in the fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, Massachusetts through most of the series . </P> <P> The series' first four seasons aired on ABC from September 27, 1996, to May 5, 2000; the final three seasons ran on The WB from September 22, 2000, to April 24, 2003 . </P>

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