The Worst Witch (1998 TV series)
The Worst Witch is a British-Canadian ITV television series about a group of young witches at a school for magic. The series stars Georgina Sherrington and Felicity Jones, and is based on "The Worst Witch" books by Jill Murphy (published from 1974 onwards). It aired for a total of 40 episodes spread over three series between 1998 and 2001, before being followed by "Weirdsister College." Most episodes revolved around the school, following the adventures of Mildred and her friends. The series was later followed by "The New Worst Witch", which ran for two series and chronicled the experiences of Mildred's younger cousin Hettie as she attended the school.
The Witch's Tales
"The Witch's Tale" was a radio program that began on American radio in May 1931. A weekly anthology show, it was the first radio horror program, and soon became quite popular. In 1936, the magazine "The Witch's Tales" appeared as a companion to it, perhaps inspired by "The Shadow", a successful pulp magazine which had also been launched as the companion of a radio program of the same name. "The Witch's Tales" was published by The Carwood Publishing Co., a small and relatively inexperienced firm. The named editor of the magazine was Alonzo Deen Cole, who wrote the radio episodes, but the editorial work was actually done by Tom Chadburn. Having both a pulp magazine and radio show act as vehicles for Cole's work is an early example of the 21st century's media industry's approach, with content tied together across more than one media platform, but although Street & Smith demonstrated that this could be done successfully for "The Shadow", Carwood did little to promote the radio show in the magazine, probably because of their inexperience. Only one more issue appeared, the following month; it is unlikely that the publisher could have received sales data on the first issue by that time, so there may have been reasons other than poor sales for the magazine's short run, perhaps including weak financing and distribution.