Sabrina, Down Under

Sabrina, Down Under

Book cover
Written by Daniel Berendsen
Directed by Kenneth R. Koch
Starring Melissa Joan Hart
Tara Charendoff
Scott Michaelson
Lindsay Sloane
Nick Bakay
Peter O'Brien
Rebecca Gibney
Theme music composer Michel Colombier
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Melissa Joan Hart
Paula Hart
Editor(s) Stuart Bass
Cinematography Nino Martinetti
Running time 84 minutes
Distributor Viacom Productions INC.
CBS Television Distribution
Heartbreak Films
American Broadcasting Company
CBS DVD/Paramount
Release
Original release September 26, 1999
Chronology
Preceded by Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998)

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 TV 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 TV 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 is the only Sabrina film that has yet to receive a DVD release, but a VHS version was released. [1] The movie is available for streaming on the website Hulu.

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

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 TV series

Music

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