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Does anyone remember?

posted 8 years ago by laurielasv-18199
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There was a TV Movie that was about 3 sisters that had magic. It came out before the Charmed TV series, they kept talking about the power of 3 too! I believe it showed the same Victorian House, in the Movie, as the one they show on the TV Show Charmed. It was just like the TV Show.
The TV Movie came out first, then the TV show Charmed came out. I don't think any of the original actors were in it. I don't think it was called Charmed either.
They also used the same song that the Charmed Series uses!
I can't find it, and I am not sure what it's called. I saw it awhile ago.
DOES anyone else remember this?
I think the last time I saw it, it was on the Lifetime Channel.

[–] laurielasv-18199 8 years ago

Thank you in advance to everyone that replies to me!

[–] Larsii90 8 years ago

I have been a Charmed mega fan for many years and rrsd all kinds of trivia on it, and have never heard of this. Are you sure you're not mixing up Charmed with The Craft or Practical Magic? The Craft used the same song as Charmed, and Im pretty sure the creators of Charmed came up with it, and didn't adapt it from something else...?

[–] JustEs 8 years ago

I was also thinking of The Craft or Practical Magic - The Craft used the song and was about three young witches and Practical Magic was about two sisters who were witches. Either those or Hocus Pocus which was about three sisters who were witches. But I can't think of any TV movie that was about three sister witches using the theme song, and definitely none of them used the same manor.

Unless they ever aired the Charmed pilot as a TV movie before the show came out. It might have seemed different since different people played Phoebe and Andy, and they used a different restaurant instead of Quake, and there were other differences.

Check this out and see if it's what you're thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIZMLtApYs

Although even that didn't actually use the theme song - unless they added it to it when they aired it as a TV movie, which wouldn't be on the DVD, which is how most fans know it.

It would be funny if it was aired as a TV movie before Charmed started - it's always been known as the unaired pilot.

Having found it on Youtube, I rewatched it. Although I'm glad Alyssa Milano played Phoebe rather than Lori Romm, I wish Chris Boyd had played Andy rather than Ted King. Chris is yummy and had real chemistry with Shannen. And, who knows? Maybe he would've stayed the entire series and we would've only had to put up with whitelighters in Season One.