History Trivia / TheWorstWitch

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Ruby is absent from a couple of episodes of the 1998 series - "The Great Outdoors" and "Let Them Eat Cake" - which were filmed in Canada. This is because Joanna Dyce had a dancing commitment and couldn't make the trip.

* WordOfDante: CITV explained Miss Bat's disappearance between Seasons 2 and 3 as going to live in Inner Mongolia.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://theworstwitch.wikia.com/wiki/ The Worst Witch Wiki]]

* StuntCasting: The role of Miss Bat was beefed up in the 1998 series for Una Stubbs - who was the biggest name in the cast at the time.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: While Bella Ramsey and Jenny Richardson play arch-enemies in the show (Mildred and Ethel), they are actually close friends in real life.

** Japan is an very bizarre case: Since the debut of the 2017 series, many people thought neither this version, nor any other part of the franchise would be brought there, due to the similarity with ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'', from which the animated adaptations are compared with the book and other adaptations, but surprisingly enough, the 2017 version got [[DuelingDubs two Japanese dubs]] in 2020: One broadcasted by Creator/{{NHK}} and another by Netflix itself, each one with their own voice cast. It also helps a lot none of the voice actresses who worked in that anime series works in any of the two dubs of the show.

* InternationalCoproduction: The series was co-produced by [[Creator/{{ITV}} HTV]], a UK television station, and Gala Films, a Canadian company. The 2017 is an international production with CBBC and ZDT, a German Channel.

* DawsonCasting: For the most part, averted. None of the actresses for the show were over eighteen. The fourth season was even relocated to a college setting because Georgina Sherrington was too old to believably still be in school. Also a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot.

** Creator/FelicityJones describes the difficulty of acting alongside the cats, especially trying to make it look like they weren't clawing the girls' faces off in scenes where they were supposed to be friendly.

** Mildred's bats are only ever seen hanging upside down, allowing them to use dummies with audio effects dubbed over. The one time they're shown in flight, it's with noticeable CGI.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In an early draft of the first book, Mildred wasn't a witch at all, but a fairy who had ended up at a witch school by mistake.

* QuietlyCancelled: Despite no official announcement from either CBBC or Netflix, with no new episodes of the 2017 series aired since August 10th, 2020 on CBBC and October 1st, 2020 on Netflix, and the main cast having moved on to other projects, fans can easily come to the conclusion that the 2017 series has come to a close.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Both TV adaptations avert this by updating the books. The 1998 series has several mentions of computers and the internet (with at least two episodes where they are important to the plot) and Ruby Cherrytree is keen on gadgets. In the 2017 version Mildred has a mobile phone, although once she gets to Cackle's it is confiscated by Miss Hardbroom. Instead, the witches use 'mag-lets' - magical tablets that are phones in all but name.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The 1998 series does show when it was made whenever episodes incorporate technology into the plot; "Sorcery and Chips" builds its tension around blocky computers that are going to be hooked up to the internet at the end of the week, Ruby's various toys were all high-tech for the period, the first episode has a then-state of the art virtual reality simulation - and of course the Season 2 finale has frequent references to the new millennium.

* The final scenes of the season 2 finale, "The Big Freeze", and the series finale, "The Witching Hour Part 2", respectively were filmed in front of a [[StudioAudience studio audience]]. Ironically every episode sans these two episodes were not filmed in front of an audience.

** Clare Coulter, who played Miss Cackle (and her twin sister Agatha), was Canadian. She did spend a good portion of her childhood in London, but still affects an accent. As a result, when the series was exported to the US and the characters were dubbed over with American accents, she did her own dubbing in her natural accent.

** Enid Nightshade in the books is described as a HugeSchoolgirl with hair the "colour of milky tea". She's played in the TV series by Jessica Fox who is very petite and has darker hair - but is wonderfully spunky and captures Enid's personality perfectly.

** A necessary one due to a change in character. Miss Drill's appearance is not described but the illustrations show her as a hard-faced BrawnHilda. In the TV series where she is a CoolTeacher, she's played by the more athletically built and kind-faced Claire Porter.