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This page was getting really really untidy - what with all the topics floating freely about. Some of them were quite outdated by now, anyway. So I cleared all the stuff up and made a more pupil-friendly page.... To find the information you need, just read this list of questions and choose the one that seems interesting to you. (If you want to browse the whole page, so much the better. A hardworking, striving pupil you are!)

Question 1: Is the Worst Witch being aired in other languages than English?

Question 2: Are there any websites in other languages than English?

Question 3: Can one purchase any WW items translated into other languages?

Question 4: Do the characters´ names in the translated versions differ from those used in Jill Murphy´s books and in the TV series?

Question 5: Can I have a list of the episode titles in dubbed versions?

Question 6: Does the school song get translated as well?

Question: Is the Worst Witch being aired in other languages than English?

Now - will you believe it? The Worst Witch is shown in several countries besides UK and Canada, Australia and US - and accordingly it has been dubbed into diff lingos as well. As far as I know this includes French, Spanish, German and Dutch (and even dubbing into American accent - I kid you not!) - it might even include Finnish and Polish and Japanese, cos I´ve read that WW is also shown there - though whether dubbed or subtitled, I don´t know. If you´ve got any informations about any dubbed version which I didn´t already put up below, please mail me!

Question: Are there any websites in other languages than English?

Answer: Hardly any.

You can find a link to some Spanish WW site on my broomstick practise/links page - as far as I know there are currently no other Worst Witch pages in other languages than English. The KIKA (www.kika.de) that shows the Worst Witch in German (where it is called “Eine lausige Hexe” - “A lousy witch”) used to have some page for the show while it was being aired.  This channel is a german equivalent to YTV and CITV - they have shown WW since Autumn 1999 - and since then  they repeated each year (sometimes in summer, sometimes in autumn) all the seasons which had been dubbed to german by then. By now they are regularly showing season  one to four on the KIKA first - and later included in a really rotten show called Tabaluga TV which is also shown on KIKA and on ZDF (An equivalent to BBC2). Here´s a link to a small german WW page as well - it mainly deals with Harry Potter, though.

Question: Can you purchase any WW items translated into other languages?

Answer: Yes, you can. You´ve got to order via internet mostly, though.

The WW  - in French: Amaudine Malabule - is shown in Canada in French, so it would be logical to show in in France as well. Whether this is done I don´t know. However, by now the first season of the Worst Witch has been released on DVD in the USA (the DVD don´t have any country code, so you should be able to play them on all DVD Players all round the world. This DVD set holds the first 13 episodes in English, French, German, Spanish and American English. You can try to buy this set on amazon.com or hmv. com.  I don´t actually remember what I paid for them. You can also buy the first 13 episodes dubbed into German on video tape (PAL European standard) at www.amazon.de - there are six tapes all in all and they used to cost about 20 Mark each (about 10 Euro) - but in later they were sold cheaper. They are called: “Eine lausige Hexe - Zauberin (sic) will gelernt sein”. There are also the books by Jill Murphy on which the telly series is based. They have been translated to French and you can buy them at www.amazon.fr if you want to. Currently, the fourth volume seems to be out of print and can´t be purchased. The first three volumes are: “Amandine Malabul - Sorcière maladroite”, “Amandine Malabul - La sorcière a des ennuis” and “Amandine Malabul - la sorcière ensorcelée”. All volumes are poperback editions by “Folio Cadet” and cost about 8 Euro. Recently, the first two volumes of the Worst Witch have also been translated to German and are available at www.amazon.de. They are called: “Eine lausige Hexe” and “Eine lausige Hexe zaubert weiter” and have been published by “Diogenes”. Both Hardback volumes cost about 10 Euro each. There are also three volumes of the Worst Witch books in Dutch: “De Hopeloze Heks” (The hopeless Witch), “De hopeless Heks slaat opnieuw toe” (The Worst Witch strikes again) and “De Hopeloze Heks zit in de Knoei” (The hopeless Witch is in trouble). (Thanks to Jitske for sending those titles!) I don´t know where those dutch books have been published and whether you can purchase a copy via internet, though.  As far as I know there are no other translations into any other languages.

Question: Do the characters´ names in the translated versions differ from those used in Jill Murphy´s books and in the TV series?

Answer: Oh, boy, yes. I´ve collected lots of infos about the german version - and also the French names from the Telly series (Thanks to Arnaud who sent them to me! ) and from the books. There´s also a list of the Dutch names from the Telly series (Thanks to Jitske who provided those!)

German Characters           French Characters             Dutch Characters

German Characters:

The Kika changed the names of most of the cast - and here you can find a list of the new names (“Miss” would be “Fräulein” in German - but as that´s a kind of oldfashioned way of addressing a woman, , the teachers are all called “Frau - Mrs” instead.) In Germany you don´t have to be married to be a “Mrs”. Below you can also read a list of the episode titles as dubbed into German. I´ve put down the german names and then retranslated them to English so U can judge for yourself whether the change of name made any sense (mostly it doesn´t...)

Question: Can I have a list of the episode titles in dubbed versions?

Answer: Yes, but for the moment I´ve just got the episode titles for the four german seasons here. More to follow...

Episode titles:

Question: Does the school song get translated as well?

Answer: Yes. Have a look at my Chanting page for the german and french lyrics.

French Characters