Charmed is a series produced and aired in 1998. American-based story that set in San Francisco. It featured about 3 beautiful and young sisters The Charmed Ones, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper(Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Allyssa Milano) Halliwell. They reunited in their family manor after 6 months of their grandma's death. At the night of full moon, Phoebe found a huge green leathery tomb in the attic and read the first incantation aloud, summoning their powers. The prophecy is fulfilled when each sister received a power-unique from each other. Prue as the eldest and the strongest, received telekinesis-ability to move objects with your mind, Piper the second sis received the power to stop time and Phoebe received the power to see into the future. The sisters fought various of evil forces while trying to live a normal life in the big city.
Story featured by beautiful ladies will usually be accompanied by charming men. Andy Trudeau (TW King), Prue's love of life was a cop and occasionally got involved in unsolved murder cases which related to the sisters. His suspicion on the sisters grew and finally discovered their secret of being witches. The sisters' powers grew and Prue was able to channel her power via hands instead of squinting her eyes. In the end of Season 1, Andy was killed by a demon, Rodriguez when the sisters were tricked with time loop, manipulated by Tempuss. The sisters vanquish the 2 demons but had to pay the price of losing Andy. There were speculations that TW King left because he couldnt cooperate with Shannen Doherty.
In Season 2, the sisters moved on and Piper was in love with Leo (Brian Krause), their guardian angel although their love is heaven-forbidden. Prue also got her second power-astral projection ( to be in 2 places at one time)In Season 3, the sisters were attacked by a ferocious demon, Belthazor, sent by upper level demons in the Underworld. Belthazor had a human form, Cole Turner (Julian MacMohan) and ended madly in love with Phoebe. Phoebe also got her second power-levitation. When the sisters found out that Cole was Belthazor and tried to vanquish him, Phoebe set him free and asked him not to come back, lying to her sisters that he was dead. When Prue and Piper found out about the lie, they were mad at her especially Prue. Cole came back to the sisters' life but as a close alliance to The Charmed Ones. Piper and Leo got married after several obstacles. In the end of season 3, Piper got her second power and the most powerful among the sisters, molecular combustion. She was able to explode anything including demons. The last episode of Season 3 also marked the departure of Shannen Doherty from the series. Prue was killed by a demon Shax, The Source's personal assassin in the attempt to save an innocent and also from the trick of time loop again. She was never revived. Speculations were made on her departure, it was said that she had cat fight with Allyssa Milano and the producer, Brad Kern. She was to leave or Milano would.. However, Doherty still own percents of Charmed's profit after she left. You see, Prue was featured as a very powerful witch because her death required 3 powerful demons to accomplish it-Shax, Tempuss, The Source.
Season 4 started with devastated Piper and Phoebe trying to conjure dead Prue back to life but instead drew a mysterious beautiful lady to them. This lady is known by the name Paige Matthews and she had connections with the sister's witchcraft. She attended Prue's funeral and mourned her death too. Phoebe had a vision of her being killed by Shax and protected her. Unexpectedly, she had Leo's powers-an angel's powers. She escaped from Shax's deadly attack. When Phoebe asked Leo and Cole to probe further, This lady turned out to be their long-lost half sister. Their mother had her with an angel.
The new sister joined the coven and vanquish Shax once and for all, avenging for Prue. The story continues with the sisters vanquishing The Source and Cole becoming the new Source. Phoebe was turned evil by the demon baby she was carrying but later lost it to another demon. The sisters killed Cole in this season. In Season 5, Cole came back to win back Phoebe but to no avail, he became the strongest evil being ever existed. No known way of killing him. Finally, in the trick of time loop, he was again vanquished by the sisters. Piper gave birth to a very powerful son, Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. In the end of Season 5, they were visited by a young handsome guy, Chris Perry (Drew Fuller) and claimed himself as someone from the future. According to him, the future was turned dark and evil because Wyatt was turned evil. He wanted to save the future by preventing Wyatt from turning evil. Leo also got promoted as an Elder after vanquishing the Titans and Chris became the sisters' new guardian angel.
In Season 6, mysterious Chris had many secrets and made Leo to be aware of him and even suspicious towards him. Wyatt was closed to him and until then, they discovered that Chris was actually the second son of Piper who she had not conceive yet. In an episode where Piper was about to give birth to baby Chris, an evil Elder Gideon killed adult Chris, making Leo devastated over his son's death. However, holding baby Chris in his hands, he promised that he will make sure the future is still there by preventing Wyatt from converting to the other side.
In Season 7, not much on family matters but in the end of the season, the sisters fought against Zankou, a very powerful upper level demon, imprisoned by The Source many years ago. He desired to kill the sisters. With the indirect help from Prue, the sisters finally vanquish Zankou. It was said that Prue taught Leo an Astral Projection Spell before her death, to utilize her second power in a form of spell, in case they needed it. Piper, Phoebe and Paige used the spell and confused Zankou, bought them time before vanquishing him. All 3 sisters then played dead by disappearing from the manor and when the cops invade the house, led by Darryl Moris, they assumed them to have die in the explosion. Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Leo disguised as different people and walked away from the manor. This episode is the last for Morris because the the budget was limiting.
In Season 8, all 3 sisters were assumed dead and funerals were held for them. Only their father knew about the secrets. Paige encountered a new witch, Billie and she has a power sort of same like Prue's. Paige recruited her as an apprentice of The Charmed Ones and taught her spells and potions to help them vanquish demons since they were assumed dead and sorta retired. They did not want any sides to figure out of their existence but still wanna protect innocents. Billie was searching for her lost sister, Kristy, kidnapped by a powerful demon years ago. All Piper, Phoebe and Paige felt of losing identity and decided to resume the identity by cooperating with cops, saying their deaths were fake and they were working for the cops. When Billie and Kristy reunited, Kristy brainwashed Billie by telling her to form their own coven and kill The Charmed Ones to become The Ultimate Ones. Kristy has the power to start fire. When both sisters combined their powers, they could vanquish a demon that even The Charmed Ones couldnt. Seeing them as a threat, Piper, Phoebe and Paige re-emerged as powerful witches. The Angel of Destiny froze the now human Leo (he clipped his wings) to encourage the sisters to fight better. Another reason for budget limiting. In the end of Season 8, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Kristy and Billie conjured the Hollows on both side. The Hollows possessed both side and two sides became beyond powerful. They fought and finally a massive explosion occur in the manor. Phoebe, Paige and Kristy died in the explosion. Devastated Piper used a cupid, Coop's ring and traveled through time. Billie also somehow traveled to the past to prevent her sister's death. Leo joined Piper in the travel and they both brought back their mother, grandmother and 2 sons to the incident before the explosion. In their travel, Piper learned that both her and Leo grew old together. After the fight was prevented, they learned that Triad was behind the whole thing. In the end, Billie killed her own sister, Kristy, ending the final evil encounter in the series.
Piper was blessed with a daughter, called Melinda Halliwell. Phoebe was married to Coop and had 2 daughters, one of them was named Prudence (in honour of Prue) and a son and Paige was married to Henry, a detective and had two twin daughters and another daughter. In the end of the episode, Charmed Forever, old Piper closed The Book of Shadows after telling stories to a beautiful young little girl, her granddaughter. She told her that this Book will one day be hers. Both old Piper and Leo walked slowly upstairs and the girl swung her fingers, closing the manor's door. Just like what Prue did when she was alive. It was learnt that this girl was called Prudence.
The old Power of Three Piper(left), Prue(middle), Phoebe(right)
The new Power of Three Piper(left), Phoebe(middle), Paige(right)TW King as Andrew Trudeau
Julian MacMohan as Cole Turner and his Belthazor form
Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
Prue, Piper and Phoebe's father, Victor Benneth
Darryl Morris, the girls' bestfriend
Finola Hughes as Patricia Halliwell, the girls' mother
Drew Fuller as Chris Perry Halliwell
Paige's father, Sam Wilder
Jennifer Rhodes as Penelope Halliwell (Grams), the girls' grandmother
Wyatt Mathhew Halliwell, evil form (left) and good form (right)
The girls' pet, disappear after Season 3 (departed with Prue)
The coven that was never formed Piper(left), Paige (middle) and Prue (right)
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