A Discovery of Witches - 'Episode 1'
British iTunes Chart Performance

"Episode 1": Chart Statistics

  • Release date: 14 Sep 2018
  • Chart debut: #16 (07 Jan 2019)
  • Highest Position: #3 (08 Jan 2021)
  • Most recent chart position: #97 (28 Oct 2024)
  • Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 198

'Episode 1' has charted in the following countries:
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UK TV Episodes chart performance history for Episode 1

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2018 Dec 3 Mon 4 new A Discovery of Witches
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Stacking the Deck
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24 Mon 3 down Gavin and Stacey
Gavin and Stacey: Christmas Special 2008
25 Tue 2 up Outlander
Wilmington
26 Wed 2 no-move Call the Midwife
Christmas Special 2018
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Providence
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2019 Sep 11 Wed 92 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Birthdays and Bad News, Pt. 1
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2020 Aug 7 Fri 51 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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20 Mon 60 no-move Vigil
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2022 Jan 3 Mon 74 no-move Doctor Who
Eve of the Daleks
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10 Mon 27 no-move Euphoria
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The Good Ones
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2023 Jun 23 Fri 59 no-move Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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21 Sat 29 no-move Rick and Morty
How Poopy Got His Poop Back
2024 Jul 4 Thu 22 re-entry House of the Dragon
The Heirs of the Dragon
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2024 Sep 19 Thu 19 no-move Miami Vice
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2024 Oct 12 Sat 29 re-entry All Creatures Great & Small
Uninvited Guests
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When You're Lost in the Darkness
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Episode Synopsis: Episode 1

oxford england a brilliant american historian and reluctant witch professor diana bishop returns to take up a post at oxford university while researching in the bodleian library she unwittingly calls up a magical ancient manuscript ashmole 782 also teaching at...

...university is acclaimed biochemist and vampire matthew clairmont who has been looking for this mysterious book and its explosive secrets for centuries the appearance of the ashmole manuscript also comes to the attention of the congregation's head witch peter knox who is determined to get his hands on it before the vampires do frustrated matthew confronts diana to ask her why she is hiding the book and living in denial of her powers diana inadvertently triggers matthew's vampiric instincts and he struggles to control them leaving diana mesmerised and terrified in equal measure

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