Salem Saberhagen
Biographical Information
Name	Salem Saberhagen
Gender	Male
Status	Witch
Physical Description
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black
Magic
Colour	Former pink
Form	Former
Relationships
Family Members	Gummo (father) Mrs. Saberhagen (mother) Annabelle Saberhagen (daughter) Goliath (uncle) Morty (uncle) Cheryl (cousin) First name unknown Saberhagen (grandfather)
Behind the Scenes
Portrayed By	Nick Bakay

"Dogs guard; cats watch... and judge."

- Salem

Salem Saberhagen was a 700-year-old warlock ^[1] who was a criminal in The Other Realm and was sentenced to spend 100 years as a cat as punishment for attempting to take over the world by The Witches Council. He was sent to live with Hilda Spellman because she supported his regime. Despite his megalomaniac desires for world domination, he is generally portrayed as having a good heart and being a loyal friend to Sabrina. In the series he would generally serve two roles: one as a mentor for Sabrina, as she found it easier to go to him with her messier problems, or the trouble-maker in the episode, such as another illicit way to become human without being punished.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Season 1 1.2 Season 2 1.3 Season 3 1.4 Season 4 1.5 Season 5 1.6 Season 6 & Season 7 2 References

Biography Edit

Season 1 Edit

At first, Salem seemed like a normal, innocent black cat. However, he actually talks. As the season goes on, Salem talks about life before being a cat and his attempts for world domination, as well as a little bit of a trouble maker, like when he rips up Sabrina's favourite christmas jumper. He also gets "kidnapped" by a little boy who refuses to give him back, but then Sabrina saves him. He also enters a Cat Show, hosted by Bob Gordan. He almost wins but when Sabrina turned herself into a cat, she won pretending to belong to Zelda, but Sabrina gives the blue ribbon to Salem as he was "the best cat"^[2] .

Season 2 Edit

This season, Salem helps Sabrina in studying for her witches licence as well as her social life, like when Sabrina uses a "Turn-Yourself-Into-A-Boy spell" Salem taught Sabrina how to act like a "dude" around other people, like picking a good name and not putting perfume on unless she wants to get beaten up.^[3] He also shows a more fun side, when it was Friday 13th he took advantage of people being scared of black cats and scared everyone in sight. Salem also hid in one of Hilda's bags so he could go to Disneyworld with them. We also meet Salem's mother who spoils Salem because he's a pretty, little kitty. But she leaves because she is allergic to cats.

Season 3 Edit

Salem begins helping Sabrina with solving the family secret, and at one time, actually becoming her personal tutor and telling her to refer to him as "Mr. Saberhagen"^[4]. The aunts made him tutor Sabrina because he solved his family secret with only 2 clues, although the tutoring didnt last long because Sabrina "fired" him, but he said he "quit". He also turned into a real boy at Sabrinas high school, but then tried taking over the world so he was sent back to being a cat. In the season finale, he helps a pregnant, stray cat feel more comfortable and help Sabrina with the last clue to the family secret.

Season 4 Edit

When Sabrina leaves home to live with her dad, Salem is crushed and is ready to start a civil war against Pluto to get his "Sabreeny" back^[5]. When she does come back, things between them go back to normal. He is forced to attract customers to Hilda's clock shop because a monkey selling watches steals all their customers. He also helps Hilda and Zelda find their identity when they think they were adopted. This season we meet a few of Salem's old friends like Duke and Juliette, and we even meet his daughter, who's about to get married. Salem also hits Mr. Kraft's car while joyriding in Sabrina's new car, which is supposed to be her graduation present^[6].

Season 5Edit

With Sabrina gone to college, Salem begins splitting his time between the house with Hilda and Zelda and often visiting Sabrina in her off campus dorm. In The Halloween Scene, Salem takes a liking and practically stalks one of Sabrina's fellow college students. In Welcome, Traveler, with Hilda and Zelda away, Salem is kidnapped by a Chinese restaurant delivery man and is then sold to Jim Tom the con-artist. When Jim Tom tries to make Salem talk to his acolytes in order to prove himself as a witch, Sabrina takes away Salem's voice and Jim Tom ends up looking foolish. Sabrina gets Salem back after she scares Jim Tom away with her magic. He whitens his teeth in Some of My Best Friends Are Half-Mortals and attempts to impress Derrick Axelrod so he'll put in a good word for him with his father (who sits on the Witches Council). In Sabrina, the Activist, while helping Zelda car shop he gets his head stuck in an engine block and makes the evening news, much to Sabrina's annoyance. In the season finale Finally!, Hilda is pardoned for her involvement in Salem's plans for world domination and as such she is not longer burdened with caring for Salem. He is moved to another safehouse in the Other Realm, which turns out to be a hard-labour camp. After realizing they miss him, Hilda and Zelda go to the safehouse and battle the owners to find Salem and bring him home.

Season 6 & Season 7Edit

As the sixth season opens, the running gag in the first episode is Hilda and Zelda putting Salem on his unused bike whenever he annoys them. We see Salem consistently throughout the final two years however there are few stories centered on him directly. He continues to travel between the Spellman home and Sabrina's college home for the most part and when Hilda and Zelda relocate back to the Other Realm, Salem, out of free will, continues to reside with Sabrina, Morgan and Roxie. Salem continues to demonstrate his ability to annoy when he slips into Sabrina's luggage (as per usual) in It's a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas and helps her unravel the mystery of the theft in the condo. Very little is seen of Salem after Sabrina's failed marriage to Aaron, but it can be assumed he continued to live with her and Harvey (Indeed, several staff members argue that, if there ever was made an 8th season it would have revolved around Sabrina, Harvey and Salem living by themselves).

References Edit

1. ↑ As quoted in the episode Salem's Daughter
2. ↑ This is a reference to the episode A Girl And Her Cat
3. ↑ This is a reference to the episode Sabrina, The Teenage Boy
4. ↑ This is a reference to the episode The Long And Winding Shortcut
5. ↑ This is a reference to the episode No Place Like Home
6. ↑ This is a reference to the episode The Four Faces Of Sabrina