
In a way, McBride’s ignorance of the charge is a testament to her status as a law-abiding citizen rather than a runaway felon. The case was dismissed and expunged this week, but the 52-year-old suspects that the charge has been hurting her job prospects in the decades it had not been brought to her attention. McBride assumes that the real perpetrator is an ex-boyfriend with two young daughters she had been dating at the time. However, the charge was only brought to her attention this past year when she tried to change her name after getting married and moving to Texas. McBride, who claims to have never watched one episode of the show, was charged with felony and embezzlement of rental property in 2000. USA Today reports that a VHS copy was rented, and never returned, in Caron McBride’s name at a now-closed Oklahoma video store in 1999.

Related: 5 Major Differences Between Sabrina the Teenage Witch & Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (& 5 Similarities) Thus, in spite of a lack of video stores, it hasn’t been necessary to hold onto a VHS tape of the show in order to enjoy the antics of Sabrina Spellman, her equally magical aunts, and Salem, her talking cat set on world domination. Fans of the Archie Comics character have enjoyed a new iteration of the character in the form of Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which premiered in 2018 and was cancelled in 2020 after four seasons. This isn’t the first reappearance of Sabrina that has existed since the show left air. The television sitcom aired from 1996 to 2003, following the adventures of Sabrina Spellman, a teenage girl who discovers she’s a witch on her sixteenth birthday.

No spell could have protected a Texas woman this week who discovered she had been charged with a felony for failing to return a Sabrina the Teenage Witch VHS over 21 years ago.
