Season 1 (1998 - 1999)
The discovery that they are descendants of a long line of witches finds three sisters battling demons and warlocks - and occasionally each other. When the Halliwell sisters inherit a house from their grandmother and discover a secret "Book Of Shadows", they learn that they each have a unique power. The strong-willed Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) can move objects with her mind, reserved Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) is able to freeze time, and the uninhibited Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) sees the future. Individually each is strong, but it is only by putting aside their differences and banding together as the "Power of Three" that they will be able to protect the innocent, and themselves and fight and vanquish evil.
Season 2 (1999 - 2000)
The second season of Charmed is again characterized by the series' writers mantra: "Charmed is a show about three sisters who just happen to be powerful witches, not three witches who happen to be sisters". This formula enabled the Executive Producers stable of writers to gradually build on the sisters magic, while spending the shows main entertainment minute dealing with the human dilemma's "complications" and the vicissitudes of busy lives lays on anyone. Like the first season, the sisters found there were a lot of evil creatures operating in the world which became obvious to one attuned to magic. And again, like the first season, many magic wielding threats were in fact hunting the sisters for their powers, so the episodes were focused on how such things impacted sisters striving to live normal lives as far as such was possible. Sexual tensions added their particular soap opera-like bits of spice to the series as a new love interest, next door neighbor Dan Gordon moved in next door and caught Piper's eye just as she was getting frustrated with restrictions affecting her relationship with whitelighter Leo Wyatt.
Season 3 (2000 - 2001)
The third season of Charmed sees many dramatic changes in the sister's lives. Prue begins looking for balance in her life, juggling her photography, her role as a Charmed one and her love life. She is the only sister not to trust Cole from the beginning. Piper and Leo's relationship becomes serious as they plan to get married, Piper must also deal with controlling her new power of molecular combustion. Phoebe starts a new romance with Cole Turner/Belthazor - a demon sent in to destroy the sisters. The Charmed Ones also face fairies, father issues, The Triad, The Angel of Death, demon wrestlers as well as hearing of The Source who will be the main villain for the following season. This is the final season to star Shannen Doherty following her character's death in the season finale 'All Hell Breaks Loose'.
Season 4 (2001 - 2002)
Following Prue's death at the end of 'All Hell Breaks Loose' season 3 brings the arrival of Paige Matthews - half sister to the Halliwells. The girl's mother Patty had a love affair with her whitelighter Sam and discovered she was pregnant. Knowing she would never be able to keep the baby she gave her child to a local church so she would be given to a kind family. Most of the first half of the season sees Piper and Phoebe coping with their sister's death, learning to accept Paige and teach her in the ways of witchcraft. They also focus on destroying The Source once and for all. Phoebe and Cole go through many difficulties in their relationship such as; Cole finding his place once he becomes human. The Charmed Ones must also deal with the new positions they find themselves in; Paige goes from being an only child to having two siblings as well as trying to fill the shoes of Prue, Piper must deal with becoming the oldest sister and head witch giving her more responsibility and Phoebe, who previously has been care-free, becomes to middle sister and must mediate between her two sisters, as well as starting her first full-time job as an advice columnist. The second half of the season finds Cole fighting once again with an evil inside him, only this time it is The Source. Although he plans to rebuild the underworld and destroy The Charmed Ones, the human inside plots to convert Phoebe and have her rule by his side as his Queen. We are also introduced to The Seer who has an evil agenda of her own.
Season 5 (2002 - 2003)
Season 5 sees Piper deal with being a Charmed One whilst being pregnant. She struggles between protecting her baby and accepting a more passive role in fighting evil. After the birth and learning that she is the mother of a very important and powerful child, Piper must then face various demonic forces who intend to either kill or capture her son. She also has problems in her marriage to Leo as they both feel the other doesn't appreciate each other's responsibilities and needs. Phoebe is finally able to let go of Cole emotionally, despite his re-appearance and constant tries to win her back. Her career as a columnist also begins to succeed as Phoebe becomes a local celebrity, while there she meets Jason Dean, the new editor, and begins a new romance with him. Paige grows into her role as a Charmed One and decides to give up her job to focus on a life of magic. She also learns to accept her whitelighter side as she is given her first charge, who just happens to be her biological father Sam.
Season 6 (2003 - 2004)
Leo continues to investigate his banishment to Valhalla.The new whitelighter, Chris, reveals that he is the future son of Piper and Leo, who has come back from the future to avoid that his brother Wyatt becomes evil. Phoebe's relationship with her boss at the newspaper, Jason Dean (Eric Dane), failed, as did Paige's relationship with the Sorcerer Richard (Balthazar Getty). In the middle of the sixth season, Gideon (Gildart Jackson) appears for the first time. He is an elder and a mentor and also the head of the school of magic. He is destroyed by Leo at the end of the season, after it is revealed that Gideon wants to kill Wyatt. Another important character who appears in this season for the first time, is Detective Sheridan (Jenya Lano). Darryl gets closer to death than ever before and separates from the Charmed Ones. At the end of the season, Piper gives birth to baby Chris. While Chris from the future is killed by Gideon. The Demon Barbas is still at large.
Season 7 (2004 - 2005)
Reeling from the loss of their future son Chris, an overprotective Piper and Barbas-obsessed Leo are forced by Phoebe and Paige to attend a Hindu wedding, where they inadvertently receive the powers of the Hindu's Ultimate Lovers, Shakti, the Goddess of Creation and her lover, Shiva, the God of Destruction. Phoebe and Paige must keep them from consummating their obvious new passion or according to Hindu dogma and legend, the world will be destroyed if they love one another again. Meanwhile Barbas hatches a plot to distract the parents, well aware that Leo is hunting him and enlists a hoard of lesser Demons to kidnap Baby Chris. Paige meanwhile finds that the remaining staff at Magic School is packing up in preparation to closing the place, and resolves to stop that and take it over. While she is doing that, Phoebe meets her replacement as a Bay Mirror columnist and finds Leslie (Nick Lachey) is a guy, has written a successful column in Philadelphia, has a doctorate in psychology and is dreamily attractive. A new power starts to contact Leo, who believes he is losing his mind. He is haunted by a mysterious head. Later, it turns out that The Avatars, which are equipped with very large power and are neither good nor evil, trying to convince Leo to become one of them. They want to make the world more peaceful without magic. When Piper and Phoebe die in a battle, Leo agrees to become an Avatar in order to bring Piper and Phoebe back to life. Leo also succeeds to bring Piper and Phoebe to be on the avatar's side, while Paige is still doubtful about them. Federal agent Kyle Brody (Kerr Smith) believes that the avatars mean nothing good, which is right at the end. But the Charmed Ones notice this too late, Kyle dies and the plan to create Utopia is nearly completed. So they join forces with demon Zankou to destroy The Avatars, who realize that they made a mistake and let Utopia dissapear. Leo becomes the new head of the school of magic. Kyle Brody becomes a new whitelighter (The Elders had decided to give him another chance due to his actions against the Avatars). At the end of the season, Zankou weakens the sisters so hard that he gained possession of the book of shadows. He chases them from their house and steals the powers of Piper and Phoebe. To stop him the Charmed Ones develop the plan to make everyone believe they died. They destroy the Nexus, right after it absorbed Zankou. Thanks to astral projection the Charmed Ones survive. In order to keep their magical powers a secret, the three sisters have to assume a new identity.
Season 8 (2005 - 2006)
So the eighth season begins with the world believing the Charmed Ones dead, themselves playing the role of their fictional cousins. Piper, Phoebe and Paige are now called Jenny, Jo and Julie Bennett, Leo becomes Luis. Though Phoebe and Piper begin to adapt to a magic-free life, Paige cannot escape her whitelighter half, which continues to tell her that there is a new charge in the world that needs her. There are also those who do not believe the Halliwells to be dead, and seek to prove it. They young witch, Billie (Kaley Cuoco) is a protege of Paige. Although Paige is risking to blow her cover, she responds to Billie's call. At the beginning Billie does not want to have a whitelighter at her side, but the sisters eventually train her powers, so that she can fight against demons, while the sisters are living a normal life. Phoebe has a vision that shows how she marries a man named Dex (Jason Lewis), who met her a few times at the newspaper's office. He makes him known with her new identity, they fall in love and get married under the influence of a spell. However, the sisters can not accept their new identities any longer and thus make the spell reversed. They begin to cooperate with Homeland Security, so that they can return to their old life. Leo gets freeze until the end of the ultimate battle, so his death could be prevented. His death should make the sisters stronger and improve their chances of survival. Paige meets the probation officer Henry Mitchell (Ivan Sergei), they fall in love and eventually get married. Phoebe's relationship with Dex fails, because he is overwhelmed when she turned to Julie in front of his eyes. After that a Cupid (Coop) (Victor Webster) tries to find a man for Phoebe, the two fall in love, but believe that a relationship would violate the rules of magic. Billie finds her sister Christy again. Christy had been abducted 15 years ago on behalf of the triad of demons. The demons wanted to ensure that the Charmed ones have equal enemies, because Billie and Christy together have the ultimate power, which is about as strong as the Power of Three. Billy and Christy's parents are murdered by demons. Christy has now managed to convince Billie that the charmed ones are too self obsessed to help the 'greater good' so when Paige, Pheobe and Piper attempt to invlolve the rest of the magical community, Christie and Billie turn all the leprochauns and other creatures against the girls. Christie and Billie then directly attack the Charmed ones who attempt to escape to magic school but find that it has been blocked from them and so are sent to the underworld. Billie and Christy have managed to turn everything around: while the two of them are now at the Manor and demons are at Magic School, the Charmed Ones are forced to hide in the Underworld. The Jenkins and the Halliwells absorb the Hollow and attack each other in the Manor, not knowing the deadly consequences of their actions - Phoebe, Paige, and Christy are killed and the Manor is destroyed in a massive explosion caused by the biggest fight in Halliwell history. The Angel of Destiny puts back Leo and Piper together after the ultimate battle, before he disappears, he notes that the ultimate battle was not destined to end like this. Billie finds out that the demons have taken Christy on her side and kills her in self-defense. Piper can save her sisters by using the help of Coop's ring and travels back in time to change the events that lead to the deaths of Phoebe and Paige.
At the end of the show, each of the sisters will have three children.
Phoebe and Coop get married in the school of magic, since this marriage had be the plan of the elders. They have three daughters.
Piper and Leo will have, besides Wyatt and Chris, a daughter together, which is called Melinda.
Paige and Henry will have a son and twin girls together. Paige helps the next generation of witches and whitelighter to accept their destiny.
The last episode "Forever Charmed" ends with (grand)children coming into the house and the granddaughter waves her hand, closing the Manor door, showing that she inherited telekinesis and administers the power the same way Prue did. The final shot of the series is of the Manor where the Triquetra flashes on the screen before cutting to the credits
"Though we've certainly had our struggles and heartaches over the years, we're a family of survivors and we will always be which is why we've truly been charmed"
