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: #29 (21 Oct 2023)
  • Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 192

'Episode 1' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia.

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Detailed Chart Progress for "Episode 1" (A Discovery of Witches)

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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4 Tue 2 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Stacking the Deck
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Break Free
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Break Free
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Down the Rabbit Hole
19 Wed 4 no-move Made In Chelsea
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22 Sat 1 up A Discovery of Witches
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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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Episode 1
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2019 Jan 1 Tue 15 down
2 Wed 19 down Luther
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22 Tue 84 re-entry Outlander
Providence
26 Sat 81 re-entry Death in Paradise
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2019 Jul 22 Mon 55 re-entry The Handmaid's Tale
Under His Eye
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25 Thu 55 down Big Little Lies
What Have They Done?
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27 Sat 21 up Chernobyl
01.23.45
28 Sun 37 down Big Little Lies
What Have They Done?
29 Mon 60 down The Handmaid's Tale
Unfit
2019 Aug 10 Sat 77 re-entry Chernobyl
01.23.45
2019 Sep 11 Wed 92 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Birthdays and Bad News, Pt. 1
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2020 Jan 7 Tue 90 re-entry Succession
Celebration
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Deadhead, Pt. 1
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Celebration
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Blood Will Tell
2020 Jun 1 Mon 8 re-entry Run
Run
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Crisis on Infinite Earths: Pt. 2
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Run
7 Sun 10 re-entry Rick and Morty
Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri
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2020 Jul 3 Fri 72 re-entry DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour Five
2020 Aug 7 Fri 51 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
Episode 1
19 Wed 61 re-entry Perry Mason
Chapter 1
2020 Dec 28 Mon 60 re-entry The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
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2021 Jan 1 Fri 23 re-entry The Undoing (2020)
The Bloody Truth
2 Sat 12 up The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
3 Sun 9 up A Discovery of Witches
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8 Fri 3 up The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
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26 Tue 37 down Raised By Wolves
Raised by Wolves
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2021 Feb 1 Mon 32 up
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4 Thu 33 up The Bay
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Raised by Wolves
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8 Mon 27 up
11 Thu 36 re-entry The Bay
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13 Sat 57 down Raised By Wolves
Raised by Wolves
14 Sun 34 up
15 Mon 50 down The Serpent
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19 Fri 51 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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21 Sun 24 re-entry The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
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2021 Mar 7 Sun 32 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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20 Sat 55 re-entry Grace
Dead Simple
2021 Apr 12 Mon 7 re-entry Line of Duty
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17 Sat 9 down ZeroZeroZero, Season 1
The Shipment
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The Shipment
21 Wed 9 up A Discovery of Witches
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2 Sun 10 up Line of Duty
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8 Sat 10 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
The End of an Era
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In Case of Emergency
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31 Mon 49 down Your Honor
Part One
2021 Jun 7 Mon 41 re-entry Mare of Easttown
Miss Lady Hawk Herself
9 Wed 14 re-entry
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17 Thu 27 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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18 Fri 32 down Mare of Easttown
Miss Lady Hawk Herself
2021 Jul 2 Fri 37 re-entry Rick and Morty
Mortyplicity
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12 Mon 35 re-entry Rick and Morty
A Rickconvenient Mort
29 Thu 46 re-entry Rick and Morty
Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular
2021 Sep 8 Wed 63 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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20 Mon 60 no-move Vigil
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27 Mon 78 re-entry Vigil
Episode 6
2022 Jan 3 Mon 74 no-move Doctor Who
Eve of the Daleks
7 Fri 49 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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9 Sun 27 up
10 Mon 27 no-move Euphoria
Trouble Don't Last Always
11 Tue 58 no-move
15 Sat 24 no-move Euphoria
Pilot
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18 Tue 63 no-move Euphoria
Trouble Don't Last Always
19 Wed 52 up
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31 Mon 75 re-entry A Discovery of Witches
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2022 Mar 28 Mon 7 no-move Peaky Blinders
The Road to Hell
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30 Wed 6 no-move The Gilded Age
Never The New
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4 Mon 58 no-move Peaky Blinders
Lock and Key
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8 Fri 36 no-move Peaky Blinders
Lock and Key
9 Sat 12 up The Gilded Age
Never The New
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12 Tue 41 no-move The Split
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14 Thu 41 down The Gilded Age
Never The New
16 Sat 22 re-entry Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
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26 Tue 40 no-move Hotel Portofino
First Impressions
29 Fri 28 no-move Billions
Cannonade
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2022 May 2 Mon 63 re-entry Grace
Not Dead Enough
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9 Mon 30 up Grace
Dead Man's Footsteps
15 Sun 60 no-move Station Eleven
Wheel of Fire
16 Mon 67 down Julia
Omelette
22 Sun 58 re-entry Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Good Ones
27 Fri 37 re-entry Silent Witness
History, Part 1
2023 Jun 23 Fri 59 no-move Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Strange New Worlds
2023 Oct 16 Mon 22 no-move A Discovery of Witches
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21 Sat 29 no-move Rick and Morty
How Poopy Got His Poop Back

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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