The benevolent headmistress, Miss Cackle, is generally understanding, whereas Mildred's form teacher, the virago Miss Hardbroom thinks she just isn't trying hard enough.

Miss Hardbroom disapproves and Mildred has to stop.

The Chief Magician denounces the academy, and Mildred is summoned to a meeting with Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom the next morning.

At first, Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom refuse to believe her, but when Mildred describes the leader, Miss Cackle realises she sounds like Miss Cackle's identical twin sister, Agatha.

Mildred chases it down the stairs and bumps into Miss Hardbroom, who sends her to the library to study.

Miss Hardbroom turns the monkey into its original form, a normal regulation black cat.

Moments later, Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, and Miss Drill arrive and Miss Cackle angrily says that if there is any more bother from Mildred that term, she will be expelled.

The one who seems familiar bursts into tears and clings onto Mildred when she hears that many of the teachers ( including Miss Hardbroom ) are quite strict.

Mildred also accidentally slips a made-up story about Miss Hardbroom turning a student into a frog when she was just two seconds late for a lesson.

To the girl's horror, they also learn that Miss Hardbroom will be replacing Miss Gimlett as their form-mistress that year.

Mildred scrambles into her clothes but notices outside her window Miss Hardbroom standing in the playground surrounded by hazy purple smoke.

After an unfortunate flying lesson, where Tabby makes another terrifying attempt to avoid sitting on the end of the broomstick, Miss Hardbroom sends Mildred to her room to calm down.

Miss Hardbroom, however, discovers her and puts her in a jar.

Miss Hardbroom comes by and Ethel tells her that she caught Maud, Enid, and Mildred sneaking around the school.

Miss Hardbroom is about to give Mildred a punishment when she notices that Mildred's feet are still invisible.

( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.

While Miss Scarlet holds the group at gunpoint with the revolver, Wadsworth tries to tell her that she used up all the bullets in the gun but she tells him she still has one and threatens to kill him.

In 1948, after a driving mishap where her automobile is wrecked, Miss Daisy ’ s son, Boolie ( Dan Aykroyd ), tells her she will have to get a chauffeur because no insurance company will cover her.

In a poignant scene where Dr. Sanderson and his nurse Miss Kelly ( Peggy Dow ) follow Elwood into an alley at the back of his and Harvey's favorite bar, Charlie's, Elwood tells the incredible story of how he came to meet Harvey, and explains the way in which people react when they meet them.

When Miss Potts is puzzled as to why they chose Bethlehem, and Sister Margaret tells her that they had received a postcard with a reproduction of a nativity scene painted by Miss Potts, entitled " Come to the Stable ," with information about the Bethlehem area.

After composer Bob Masen, who is Miss Potts's neighbor and landlord, tells the Sisters that the hill is owned by Luigi Rossi of New York, the Sisters go to see the Bishop in a nearby city.

" Gwenda tells Miss Marple later that as she heard those words, she felt she was looking down through the banisters at the dead, blue face of someone named Helen, strangled by a man uttering the same line.

Bigelow travels to Philips ' import-export company in Los Angeles, first meeting Miss Foster ( Beverly Garland ), the secretary, then Mr Halliday ( William Ching ), the company's comptroller, who tells him Eugene Philips committed suicide.

Noxzeema Jackson tells Miss Clara that she is going to make her look like Emma Peel in the feature film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!

They request information about Annie from Miss Hannigan for one third of the money, though she demands one half for this service, and tells them about the note and the locket.

Mr. Drew tells Nancy to go to Twin Elms and help the Miss Flora and Mrs. Hayes.

Cyborg stops the powerless Static from returning to Dakota, and instead tells him that he and a scientist named Rochelle Barnes will be taking him to Cadmus Labs to find a way to get his powers back and awken Miss Martian.

When Mrs. Meers finally succeeds, Millie finds Trevor drowning his sorrows, and he tells her Miss Dorothy stood him up and checked out of the hotel.

Mrs. Doyle tells her husband that Miss Lonelyhearts tried to rape her.

After crash-landing in a pile of snow and meeting up with her best friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade, Ethel Hallow appears and tells Mildred that Miss Cackle wants to see her.

Mildred tells them what is going on and, just as Agatha is about to turn Miss Cackle into a snail, Mildred turns her into a snail herself.

Mildred sits next to Drusilla Paddock, who swaps places with Ethel after Miss Mould tells Ethel her coils are too short.

The next morning, Mildred goes to Miss Cackle's office where Einstein, resting in Miss Cackle's overflowing in-tray, awakes and tells Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom that he overheard the conversation between Ethel and Mildred in the tree.

Ruth, pretty buffed herself from her years as " Miss Mexican Mafia " in prison, tells Marge that she owes it all to steroids.

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

Perhaps most significantly, when shown a photograph of Little Miss 1565, Eleanor's mother Mildred Corintha Parsons Cook immediately stated that this was not her daughter.

The earliest, in 1936, mentions that during a speech, a Miss Mildred Pinkerton " quotes the prayer ," as if to indicate it was already in a circulation known to the reporter, or that Pinkerton relayed it as a quote.

Miss Gravely ( Mildred Natwick ) feels that the man died after a blow from the heel of her hiking boot after he came at her out of the bushes ( still reeling from the blow received at the hands of Jennifer ).

Mildred Hubble is the worst student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches.

When walking through the forests near the academy, Mildred hears voices through the trees and comes across a group of witches, headed by one who looks like Miss Cackle.

Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches for the Summer Term of her first year.

Miss Cackle has trusted Mildred to look after new girl Enid Nightshade and help her settle in.

During a chanting lesson with Miss Bat after assembly, Enid deliberately sings awkwardly and out of tune, causing Mildred to burst into hysterical laughter.

Mildred is sent to Miss Cackle's office.

Enid places a spell on Mildred's pole, so in the pole-vaulting contest, Mildred springs high into the air and lands into Miss Hardbroom's study via the window.

Enid decides to skip Miss Cackle's boring birthday celebration and hides in a store cupboard, pulling Mildred in with her.

Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches for her second year, determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as " the worst witch in the school ".