Mildred and Luella find a magic stopwatch that can stop anything at any time. Despite Mildred's protests, Luella stops everyone, including Danger Mouse, Shaun The Sheep, Ben Shires and she even stops Just Kidding - literally - by pausing instead of using the magic watch, which delights everyone on CBBC. Mildred has to start everything up again, and everyone groans when Just Kidding is put back on, even viewers' delight is short lived.
What Mildred and Luella don't know is that with one hard click, the watch can take them back in time. Both click too hard and they are transported back into 1974, when the first ever Worst Witch book is published. They get a chance encounter with Jill Murphy in her house, and they and the readers learn about her books and life for educational effect, with Mildred believing her whole life was thought up by the author of Five Minutes' Peace, which also appeared as a bedtime story for CBeebies. Mildred and Luella also laugh at the fact that she got to publish a book based on toddler tantrums, a reference to her book 'Meltdown'.
However, since Luella found out that Scream Street was published a few decades after The Worst Witch was published, she begins to slowly fade away. Mildred tells Luella that Tommy Donbavand, the author of Scream Street, was born in 1967, a few years before she appeared, and people had to wait for a long time until Scream Street was published as a book series in 2008. After worrying a little, Mildred realizes that clicking on the button on the watch lightly will take them back to the present day, and both click, transporting them back to the present day.
Luella is back to normal again, and she and Mildred discuss the after school clubs at Cackles' - cooking lessons, night walks, flying lessons, spellbook classes and the Black Cat Appreciation Club. Mildred spreads out the five posters on her desks and asks Luella which club they choose to attend together. Luella suggest trying spellbook classes, as she keeps getting spells wrong, but Mildred would rather attend flying lessons because she is trying how to pilot her broomstick. Both decide to attend classes together, but Flying Lessons are on Wednesdays, and Spellbook Classes are on Thursdays. Luella thinks she may need to ask her aunt Eefa's permission if she wants to join the clubs at Cackles', but Mildred reminds Luella "You can, but it's Wednesday. Tonight, I'm going to try Flying Lessons. Want to come?" "Anything for a ride on a broomstick together. Remember what happened in the third episode of your show?" After a flashback to the third episode of The Worst Witch where everyone bumps into each other on their broomsticks, the two laugh hysterically and agree to enroll in the after school clubs, as they are much better than going back in time with a magic watch - but Mildred adds that they may have to use the watch to stop Miss Hardbroom so they can join the classes.
Later that night, Luella and Mildred are attending Flying Lessons at Cackles. They happen to obeying the flying rules quite easily, first flying in formation with the other witches, and then doing more than that, twisting and turning and doing epic loop-the-loops. "Woohoo! This is fun!" screams Luella, "I wish Resus were there to see this!" "Don't worry, Maud and the others have got us covered," says Mildred, and the two hold on tight to the broomstick they're sharing, and when they fly over CBBC, Mildred collects a star and brings it down to earth so that she can let Luella take it back to the emporium at Scream Street.
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