“Thirty years ago today TGIF aired a little show that would go on to seven years of my 20s,” reads the first line of captions in the reel from @melissajoanhart, posted on September 27, 2026. She talks straight to the camera in a magenta top, seated in a green walled room with a gilt framed painting behind her, while short clips from the series appear in an inset below her.

Her written caption continues: “A HUGE happy 30th anniversary to my Sabrina family; the cast, the crew, the fans! Who knew that 30 years later the show would still be so impactful?” It says the full video is on her YouTube channel and ends with “Stay tuned for a fun announcement tomorrow.”

The reel runs about a minute and moves in three parts of roughly twenty seconds each. The first covers the premiere and the episode count, the second is the guest list, and the third is her thanks to the cast, crew and viewers. Her words appear as soft serif captions across the top of the frame, a word or two at a time. The captions give her count of the run: “163 episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” across seven years of her 20s. The inset clips start with the show’s animated title card, which reads “Starring Melissa Joan Hart,” and then run through the opening credits, which name Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert, Jenna Leigh Green and Michelle Beaudoin, then Paul Feig and Nick Bakay, and finally “Created by Nell Scovell.”

Then she turns to the guests, around the twenty second mark. “I tap danced with Dick Van Dyke,” she says, and a clip labeled Dick Van Dyke plays, showing an older man seated on a patterned couch. The captions then run through the rest of the list as the inset changes with each name: Johnny Mathis, The Monkees, Britney Spears, Julio, Usher and Barbara Eden, whose clip shows her in a dark top with a sparkly collar speaking with a girl in the foreground. The last name is Garry Marshall, paired with a diner scene in which a man in a dark cap sits at a table behind a young woman. Her captions describe the run as “so many amazing guest stars.”

The last third of the reel turns personal. “The show just changed my life,” she says, and she adds that she has heard from so many viewers that it changed theirs. She stops mid thought to say, “getting chills,” and says she loves those stories and what the show has meant to her. Her closing point is about the crew: “My very best friends in life are from the crew of Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” she says, and “had so much fun.” The reel ends on “happy Sabrina 30th.”

The written caption on the post adds one line the on screen captions do not, thanking everyone “that came along on this (vacuum) ride.” The reel itself stays on the show’s history and the people around it, and the hand to chest gesture she makes while saying the show changed her life comes at about the thirty five second mark, with a smile as she says “getting chills” a few seconds later.

The character predates the sitcom by decades. Archie Comics’ own character page for Sabrina Spellman says she first appeared in “Archie’s Madhouse #22, 1962.” That is the origin collectors of the franchise trace back to, and it is the comic, not the 1996 series, that the publisher credits with her first appearance.