- Title: Teenage Kicks: The Witch Craze
- Date: 27th August 2002
- Summary: All over the country teenagers are casting spells. With the phenomenal success of Buffy and Harry Potter, witchcraft is catching on fast. Teenage Kicks: The Witch Craze meets young people who have turned to magic to sort out their problems. In Essex, Elena, Debbie and Dawn formed their secret coven a year ago. They see witchcraft as their religion and try to live by its rules. At weekends the girls meet in the woods to cast spells and practice white magic, and they cast money spells before their shopping trips. Justin is, as far as he knows, the only vampire in Peckham. Whilst looking for a job to pay for some new fangs he has taken on a young apprentice. Meanwhile, in Woking a group of girls attempt to form their first coven. But as some of them are not happy to drink blood, they decide on spit as a substitute.
- Description:A one hour look at spectrum of the cults and groups to which teenagers ally themselves,in their search to fit in. Using actuality and interviews grabbed in situ,the film will cover the gamut from the light and fluffy 'Pink Britney Girls' who only wear pink,to the sinister Jesus Christians,a fundamentalist cult who target teenagers.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Zkk Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:27/08/2002
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s