The Good Witch's Wonder

The Seventh of the annual "The Good Witch" TV movies showed up on the Hallmark Channel the Saturday before Hallowe'en. Like the earlier ones in the series, it is a pleasant little show about Cassie Bell, the Good Witch of Middleton, whose magical powers seem to consist of showing up suddenly and always having something on hand just as its need is recognized. A promo indicates that this will be a weekly show beginning in 2015.

Like most of the others, this one concerns a series of small and medium problems suffered by the people around Cassie, as well as a new mysterious stranger, played by Rachel Wilson. All of them are solved by seeming happenstance, which is clearly the result of the Good Witch's magic.

It's not great show making; every plot point is talked out until it becomes little more than radio with pictures. However, Miss Bell's perky charm carries the piece around well enough to make this quite watchable.