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Charmed season 4

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2529991 ↗
Source-derived summary

The fourth season of Charmed, an American supernatural drama television series created by Constance M. Burge, originally aired in the United States on The WB from October 4, 2001, through May 16, 2002. Airs on Thursdays at 9:00 pm. Paramount Home Entertainment released the complete fourth season in a six-disc boxed set on February 28, 2006. It was later released on high-definition blu-ray on June 15, 2021.

This season also saw the introduction of Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews half-sister to Prue, Piper and Phoebe and a slight alteration of the opening credits, due to the third season departure of Shannen Doherty as Prue.

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The public source identifies “Charmed season 4” as season of television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Charmed, season and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2002, 2006, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Charmed, season and television providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Charmed season 4” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.