Charmed: From Fear to Eternity

"If he can kill thirteen unmarried witches before midnight, he'll be freed from the underworld to wreak his terror every single day."

- Prue Halliwell

"From Fear to Eternity" is the thirteenth episode of season one of the supernaturally-themed television series Charmed, and the fourteenth episode of the series overall if one includes the original unaired pilot. It was directed by Les Sheldon with a script written by consulting producers Tony Blake and Paul Jackson. It first aired on Wednesday, February 10th, 1999 on the WB Network. In this episode, a fear demon, who emerges once every 1,300 years seeks to destroy thirteen unmarried witches on Friday the 13th by literally scaring them to death.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode has been made available on the Charmed: The Complete Series DVD collection and the Charmed: The Complete First Season collection.


 * Production code number: 4398012


 * "From Fear to Eternity" is also the name of an episode from the sci-fi series Eureka.


 * First episode directed by Les Sheldon. He also directs episode 1x22, "Déjà Vu All Over Again".


 * The episode makes many allusions to the numerical significance of the number 13 and the supertition surrounding the Greco-Roman calandar date, Friday the 13th. "From Fear to Eternity" also happens to be the 13th episode of the series.


 * Multiple references are made to the Charmed Ones' mother, Patty Halliwell.


 * Prue's greatest fear is drowning.


 * Phoebe's greatest fear is losing a sister; a fear that will one day soon come to pass.


 * Piper's greatest fear are spiders.

Allusions

 * The title to this episode is taken from the 1952 novel From Here to Eternity by James Jones. The book was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1953 starring Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift, as well as a television miniseries in 1979 and a TV series in 1980.