Tabitha Lenox

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Tabitha Lenox is a fictional character on the NBC daytime drama Passions. Tabitha has been played by Juliet Mills since the show's debut in 1999.


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[edit] History

The origin of Tabitha Lenox is unclear. At times she admits to being somewhat in excess of 300 years old; at other times, she claims to be immortal, having lived all throughout history and pre-history. It is known that she has witnessed and/or participated in numerous historical events; whether this is the result of longevity or time travel is not known.

What is known, is that Tabitha is a witch. She is known to have existed in Ancient Rome as Cleopatra's handmaiden; (she claims to have supplied Cleo with the asp that did her in). At an unspecified time in the Middle Ages, she lived in Europe with her witchly rival, Hecuba. She also randomly claims to have lived through countless historical events and drops the names of an endless series of celebrity suitors and comrades. Since at least the 1600s, she has made her home in Harmony, a thriving seaport town located on the New England coast. At one point in the late 1600s, her witchery was exposed and the townspeople of Harmony burned her at the stake. Having somehow resurrected herself, Tabitha has vowed vengeance on the unwary descendants of those early Harmony settlers.

Tabitha has lived for an unspecified amount of time in a ramshackle, Victorian house in Harmony. Older residents of the town often comment on the fact that she looks the same as she did when they were children; Tabitha's usual cover story is to say they must be remembering her mother, and that the name "Tabitha" is a traditional family name. What few Harmony residents believe or understand is that Tabitha harbors the Dark Forces in her basement, a collection of demonic evildoers and devils who oversee Tabitha's wicked doings on Earth. Alternately called "the Dark Side" or "the Boys in the Basement", the Dark Forces sometimes appear to Tabitha, giving her orders or scolding her when her schemes go awry. Generally, they keep to themselves, usually eavesdropping on what is said in her house, and protesting with a loud foghorn-like sound and smoke issuing from the vents, (which Tabitha tries to pass off as a leaky boiler).

Tabitha's former companion was Timmy, a doll she had created and brought to life. Timmy had had many incarnations over the centuries, always being stitched back together and brought back to life when met with misfortune. He had cavorted with his Tabby on all of her historical capers, including the sinking of the Titanic. His latest incarnation was in 1999, when Tabitha once again brought him to life to do her bidding. His mission in this lifetime was to help Tabitha destroy Charity Standish, a young girl with the ultimate powers of good. Tabitha was ordered by the Dark Forces to destroy Charity in order to keep her from sleeping with her one true love, which would supposedly trigger her full powers of goodness, thereby eradicating all evil from the universe forever, and presumably, Tabitha as well. However, on meeting Charity for the first time, Timmy was smitten by her and never could quite bring himself to doing her any harm. In those days, Tabitha carried Timmy, in doll form, under her arm as she went about her business around town. At times Timmy would mischievously come to life and cause the townspeople to check their senses, especially Julian Crane and Reese Durkee, both of whom would swear the doll was alive, although no one else ever believed them.

Another member of the "family" was Fluffy, Tabitha's enormous housecat, who loved to attack Timmy and rip out his stuffings.

Tabitha at one time tried to kill Charity by setting fire to her house and trapping her inside. She succeeded in killing Charity's mother, Faith, but Charity was rescued in the nick of time by her one true love, Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald. As a result of her failure, the Dark Forces punished Tabitha by removing most of her powers, agreeing to return them upon Tabitha's eventual destruction of Charity.

Scheme after scheme backfired for Tabitha, but she did at least manage to keep Charity and her true love Miguel from sleeping together, therefore keeping Charity's full powers in check. As money begin to dwindle in the witchcraft-free household, the impulsive Timmy submitted Tabitha's tell-all expose' of Harmony's citizens, "Hidden Passions", to Harper-Collins publishers. The book became an overnight best-seller, forcing Tabitha to flee Harmony before the fallout exposed her as a witch. Stumbling into a weather-beaten hotel out west, Timmy and Tabby met Norma Bates, the proprietor of said hotel. In a gender-switching send-up of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", it was discovered that Norma kept her deceased father's skeleton in the house, and talked to him as if he were still alive. At some point, Tabby and Timmy decapitated the father's skull off the skeleton, sending the deranged Norma into such a fury that she actually blamed Tabitha for her father's death, and still pursues her to this day.

Tabitha and Timmy eventually returned to Harmony, but their peace was short-lived, as the Bennetts, their house having been sucked into hell through one of Hecuba's schemes, moved into the Lenox residence. Tabitha uncomfortably coincided with the Bennetts for the next six months, and was happy to get rid of them after their house was rebuilt.

In 2001, Timmy wished upon a star to become mortal, and the angels granted his wish. Tabitha passed him off as her nephew and they continued to live in her house.

After Tabitha cast a spell onto all copies of the book "Hidden Passions" that made the reader forget its contents, Tabitha safely returned to Harmony and resumed her plot against Charity. She found an unwitting ally in Kay Bennett, a young next-door neighbor who coveted Miguel for herself and therefore hated her cousin Charity. Kay sold her soul to Hecuba in order to secure Hecuba's magical help in winning Miguel's affections. After a few dead ends, Kay then was given a spell that froze Charity in a block of ice, while her evil doppelganger, Zombie Charity, took her place. In order to save the real Charity, the by-now human Timmy took it upon himself to save her. Making his way across an enchanted countryside with Julian Crane, he secured the Demon's Horn, a magical device that could destroy the zombie version of Charity and restore the real Charity. Upon using the device, however, the eruption of dark magical forces killed Timmy. Charity, having been freed from the block of ice, was found to be dying from her months-long ordeal. A heart transplant was required, and Tabitha reluctantly allowed Timmy's heart to be inserted in place of Charity's. She survived, and thereafter, Tabitha's hatred toward Charity was somewhat tempered by the knowledge that her beloved Timmy's heart beat in place of Charity's.

Zombie Charity returned briefly as a ghost, just long enough to con Tabitha into bringing another doll to life to replace Timmy. The second doll, Cracked Connie, in turn brought another doll to life as a boyfriend for herself. Demented Cecil therefore briefly joined the "family", but these subsequent dolls were considered pests by Tabitha and quickly left the unhappy household. Concurrently, Tabitha and Julian Crane commiserated over the loss of Timmy, and wound up making magical whoopee. The outcome of their liaison produced a daughter, Endora.

Endora, while briefly being mocked by the magical community for having a mortal father, then showed that half-mortal or not, she was one powerful witch. In the summer of 2005, while innocently crossing magical forces with Tabitha's, the fallout inadvertently created a major earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Harmony, submerging the town for days and causing untold damage.

Julian, dimly aware that he must have been Endora's father, often offered to support Tabitha and Endora financially, stopping short of a public admission of her parentage. Tabitha however, wanted nothing further to do with Julian and has so far kept him at bay. Recently, Julian's ex-wife Ivy Winthrop discovered the secret of Endora's parentage, but has so far kept silent about the matter.

Kay Bennett, pregnant with Miguel's child and unhappy with her home situation, moved in with Tabitha and the two single mothers raised their very different daughters together. At some point, Kay discovered that Tabitha was a witch and very often forces her to cast spells on her behalf, most of which eventually backfire.

Tabitha, having never fully recovered the loss of her own powers, often as not begs Endora to cast spells for her. Endora's latest spell revolved around bringing a mermaid, Siren, to life from a doll in order to supply Miguel with a girlfriend after Charity had left town. The crowded Lenox household then consisted of Tabitha, Endora, with Kay, Kay's fiance' Fox, Miguel and Siren, and of course, Fluffy. Eventually fed up with the mermaid's wanton ways, Endora zapped her back into a doll and currently keeps her hidden away in a fishtank.

After contracting a strange "witch's illness" in the fall of 2006, Tabitha left Harmony briefly for therapy on the rings of Saturn, returning very relaxed and much more powerful than before. She will need to be--it appears that both Grace Bennett and Charity Standish are on their way back to Harmony.

[edit] The "Bewitched" Connection

In the Passions reality, the television show Bewitched seems to be both fantasy and fact. At times she is seen watching the program as if it were merely fictional; at other times she refers to the "Bewitched" characters as if they were all real. Tabitha Lenox is acquainted with Dr. Bombay, a character from "Bewitched." He has made two appearances on the show, and in both cases implied that the adventures of Samantha, Darrin, et al were true and real, almost as if "Passions" were a sequel to "Bewitched." Tabitha claims that her mother was named "Samantha," married to a mortal named "Darrin," but whether she's kidding about her parentage is also unknown. So, did she name her daughter "Endora" after the character on "Bewitched," or after a real entity in her past?

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[edit] Parents

  • Darrin Lenox (father)
  • Samantha Lenox (mother)

[edit] Cousins

  • Harry Riders (cousin)
  • Boozy Boozebourne (cousin; lineage unknown)

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[edit] Trivia

  • Tabitha was the name of Samantha and Darrin Stephens daughter on the show Bewitched.
  • Endora was the name of Samatha Stephen's mother on Bewitched.

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