Catweazle
The Eye Of Time
| S 1 | Ep 5 | 1970/03/15 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Catweazle gets involved with the TAB and also confronts a fake fortune teller played brilliantly by veteran UK character actress/comedian Hattie Jacques. Unable to reach the betting office(''bettering'' as catweazle refers to it)farmhand Sam asks carrottÊto place the bets for him.However as he is underage he seeks help from an uncooperative catweazle.Forcing him to dress in old scarecrow clothes to go into the village via a bus(referred to as ''thou roaring chariot'' by catweazle) it is here that catweazle sees a sign that points to the fortune teller's rooms.HE then goes to see her and tells her that she doesn't have ''the eye of time'' that it is ''shut'' to her and that she tells customers to bet on the wrong horses and then rings the local bookie that another false customer is on his way. Meanwhile mr bennet discovers that sam has been using carrot to place his bets and suggests that first he phones them through and next sam will have him hanging around betting offices which is where he ends up finding carrott.
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The Magic Face
| S 1 | Ep 6 | 1970/03/22 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Whilst hunting around the farm for old items Catweazle is accidentally photographed by a couple of yank photographers/tourists one of whom becomes obsessed with the uniqueness of his face. When the photos are developed she returnsÊto the farm and shows carrott the photos who then shows catweazle who believes he is now doomed and owned by the photographer and believes he must go to her and become his slave. The photographer gets Catweazle to clean her flashy sports car while she and her female partner(who is very masculine - suggesting lesbian overtones albeit very subtly after all this was a children's TV series) go off to take photos. Meanwhile carrott arrives at thier residence and goes to steal the photos taken of Catweazle from inside the house so as to remove the spell Catweazle believes is now on him.Carrott tells Catweazle to keep watch and to honk the car horn if the photographers return. Ever inquisitive he messes with the horn which gets stuck, carrott comes running with the photos and Catweazle flees off back to castle saburac while carrott tries to unjam the car horn.The photographers return and realising what has happened chase off after Catweazle in their car despite the fact that v had emptied the bucket of water into the car as he fled Catweazle
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The Telling Bone
| S 1 | Ep 7 | 1970/03/29 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Due to yet another spell backfiring, Catweazle finds himself clinging to the local church spire. In an attempt to go ''back'' to his own time he ends up going sideways instead. The local vicar by speaking aÊfew words of Latin which Catweazle could relate to convinces him to come down from the spire and see his Latin books. While in his home surrounded by cats named after famous Hollywood celebrities of the 40s/50s Catweazle discovers the telephone "the telling bone'', fascinated by it and demanding to ''speak to the spirits'' he causes more chaos. Meanwhile farmhand Sam has a new car which is having problems but finally gets going. The vicar phones hexwood farm (having discovered that's where Catweazle had come from) and listening into the phone-call Carrott realises that's where Catweazle is and asks Sam to take him to the vicarage. His mother sees them on the way and decides she wants to go too despite being somewhat dottery. Falling asleep in the car as they arrive at the vicarage, Carrott sees this as an opportunity for Sam to dispensary to the local pub while he tries to help rescue Catweazle. Meanwhile his mother wakes up so Carrott tells her Sam is at the vicarage to talk about an arrangement,thinking he meant a marriage without her knowing Sam's mother goes to the vicarage and knocks on the door. While this is happening Carrot goes round the side of the house and sees Catweazle inside and helps him outside of a side window - a scene particularly funny when he tries to explain to Catweazle how to open the window from the inside. Having been left in the room alone while the vicar was at the front door talking to Sam's mother he realises his opportunity to steal the ''telling bone'' which he does so by cutting the chord with his witch knife - ''adamcos''.
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The Power Of Adamcos
| S 1 | Ep 8 | 1970/04/05 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Catweazle loses his sacred witchknife ''adamcos'' which is accidentally found by Mr Bennet while walking in the woods. Scared to go back into the woods initially because of ''the normans''(a group of locals dressed as norman soldiersÊas part of a local pageant),it's decided that mr bennet(carrot's father) has taken it to town to sell at the local antique shop. The shop is run by a very camp owner who is making costumes for the local pageant.Mr bennet gives the owner the adamcos as a gift.Being very busy he puts the shop closed sign up on the door to deter customers.Carrott and catweazle arrive at the shop but thinking it is closed catweazle places a magic spell on the door to open it.There is nobody in the shop as the owner had popped out to buy some items for the costumes he was finishing. Looking around for adamcos they find nothing but catweazle fears as a result he is dieing especially when he sees his reflection in a mirror which he believes to be his own spirit.Suddenly mr bennet arrives back at the shop so catweazle is hidden inside a tomb of cleopatra while mr bennet and sam the farmhand take some of the boxes of costumes out to the car to be delivered to the pageant. Next the owner returns and catweazle in the cleopatra tomb falls over and the door of the tomb opens.This causes the shop owner to faint and they realise that he is wearing adamcos and are able to retrieve it.
Catweazle
The Demi Devil
| S 1 | Ep 9 | 1970/04/12 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Catweazle, annoyed at Carrot, puts a spell on him and at the same time a local colonel who keeps a pet monkey comes to visit the farm. The monkey escapes and finds his way to castle saburac.seeingÊthis Catweazle thinks his spell on carrott has really worked,especially as both he and the colonel refer to it as ''boy''. The colonel is expecting an old chum to visit that he hasn't seen for many years and mistakes Catweazle for him. Catweazle gets covered in water and changes into other clothes provided by the colonel.He and the colonel then drink and Catweazle liking the taste gets drunk and passes out. Meanwhile mr bennet and carrott arrive at the colonel's for dinner and the pet monkey is found.
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The House Of The Sorcerer
| S 1 | Ep 10 | 1970/04/19 |
| TV Series Episode | 3030 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
A really funny episode and fast paced as well. Catweazle, out in the woods, sees an ornithologist recording insect sounds etc. Ever curious he follows him back to his caravan then gets scared by the sounds that come outÊof the caravan which are revealed to be recordings of various animal species. Meanwhile farmhand sam wants to work for him and quite his job at the farm. Catweazle sees sam go to the caravan and automatically thinks the worse. When carrot arrives at castle saburac catweazle is frantic and chanting his gab gabba a gabba a everything and nothing in particular.He is forced to show carrott what is happening and so they head off to the caravan. Inside carrott sees sam's shoes lying on the chair and believing that catweazle is finally right for once calls catweazle into the caravan.(sam had in the meantime gone off to do some digging for the ornathologist).Looking around to see what else is happening catweazle becomes excited by all the sound recording equipment.Meanwhile the orathologist starts to return and carrott rushes off to tell his father that sam's been killed and in his own haste to get away catweazle gets tangled up and has to hide in a small broom cupboard in the caravan.A broom falls out and prevents the door from being closed properly and then ''touchwood' starts to croak.This sparks the ornathologist's curiosity and finds catweazle in the cupboard.Mistaking him for Wally a friend of sam's who he thinks might also be interested in working for him gets him to record his voice and details on his tape recorder.Explaining how it works catweazle hears sam's voice on the tape and is spooked.The ornathologist winds the tape back and explains he is doing so to catweazle.This really gets catweazle excited at the prospect of being 'wound back''(thinking it would be to his own time).However the ornthologist presses some wrong buttons and the screeching animal sounds are heard again.Catweazle freaks out and rips the tape from the recorder and flees the caravan ruining the ornathologist's work.
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The Flying Broomsticks
| S 1 | Ep 11 | 1970/04/26 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Broomsticks have been disappearing from the area with alarming regularity. The local police investigate and Sam thinks they are after him for not paying his car registration. But of course it's Catweazle whose been stealing themÊ and using them to try and fly back to his own time. Whilst being investigated by the police for suspected witchcraft activity and not his car registration,sam remains confused and Carrot enlists Catweazle's help. Catweazle initially refuses so Carrot threatens him with no more free food. Catweazle says he will not starve as his ''aim is true'' and points to dead animal pelts he's shot on the wall of castle saburac. Bribing him with his harmonica as a reward Carrot convinces Catweazle to help out. They go to the police station and Catweazle using a bow and arrow fire a message supposedly through an open window, only to smash a non-opened one instead. The message attached to the arrow tells the police to meet them in the graveyard to find the real culprit of the stolen broomsticks. Upon where Catweazle places a spell on the policeman and Sam is released from questioning.
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The Wisdom Of Solomon
| S 1 | Ep 12 | 1970/05/03 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Mr. Bennet grows tired of trying to keep the house clean, so he hires a new housekeeper, Mrs. Skinner. She brings her obnoxious son, Arthur, along with her to Hexwood Farm. They both cause upset, and Catweazle is called upon to cast a spell to get rid of them both.
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The Trickery Lantern
| S 1 | Ep 13 | 1970/05/10 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Catweazle starts preparing for his long journey home. He steals a spotlight, and convinces Mr. Bennet's sister that he is the ghost of Hexwood Farm.
Catweazle
The Magic Riddle
| S 2 | Ep 1 | 1971/01/10 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Catweazle, who is locked in a Norman dungeon ordered to turn lead into gold, escapes and jumps off the castle wall, believing he can fly, only to end up in a pond in the 1970s. HeÊsneaks into nearby King's Farthing, the home of Lord and Lady Collingford. There he meets their son, Cedric, whose great-great-grandfather, Lord Alfred, practiced magic in a secret dungeon. Lord Alfred also wanted to learn how to fly and wrote a flying spell on the wall of this secret dungeon. The spell mentions the thirteenth sign, the quest begins.
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Duck Halt
| S 2 | Ep 2 | 1971/01/17 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
While looking for a place to live, Catweazle manages to find another sign as well as a bicycle.
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The Heavenly Twins
| S 2 | Ep 3 | 1971/01/24 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
It's Cedric's birthday and his mum has hired a magician, Vadanti, to entertain the guests. Catweazle, who had met Vadanti while fishing earlier, shows up at the party and somehow ends up as Vadanti the magician's assistant.
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The Sign Of The Crab
| S 2 | Ep 4 | 1971/01/31 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
Cedric accuses Catweazle of stealing and the following night King's Farthing is robbed. The real thief returns the next night and almost falls into a trap.
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The Black Wheels
| S 2 | Ep 5 | 1971/02/07 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
When Groome loses his voice, Catweazle tries to give it back to him, first by trying to catch an echo from a well, then by feeding him a potion mixed up of old 33-inch records.
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The Wogle Stone
| S 2 | Ep 6 | 1971/02/14 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
A housing developer, Jack Victor, is trying to buy land from Lord Collingford. He also wants to buy Duck Halt, the abandoned railway station where Catweazle is living. In this episode Catweazle is searching for the Sign of the Maiden,Êi.e. Virgo. It so happens that Jack Victor's company is called VIRGO
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The Enchanted King
| S 2 | Ep 7 | 1971/02/21 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
In this episode, Catweazle is looking for the Sign of the Balances. For this he needs help from Cedric; in the house he discovers the television, where a storyteller is telling a fairy tale about anÊenchanted king who was turned into stone. Catweazle thinks the storyteller is a demon. At the same time, a sculptor, Mr Gobbling, offers to turn the Collingfords into stone and this, of course, is misunderstoord by Catweazle who overhears the offer while looking for Cedric. He follows the scultor to his house and tries to liberate the people from the statues. A little later, Lady Collingford is to unveil Gobbling's latest sculpture of Themis, better known as Justice. In her hand, the statue is holding the scales of justice.
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The Familiar Spirit
| S 2 | Ep 8 | 1971/02/28 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
In this episode, Catweazle is looking for the sign of the scorpion. Touchwood is ill and Cedric takes Catweazle and Touchwood to see a zoologist who happens to be a toad specialist and recognizes Touchwood asÊa species that has long been extinct. The zoologist's twin brother is also a toad specialist and together they have written books about toads, published by Scorpion Books.
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The Ghost Hunters
| S 2 | Ep 9 | 1971/03/07 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
In this episode, Catweazle is looking for the sign of Sagittarius. Lady Collingord has invited a ghost hunter to stay over at King's Farthing. He is going to search for ghosts as Lady Collingford thinks theÊhouse is haunted by Lord Alfred, looking for his treasure. Cedric tells Catweazle that his spells don't work and he never even helped him look for the treasure. As a result Catweazle decides to go look for the treasure, at night, while the ghost hunters are out looking for ghosts.
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The Walking Trees
| S 2 | Ep 10 | 1971/03/14 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
In this episode, Catweazle is looking for the sign of Capricorn, or the goat, as he calls it. King's Farthing has been turned into a military headquarters as soldiers use the area for a military exercise, including some soldiers camouflaged as trees.
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The Battle Of The Giants
| S 2 | Ep 11 | 1971/03/21 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min | |
| ADV COM FAM FAN | UK | |
In this episode, Catweazle is looking for the sign of Aquarius while he's suffering from a cold. Lord Collingford and Groome both want to win the competition for biggest marrow. Unfortunately, Catweazle's anti-flu potion gets mixed up with Groome's marrow fertilizer.