Catweazle

“Nothing works!”

197025m / epSci-Fi & Fantasy · Comedy

First aired

February 15, 1970

7.5

TMDB Score

75% match · 21 votes

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S01 · E10

The House of the Sorcerer

Season 1 · Apr 19, 1970 · 25m

A really funny episode and fast paced aswell.Catweazle out in the woods sees an ornathologist recording insect sounds etc.Ever curious he follows him bck to his caravan then gets scared by the sounds that come out of 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 t

About the Series

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Sci-Fi & FantasyComedy

Synopsis

A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.

CreatorRichard Carpenter

First aired
February 15, 1970
Last aired
April 4, 1971
Seasons
2 seasons · 26 episodes
Status
Ended
Original language
English
Network
ITV1

Top Billed Cast

Geoffrey Bayldon

Geoffrey Bayldon

Catweazle

Moray Watson

Moray Watson

Lord Collingford

Elspet Gray

Elspet Gray

Lady Collingford

Gary Warren

Gary Warren

Cedric Collingford

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