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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 · E11

The Flying Broomsticks

Season 1 · Apr 26, 1970 · 25m

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E01▶

The Sun in a Bottle

Feb 15, 1970 · 25m

E02▶

Castle Saburac

Feb 22, 1970 · 25m

E03▶

The Curse of Rapkyn

Mar 1, 1970 · 25m

E04▶

The Witching Hour

Mar 8, 1970 · 25m

E05▶

The Eye of Time

Mar 15, 1970 · 25m

E06▶

The Magic Face

Mar 22, 1970 · 25m

E07▶

The Telling Bone

Mar 29, 1970 · 25m

E08▶

The Power of Adamcos

Apr 5, 1970 · 25m

E09▶

The Demi Devil

Apr 12, 1970 · 25m

E10▶

The House of the Sorcerer

Apr 19, 1970 · 25m

E11Playing

The Flying Broomsticks

Apr 26, 1970 · 25m

E12▶

The Wisdom of Solomon

May 3, 1970 · 25m

E13▶

The Trickery Lantern

May 10, 1970 · 25m

Broomsticks have been dissapearing 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 them and using them to try and fly back to his own time. Whilst being investigated by the police for suspected witchraft activity and not his car registration,sam remains confused and carrott enlists catweazle's help.Catweazle initially refuses so carott 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 carrott 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

About the Series

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