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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 · E07

The Telling Bone

Season 1 · Mar 29, 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

E07Playing

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

E11▶

The Flying Broomsticks

Apr 26, 1970 · 25m

E12▶

The Wisdom of Solomon

May 3, 1970 · 25m

E13▶

The Trickery Lantern

May 10, 1970 · 25m

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 a few 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 celebritities 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 Carrot 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.

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