Catweazle - Season 1 - Eps 11: The Flying Broomsticks

Name: Eps 11: The Flying Broomsticks
Released: 1970-04-26
Rating: 3.8

1970-04-26 • 25 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

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

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About Catweazle

Title: Catweazle

First Air Date: 1970-02-15

Last Air Date: 1971-04-04

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.5/10 (from 16 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 3

Total Episodes: 26

Network: ITV1

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy

Production Companies: LWT

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.