'The Sun in a Bottle' by Richard Carpenter

“Catweazle, a lonely eccentric dabbling in magic, first appears in Norman England and by accident jumps through history from his own time into the present day. He faces the modern world with no more than the clothes he stands up in – a ragged cloak, a charmed ring, Adamcos his magic witch knife – and in his head the half-forgotten jingling of ancient spells.”

Chased by Norman soldiers, the eccentric and shabby magician, Catweazle, and his pet toad, Touchwood, are forced to flee for their lives. As Catweazle desperately attempts to cast a spell of flight to take him to safety, his magicks instead send him nine hundred years into the future. Stumbling across a farm, Catweazle soon befriends a young boy, Carrot, who agrees to help him find a place to stay – and a way back to his proper time…

Geoffrey Bayldon (Catweazle), Robin Davies (Edward 'Carrot' Bennett), Charles Tingwell (George Bennett), Neil McCarthy (Sam Woodyard), Derek Baker, Frank Henson, Terry Mountain, Steve Emerson (Norman Soldiers), Chris Webb, Dave Griffiths (Norman Officers)

Directed by Quentin Lawrence
Produced by Joy Whitby

TX (UK - LWT):
15th February 1970 @ 5.30 pm

Notes:
*Introducing Catweazle, Touchwood, Edward 'Carrot' Bennett, George Bennett and Sam Woodyard