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  Catweazle - Nostalgia Central
In unfamiliar surroundings Catweazle is soon discovered by Carrot, the 14 year old son of a farmer who lives on Hexwood Farm near the magician's water tower hiding spot (which he calls Castle Saburac).
Catweazle finally finds his way back to his own time at the end of the first series.
Catweazle also finds himself a new home in an abandoned railway station (Duck Halt) and sets about finding the thirteen (yes, thirteen) signs of the zodiac in order to return to his own time, while Cedric hopes to restore his family fortune by finding the lost Collingford treasure.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/catweazle.htm   (403 words)

  
 OFF THE TELLY: Children's/Our Brother in Magic
And Catweazle's fading light at the end of "The Trickery Lantern", and Carrot's sad walk away back to Hexwood Farm, remains one of the most mournfully romantic moments in all children's TV.
Catweazle's return to the 20th century moved the series into a new setting and entirely new cast, from a hard-up farming family to a similarly hard-up aristocratic family.
The treasure is found, but when Catweazle appears to renounce magic, and seems to have resigned himself to a life trapped out of Time, the sadness is deep.
www.offthetelly.co.uk /childrens/catweazle.htm   (700 words)

  
 Saburac Bidding Help   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Catweazle is easily persuaded to cast a spell and the resultsare typically unpredictable.
Catweazle returns to the twentieth century and is found hiding in Lord Collingford's son Cedric's bedroom.
Catweazle is confused by a magician at a children's party.
www.saburac-adult-auction.com /files/catweazle.htm   (567 words)

  
 Catweazle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The second series featured a 12-part (A coarse sieve (as for gravel)) riddle which Catweazle, once more transported to (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s (A division of the United Kingdom) England, attempts to solve one clue per episode, with the solution (as he thinks) being revealed in the 13th.
There are two (Converting something into the form of a novel) novelizations by Carpenter, one for each series: Catweazle and Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac.
A Region 2 (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set) DVD release was announced for 2000, but did not materialise.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catweazle.htm   (178 words)

  
 Welcome to the original Catweazle website!
The Catweazle Fan Club reports the release was slated for very early in the New Year, but has been pushed back to April to make way for another release.
It has been incredibly pleasing to play a part in the emergence of Catweazle online, to watch websites and tribute pages crop up all over the world and to be involved with the video launch a few years ago which brought this classic back to our screens for the first time.
The enduring appeal of Catweazle is a fine tribute to this wonderfully written series, filled with humour, warmth and charm, and made unforgettable by Geoffrey Bayldon's outstanding performance as Catweazle.
www.propaganda.com.au /catweazle/index.shtml   (441 words)

  
 1 Stop Wrestling » Dave Lodge » Thoughts of Yesteryear #2
Catweazle was the only TV name billed prior to the event, disproving todays theory that fan's require big names in order to be persuaded to part with their money.
Before the MC had the opportunity to announce the combatants Catweazle had ruffled the long golden locks of his opponent and ripped the robe from his body to the pleasure of the crowd.
Round 4 was pure comedy with Catweazle involving his pet frog, the timekeepers bell, and the referee's shoe to the pleasure of the crowd.
www.1stopwrestling.co.uk /view.php?ArtID=116   (741 words)

  
 Laser Show Technology p4/Cats
The Catweazle scanners are nearly cubical enclosures, with the mirror surface located at one edge of the cube.
At the high end of the speed scale, scanning 30k pps, the Catweazles were able to reproduce this pattern at a respectable 6 degree scan angle.
I found the Catweazles to be capable of 30K speed, although perhaps at a sacrifice of better overall performance, especially when it comes to balancing small-step and large-step response.
www.laserist.org /Laserist/Tech_focus_p4.html   (1007 words)

  
 Catweazle, magician from the 11th century
Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans.
There was also a dutch release of Catweazle (with subtitles in dutch), I don't know how many of the episodes were released (known is the first 6 episodes on 3 videos).
These may contain Catweazle stories (they may be as a comicstrip or simply a written story with illustrations).
www.algonet.se /~tourtel/interests/catweazle.html   (995 words)

  
 Magazine articles with Catweazle
Catweazle, remember, is a Saxon - very much a second-class citizen in an England ruled by the Norman lords who swarmed across from France after William the Conqueror's victory over the Saxon King Harold at Hastings in 1066.
Catweazle was the wily magician from Anglo-Norman England who found himself catapulted forward in Time to the Twentieth Century where all modern technology seemed like magic to him.
Castle Saburac, the water tower where Catweazle created his magic, and one of the most memorable images from the first series, was constructed from fiberglass and located in a clearing in the woods.
www.algonet.se /~tourtel/interests/catweazle_articles.html   (10493 words)

  
 Zeta Minor - Catweazle Season 2 Episode Guide
After fleeing from Norman soldiers in 1096 the sorcerer Catweazle and his toad, Touchwood, find themselves transported forward in time nine hundred years into a world of strange magic.
Befriended by a teenage boy, Catweazle discovers the wonders of the modern world as he attempts to make his way back home.
A local sculptor is mistaken by Catweazle for a demon who "turns people into stone".
www.zetaminor.com /cult/catweazle/catweazleeg2.htm   (474 words)

  
 Television Heaven
Played with skill and great charm by the ever excellent Geoffrey Bayldon, Catweazle is an unhygienically manipulative, spoiled, egotistical creation made likeable by his almost child-like sense of wonder at the technological trappings of the modern age in which he initially finds himself trapped whilst attempting to use magic to discover the means of flight.
To Catweazle even the most basic of everyday objects were astounding, an electric light bulb, referred to as ‘electrickery’, is the sun itself captured and placed in a bottle by modern magic.
Carpenter's use of the time travel concept was merely an imaginative means by which he explored the true meaning of deeper issues such as friendship, trust and loneliness, within the framework of what was ostensibly a genuinely funny situation comedy/ fantasy.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /catweazle.htm   (222 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Video: Catweazle - Series 2 - Vol. 3 - Episodes 7 To 9   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Catweazle was undoubtably one of the best children's television series of my childhood, which compares it with stuff like the 'Tomorrow People', 'Follyfoot', and 'Black Beauty' in terms of age.
The Ghost Hunters in my opinion is the best as Catweazle takes on a pair of conmen who are trying to outwit Cedrics parents, who mistakenly believe their home to be haunted.
My son enjoys watching the videos (he loves words like elec-trickery and Catweazle's pronounciation of words such as watter), and I am sure many others would, as most of the stories in the total of 26 episodes stand the test of time well.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R7DR   (406 words)

  
 Zeta Minor - Catweazle Season 1 Episode Guide
Catweazle agrees to cast a spell over an interfering woman who has disrupted life at Hexwood farm, but, before the magic will work, Catweazle must pay a visit to the hairdressers!
When Colonel Upshaw’s pet monkey escapes, Catweazle is convinced that, for once, his magic has worked, and is most concerned when he cannot undo his monkey business.
Catweazle is preparing for his journey home, and has taken a shining to Carrot’s birthday present.
www.zetaminor.com /cult/catweazle/catweazleeg1.htm   (577 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Coffeeshop Catweazle situated in the centre of Culemborg already exists for 10 years
Like no one else Catweazle was awarded many times since the opening in 1994.
Catweazle´s trademark then naturally is the very high quality.
www.catweazle.nl /uk/uk_review.html   (204 words)

  
 "Catweazle" (1970)
Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans who is cast into the future by magic.
The hot air balloon in the final episode is the "Nimble II", registration G-AYAL, the envelope of which is now in the British Balloon Museum and Library collection.
Anachronisms: In a number of episodes, close-ups of Catweazle reveal he has fillings.
imdb.com /title/tt0063881   (314 words)

  
 Welcome to the original Catweazle website!
This Catweazle website was launched in September 1997 and is celebrating its fifth year with this kewl new look.
It has been incredibly pleasing to play a part in the emergence of Catweazle online, to watch websites and tribute pages crop up all over the world and to be involved with the video launch a few years ago which brought this classic back to our screens for the first time.
The enduring appeal of Catweazle is a fine tribute to this wonderfully written series, filled with humour, warmth and charm, and made unforgettable by Geoffrey Bayldon's outstanding performance as Catweazle.
propaganda.com.au /catweazle/index.shtml   (441 words)

  
 CATWEAZLE
Catweazle was a magician who lived in the eleventh century, but however hard he tried, his spells hardly ever worked.
How Catweazle is befriended by the farmer's son, Carrot, and how he finds his feet in the twentieth century, while hiding from the world in a water tower, makes a riotously funny story, as anyone who has watched the London Weekend Television serial of Catweazle will know.
Catweazle's presence produces just as many hilarious situations as it did in the first book, Catweazle.
www.sprint.net.au /~terbut/febrewry/fbabfactfile/catweazle.html   (415 words)

  
 "Catweazle" (1970)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Plot Summary: Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans who is cast into the future by magic.
Geoffrey Bayldon gives an Oscar winning performance as the magician who by mistake travels from 1066 to the English countryside of 1969, where he sets up home in an old water tower and makes friends with a young boy, so charmingly and naturally performed by Robin Davies.
(The second series is sadly inferior to the first, largely due to the very weak acting of Catweazle's second child companion and the less charming surroundings of a rather dull stately home.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0063881/combined   (361 words)

  
 This is York | CommuniGate | John's Catweazle Site
Catweazle was created by the actor and writer Richard Carpenter, later to script such memorable television productions as Robin of Sherwood.
Recorded entirely on film in colour, rare for most productions of the time, Catweazle brightened up the boring Sunday afternoons of my childhood back in 1970 / 71.
For two seasons the adventures of the eccentric eleventh-century wizard trapped in a world of bewilderment captivated both children and adults alike.
www.communigate.co.uk /york/catweazle   (127 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Catweazle: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Catweazle is his dream come true, the dream of a very (very) symphonic rock band.
That is not to say that the album is all emphasis and no substance: Walking On Waves is just one of their many funky, catchy and stirring songs.
Catweazle wisely updates the genre to the sound of the Nineties, with snippets of rap, gothic electronics and heavy metal mixed in the (thick) arrangements.
www.scaruffi.com /vol6/catweazl.html   (166 words)

  
 YouTube - catweazle
Catweazle - The Eye Of Time (Part 3 of 3)
Catweazle - The Curse of Rapkyn (Part 2 of 3)
Catweazle - The Curse of Rapkyn (Part 1 of 3)
www.youtube.com /watch?v=XUUW4PobzyQ   (469 words)

  
 Catweazle online - information and memorabilia. 80's TV/Movies, 80's Television and more!
Catweazle was a medieval wizard who managed to jump into the 20th century via a castle moat while being pursued by knights, presumably to try him for witchcraft (well that's how I remember it).
Catweazle would always start a spell with something like 'Salmy dalmy adonay' all with mystical music...
Of course Catweazle thought the was talking to him and responded and when the vicar told him to be quiet, the person on the other end thought they were talking to them...
www.doyouremember.co.uk /memory.asp?memID=858   (449 words)

  
 screenonline: Catweazle (1970-71)
Arriving in 1970, Catweazle is befriended by farmer's son Edward 'Carrot' Bennet (his ginger hair providing his nickname) who tries to explain to Catweazle the 'magic' of the 20th Century - electric light is 'electrickery' to him and the telephone the 'telling-bone'.
A second series saw Catweazle back in our time, taken in by the posh Cedric Collingford on his parents' country estate.
This run aimed for a tighter focus, each episode having Catweazle search for a symbol of the thirteen signs of the Magic Zodiac.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/591129   (365 words)

  
 Geoffrey Bayldon - Catweazle
eoffrey Bayldon is best remembered for his role as Catweazle*, that beautiful TV series about a wizard from an eleventh century Britain ruled by The Normans who travels forward to 1969.
He even has a ‘distinction’ of being one of the very few actors to turn down the plum part of Dr Who, a decision he made because he thought the character too old and the series too long.
I was lucky enough to persuade this charming, witty, intelligent and friendly man to chat about Catweazle and about Geoffrey’s career.
www.retrosellers.com /features80.htm   (3279 words)

  
 Catweazle
Meaning bandname: The name was taken from a British children television-series with the same name (aired in the early 70’s and also released as a series of paperback-books).
It is about the adventures of the magician Catweazle in the late Middle-Ages.
Sympathising with alot of the symbolism used in this series (“feeling isolated and alienated in this age of high technology, speed and profit”), it was decided to use this name for the band..
www.bacteria.nl /GronCatweazle.htm   (441 words)

  
 www.britvidz.co.uk - CATWEAZLE series 2
Prepare youself for an avalanche of pandemonium, as Catweazle returns to the twentieth century for another series of magical mayhem.
Making a welcome re-appearance as Catweazle, Geoffrey Bayldon is truly wonderful as the bumbling magician trapped nine hundred years ahead of his time.
Shot amongst the splendour of Brickendonbury Manor in Hertfordshire, during the summer of 1970, Catweazle will continue to delight adults and children everywhere with it's enchanting innocence, as well as serving as a magical reminder for those who saw it first time around.
www.britvidz.co.uk /children09.htm   (293 words)

  
 BBC - Oxford - Entertainment - The Catweazle Club
The foremost purveyor of this brand of entertainment has got to be the Catweazle club.
For those not familiar with the Catweazle brand it’s a performance space for people to come and express themselves in anyway they want – it sounds scary and sometimes it can be, but what ever goes on stage is received in a supportive and friendly manner.
With Oxford bristling with talent you’re almost guaranteed to catch a real treat each and every week so I picked a random Thursday night and took the opportunity to go along to see what I’d find.
www.bbc.co.uk /oxford/content/articles/2005/10/01/catweazle.shtml   (205 words)

  
 Sheffield Forum Archive - Anyone remember "Catweazle" the TV show?
I think you are trying to pretend to be too young for catweazle.
I used to have an English teacher we used to call Catweazle - the resemblance was remarkable
You can buy Catweazle videos on ebay but they go for a lot of money - must be hard to get hold of.
www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread/t-5634.html   (425 words)

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