Catweazle

Catweazle

Release Date:  2/22/1970
Country of Release:  UK
Length:  30 minutes
MPAA: 
Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV COM FAM FAN
Release Message:  Returning to the house to learn about the ''Electrickery" Catweazle (Geoffrey Bayldon) hears the kettle whistling in the kitchen and thinks it's a demon.
Description:  Returning to the house to learn about the ''Electrickery" Catweazle hears the kettle whistling in the kitchen and thinks it's a demon. He hides under the dining room table and draws a circle in chalk around himÊto protect himself whilst blowing on his magic thumb ring and chanting ''sator arepo tenet opera rotas''. Meanwhile Carrott's father comes into the house and can smell the same smell he first noticed in the barn the night before. Wondering how he can get catweazle out of the room he deliberately knocks something over on the table and his father leaves to get something from the kitchen to clean it with.Trying to leave the house Catweazle is almost spotted by farmhand Sam and takes himself up to Carott's bedroom. After trying to clean the chalk stain off the carpet that Catweazle had made,Carrott follows his nose up to his bedroom where he finds Catweazle hiding in his wardrobe.Catweazle is in awe of how Carrott discovers him and then begs to be shown the ''magic of electrickery" again.Carrott oblidges by switching on and off his bedside lamp.Catweazle moves over to the lamp and removes the bulb to examine it.He then tries to flick the light on and off and is most annoyed with himself when it doesn't work because the bulb isn't in the lamp. Carrott tells him he can't stay there and has to leave asking him to go back to where he stayed the night before(which was an old chicken house),but before going says he needs a bath. Taking him to the bathroom he runs the bath and tells him to get into it."not the waater,I shall drown'' insists Catweazle. Carrott telss him to remove his robe(to which Catweazle looks indignent and disgusted).Timidly he gets into the bath and screams ''it burns it burns'' and starts to abuse Carrott calling him a maggott etc.Carrott adds more cold water and meanwhile downstairs the local housekeeper hears the bath water running thinking it a strange time to take a bath goes upstairs to investigate and runs into Carrott on the landing who is on his way to get clean towels.His feeble attempts to explain why he's having a bath at that time of the day rouses the housekeeper's suspicion who goes into the bathroom and sees a bony looking catweazle sitting in the bath.Upon seeing her he screams and ''bid thee hence''.Stepping out of the bath and wrapping himself in a bath mat he places a spell on the housekeeper to make her think he is invisible using ''adamcos''. The housekeeper leaves taking the dirty laundry including Catweazle's robe with her. Upon realising this he and Carrott make attempts to retrieve it.When they see it being put out on the washing line Catweazle charges over to get it knowing he's safe as the housekeeper is still under his ''invisible spell''.However Sam the farmhand appears,so Catweazle charges off into the bushes.Neither the housekeeper or Mr Bennett(carrott's father) believe him when he describes ''the old tramp'' and they both think Sam is dillusional and is told to sit and rest a while. Once recovered(though still not convinced he's crazy)Sam agrees to go chop down the old chicken house for Mr Bennett.The same Chicken house that Catweazle had been staying in. Once there with his axe Sam once again sees Catweazle and other some verbal exchanges Sam realises Catweazle is real(and in turn that he himself isn't crazy) tries to attack Catweazle who runs back into the chicken house before it falls to the ground after being hit with Sam's Axe. Catweazle runs off into the woods and is followed by Carrott at an old water tank.Climbing up into it Carrott tells him it's dangerous because of the water inside.However the tank is empty and Catweazle decides this will be his new home as he was sent to it by a great spirit and names the tank in his honour "Castle Saburac". Looking at "Touchwood" he tells it that this will be thier new home where they will together ''make great magic'' followed by his customary ''Tcha".