Catweazle

Catweazle is 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 and 1971. There were two series, both with 13 episodes at 25 minutes each. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec . The series featured Geoffrey Bayldon as the title character, an eccentric, dishevelled and smelly old 11th century wizard who... accidentally travels through time to the year 1969 and befriends a young red-headed boy, nicknamed Carrot , who spends most of the rest of the series attempting to hide Catweazle from his father and farmhand Sam. Meanwhile Catweazle searches for a way to return to his own time whilst hiding out in 'Castle Saburac', a disused water tower, with his familiar, a toad called Touchwood.
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