Bagpuss

Emily Brings home a bottle with some bits of wood in it. Professor Yaffle tells them it is a ship-in-a-bottle. Bagpuss finds this puzzling, wondering where it would sail to. Wit...

Emily brings in a very old, dirty bit of rag, which as ever, Yaffle can see no value in. The mice start to vigorously clean the cloth, before being stopped by Madeleine. She implor...

Emily brings a collection of ornamental enamel pieces. For a while these are a cat and a bird, but later they decide that it is a necklace of jewels for a frog princess who doesn'...

One dirty old shoe is left for Bagpuss and his friends to repair, and the mice suggest that it might be suitable for living in, which leads Madeleine to sing along with the mouse o...

Nobody really knows what the floppy tartan cloth object that Emily has brought is, except Bagpuss. He says it is a small soft Hamish, a Highland beast that keeps its distance beca...

Bagpuss and his friends learn of a Chinese wise man, his turtle friends and his love of solitude.

Emily brings a tatty straw elephant without any ears. Bagpuss and his friends try to solve the mystery of how it lost its ears by singing songs...

Emily leaves a box in front of Bagpuss, which has windows and a front door. The mice open it up, revealing the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Mill, and Gabriel and Madeleine sing a so...

Emily brings in a model of a giant, and Bagpuss tells the story of how a kindly witch makes an sad giant happy.

Emily brings in a plant called Old Man's Beard. The friends try to figure out why it is has this name, and Bagpuss tells the story of a king who used his silvery beard to make carp...

Emily brings in an old bucket with a hole in it, which turns out to be the home of a leprechaun, an old friend of Bagpuss, and his magic fiddle plays some tunes for everyone.

Yaffle comes down from his bookend to find a basket, containing items. The mice search it and find a twig broom, which leads Madeleine and Gabriel to sing a song about a woman who...

Emily brings in a piece of cloth, which Charlie Mouse identifies as a house for a rag doll, leading to a several rag jokes from the mice! They fold up the cloth so that Bagpuss can...