The BEST episodes of Catweazle season 2
Every episode of Catweazle season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Catweazle season 2!
The series featured Geoffrey Bayldon as the title character, an eccentric, incompetent, dishevelled and smelly (but lovable) old 11th century wizard who accidentally travels through time to the year 1970 and befriends a young red-headed boy, nicknamed Carrot (Robin Davies), 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.
#1 - The Heavenly Twins
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1971
"Magic is magic" says Catweazle in one of his more profound moments. But even he seems confused when he meets a modern-day magician at a children's party.
#2 - The Battle of the Giants
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1971
Excitement grows as the local flower show gets under way in King's Farthing. But nobody is prepared for the effect of Catweazle's marrow-growing potion.
#3 - The Thirteenth Sign
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/1971
Catweazle has now collected all 12 signs of the zodiac. But he still needs to discover the 13th before he can fly. Will the great quest succeed in this last episode of the series?
#4 - The Walking Trees
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1971
Is Catweazle a spy? The army thinks so, and not even Cedric can save his friend from a military interrogation, which has disastrous consequences - for the army, that is!
#5 - The Magic Circle
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/1971
Groome is seeing things - or is he? A London doctor is consulted, but he finds Catweazle a far more interesting case than Groome.
#6 - The Ghost Hunters
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1971
Lady Collingford commands ghost hunters to be called to King's Farthing to investigate things which go bump in the night. Catweazle, of course, is doing some investigating himself.
#7 - Duck Halt
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1971
Now that Catweazle has been introduced to life in King's Farthing, he needs somewhere to live. But where? And why is he so interested in the sign swinging before the Bull Inn? The sign of Taurus.
#8 - The Familiar Spirit
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1971
Touchwood the toad is sick. Two identical twins, both local toad experts are consulted by Cedric, but things get out of hand when they discover their patient is 900 years old.
#9 - The Magic Riddle
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1971
Catweazle is back. Inevitably the return of the 11th century wizard for a new series of 20th century adventures spells trouble. Especially for Cedric, the 12 year old son of Lord and Lady Collingford who finds the magician hiding in his bedroom.
#10 - The Sign of the Crab
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1971
When burglars raid King's Farthing there are no prizes for guessing into whose hands the stolen property falls. Now Cedric tries to persuade the police that Catweazle is not the thief.
#11 - The Wogle Stone
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1971
Lord Collingford is tempted to sell King's Farthing and Duck Halt to an up-and-coming property tycoon. Luckily for Catweazle, the tycoon turns out to be very very superstitious.
#12 - The Enchanted King
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1971
A local sculptor is mistaken by Catweazle for a demon who "turns people into stone". Is Catweazle's magic as strong as the demon's? And where is Groome when the plaster flies?
#13 - The Black Wheels
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1971
When Groome loses his voice, Catweazle's efforts to find it reduce the residents of King's Farthing to a state of near hysteria.