What use is a dirty old ballet shoe? The mice suggest they should live in it, and sing the rhyme about the Old Woman who lived in a shoe.

Emily brings a tiny basket with a twig broom in it. Perhaps it is the broom the old woman uses to brush the cobwebs out of the sky.

Emily brings them a bashed up old Irish bucket - and smoke and the sound of a fiddle being played comes from it.

A twisted tangle of bits of wood and wool proves impossible to untangle, so Bagpuss tells the story of the King of the Carpet People.

Emily brings a marvellous mechanical toy mill. The mice say it is a chocolate biscuit mill.

A piece of folded cloth seems to be a sort of house. Who would live in it? A rag doll.

Professor Yaffle tells the story of the Wise Man of Ling-Po, who with the turtles played a trick to prove that he was a man of powerful magic.

Bagpuss tells the story of the friendship between a lonely Scotsman and a small soft Hamish, who was the only creature that could bear to hear him play the bagpipes.

A handful of flat enamel pieces arrive at the shop. Might they be jewels for a frog princess?

An extremely bedraggled straw elephant without ears arrives. Bagpuss tells the story of a poor elephant who goes flying from his rhubarb tree in the rain.

Bagpuss tells a story about a noisy giant who broke a statuette of himself, and a friendly magician who turned him into the same size as the statuette.

Classic animated puppet series for children. Bagpuss's owner Emily brings home a bottle with some bits of wood inside. Show more

Emily brings in a dirty old piece of rag. When the mice reveal the likeness of an owl, Madeleine tells a story about the owls of Athens, who were such beautiful singers.