Season 1
7.7/1041 votesShip in a Bottle
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/1974
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. With the help of a nursery rhyme and a poem about Mermaids, the ship is magically reassembled.
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- 7.8/1030 votes
The Owls of Athens
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/1974
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 implores the mice to be more gentle with it, and they clean it lovingly, to reveal an old cushion cover depicting an owl. The mice run away, scared by the owl, but come back when they realise it isn't real...
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- 7.4/1031 votes
The Frog Princess
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/1974
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't fancy any of the young princes, so she kisses a frog...
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- 7.8/1029 votes
The Ballet Shoe
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/1974
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 organ. Yaffle doesn't believe anyone could live in a shoe, so the mice trick him by going around and around, and appearing out of the shoe!
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- 7.8/1031 votes
The Hamish
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/1974
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 because it makes a terrible noise, like bagpipes played backwards. He tells a heart-rending story of Tavish McTavish, who also made a terrible noise, playing his bagpipes forwards, and his friendship with the Hamish.
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- 8.5/1049 votes
The Mouse Mill
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/1974
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 song about milling with help from the Mouse Organ.
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- 7.3/1024 votes
Old Man's Beard
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/1974
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 carpets. Madeline sings a song about a master weaver.
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- 7.4/1025 votes
- 7.6/1027 votes
Uncle Feedle
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/7/1974
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 use it as a thinking cap, and create the story of Uncle Feedle, which Gabriel and Madeleine sing along to.
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