A young schoolgirl called Debbie wonders into an old curiosity shop. There, she stumbles on a game called "Wonders in Letterland", which, to her surprise, comes alive. Befriending the game's inhabitants, Debbie soon learns of the evil witch T-Bag, and soon finds herself charged with locating a series of missing letters....

Arrival In Letterland

Debbie must learn the name of a guard in order to advance to the next stage of her quest...

Debbie In The Land Of B

Debbie befriends a friendly skipper called McKipper, who nails himself a treasured find in the form of a golden S, only to throw it back into the sea. Debbie and McSkipper embark on a search beneath the waves and encounter T-Bag and Seraphina the Seasprite...

Debbie In The Land Of S

Debbie teams up with archaeologist Indiana Inkspot to search fro the golden treasure of the inkers as well as the next missing letter

Debbie In The Land Of I

Debbie and Polar Pete are presented with a problem when T-Bag locks the letter P deep within an icy prison

Debbie In The Land Of P

Debbie embarks on a treasure hunt when her letters are taken by the pirate Rascally Roger...

Debbie In The Land Of R

Debbie and T-Shirt arrive in the land of V, where they come face to face with a vampire, and T-Shirt feels the power of the sleeping violets. T-Bag takes action and disguises herself as T-Shirt in a bid to seize Debbie's letters...

Debbie In The Land Of V

Debbie helps the elderly Fife O'Clock get his clock working again...

Debbie In The Land Of O

T-Bag, Debbie and T-Shirt arrive in the final zone of the Letterland game, where they must make a melancholy emperor laugh in order to attain his gold necklace..

Debbie In The Land Of E (1)

Debbie and T-Shirt race back to the beginning of the game, but find that T-Bag has a surprise up her sleeve that puts things in her favor. Can Debbie unravel the secret of the chest?

Back To Sqaure One (2)

Both Debbie and T-Shirt find themselves once again crossing paths with T-Bag, who has now taken residence in a story book. To ensure she cannot be destroyed, T-Bag brings a halt to time. Debbie must now embark on a quest to locate the silver numbers and restore the town clock to working order in order for all the stories in the book to end, and bring about T-Bag's defeat...

The Town Clock

Debbie befriends a dashing Prince searching for his ideal Princess. T-Bag discovers the silver shoes the Prince has prepared for his bride contain silver numbers and plots to attain them...

One, Two Buckle My Shoe

As Debbie is aided by Bunty Badshot in searching for the number three, T-Bag targets Bunty's reclusive brother Ben, whose cricket bats carry the vital number

Ben And Bunty Badshot

Debbie and junk collector Scrap Harry conjure forth a magic genie and attempt a wish for the number four, but the ancient genie is far too old to do magic. T-Bag manipulates Harry and the Genie into delivering Debbie into her clutches...

Scrap Harry

Debbie is cohered into having her hair cut by Ali Barber, a down-on-his-luck barber in desperate need of customers. As payment for the trim, he takes all of the silver numbers Debbie has collected thus far, which are in turn taken by a powerful Sultan. Meanwhile, T-Bag runs into hair problems all of her own and takes her fury out on The Sultan...

Ali Barber

When Debbie's Numbers are seized by good-natured Highwayman Dick Gherkin, T-Bag sets about preparing a trap for the theif..

Dick Gherkin

Debbie is mistaken for a singer by radio pirate jockey Long John Sylvia and her assistant Jack and is recruited to sing for their radio station. The station soon catches the attention of T-Bag, who tries out her own voice on the airwaves, with disastrous results...

Long John Sylvia

Debbie manipulates T-Bag into sending her and astrologist Professor Pockets to the moon, where they encounter aliens and musical rocks all en route to discovering the silver number eight....

Professor Pockets

When T-Bag strips T-Shirt of his powers, it falls to traveling entertaining Charlie Chuckles to teach him how to do a few fun magic tricks. Debbie encounters a depressed King who carries the number nine as a lucky charm. T-Bag demands to be entertained by the King and in desperation, the King asks Charlie Chuckles for help, but he refuses, insisting the King has not paid for any show before, but then the King promises him the number nine...

Charlie Chuckles (1)

T-Bag disguises herself and tricks Debbie into giving her the silver numbers. With the numbers finally in her possesion, T-Bag sets about plotting their destruction. With T-Shirt her only hope, can Debbie locate the remainder of the missing numbers in time?

The Magic Garden (2)

T-Bag takes up residence in a music box, using a new High-T plant to enhance her powers. When the cheerful Major Happy decides to play her a special tune using his Glockenspiel, T-Bag is nearly destroyed. in anger, she steals the Glockenspiel and scatters it's golden bells throughout the land. Debbie sets out on a quest to find them so Happy can use their power to vanquish T-Bag from the music box...

The Ousting Of Major Happy

Debbie's quest takes her to an unbearably hot desert, where she befriends water merchant Omar Caraffe, whose bird cage carries one of the golden bells. T-Bag schemes to take the bell and makes use of T-Shirt's ventriloquism to trick Omar into letting his guard down. Meanwhile, Debbie discovers a bottle containing a powerful genie...

Nights In Arabia

Debbie discovers that the crown of the soon-to-be-coronated Prince Ivan carries a golden bell...worse still, she discovers Ivan is the exact double of T-Shirt. T-Bag mistakes the obnoxious Ivan for T-Shirt and takes him back to the T-Room, whilst the real T-Shirt is manipulated by the evil Count Boris as part of his nefarious scheme to take over his kingdom via an abdication, but that depends on T-Shirt being successfully coronated as King...

Ivan The Horrible

Debbie is captured by Pirate Black Hearted Belle, who carries one of the golden bells around as an earring. Attempting to escape, Debbie ends up falling over and rendered with amnesia. Belle convinces Debbie that she is part of her pirate crew. Meanwhile, T-Bag and T-Shirt are visited by Mrs Merry, who proceeds to clean up the T-Room, T-Shirt takes a liking to her, whilst T-Bag greets her with frosty contempt...

Black Hearted Belle

Debbie allies herself with Bobby Jobsworth, an easily frightened explorer who is on a mission of mercy. Stumbling on an ancient tomb, Bobby is manipulated by T-Bag into persuading Debbie to enter the tomb, only for T-Bag to seal her inside. Meanwhile, T-Shirt attempts to celebrate Halloween...

Bobby Jobsworth And The Temple Of Doom

Debbie arrives in a Chinese world and meets Hi-Hat, a hat merchant attempting to please a Princess whose frequent mood swings prevent her from settling on a perfect piece of head wear. Seizing Debbie's golden bells for himself, Hi-Hat attaches the bells to a hat for the Princess, who takes it home. Hi-Hat is soon persuaded by T-Bag to retrieve the hat...but when T-Bag gets her hands on it, she finds the bells are missing. Furious, T-Bag sends T-Shirt on an errand to retrieve them. Mistaking T-Shirt for a butler, The Princess orders him to make her a cup of tea, only to fall head over heels for his cap. T-Shirt offers her his cap in exchange for the bells...

Hi-Hat

Debbie helps the kindly King Rufus search for his dog, who finds himself being cared for by T-Shirt. Sorceress Wilma Wishbone, enraged that the King rejected her services for a dog, discovers Rufus is now befriended by Debbie and puts her under a powerful sleeping spell...

Bell, Book And Candle

Debbie seeks out the next golden bell, only to discover it is in the clutches of the bad-tempered Max, a miller concerned by the lack of business he is making. Debbie agrres to work for Max in exchange for the golden bell as payment. T-Bag discovers that nobody has remembered her birthday...

Max The Miller

Debbie is befriended by Nikdit, who betrays her and steals her golden bells. He presents them to his master, who is obsessed with food. T-Shirt leaves T-Bag after she strips him of his powers and meets Nikdt, and the two scheme to rob Nikdt's master....

Nikdit The Thief

As Debbie and T-Shirt make their way back to the beginning, T-Bag lets her anger out on Major Happy, turning him into her new T-Caddy. Escaping, Happy informs Debbie that they need the frame to place the bells on. T-Bag captures T-Shirt and seizes the bells. As T-Shirt desperately makes a bid for freedom, it appears as if T-Bag has won...will things stay forever out of tune?

Happy Ending

T-Shirt is once again abducted by T-Bag, who has now set up shop inside a television set. Her plan this time is to transmit a hypnotic frequency over her new t.v station "Hi-TV" and brainwash the human race into singing her praises, but when her system shortens out, she seeks out advise from kindly Professor Sparkes, who informs her she needs a booster. Realizing T-Bag's intentions aren't noble, Sparkes tortures her with a jammer powered by indestructible crystals, but T-Bag is able to get the upper hand and scatters the crystals amongst the T.V Set's upcoming range of television shows. She hypnotists Sparkes into creating her needed power booster.

Determined to thwart T-Bag, T-Shirt is able to recruit t.v reporter Holly Anna Jones and assigns her the task of finding them before he too is enslaved by T-Bag's dark magic. Armed with one of the crystals, Holly must find the remainder in order to restore the Jammer and destroy T-Bag...

Sparkes

Holly is framed for robbery by T-Bag, whilst T-Shirt is mistaken for a mobster...

Gangsters

In search of the next crystal, Holly journeys to a monastery and meets Botanist Daisy Digwell, who is searching for a rare plant. T-Bag visits the monastery herself and plots a trap for Holly, and learns of a powerful Yeti patrolling the area, but what is it's secret?

Yeti!

JR Sudd, An advertising mogul, finds himself in a pickle when the star of his new Bubble Boy commercial comes down with the mumps. In his search for a replacement, he finds T-Shirt. Holly is also recruited as a potential star of the commercial by the JR's wife Krystal...

Bubble Boy

Holly and journalist Scoop Shuttleworth explore a vast pyramid and discover the next crystal within it, only for a menacing mummy to claim it. T-Bag finds herself seeing double when she is confronted by the Queen of the Nile...

Pyramids

T-Shirt celebrates Christmas in the T-Room whilst Holly has her crystals taken by the selfish and bitter Ebeneezer Scrimp. T-Nag and T-Shirt hatch a plot to obtain the crystals, only to end up convincing Scrimp that there really is a Santa Claus...

Scrimp

A powerful French Queen is constantly having her jewelery taken by masked robber The Scarlet Pimp. Seeking help in snaring the Pimp, she recruits T-Bag and T-Shirt and promises them a crystal as a reward. Holly is mistaken for an accomplice of the Pimp and is locked up...

The Two Musketeers

Holly stows away aboard The African Queen, a cargo ship, but is soon caught by the slimy Mr. Grimes, who hates children. Meanwhile, T-Shirt inadvertently hypnotizes T-Bag, reverting her to a child-like state at the snap of a finger...

The African Queen

In the wild west, Doc Leaf, a traveling salesman, is trying to convince Hotel owner Dorabella to try his latest herbal remedy, but she is not impressed. Holly arrives and asks Leaf if he has seen a crystal, but Doc tricks her and swaps his identical snakeskin bag with hers. T-Shirt once again leaves T-Bag and takes a similar bag with him to the west. It's not long before all the bags get mixed up and the race is on to find the correct one with all of the crystals...

Doc Leaf

Holly and T-Shirt return to Professor Sparkes lab with the crystals, unaware that he is still under T-Bag's control. T-Bag learns that the booster is finally ready, but it will take time to power up. With the booster nearly at optimum efficiency, the race is on to complete the jammer neccesary to destroy T-Bag before she is able to enslave the world with her hypnotic spell...but can Holly and T-Shirt succeed?

Turn On To T-Bag

T-Bag is summoned to the hall of the benevolent High-Tea, T-Bag's old mistress. The High-Tea nearly strips T-Bag of her powers and demands she become a part of the peaceful, tolerable T-Set, but T-Bag soon turns the tables and gains the power to exile the High-Tea and take control of the T-Set, she sets about capturing T-Shirt and Sally Simpkins, an Innocent visitor to the Curiosity Shop. 

Learning of T-Bag's plan to use the T-Set's enchanted silver spoons to harness the power of a celestial event for her own nefarious purposes, Sally, the High-Tea and T-Shirt attempt to thwart her, and end up scattering the spoons across the T-Set's various T-Junctions. Sally is charged with finding the spoons before T-Bag can...

The Stone Circle

Sally finds herself in the company of a childish roman Cesar, whom she must save from an attempted coup. T-Bag offers her help in overthrowing the emperor...

When In Rome

Whilst investigating the museum of an orbiting spaceship, Sally is confronted by the crew, who decide to leave her on a nearby planet....

Lost In Space

Sally arrives in a Turkish market. Deciding to quench h her thirst, she buys a bottle of lemonade from trader Karim Carmel, but inadvertently takes a bottle containing a mischievous spirit, who is transfixed by anything silver....

Turkish Delight

In the Austrian alps, scientist Wolfgang Krimper works feverishly on a cure for his aging, but ends up creating a formula that frequently switches him from an old man to a young boy. Things are worsened when T-Shirt takes a sip of the formula and regresses to a young baby. Sally's spoons are stolen and it falls to her and bar owner Hazel Knutt to get them back...

Hazell Knutt's Muesli Bar

Discovering that the next spoon is attached to a trophy intended for the winner of a signing competition, T-Bag and T-Shirt attempt to apply. Meanwhile, Sally agrees to help aspiring rock musician Ricky Romero try out for the competition...

Rock Star Baby

Sally is mistaken for a Romany called Rosie, who is her exact double, Rosie also happens to be Anastasia, daughter of King Leopold. T-Bag captures Rosie in a bid to get the next spoon, but ends up with a bag of beans instead....

Anastasia

T-Shirt tricks an art critic into thinking he has painted all of artist Vincent Van Driver's paintings, hoping he can get his hands on a Silver Spoon for T-Bag. T-Bag herself becomes paranoid over Friday The Thirteenth...

La Boheme

Queen Elizabeth demands to be entertained by the latest offering from playwright William Wagadagger. Exiled once again by T-Bag, T-Shirt bonds with The Queen and teaches her how to dance to pop music. With the final spoon at stake, Sally and T-Shirt agree to participate in William's play and entertain the Queen, but T-Bag is determined to prove that this time, the bad guys CAN win...

The Bard (1)

T-Bag has won. The silver spoons are in her possession and the celestial alignment is only hours away. Determined to thwart T-Bag at all costs, T-Shirt and Sally brave spiders and snakes all in a final desperate gamble to retrieve the spoons, but they find the odds stacked against them. Can anything be done to prevent T-Bag from attaining mastery over the universe?

The Ceremony (2)

Just when T-Shirt thinks he's rid himself of one bossy bag, another rears her head. Tabatha Bag, sister of Tallulah Bag,. manipulates kindly Captain Cockle into letting her take up residence in his lighthouse, where she promptly throws him out. 

The captain calls on Sally SImpkins for help and together the two attempt to expel Tabatha using the mystical Pearls of Wisdom, but Tabatha, having tricked T-Shirt into giving her the power she needs to rival Tallulah's magic, scatters the Pearls across the world. Sally must now find them if they are to stand a chance of defeating the new and less-than-improved T-Bag...

Any Old Port

Sally travels to the wild west where a burglar stashes his loot in her bag, and in doing so, frames her for robbery. She ends up in jail. T-Bag and T-Shirt arrive in town eager to take advantage of the situation....

High Noon

When Willaby, the prized dog of Lady Ruffles, goes missing, Ruffles offer a reward. With the next pearl at stake, T-Bag and T-Shirt offer their services disguised as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Can Sally cream their case?

Elementary, My Dear What-Not

Sally's pearls are stolen by Grimble, and attaches them to a jacket made espeically for Lord Squiffington-Fop. Now Sally and T-Bag must infiltrate Squiffy's masked ball in order to retrieve them...

Grimble And Squiffy

Sally arrives on a Royal Navy ship, where a mutiny is on the rise. T-Bag and T-Shirt offer their help in making sure the mutiny is a success, can Sally warn the captain in time and secure the next pearl?

Mutiny!

Sally arrives at Castle McCarr in the Scottish islands, but can she uncover the secret of the Phantom Piper?

The Ghost Of Castle McCarr

Arriving in Egypt, T-Shirt conspires with servant girl Osiris to take the next pearl, but discovers that her Prince is his exact double...

Tut Tut

Sally enters a talent contest at Sherwood Forest,. whilst T-Bag and T-Shirt join Robyn Hood's band of merry men in a bid to take the pearls, which have been taken from Sally by the crafty Robyn..

Cedric Sackbutt's Search For A Song

T-Shirt is stripped of his magic by T-Bag and is sent to a fort belonging to the foreign legion, where he signs up. Sally arrives at the fort in search of the final pearl and meets gambler Rick O'Shea. Meanwhile, T-Bag gains an unlikely admirer in the form of Legionnaire Beau Legge...

Play It Again Sal

Sally and T-Shirt reunite with Captain Cockle, but T-Bag is able to gain the upper hand and tricks Cockle into giving her the pearls. His spirit crushed, Cockle seemingly joins T-Bag's cause, but it is in fact a ruse and he is able to get the children into the T-Room with what they require to defeat T-Bag, but with one pearl missing, can they hope to win the game and prevent T-Bag from reigning supreme?

The Pearls Of Wisdom

T-Bag is a witch-like character who appears in a television series that ran from 1985 to 1992 on Children's ITV. Written by Grant Cathro and Lee Pressman, each season adopted a different title and features a single story told over several episodes.

All Episodes of T-Bag

Season 1

Arrival In Letterland

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/1985

Debbie In The Land Of B

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/1985

Debbie In The Land Of S

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/1985

Debbie In The Land Of I

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/1985

Debbie In The Land Of P

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/1985

Debbie In The Land Of R

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/1985

Debbie In The Land Of V

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/1985

Debbie In The Land Of O

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/1985

Debbie In The Land Of E (1)

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/1985

Back To Sqaure One (2)

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/1985