T-Bag (1985)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Ousting Of Major Happy
Release Date: 1987-01-23T-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...
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Episode 2 - Nights In Arabia
Release Date: 1987-01-30Debbie'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...
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Episode 3 - Ivan The Horrible
Release Date: 1987-02-06Debbie 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...
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Episode 4 - Black Hearted Belle
Release Date: 1987-02-13Debbie 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...
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Episode 5 - Bobby Jobsworth And The Temple Of Doom
Release Date: 1987-02-20Debbie 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...
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Episode 6 - Hi-Hat
Release Date: 1987-02-27Debbie 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...
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Episode 7 - Bell, Book And Candle
Release Date: 1987-03-06Debbie 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...
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Episode 8 - Max The Miller
Release Date: 1987-03-13Debbie 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...
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Episode 9 - Nikdit The Thief
Release Date: 1987-03-20Debbie 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....
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Episode 10 - Happy Ending
Release Date: 1987-03-27As 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?