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 - Sparkes
Release Date: 1988-01-05T-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...
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Episode 2 - Gangsters
Release Date: 1988-01-12Holly is framed for robbery by T-Bag, whilst T-Shirt is mistaken for a mobster...
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Episode 3 - Yeti!
Release Date: 1988-01-19In 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?
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Episode 4 - Bubble Boy
Release Date: 1988-01-21JR 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...
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Episode 5 - Pyramids
Release Date: 1988-02-02Holly 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...
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Episode 6 - Scrimp
Release Date: 1988-02-09T-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...
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Episode 7 - The Two Musketeers
Release Date: 1988-02-16A 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...
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Episode 8 - The African Queen
Release Date: 1988-02-23Holly 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...
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Episode 9 - Doc Leaf
Release Date: 1988-03-01In 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...
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Episode 10 - Turn On To T-Bag
Release Date: 1988-03-08Holly 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?