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 Stone Circle
Release Date: 1989-01-03T-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...
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Episode 2 - When In Rome
Release Date: 1989-01-10Sally 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...
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Episode 3 - Lost In Space
Release Date: 1989-01-17Whilst investigating the museum of an orbiting spaceship, Sally is confronted by the crew, who decide to leave her on a nearby planet....
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Episode 4 - Turkish Delight
Release Date: 1989-01-24Sally 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....
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Episode 5 - Hazell Knutt's Muesli Bar
Release Date: 1989-01-31In 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...
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Episode 6 - Rock Star Baby
Release Date: 1989-02-07Discovering 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...
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Episode 7 - Anastasia
Release Date: 1989-02-13Sally 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....
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Episode 8 - La Boheme
Release Date: 1989-02-21T-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...
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Episode 9 - The Bard (1)
Release Date: 1989-02-28Queen 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...
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Episode 10 - The Ceremony (2)
Release Date: 1989-03-07T-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?