0:00:29 > 0:00:34- Oh, look! That's it. - Oh, isn't it white!
0:00:35 > 0:00:39EXCITED CHATTERING
0:00:41 > 0:00:47MOTHER: Well, here we are.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53- Come on, Cyril. Quick. - Be careful now.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58Hurry up! Hello.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02- Be careful! - Come on!
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Let's get this stuff inside.
0:01:07 > 0:01:13Martha! We're still in a state.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18Oh, my Lamb... This is better than London.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22CHILDREN SHOUT JOYFULLY
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Oh, it's lovely. Magic. A magic bower.
0:01:43 > 0:01:50- Talking to yourself, Anthea? - It doesn't always mean you're mad.
0:01:50 > 0:01:57- I found a rabbit hutch.- Any rabbits in it?- No, but I'll wish for one.
0:01:57 > 0:02:05- Jane, it's no good just wishing. - Come on, Bobs. Let's explore.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10Look sharp now. Madam's going back to the station.
0:02:10 > 0:02:17It all seems such a muddle. Don't you worry, Ma'am.
0:02:17 > 0:02:24I told the children to be good. Especially Master Robert.
0:02:24 > 0:02:31And I've told them to look after their little brother sometimes.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35It ain't the Lamb that's any trouble, Ma'am.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40- We're free! - Wonderful! Freedom!
0:02:43 > 0:02:50- Look, I've found a path. - Have you been down here before?
0:02:51 > 0:02:56This must be the place Father told me about.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01- It's thousands of years old. - Really?
0:03:01 > 0:03:08- It's funny. - Sort of empty, but not empty.
0:03:14 > 0:03:21Well, darlings, will it do? ALL REPLY AT ONCE
0:03:21 > 0:03:27- There's a sandy place. Just like the seaside.- Oh?
0:03:27 > 0:03:31I'm SO pleased you like it.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Before you go, Ma'am, I shall have to know what's what.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41Are they allowed to play anywhere?
0:03:41 > 0:03:47- Oh, please!- We've been stuck in London for ages!
0:03:47 > 0:03:52- Please! - Are they to be let go, Ma'am?
0:03:52 > 0:03:57Oh, I think so, Martha.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01I'm sure nothing can happen here.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06Now, it's time I was going. Be good, darlings.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10I'll be back as soon as ever I can.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16Look after Jane. And Robert...be good.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21- Have a good journey. - I'm wishing she's back soon.
0:04:21 > 0:04:27Bye-bye, darlings! Bye-bye!
0:04:27 > 0:04:31- Goodbye!- Goodbye, Mother!
0:04:31 > 0:04:36- All right, Master Robert? - Yes, Martha.
0:04:36 > 0:04:44- We start digging for Australia first thing tomorrow!- Yes.- Yes.
0:04:50 > 0:04:57- Here they come.- Hope they've got lemonade.- They've got the Lamb.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Oh, no!
0:05:00 > 0:05:05- Is this it? - Oh, he's asleep.
0:05:07 > 0:05:13- Doesn't look like the seaside. - Father said it was once.
0:05:13 > 0:05:20- There might be shells and fossils thousands of years old.- Come on!
0:05:20 > 0:05:26- There!- I think you've made it too big.
0:05:26 > 0:05:32- Do they walk upside down? - What?- In Australia.
0:05:32 > 0:05:41- Australia's too far. It's a castle now.- You need the sea coming in.
0:05:41 > 0:05:49- I'm going to look for fossils. - Help us to build up the ramparts.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55A spade...
0:06:06 > 0:06:13Ah-h-h-h-h! There's something there!
0:06:13 > 0:06:18- A snake? - I'm not afraid of snakes.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- I could tame it.- You couldn't!
0:06:21 > 0:06:29Don't be silly. It's not a snake. It's got feet and fur. I saw them.
0:06:29 > 0:06:36You'll hurt it. Look, I know this sounds silly, but it spoke.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41- It really did.- Come off it! - It DID.
0:06:41 > 0:06:48- It said, "You let me alone." - You've gone off your nut!
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Ah-h-h... Not the fur again!
0:06:51 > 0:06:58- You let me alone! - We wish you'd come out.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Well, if that's your wish...
0:07:00 > 0:07:05CREATURE PUFFS AND PANTS
0:07:10 > 0:07:14SPLUTTERING AND COUGHING
0:07:15 > 0:07:19I must have dropped off asleep.
0:07:19 > 0:07:26What is it?Is it that hat that makes her talk nonsense?
0:07:26 > 0:07:32Please don't be cross. We just want to know...
0:07:32 > 0:07:36- who you are.- You don't know?!
0:07:36 > 0:07:43Do you mean to say you don't know a Psammead when you see one?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45(What's a Psammead?)
0:07:45 > 0:07:52- That's Greek to me.- Well, in plain English - a sand-fairy.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56A fairy?!
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- Of course!- We can see that now.
0:08:00 > 0:08:06- Hmph!- Don't go. I didn't know you were a sand-fairy.
0:08:06 > 0:08:14- but I knew you were wonderful. Please, don't go.- Oh, all right.
0:08:14 > 0:08:21If you talk to me nicely, perhaps I'll answer you. Say something!
0:08:21 > 0:08:25(Say something.)
0:08:25 > 0:08:29Er...how long have you lived here?
0:08:29 > 0:08:34Oh, ages. Several thousand years.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- Oh, tell us about it.- Please!
0:08:37 > 0:08:45- We don't know anything about you. - I am the last of the Psammeads.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48What happened to the others?
0:08:48 > 0:08:53The nasty, wet, bubbling sea came in.
0:08:53 > 0:08:59When a sand-fairy gets wet, it catches cold and dies.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02And did YOU get wet?
0:09:02 > 0:09:09Only once. The end of my twelfth whisker.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12I can still feel it sometimes.
0:09:12 > 0:09:18- Are pterodactyls plentiful now? - (What?)
0:09:18 > 0:09:21What do you have for breakfast?
0:09:21 > 0:09:25- Porridge.- And toast and things.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30In those days, sand-fairies could grant wishes.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Wishes...
0:09:33 > 0:09:39Children would wish for a pterodactyl for breakfast.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45- But they're enormous!- I could... - I haven't finished.
0:09:45 > 0:09:51What was left at sunset turned to stone.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Of course! Fossils!
0:09:54 > 0:09:59Now I'm not going to tell you another thing.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Oh, just one more. Please!
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- Can you still give wishes?- Yes.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12You wished I'd come out. And I did.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16- May we have another?- All right.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20But hurry up. I'm tired of you.
0:10:20 > 0:10:25- Come on.- What do we wish for? - You're the oldest.
0:10:25 > 0:10:31There is one we talked about... Be quick!
0:10:31 > 0:10:38- Go on.- I wish we were all as beautiful as the day.
0:10:41 > 0:10:48Tchhhhhhhh harrrrr... Paaaaaaaaa!
0:10:48 > 0:10:53It's no good. I'm out of practice.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56- Good!- Please, try again.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59You've already had one wish.
0:10:59 > 0:11:04I can only manage one a day. Oh, please!
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- It will hurt itself.- No, it won't.
0:11:14 > 0:11:20Hmmmmmmmmmm! Pffffff...
0:11:20 > 0:11:26That's all right. It will be easier tomorrow.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31- Did it hurt much? - Only my whisker. Good-day!
0:11:46 > 0:11:54- Have you seen...?- Anthea?! I know that darn in your pinafore.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- Jane?- Cyril?- Crikey!
0:11:58 > 0:12:02- The wish!- How do I look?
0:12:02 > 0:12:09- Well...I liked you better before. - You all look like Christmas cards!
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Oh, no! The Lamb!
0:12:17 > 0:12:23- He's just the same. - He's too young for wishes.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27How long will we look like this?
0:12:32 > 0:12:37Robert, I've just had an awful thought.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- Sunset...- What?
0:12:41 > 0:12:48- The pterodactyls turned to stone! - So what?
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- What if WE turned to stone? - CRYING
0:12:52 > 0:12:56He doesn't know me.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05- He's our baby.- You wished it.
0:13:05 > 0:13:11- Suppose we stay like this. - Or turn to stone!
0:13:11 > 0:13:17- It's HER fault! - It is my fault.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22It's no good rowing. I want some dinner.
0:13:22 > 0:13:27It's all right, puss-cat. Come on!
0:13:44 > 0:13:48X marks the spot.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Thanks be, you're safe back.
0:14:00 > 0:14:06Where are the others? And who are all of you?
0:14:06 > 0:14:13- We're us.- And who's "us"? - Us. We're beautiful as the day.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Clear off!
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Go on, then.
0:14:24 > 0:14:31- Look, Martha...- Clear off, I said. - I'm Cyril and we're jolly hungry.
0:14:31 > 0:14:39- Let us in.- Well, I never! Drat your impudence!
0:14:47 > 0:14:53- Martha!- Martha! - Let us in. It's US.
0:14:53 > 0:15:01- YOU again!- I'm Anthea and I'm ravenous. It's past dinner-time.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06Then go home to your dinners, whoever you are!
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Hoi! >
0:15:12 > 0:15:15I'll fetch the police to you!
0:15:15 > 0:15:19We'll get sent to prison!
0:15:19 > 0:15:25You don't go to prison for being beautiful.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Clear off, you little varmints!
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Ahhhhh!
0:15:37 > 0:15:46Well, we just sit here till sunset, I suppose. And see what happens.
0:15:46 > 0:15:52'We're all going to turn to stone. I know we are.'
0:15:52 > 0:15:56'If we do come out all right,
0:15:56 > 0:16:02'we'll ask if the servants won't notice anything.'
0:16:02 > 0:16:07'I can't feel my foot. It's turned to stone!
0:16:07 > 0:16:12'Oh, no... Perhaps it's just gone to sleep.'
0:16:12 > 0:16:18'The sand-fairy will give us another wish tomorrow.
0:16:18 > 0:16:23'It would know if we're going to turn to stone.'
0:16:33 > 0:16:38Am I here? Ouch! I must be.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45We're back to ourselves again!
0:16:45 > 0:16:51- Cyril...Robert. - Ow!- We're not stone!
0:16:51 > 0:16:56- What a relief! - How nice and ugly you look.
0:16:56 > 0:17:03- I hated you all being beautiful. - Come on, ugly mugs. Supper!
0:17:03 > 0:17:09Where have you been? In a ditch by the look of you!
0:17:09 > 0:17:15- Four good dinners wasted! - We did try to come back.
0:17:15 > 0:17:23And what stopped you? Did I(?) You'll be lucky to GET any supper!
0:17:23 > 0:17:29Go on! And clean yourselves up first.
0:17:32 > 0:17:40- They were a good-looking lot, I must say. But impudent!- I know.
0:17:40 > 0:17:47- And where were you all that time? Naughty things!- Um...in the lane.
0:17:47 > 0:17:54- The children kept us there. - We hated them.
0:17:54 > 0:18:00Well, if you see them again, don't speak to them.
0:18:00 > 0:18:08You come and you tell me. I'll spoil their beauty for 'em.
0:18:08 > 0:18:15- Yippee!- We don't have the Lamb to push. And Martha's in town.
0:18:15 > 0:18:21- What will we wish today? - Not to be beautiful!
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Oh, please let it be there.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Right... Keep back!
0:18:42 > 0:18:46SPLUTTERS
0:18:46 > 0:18:49How's your whisker this morning?
0:18:49 > 0:18:55It had a restless night. Are you up to giving wishes?
0:18:55 > 0:19:01- We'd like a little extra wish. - What is it?
0:19:01 > 0:19:08- We don't want the maids to notice. - If you don't mind.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11And thank you very much.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Done! What's today's wish?
0:19:23 > 0:19:30- We want to be rich. Beyond the dreams of...- Avarice.
0:19:30 > 0:19:36- In gold? - Yes, please! Millions of it!
0:19:36 > 0:19:41- This place full be enough? - Oh, yes!
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Then you'd better get out quick.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49I hope your whisker's better soon.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00Much good may it do you!
0:20:13 > 0:20:18- It's not sovereigns! - Well done!
0:20:18 > 0:20:24- How wonderful! - We're rich! We're rich!
0:20:24 > 0:20:29Let's fill our pockets and go and buy things!
0:20:29 > 0:20:34- It might turn to stone at sunset. - It's heavy.
0:20:34 > 0:20:41- There's a pony-cart in the village. - Shall we buy it?- No, hire it.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Then, we can buy things.
0:20:44 > 0:20:51# Half a pound of tuppenny rice Half a pound of treacle
0:20:51 > 0:20:57# That's the way the money goes Pop! - goes the weasel
0:20:57 > 0:21:04# That's the way the money goes Pop! - goes the weasel. #
0:21:11 > 0:21:17- I'll do it. I've got the best manners.- Huh!
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Excuse me...
0:21:20 > 0:21:25- 'Afternoon! - Do you know what this is?
0:21:29 > 0:21:33That's a spade-guinea, I reckon!
0:21:33 > 0:21:41- Yours, is it?- Oh, yes. Could you drive us to town?
0:21:41 > 0:21:46There's four of us. The Lamb's at home.
0:21:46 > 0:21:53- Yeah, I reckon. Well done!- Jolly good!
0:21:57 > 0:22:02Just think - kings of all we survey!
0:22:02 > 0:22:06I'm going to buy two rabbits!
0:22:06 > 0:22:12Mr Crispin, where would you buy a carriage and horses?
0:22:12 > 0:22:19Billy Peasemarsh, I reckon. Your pa going to buy one, is he?
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Not exactly...
0:22:33 > 0:22:39Whoa! Wait, shall I? Take you back?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42No, thank you very much.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47- Hurray! We're here! - Ready?- Yes!- Yes!
0:22:47 > 0:22:51Now remember, Martha's in town!
0:22:51 > 0:22:57- Thank you very much, Mr Crispin. - Thank you!- Thank you. Goodbye!
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Hurray!- We're rich!
0:23:01 > 0:23:06# When you want your heart's desire And there's nothing but the fire
0:23:06 > 0:23:11# Of a madly yearning wild imagination
0:23:11 > 0:23:16# All you have to do is choose Otherwise, you're bound to lose
0:23:16 > 0:23:21# Something special in your life will pass you by
0:23:21 > 0:23:26# Castles in the air or a chest of purest gold
0:23:26 > 0:23:33# Cast aside despair Start a quest before you're o-o-o-o-old
0:23:33 > 0:23:39# Try wishing a little harder every day
0:23:39 > 0:23:44# Try wishing To chase the clouds away
0:23:44 > 0:23:49# In the twinkling of an eye You'll grow tall or even fly
0:23:49 > 0:23:53# You don't know until you try So, do...
0:23:53 > 0:24:01# And with the magic that you find we will dream away. #
0:24:01 > 0:24:06Subtitles by Eithne Thomson BBC - 1991