0:00:30 > 0:00:34Oh... It's cold...
0:00:34 > 0:00:40Whatever...? Oh, my sainted aunt! Wake up! Wake UP!!
0:00:40 > 0:00:47- Our wings! Oh, no! - Snivelling won't get us down!
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Door.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55It's stiff.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59It's locked!
0:00:59 > 0:01:06- It will only be for one night. - What if it's haunted?
0:01:06 > 0:01:13- Someone will let us out.- And find this! They'll try us as thieves.
0:01:13 > 0:01:19- You said it wasn't stealing.- Um... - Let's throw it down!
0:01:19 > 0:01:26- And hit someone on the head? - I want my tea!- We just ate!
0:01:26 > 0:01:31- I want to go home...! - Don't cry, Pusscat.
0:01:31 > 0:01:38- If she howls loud enough somebody will hear us and let us out.- Ah.
0:01:40 > 0:01:47We must risk the siphon. I'll button it up inside my jacket.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52The vicarage lights are still on. We must yell.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00- One, two, three-ee!- HE-ELP!
0:02:00 > 0:02:06- Again! One, two, three!- HELP!!
0:02:06 > 0:02:14DOG BARKS Heavens! A murder in MY church!
0:02:14 > 0:02:18 The lunatic that stole the ham!
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Sir! Sir!
0:02:21 > 0:02:28Andrew! The very man! We've a lunatic in the church.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Lunatic? You heard screams?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34< ..Yes.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Go back inside, dear.
0:02:38 > 0:02:44And bolt the door. HELP! >
0:02:44 > 0:02:48HELP! >
0:02:48 > 0:02:54More than one! Seem to be up in the air. Strange.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Tower! >
0:02:56 > 0:03:03Come down, then! Can't. Door locked.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07- Let us out!- We're coming!
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- I'll get a policeman and a gun.- Oh.
0:03:11 > 0:03:20Andrew, that's not the truth. Near enough. For them.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37- Hello! You there!- Hello.
0:03:37 > 0:03:43- How many of you are there?- Four. - (Plenty...of lunatics!)
0:03:43 > 0:03:47- Are you armed?- What?- I've a gun.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Don't shoot!
0:03:50 > 0:03:54That sounded like a little...
0:03:54 > 0:04:01I don't open this door till you move to the other side of the tower.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06If one of you comes at me, I fire. (Now!)
0:04:08 > 0:04:12If it ain't a pack of kiddies!
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Very good, madam.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19There you are. Put that round you.
0:04:19 > 0:04:26What I don't understand is how you came to be locked in the tower.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31We went up...and we went to sleep.
0:04:31 > 0:04:40- When we awoke the door was locked. So we yelled.- You frightened us.
0:04:40 > 0:04:46- Yes. - You ought to be ashamed!
0:04:46 > 0:04:50JANE: Truly, we are.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Please. They'll worry at home.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59- Can you take us home?- Well, I...
0:04:59 > 0:05:04Ask what he has under his jacket.
0:05:10 > 0:05:18- Well...there you are, then.- But... - We took it and some ham and bread.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22We didn't take any cakes OR jams.
0:05:22 > 0:05:28Only necessities. We left half-a-crown and a letter.
0:05:28 > 0:05:35Oh, don't send us to prison! How did you reach the window?
0:05:36 > 0:05:40I'm afraid I can't tell you that.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44DO forgive us and take us home!
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Thank you for bringing us back.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57That's all right.
0:05:57 > 0:06:04- You'll catch it NOW, I daresay. - Mother's away. Martha WILL shout!
0:06:04 > 0:06:09Is that her I see with a baby?
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Maybe you've done me a good turn...
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Who's there? Is that the police?
0:06:16 > 0:06:23WHERE have you been?! Andrew Beale at your service.
0:06:23 > 0:06:30You naughty things! Whatever have they been up to NOW?
0:06:30 > 0:06:36Bit of a long story. If you was to offer me tea...
0:06:47 > 0:06:51Up with the drawbridge.
0:06:53 > 0:07:01It's always the same. Every time we have a wish we get in hot water.
0:07:01 > 0:07:07- And are kept in. - Andrew's sweet on Martha.
0:07:07 > 0:07:14- Rubbish! Let's see if we can get Martha to let one of us out.- Why?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18To get a wish from the psammead!
0:07:18 > 0:07:23SHE SINGS
0:07:23 > 0:07:28GIGGLING
0:07:36 > 0:07:39I declare, it's a shame!
0:07:39 > 0:07:44Kept in on a lovely day like this.
0:07:44 > 0:07:50- But if I don't put my foot down... - Martha?
0:07:50 > 0:07:55We deserve it but are awfully sorry.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00- Truly. - But would you let just me out?
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Just to get things to keep us busy.
0:08:04 > 0:08:11If I WAS to let anybody out it wouldn't be you, Master Robert.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16The devil finds work for idle hands.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Ah!
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Good morning!
0:08:27 > 0:08:31I've been looking out for you.
0:08:31 > 0:08:38- Where are the others? Not smashed themselves to bits?- No.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42As usual, the wish got us in a row.
0:08:42 > 0:08:48- The others are kept in. Let me wish quickly.- Wish.
0:08:51 > 0:08:56You'd better hurry. Time flies.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00But I can't think what to wish for.
0:09:00 > 0:09:06- I wish you'd let the others wish. - PSAMMEAD BREATHES IN
0:09:06 > 0:09:11- PLEASE don't! - < BLOWS HARD
0:09:11 > 0:09:15It was very hard, but I did it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:22Now, run along home quick or they'll wish for something silly.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26PSAMMEAD CHUCKLES
0:09:32 > 0:09:39Oh, no! They wished for a castle and it's being besieged!
0:09:39 > 0:09:46I wish I'd never seen that beastly sand fairy!
0:09:46 > 0:09:53SHOUTS AND BEATING OF DRUMS
0:09:58 > 0:10:03TRUMPET SOUNDS
0:10:08 > 0:10:14- AH-H! Let me go! - A brave varlet, this!
0:10:14 > 0:10:20His garb is strange. Some outlandish treachery belike.
0:10:20 > 0:10:26- What brings thee hither? - I'm going home.
0:10:26 > 0:10:33- Where dwellest thou? - Over there.- Ha! Come hither.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36This is a matter for our leader.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42 A spy, me thinkest. In our camp.
0:10:43 > 0:10:49Sayest so... Unfold thy tale without alarm.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54- What is thine intent?- My what?
0:10:54 > 0:11:01What's thine errand that thou goest alone amongst rough men-at-arms?
0:11:01 > 0:11:06Thy mother's heart aches for thee, I'll wager.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10..No. She doesn't know I'm out.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Fear not to speak the truth, child.
0:11:14 > 0:11:20Thou hast nought to fear from Sir Wulfric de Talbot!
0:11:20 > 0:11:24The fact is, it's like this.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Mother and Father are away.
0:11:28 > 0:11:36- We found a psammead...- I cry thee mercy! A "SAMMYAD"?- Yes.
0:11:36 > 0:11:42A sort of fairy. It said we could have a wish. Every day.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46We wished first to be beautiful.
0:11:46 > 0:11:54- THAT wish was scarce granted! - He is an enchanter of might?- Yes.
0:11:54 > 0:12:02Sir Wulfric de Talbot needs no enchanter's aid to victory!
0:12:02 > 0:12:06You're only here because of him.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11How now, boy! Unravel this!
0:12:11 > 0:12:18Well... You see... You don't know it, but...you're not real at all.
0:12:18 > 0:12:27You're only here as the others were idiot enough to wish for a castle.
0:12:27 > 0:12:35- When the sun sets you'll vanish, so it'll be all right.- What?!
0:12:35 > 0:12:40- He feigns madness. - YOU'RE mad! Let me go!
0:12:40 > 0:12:49- Whither?- Home.- To carry news and betray us?- Well, I won't go home.
0:12:49 > 0:12:55- By my halidom I won't.- Go, then.
0:12:55 > 0:13:03- Sir Wulfric fighteth not babes. Jakin will bear thee company.- Yes.
0:13:03 > 0:13:11Jakin'll enjoy it. I salute thee, Sir Wulfric.
0:13:11 > 0:13:18Look, I'm sorry if I ever said unkind things about you.
0:13:18 > 0:13:25- But please give me another wish. - I've done two today!- But...
0:13:25 > 0:13:31- What is it?- I wish I was with the others.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36TAKES DEEP BREATHS
0:13:36 > 0:13:41BLOWS HARD
0:13:41 > 0:13:45CHUCKLING
0:13:45 > 0:13:49- Oh! Oh!- Cyril!
0:13:49 > 0:13:53You've just come out of thin air!
0:13:53 > 0:14:00- How sporting to grant us our wish! ..Well, mine.- Why didn't you say?
0:14:00 > 0:14:07- If we'd made a really silly wish... - How much sillier can you get?
0:14:07 > 0:14:15- You nearly did for me.- We haven't done anything. We waited for you.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19- We're going to shoot them!- Ah...
0:14:19 > 0:14:26You don't know what they're like. They have real bows and arrows.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30- And swords and pikes...- Crikey!
0:14:30 > 0:14:38- Any soldiers here to defend this castle?- We haven't explored yet.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Then we'd better look. Come on.
0:16:00 > 0:16:07< Leave him alone, miss, do, when he's so good.
0:16:07 > 0:16:15- What's he doing?- What does it look like? He's in his high-chair.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19Oh, my iron's gone cold again.
0:16:19 > 0:16:25- You'll get no dinner unless you go. - The Lamb's all right?
0:16:25 > 0:16:33- Right as ninepence, but take him if you want him.- No!
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- He was just floating.- It's creepy.
0:16:44 > 0:16:51- I wish we'd wished for something plain.- Too late!- Dry up a sec.
0:16:51 > 0:16:59We wished the servants shouldn't notice when we got wishes.
0:16:59 > 0:17:05Nothing happens to the Lamb unless we wish it specially.
0:17:05 > 0:17:11This castle must be where the house was...is.
0:17:11 > 0:17:17- The servants are still in the house but...- Stop!
0:17:17 > 0:17:24- I just hope we can see our dinner. - There must be something to eat.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32CYRIL SIGHS
0:17:33 > 0:17:37No soldiers...no food.
0:17:37 > 0:17:44- If you'd wished for a provisioned castle...- We all make mistakes.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49DISTANT SINGING >
0:17:49 > 0:17:55- It's Martha! - Perhaps she's bringing dinner.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Here we are, then.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Leg of mutton and veg.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Mint sauce? >
0:18:25 > 0:18:29There then.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33I wanna see all them greens ate.
0:18:33 > 0:18:41- This is the worst thing that's happened.- See if we can feel it.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Can't even smell the mint sauce.
0:18:50 > 0:18:57- ..Biscuits! I got them from Cook this morning.- Hooray!
0:18:57 > 0:19:04- One for you, and one for you. - You explained about invisibleness.
0:19:04 > 0:19:11Why are the biscuits here and the dinner isn't?
0:19:11 > 0:19:19I don't know. Unless it's because I had the biscuits in my pocket.
0:19:19 > 0:19:26- TRUMPET SOUNDS - Oh, look! It's a battering-ram!
0:19:26 > 0:19:34Soldiers defend besieged castles. It's a bit much, us against them!
0:19:34 > 0:19:40- JANE WHIMPERS - Sh-h-h, it's all right.
0:19:40 > 0:19:46The defenders may have been killed and provisions eaten.
0:19:46 > 0:19:55- A few survivors remain. Us.- We'll defend it to the death.- Death?
0:19:55 > 0:19:59I'm glad it's only a game.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03It IS only a game, isn't it?
0:20:03 > 0:20:09- Let's find some arms to fight with.- And boiling lead.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Come on! No time to lose.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Oh, these swords ARE heavy!
0:20:26 > 0:20:31ROBERT MAKES MENACING NOISES
0:20:35 > 0:20:39I couldn't find any boiling lead.
0:20:39 > 0:20:45- We'll have to make do with water. - All right.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50 I can't see anything!
0:20:55 > 0:21:02Can we just have biscuits for tea? We're playing besieged castles.
0:21:02 > 0:21:10Oh, indeed? And that's why your dinner's all left. The waste!
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Still, it'll save my time and legs.
0:21:14 > 0:21:19I don't know where you get your ideas from.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24My hands are dirty. Please put them in my pocket.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39- Here's the last.- Thank you.
0:21:39 > 0:21:47- TRUMPET BLASTS - They're attacking!- It's no game!
0:21:47 > 0:21:52MENACING SHOUTS
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Is it nearly sunset?
0:21:55 > 0:22:00There's that Jakin. You brute!
0:22:00 > 0:22:08- We'll fight you. We're not afraid. - I don't want to play.- You do.
0:22:08 > 0:22:15- Civilised armies spare women and children.- But are they civilised?
0:22:23 > 0:22:30- TRUMPET SOUNDS What's happening?- I don't know.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35- What ho, within there!- What ho!
0:22:35 > 0:22:45In the name of our Lord the King, we summon this castle to surrender!
0:22:45 > 0:22:49Do you surrender?
0:22:49 > 0:22:54- Of course we don't!- No!- Never!
0:22:54 > 0:23:00Then your fate be on your own heads. Cha-a-arge!
0:23:00 > 0:23:04#You want your heart's desire
0:23:04 > 0:23:08#And there's nothing but the fire
0:23:08 > 0:23:14#Of a madly yearning wild imagination
0:23:14 > 0:23:20#All you have to do is choose If you don't you'll lose
0:23:20 > 0:23:26#Something special in your life will pass you by
0:23:26 > 0:23:32#Castles in the air Or a chest of purest gold
0:23:32 > 0:23:35#Start a quest before you're old
0:23:35 > 0:23:40#Try wishing a little harder every day
0:23:40 > 0:23:44#Wishing to chase the clouds away
0:23:44 > 0:23:51#In the twinkling of an eye You'll grow tall or even fly
0:23:51 > 0:23:55#You don't know till you try So do-o
0:23:55 > 0:24:02#And with the magic that you find Dream your dream awa-ay.#
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Subtitles by Valerie Maguire BBC Scotland, 1991
0:24:06 > 0:24:08E-mail us at subtitling@bbc.co.uk