The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transforms the rug into a magic carpet, which takes them on a series of adventures all over the world and at home.
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Four children discover a strange egg hidden in an old carpet from which hatches a talking phoenix. Further adventures are had when the carpet turns out to be magic. The Phoenix and the Carpet is a 1976 BBC TV series based on Edith Nesbit's novel of the same name. The story follows four children who discover a magical phoenix and a magic carpet within a second-hand rug they purchased. The series features their adventures as the phoenix grants their wishes and the carpet transports them to various locations. It is part of a trilogy of novels that includes "Five Children and It" and "The Story of the Amulet".
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- Director
- Zoran Perisic
- Starring
- Peter Ustinov, Dee Wallace, Timothy Hegeman, Laura Kamrath, Nick Klein, Ewen Bremner, Nicole Lengenberg, Maya Zekina
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