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. A truncated edit of the three-hour miniseries for the home video market.
Rated G | Length 93 minutes
Miriam Margolyes | Lesley Dunlop | Ivan Berry | Christopher Biggins | Ben Simpson | Charlotte Chinn | Jessica Fox | Jean Alexander | David Suchet | Francis Wright | Mary Waterhouse | Nicola Redmond | Shaun Dingwall | Gemma Jones | Ian Keith