Mr. Benn

Popular British children's animation series. Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of Festive Road. However, when he tries on a costume in a mysterious shop, he steps out of the changing room into a different time and place, appropriate to his apparel. His adventures include him being a spaceman, a pirate and a cowboy.

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10. The Magic Carpet

0.0Sep 13, 1972 · 15 min

After seeing a carpet seller, Mr Benn decides to have an Arabian adventure. Putting on a turban in the costume shop, Mr Benn takes the accompanying magic carpet and walks through the changing room door; he arrives in a beautiful city, and sees a young boy being forced by a wicked man to retrieve a magic bottle from a narrow cave. The boy succeeds, but an eagle snatches the bottle from him and flies with it to a mountaintop. Mr Benn offers to help the boy, and together they discover that the bottle contains a genie – which then grants the young lad three wishes…