Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast
Miriam Margolyes
Cook
Lesley Dunlop
Eliza
Ivan Berry
Robert
Christopher Biggins
Mr. Tonks
Ben Simpson
Cyril
Charlotte Chinn
Jane
Jessica Fox
Anthea
Jean Alexander
Lily
David Suchet
The Phoenix (voice)
Francis Wright
The Psammead (voice)
Mary Waterhouse
Mother
Nicola Redmond
Amelia
Shaun Dingwall
Burglar
Gemma Jones
Mrs. Bibble
Ian Keith
Father
