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.

• BBC Worldwide
• Miramax
• Miriam Margolyes
• Lesley Dunlop
• Ivan Berry
• Christopher Biggins
• Ben Simpson
• Charlotte Chinn
• Jessica Fox
• Jean Alexander