kids programme

[linsey]

it was a kids programme and i think it had 2 boys and 2 girls in a victorian house and at the bottom of the garden was a sandpit and a friendly monster used to come out of the sandpit. What was the name? think it started return of the?

[beale]

Psamiad?

[LeMarchand]

"The Phoenix and the Carpet" or "The Return of the Psammead" (the Psammead was the creature). It could also be "Five Children and It". All based on E. Nesbit books, I think "The Return..." may have been a BBC-created sequel while the other two were based on actual novels.

[ANYTHINGGOES]

The programme was called "The Return Of The Psamiad", it was on Childrens BBC in the summer of 1992.

[muttsnuts]

Five children and it. they've made a film of it with Eddie Izzard Voicing the psamiad.