Flying

Yaffle comes down from his bookend to find a basket with things in it. The mice search the basket and find a twig broom, which leads Madeleine and Gabriel to sing the song about the woman who brushes the cobwebs out of the sky. The mice then play the same song on the Mouse Organ, with Bagpuss's help. Janie Mouse tells the story of her uncle Henry and auntie Ada who tried to fly up and break some of the gold off the Sun with a teaspoon.

Madeleine and the mice then decide to make a flying machine out of the basket and some oriental fans, which leads Yaffle to teach them something about aeronautics. The mice bring him a book, and he reads the story of Pratt's Reverser.

The mice then trick Yaffle by pertending to fly in the basket when it is really being lifted on a bit of string. The mice then put the basket in the window, and Bagpuss goes to sleep again.

Emily, Bagpuss, Professor Yaffle, Madeleine, Gabriel, Charlie Mouse, Jenny Mouse, Janey Mouse, Lizzie Mouse, Eddie Mouse, Willy Mouse