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.

Cast:Miriam Margolyes, Lesley Dunlop, Ivan Berry, Christopher Biggins, Ben Simpson, Charlotte Chinn,

Genre:Family, Fantasy, Adventure,

country:none

Production:BBC Worldwide, Miramax,