Carpenter also addressed recent rumours that a Catweazle movie may be in the offing. It’s clear to devotees that Geoffrey Bayldon is Catweazle, and always will be Catweazle — a fact of which Carpenter is most definitely aware. The fact that Bayldon feels he is too old to meet with the physical demands of reprising his role, is therefore the subject of shared regret. Carpenter is however still keen to take his career full circle.

Richard Carpenter: ‘It’s an impossibility actually, to recast, so I have to look outside it and think: it’s a different thing; it’s not the television series starring Geoffrey Bayldon, it’s something completely different, but I wanted to do it. It’s sort of circular … you start your television career with Catweazle and you’d like to finish it with a film of Catweazle. We are still trying to get the film made. It’s a mixture of things that you will sort of remember from the series and a whole lot of new stuff as well ... it’s not easy, it really isn’t; it’s the most difficult thing I’ve had to do, but I think we’ve got a script that works and I think we’ve got a possible Catweazle. Maybe we’ll make a film, maybe we won’t; it’s in the lap of the Gods.’