Catweazle was a magician who lived in the eleventh century, but however hard he tried, his spells hardly ever worked. Then one day was different....the only trouble was that the magic had caused him to fly through Time instead of Space. Catweazle ended up at a place called Hexwood Farm, nine centuries later, where everything he saw appeared to happen by magic.

In this series of adventures Catweazle, a time traveling magician from the eleventh century, turns up in a stately home, which he turns upside down in his search for the signs of the Zodiac with which to complete his magic flying spell.