Bagpuss (The Ballet Shoe)

The Ballet Shoe One dirty old shoe is left for Bagpuss & Co to repair, and the mice suggest that it might be suitable for living in, which leads Madeleine to sing along with the Mouse Organ. Yaffle doesn’t beleive anyone could live in a shoe, so the mice trick him by going round and round and appearing out of the shoe. Charliemouse suggests that they could use the shoe as a boat, and all the mice get in and pretend to row with feathers. Bagpuss thinks of mice in a shoe-boat, and Gabriel sings a song with the mice. Madeleine suggests that they stop singing and mend the shoe, but the mice go on strike breifly, until they are allowed to sing again. The mice repair the shoe so that it would be fit for a Prima Ballerina, but as Yaffle doesn’t know what that might be, the mice bring out the Marvellous Mechanical Prima Ballerina. Yaffle is particularly taken with it, and dances alongside, until he gets tied up in the shoe laces. The mice put the shoe in the window, and Bagpuss goes back to sleep again.