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01x06 - Pashana Bedhi the Snake Charmer

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Herbs". Aired: 12 February – 6 May 1968.*
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The Herbs consisted of a fantasy mix of human and animal characters inhabiting the magical walled garden of an English country estate.

01x06 - Pashana Bedhi the Snake Charmer

Post by bunniefuu »

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parsley is a herb it's a nice easy name to say parsley so is basil and rosemary

and bay leaf not all herbs are like that some come from a long way away and they

have very unusual names like Pana bety he comes from India I wonder if you

remember he's the one who lives on a bed of nails and does magic he's a snake charmer too have you ever seen a snake

charmer at work I'll take you in the magic herb garden and show you I better say the magic word word

herous there's bay leaf busy as

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usual I'm bailea I'm the gardener I work from early Dawn you find me sweeping up

the leaves and tidy in the lawn ah pasana bety doesn't live here he lives

at the back of the herb garden in a corner where he's sure of getting lots of sun there he

is and parsley too hello

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parsley I am P very good at snake

charming snakes that have by me been Charmed will not anyone be harmed

we are just in time to see him do his

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trick you are wanting to see it again Mr parsley oh dear very tired I am but just

for you Mr parsley if you are wanting to see it just for you I will do it once more

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don't go to sleep now not while the snake's

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out oh my goodness goodness me come Mr parsley we must find him at once you are pleased to be going that way I am

pleased to be going this that's not a very good start losing a

snake B Leaf's POS looks rather like a snake the way it's curling along the

path I hope parsley doesn't think it is

one watch out parsley bay leaf won't be very pleased if you make a hole in it I knew

it that's better he found the leak oh don't say there's another

one not a third one he won't have any Paws left

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soon I'm a very friendly lion called parsley I must try to keep the water in the

holes but it won't have any trouble getting past me for it seems to me I'm

running out of toes Here Comes sir basil getting ready

for a picnic by the look of it I wonder what parsley will do now things don't seem to be going at all

right for him today come on r Mar I found a place can't think why we're having a picnic

don't see why we can't sit up at a table and have a

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property I am s basil the king of the herbs and I'm very often in

trouble I'm not very good at sorting things out and often I get in a mudle

Beil what's going on I'm just unloading the tea things sh be a minute I'm not

talking about the Tea things I'm talking about parsley have you seen him hey

what I say what are you doing parsley can't sit there El boy not in the middle of the path we're going to

have our picnic there are you all right parsley I must say he looks very odd

basil give him a jar of honey perhaps he's hungry lions like

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honey watch out parsley bees like honey too thought I felt a spot of rain then

Rosemary nonsense basil there's not not a cloud in the sky you must be imagining things I tell you I

did that's the trouble with picnics always something if it's not ants it's

mosquitoes and if it's not mosquitoes it's

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raining that's very strange I felt a spot of something just then there you are don't like to say I

told you so but I told you so but there isn't a cloud to be seen did you feel anything

parley I felt another one then yeah what's going on what's up with me water first it comes on then it goes off then

it comes on then it goes off CU all are coming and going parsley parsley look at

me parsley have you been making holes in Bay Leaf's

H making holes in Bay Leaf's hoes I don't see why you want to do a thing like that he better be turning the

water off blessed Lions I'd better be turning the water off at the main I had then I'd better be getting the spare o

out I can't think why he should do such a thing I expect he wants to water the

garden I don't mean bay leaf I mean

parsley what's he doing now sounds like a blessed

snake parsley you're not pretending to be a snake are you a snake loose in the

herb garden where's M g*n you've left it at home basil there you are first time I

ever come out without M g*n now look what's happened did you think Bay Leaf's hose was the snake parsley is that why

you made all those holes in it feny mistaking bile Leaf's H for a

snake it's almost as bad as anyone misaking a snake for a garden

hose why are you nudging me Rosemary someone's been at me o found it lying in

the path I did won't coiled away like it usually

be if is that lying again I watch it man balea look behind you ah is all right I

knows what I'm doing if I be left alone I knows what I be doing s is interfering what slows me up them Lions making old

you need best o well I'll be I've been holding a snake

all this time why didn't someone tell me I'd been holding a snake after

him I'll go this way Basel parsley you take the middle

path he'll cut off his Retreat mom

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oh my

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goodness I am P very good at snake

charming snakes that have by me been Charmed will not anyone be

harming goodness gracious

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paint anywhere around you ask me is gone for good don't like snakes nasty

things fenc a sandwich Rosemary all this running about makes you feel

hungry hello here comes old Betty was that your snake that escaped Mr

Betty oh lady Rosemary lady Rosemary a thousand thousand apologies for causing so much troubles you will not be

believing this I am mistaking the hor pipe of Mr baleaf for the snakes oh my

goodness here is Mr baleaf with another hor good morning Mr baleaf

ah turn the tap on someone we be nearly ready only just now I am saying to myself if only I can capture this snake

when all will be well I am playing my

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pipe parsley what are you doing I am mistaking the hor pipe for the snake and I am playing this

tune J good sandwiches these Rosemary think I'll have another what what you're doing mezel

oh my goodness Goodness Me Oh sir basil what's going on where's Miss

sandwich your sandwich Basel is inside the picnic basket along with Mr Betty's snake Mr Betty's

snake and if it hadn't been for parley the snake might have been inside you by now I shouldn't sit there if I were you

parsley you're right on top of bay Leaf's new hose he won't like it if

parsley B look at parsley what bless

myself don't move stay right where you are parsley Watch Out Mr parsley yeah what's going on why you

been on g*n and lost all me water again we going to treat a moment ago now he disappeared again what be

parsley oh dear you've done it now

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parsley help help I think you're right I just say goodbye while the Going's

good at least the snake is safely back in the basket even if it is

sasil and Bay Leaf's hose is working again mind you I shouldn't get in the way of

it here let me in parsley Let Me In Goodbye

parley what a day see you again soon when all the mess has been cleared up