The Magic Roundabout (film) carousel. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tyre, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing the driver, Mr. Grimsdale to leave, Dougal accidentally starts the cart up again and causes it to crash into the titular magic roundabout at the centre of the village. Zeebad from Zebedee's nightmare emerges from the top and flies away, followed shortly after by a Foot Guard figurine that is thrown off the roundabout. The roundabout freezes over, trapping repairman Mr. Rusty, Dougal's young owner Florence, and two other children named
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane but would not change the American International Pictures scheduled April 1977 release. The film had trial screenings in Albuquerque and Peoria, Illinois on 18 March 1977. It opened in Los Angeles on 11 May and in New York City on 10 August 1977, with a PG rating. On its initial release, the film poster depicted "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" as a horror film, with an image of a building evoking the 1960 film "Psycho" and the subtitle "She was only a little girl. She lived in a great big house...all alone. Where is her mother? Where