The Magic Basket

The plot involves a group of children whisked to a magical land in the moon, where they help the Sandman to recover his bag of sleep-dust from the Goblin. The children are transported in a basket, hence the title.

• Oh isn't it fun to live in the moon?
• Whatever can we do
• I sweep the sky
• My basket brave and I
• Derry derry down Oh!
• Galloping, galloping up in the sky
• The sandman
• Tippetty tippetty toe
• Goblins bold are we
• If you will be a meddlesome Matty
• The deed is done
• Bong! goes the gong
• One song before we part
• Lullaby

• 1940 Lauriston Girls' School, Melbourne (premiere)[2]
• 1940 Wyalong, New South Wales[3]
• 1940 Mount Barker, South Australia[4]
• 1943 Cloncurry, Queensland[5]
• 1943 Adelaide, South Australia[6]
• 1944 Benalla, Victoria[7]
• 1945 Port Pirie, South Australia[8]
• 1945 Newcastle, New South Wales[9]
• 1946 Adelaide[10]
• 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales[11]
• 1946 North Lismore, New South Wales[12]
• 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales[13]
• 1947 Broken Hill[14]
• 1947 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales[15]
• 1947 Lismore, New South Wales[16]
• 1947 Shepparton, Victoria[17]
• 1947 Grafton, New South Wales[18]
• 1948 Mackay[19]
• 1949 Wyalong, New South Wales[20]
• 1949 Southport, Queensland[21]
• 1949 Scone, New South Wales[22]
• 1950 Nanson, Western Australia [23]
• 1950 Hay, New South Wales[24]
• 1950 Maddington, Western Australia[25]
• 1951 Launceston, Tasmania[26]
• 1951 Sunshine, Victoria[27]
• 1951 Burnie, Tasmania[28]
• 1952 Maryborough, Queensland[29]
• 1952 Braidwood, New South Wales[30]
• 1952 Adelaide, South Australia[31]
• 1952 Grafton, New South Wales[32]
• 1953 Southbrook, Queensland[33]
• 1954 Kygole, New South Wales[34]
• 1954 Broken Hill, South Australia[35]
• 1954 Townsville, Queensland[36]
• 1954 Lithgow, New South Wales[37]
• 1955 Parramatta Primary School, starring Bob Winley as Mr Moonshine
• 1957 Penrith, New South Wales[38]