Susie half Chinese half English had lived on a house boat in Hong Kong until the Kobra gang forced her to seek safety in a School of Kenpo, a form of Karate. Susie was learning a lot and on a survival test Susie was being tracked by Tang a fellow student but two of Cobra’s men had also followed her.
Years ago Debra Dukes promised her dying mother that she would help make her sister Drina become a famous ballerina. Confined to wheelchair herself she was determined to keep her promise without a thought to her sisters happiness and she schemed to make sure she got her way coming between her sister’s relationship.
Young Greta Marlowe’s employers bred show greyhounds. When they ordered one of the dogs, Flash, to be destroyed as he was below show standards, Greta secretly saved him. Shortly after he repaid her by chasing off some muggers, but her sisters Eunice and Julia objected to having Flash in their small flat.
When Lieutenant Mike Foster was branded a traitor for defecting to a foreign power with plans of a secret missile, his sister Jill believed him to be innocent. She kept his horse Yeoman in training ready for his return with his named clear. A newcomer Paddy Bates who was working with local horse dealer had offered to help train him. Jill is surprised to discover that Paddy is actually her brother who had plastic surgery to disguise himself and is trying to clear his name.
In 1939 when war broke out in Germany some Fairfields school pupils on holiday in Germany were arrested and imprisoned a few miles from the Swiss border. They decided to try and escape by secretly digging a tunnel to freedom.
Widowed Mrs Harmon had a hard time running a holiday hotel with no help from her spoilt children. Tessa, Mike and Maisie. Then Mrs Harmon left saying she was going to look after a friend that was ill. Leaving the hotel to children to run. Unable to cope the children eagerly awaited the help that their uncle an electronics expert said he would send. When Lizzie arrived she turned out to be a robot who was programmed to do any household task.
Pam was the daughter of George and Mary Holmes the TV husband and wife team known to millions as the “’Happy Holmes’ As they always argued Pam had the keep the peace between them so cameras didn’t see. She as her work cut out for her when the Teletopper TV company decided to do a travel holiday series featuring the Happy Holmes.
Wilma Simpson was a shy girl and her parents sent her to Windrush school in the hopes that she would gain self confidence there. Wilma found life at the school hard but she made a friend in Lorne, a wild girl who lived on the nearby moors.
1n 1945 the war in the pacific was at its height. Peter and Mary orphaned and shipwrecked on a small island by a torpedo form a Japanese submarine found two Japanese children living in a hut on the same island they remained separate because their countries were still at war. As a result of a fight part of island where most of fruit trees grew burned down ad food became short. Eventually they have to learn to work together to survive.
Fourteen-year old Sally Owen was training hard to swim the English Channel. If she succeeded, the houses in Bellmont Alley, where she lived, would be given to the tenants. If she failed, the relatives of the late Charles Bellmont, Cyril and Hetty, intended to pull the houses down and sell the land.
