Through the Wishing Gate

Plot

Sharon Kingsley didn’t know that Miss Winston’s gateway had special powers to grant wishes. Every time  she used it as a short cut to go to school, she would sit and wish for her life to be a certain way and the gateway would show her exactly what would happen. She would end up back at the gateway thinking it was just a bad dream and eventually she learns that her own life is fine the way it is.

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Appeared

  • Through the Wishing Gate – Tracy: #260 (22 September 1984) – #270 (1 December 1984)

Bonny Bounces Back!

Plot

Since her parents died, Bonny lived with her aunt, uncle and cousin, Gloria. The family had a hairdressing business and Bonny was treated like a slave, but she also had a secret ambition to become a trampolinist.

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Appeared

  • Bonny Bounces Back! – Tracy: #257 (1 September 1984) – #273 (22 December 1984)

Lucy and the Lost Ones

Plot

Lucy Turner had been transported to the future where Earth’s cities were nearly destroyed by pollution and most of the human race had set out for the stars. Lucy desperately wanted to get back to her own time and take some children who had no one to care for them, with her. But then they were captured by some strange people who were taking them from the city.

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Appeared

  • Lucy and the Lost Ones – Tracy: #255 (18 August 1984) – #266 (3 November 1984)

Big Sister Sandra

Plot

For three years, 12 year old Sandra Kane had been like a big sister to little Todd and Lucy Hamilton, at the Wellbank Children’s Home . So when the Hamiltons went to foster parents, the Harts, Sandra agreed to be fostered by the Listers. But this was only because they lived nearby the Harts and Sandra could continue to be Todd and Lucy’s “Big Sister”.

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Appeared

  • Big Sister Sandra – Tracy: #255 (18 August 1984) – #267 (10 November 1984)

Diane and the Ducking Stool

Plot

“When you feel the splash of water – do the will of Annie Potter!” That is the curse that fell on the mother of Diane Morris, following an accident with an ancient ducking stool. Long ago,  Annie was put to death as a witch and now Mrs Morris was enslaved into taking revenge on the people of Crickley especially the Tiley family. Diane didn’t know about the spell and as her father had died some months before, she blamed this for her mothers odd behaviour.

Notes

  • Artist: Robert MacGillivray

Appeared

  • Diane and the Ducking Stool – Tracy: #253 (4 August 1984) – #259 (15 September 1984)

Our Daughter Debbie!

Plot

Debbie Sharpe was living happily with her foster parents, the Sharpes, even though they weren’t well off. Then the Brents turned up claiming to be her biological parents and she was faced with a choice of homes. To help her decide, it was arranged so she would live with each couple in turn.

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Appeared

  • Our Daughter Debbie! – Tracy: #252 (28 July 1984) – #259 (15 September 1984)