Category Archives: Bunty

Two on a Tandem

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Plot

Val Slade, a well off girl, due to circumstances her holiday plans change and with her mother away from home, she takes a tandem bike on the road. She buys a puppet show second hand to earn money along the way. She meets Tina, a gipsy girl, with a very different life from hers. They team up cycling towards Uppingsham. On their way, they give puppet shows, but they were being followed by a man and a woman who wanted the little theatre desperately — but for a reason unknown to the girls.

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Appeared

  • Two on a Tandem– Bunty: #229 (2 June 1962) – #243 (8 September 1962)

The School with a Secret

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Plot

It was the year 1940, and Britain was with Germany. Pamela Knight, a schoolgirl with a genius for cracking codes, was sent by the War Office to Rookcliffe School on the coast of Yorkshire. Hidden in a cave beneath the school was a secret branch of the British Intelligence Service. It was Pamela’s duty to help these agents solve enemy code messages picked up by radio, but she was not allowed to tell anyone at the school about her strange job. The Germans figured out there was a code breaker somewhere in the area and send a spy to the school as Miss Chernay a language teacher.

 

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Appeared

  • The School with a Secret – Bunty: (?) – #243 (8 September 1962)

Pip at Pony School

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Plot

Pip Daniels was the only scholarship girl of the exclusive Beaumont School, where wealthy parents sent their daughters to learn riding and horsemanship as well as ordinary lessons. Pip soon settled in and became good friends with classmate Kerry-Jane. Near the end of the summer term, the whole school went to spend a week under canvas near Barhaven, a small seaside village about twenty miles from Beaumont.

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Appeared

  • Pip at Pony School – Bunty: (?) – #238 (4 August 1962)

Other Appearances:

  • Pip at Pony School – Bunty Annual 1962

Becky of the Ballet

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Plot

Becky Barton, a schoolgirl in the city of Norchester, lost her widower father in a plane crash. She went to stay with her Aunt Nan Worsley, who didn’t care a scrap for Becky, and only took her in because she was well paid to do so. Two things helped Becky to keep smiling. One was the friendship of Aunt Nan’s four children – the other was her love of ballet.

Becky was the most talented pupil at the local ballet school, and she was given a juvenile dancing role in a musical show at Norchester’s Olympia Theatre. Aunt Nan only cared about getting Becky’s wage money.

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Appeared

  • Becky of the Ballet– Bunty: (?) – #240 (18 August 1962)

The Royal Jester

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Plot

In 1180, fourteen year old Eleanor Maude played a minstrel and jester and travelled as entertainer with her juggler friend Anne Paston. But not only was Eleanor a jester she was also the daughter of King Henry II!

Notes

  • Clearly a fictionalised version of Eleanor, she also would have been 19 years old rather than 14 in the time the story is set.

Appeared

  • The Royal Jester – Bunty: #206 (23 December 1961) – (?)

The Pupils of Madame Petrov

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Plot

Madame Greta Petrov, tells stories about her ballet pupils.  Madame Petrov, helps to solve many of the girls problems and she is helped by her assistant Elma Harper. In one story she helps a girl Dianne who is forced to dance in secret as her father forbids her to dance because her mother was killed in a theatre fire, she helps persuade the father to let Dianne dance. In another story she has difficulties when a movie star comes to learn dancing for her next role, but is too big headed to listen to Madame Petrov, and ends with her having an accident. The star learns humility and Madame Petrov, convinces the movie producer that another pupil with similar build and with make up can do the dancing parts for the movie, which would also solve that girl’s money problems.

Notes

  • Each story had it’s own individual title.
  • One story was reprinted in Debbie and likely influenced the later Debbie story Madame Marlova Remembers

Appeared

  • The Pupils of Madame Petrov – Bunty: #205 (16 December 1961) – (?)

Other Appearances:

  • No Ballet for Belinda – Bunty Annual 1963
  • The Dancer from the Isles – Bunty Annual 1965 [Art: George Ramsbottom]
    • Reprinted in Bunty Golden Age Classic Stories (Vol. 2)

List of Stories

  • The Sleepy Ballerina – Bunty: #205
  • Forbidden to Dance – Bunty: #206
  • No Friends for Freda – Bunty: #207
  • Determined to Dance – Bunty unknown issue
    • Reprinted Debbie: #139

The Saddle Show

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Plot

When Miss Talbot, the owner of the Mount Riding School, was forced to sell her stables, she and her six best pupils, led by Kathleen Sutton, se off on a tour of the country giving Musical Riding Displays.

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Appeared

  • The Saddle Show – Bunty: #201 (18 November 1961) – (?)