Polly Peckham has a pair of trousers covered in patches. Each patch comes from a different time period, and whenever Polly rubs a patch, she time travels to that respective time period.
Polly’s Patches – Debbie: #322 (14 April 1979) – #329 (2 June 1979)
Other Appearances:
Regular feature with Supercats, a team of super heroines and their outer space adventures. The members are:
Helen Miller – captain of the Supercats. The brains of the team and the only one with no superpowers.
Electra – generates electricity.
Hercula – super-strong.
Fauna – changes body colour.
In The Planet of the Children – the Supercats investigate why the planet Zyros has ceased contact. They find Zyros has been invaded by the Tarkus, who force the adults to work in Zyros’s gold mines while keeping the children brainwashed.
Other Appearances
After the death of her parents, Tessa Saunders was cared for by her Aunt Abigail and Uncle George, a scheming greedy couple who wanted Tessa’s inheritance for themselves. To this end, they adopted Una, a girl from a local orphanage. Their plan was to return Tessa to the orphanage as unsuitable in the place of Una, as the two girls looked remarkably alike.
Darren Walker and his friend Pete were part of a five-a-side football team, and hoped to enter the championship. Their team was a bit of a joke and they had never won any trophies. When they see a mystery kid with great skills, they want him to join the team. They are surprised to find that “he” is actually a “she”. They invite the girl, Jo to join the team but they must keep her identity secret as they know that the coach, Mike doesn’t like girls in the sports club.
Jill Harris was training to qualify as a registered Animal Nursing Auxiliary at a Dispensary for Sick Animals. She solves a lot of different problems.
(Animal Nurse – 1960s)
(Animal Nurse – 1980s)
Other Appearances:
Lisa Blake wanted to be a ballerina but had several obstacles to overcome. Her mother was dead and her father was an escaped convict and she was wrongfully accused of stealing. Later she was abandoned by her aunt. Luckily she was adopted by a group of orphans who were helping her to become a ballerina.
In the Sequel Lonely Lisa – Lisa Blake has lost her memory and thinks she is Jean Bell, who lives and works with Mr and Mrs Thorpe, who are a pair of crooks. Lisa meets Mrs Powell, who teaches her to dance.
(Lonely Lisa – Art: Ana Rodriguez)
Soap like story set in Randell Road Comprehensive School. Life was never dull for the friends; Alice, Bessie, Muriel and Diane. Some of the boys had their share of problems too. In one story Nigel Greene decided to leave home as his mother was driving him around the bend. Meanwhile Alice Evans has to deal with some trouble at the tennis club she’s hoping to join, after a girl lets everyone know Alice’s father is in jail for fraud.
Hetty Hinton offered to work on a farm in return for a home for her tiny Shetland pony, Beauty. But Connie Marsh, the farmer’s daughter, was jealous of Hetty.
Maggie Scragg affectionately known as “Duchess” decided to open the stately home she had inherited to the public. Snoot, the snob butler, hoped to make money for himself from Maggie’s ventures.
Christine Roberts kept house for her father, the village policeman in Ashmead. She was a good problem-solver, helping people around the village.
