Debbie Soames receives a doll, Dorinda, and discovers that Dorinda can tell the future. This starts causing problems such as misconstruing Dorinda’s prophecies. Debbie tries not to listen to Dorinda, but Dorinda’s prophecies still cause trouble.
In one week, Joanna Blake suffers a triple loss: her gran, her dog Sandy and her best friend Jane. Joanne starts freezing her heart to make it as hard as ice so she will not feel such pain again. Joanne’s attitude earns her the nickname “Miss Icicle” and does not make her popular as she makes her way through the inter-school ice-skating championship.
In Victorian times, Mary Tremayne is going blind and starts training her dog, Shep, as a guide dog. But guide dogs are ahead of her time, and she is meeting strong opposition.
Stand-in Sandy Starr arranges an “accident” for Dina Dean, the star of a new film. But then Sandy finds her crime is bringing its own punishment. Her accomplice Sibylla starts blackmailing her, she is getting threatening anonymous letters, and then Dina’s brother and mother discover Sandy and Sibylla were responsible for her accident.
Sarah Hutton is spoiled and selfish. At a Halloween party she mocks a witch, and the witch retaliates by putting a spell on her old teddy bear. Teddy comes to life, and starts making Sarah’s life a misery because of the bad way she used to treat him.
Teddy says he will keep on until Sarah has learned her lesson. But instead he goes to the lengths of threatening to burn down the house. As Sarah tries to stop him, she trips and bangs her head on a wheelbarrow and is knocked unconscious.
When Sarah regains consciousness she finds herself back at the Halloween party. She had hit her head on the wheelbarrow at the party. The Teddy terror had all been just a dream Sarah had while she was knocked out.
Sarah is back on the brink of throwing Teddy into the bonfire before her encounter with the witch. There is no witch this time, but Sarah decides to keep Teddy and send all her other toys to a children’s home. This suggests she will be a better person in future.
Vicky Brown’s sister Mary is emotionally upset by someone with the initial ‘J’, and then has an road accident that leaves her comatose. Vicky turns detective to track down ‘J’, believing ‘J’ to be responsible for Mary’s accident. But this has her hurting a lot of innocent people whose names begin with J because she has wrongly assumed they are ‘J’.
Orphan Jenny Potter takes Twinkle, a stray kitten, into her uncle’s home at Lynhoe. Unfortunately Twinkle has seven toes on each paw (a polydactyl cat), so the superstitious villagers think he is descended from the legendary seven-toed cats of the witches of Lynhoe. They start persecuting Twinkle and blame any bad luck on him. Their hostility drives Jenny to run away with Twinkle.
Humour strip with Susie Square-Eyes.
Diana Blake brings home a stone, and her sculptor father carves it into a bust. Diana starts feeling strange powers coming from the stone. Then she starts acting as if she is hypnotised and doing things that are completely out of character.
Lucy Lane is given a locket by her Great-Aunt Jane for her 13th birthday. Then Aunt Jane sends a letter saying that the locket belonged to someone who may have dabbled in witchcraft, and any object put in it will cause its owner to have bad luck. Aunt Jane says she does not believe it, but Lucy is not so sure after seeing what happened when she put a photograph of her boyfriend in it.
