When Babs Thomson’s father was injured in a motor crash, Babs took over earning the family’s keep. Babs showed a great flair for business and quickly built up a thriving milk round in the Greville Housing Estate in the town of where she lived. Babs sold her milk round and started a more profitable business—general merchant to the Greville housewives.
Two orphan siblings, Ben and Penny, escape from the orphanage, only for Ben to be abducted by a Fagan-like criminal, the Director. Eventually Penny, with the help of shoeshines, street peddlers and others, manages to find Ben and the Director drowns in the canal. They all retire to the country and life happily ever after.
Penny Ward and Pippa Benson were cousins and both girls were adopted. Penny discovered that on the day of their adoption either parents could have taken either baby. Pippa had very wealthy parents and Penny resented Pippa’s good life. She began causing trouble for Pippa
Cathy Cooke was a girl with never a spare moment. Since her mother died, three years before, she had looked after the home, doing all the cleaning herself and taking care of her disabled father and her younger brothers and sisters. To help out the family’s meagre income, she /delivered papers and had to get up early every morning. To add to her busy schedule she had now entered a cooking contest Queen of Cooks. She was talented cook but one of the contest judges Miss Barker, was Cathy’s school cookery teacher, who hated her.
Orphan Mary Chalmers was to have sailed to Ireland to become a servant girl, while her brother, Eric, attended Ruborn Nautical School. Hearing sinister tales about the school, Mary got a job there instead under a false name, so she could investigate and look out for her brother.
When Eleanor and Victoria Brook-Thomson’s parents were killed in a car accident, the girl’s discovered they were penniless as the family home had to be sold to pay off debts. The girls were sent to live with Mrs Johnson, the family dressmaker. Victoria was very grateful but, Eleanor, her snobbish sister thought that living in such a place was beneath her. Unknown to Eleanor her biological mother was actually Mrs Johnson who had given her up to the Brook-Thomsons for a better life.
Madcap Fiona Bailey, who is under contract to an advertising company to play the part of Polly Pender in a series of commercials for Pender’s Pure Products, could lose the job immediately if she attracted in bad publicity. Penny, Fiona’s sister had the thankless job of trying to keep Fiona under control.
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.
While their mother was in hospital for a series of tests, Kerry and Katie Killick were trying to cover up their big sister Karen’s irresponsible behaviour to shield Mrs Killick from any worry.