Tag Archives: Job

The Go-Getters

Bunty, ,

Plot

Terry Brown and Carol Blair, two sixteen-year-olds, set up in business on their own when they left school. Their job was to try to obtain anything which their clients might request. Some of these were quite unusual requests, such as when 2 children come in to ask for new legs for their mother. Terry and Carol figure out the issue that their mother has to walk with aids and struggles to get to their top floor flat. The girls solve the problem not be getting her new legs, but pairing her with a client that needed a cook, a live-in job that came with a a ground floor flat.

Notes 

Appeared

  • The Go-Getters – Bunty: #294 (31 August 1963) – #299 (5 October 1963)
  • The Go-Getters – Bunty: #309 (14 December 1963) – #316 (1 February 1964) [no episode in issue #310 or #314]

Other Appearances:

  • The Go-Getters – Bunty the Book for Girls 1964

Polly of Pets Corner

Bunty, ,

Plot

Polly Wentworth and her friend, Janey Adams, worked in Pets Corner at Castle Rock Zoo, where they had to look after most of the small animals.

Notes 

Appeared

  • Polly of Pets Corner – Bunty: #293 (24 August 1963) – #299 (5 October 1963)
  • Polly of Pets Corner – Bunty: #303 (2 November 1963)

Emergency 666

Bunty,

Plot

Sally Stevens was to be on call to her clients at any time in any emergency, and she called her service “Emergency 666”. She arrived at the office every morning ready for anything.

Notes 

  • Art: Doris Kinnear (Bunty Annual 1964)

Appeared

  • Emergency 666 – Bunty: #282 (8 June 1963) – #288 (20 July 1963)

Other Appearances

  • Emergency 666 – Bunty the Book for Girls 1964

Peggy the Promette

Bunty,

Plot

Peggy Morrison was the youngest member of the Promettes, a group of girls employed by the Corporation of the seaside town of Whitesands. The Promettes’ job was to patrol the
promenades and beaches, giving help and advice to the summer visitors.

Notes 

Appeared

  • Peggy the Promette – Bunty: #277 (4 May 1963) – #288 (20 July 1963)

Other Appearances

  • Peggy the Promette – Bunty the Book for Girls 1963

Peggy the Police Girl

Mandy, ,

Plot

Young Peggy Jones joined the police force as a Police Girl Cadet. She was sent to the village of Melrick, where she took up lodgings’ with the village policeman, Constable Gregson, and his wife. Lady Merlick is not sure she is up for the job, but Peggy impresses her, when she stops a purse snatcher that had taken Lady Merlick’s bag.

Notes

Appeared

  • Peggy the Police Girl – Mandy: #01 (21 January 1967) – (?)

Penny the Post

Judy, ,

Plot

Young Penny Hughes lives with her  grandparents in the small welsh village of Llangower. Her grandfather is postman and, when he becomes ill, Penny sacrifices her chance to go to university so that she can take over the job as postman until he is well again, thus keeping the job open for him.

Notes

  • Art: Tony Speer

Appeared

  • Penny the Post – Judy: #248 (10 October 1964) – #262 (16 January 1965)

Other Appearances:

  • Penny the Post – Judy Annual 1966

Bella the Babysitter

Tracy, ,

Plot

Bella Brown took up babysitting to earn money for a family holiday. She soon found there was more to the job than she expected!

Notes

  • Artist: Carlos Freixas
  • Reprinted and translated to Dutch as  “Bella de babysitter”  – Debbie #32 (1982).

Appeared

  • Bella the Babysitter – Tracy: #79 (4 April 1981) – #91 (27 June 1981) [no episodes in issues; #81 or #89]
  • Bella the Babysitter – Tracy: #96 (01 August 1981)