Paula Bates was helping a fairy princess to hunt the tiger eye, a talisman that would help the princess save her people from the evil black lord and his soldiers.
Many years ago in Venice, a young boy, Giacomo Manetti, vanished. His father, a gondolier, was injured while searching for him and now, his twin sister, Gina, disguised as a gondolier, was looking for him.
Jessica Weston suspected she was really Jill Shelton who, as a baby, had been stolen by the couple looking after her. Now she was on the trail of Susie Shelton, her older sister.
In 1940 with her father lying in hospital injured after a German air-raid, Lindy Lewis is searching London for Goldie, her pet cocker spaniel, who has run away. Goldie is due to have pups any day. Lindy is living temporarily with Betty Tripp and her family. Betty’s sister, Mary, has lost the power of speech after an air-raid. Mary takes Lindy to a bomb site where she saw a stray spaniel. With the help of Rags, a mongrel Lindy has befriended, she recovers a spaniel puppy from a hide-out under some debris.
Becky Castle’s brother, Robbie, was competing in an athletics event when a carelessly thrown discus caused him to fall into a coma. Becky resolved to make a taped collection of sounds connected with his favourite activities in the hope that hearing them might help him recover. Her plan aroused considerable interest at the hospital where Robbie was a patient.
I’ll Bring Robbie Round! – Judy and Tracy: #1401 (15 Nov 1986) – #1411 (24 Jan 1987)
Plot:
Tessa Teesdale, is shrunk to doll-size by Dr Paulus to retrieve the four sacred rubies of Vilvenia. One problem she runs into is when she is mistaken by a night-owl for a mouse as she is trying to deliver the second of the jewels. The owl carries Tessa high into the belfry of a church.
Four Tasks for Tiny Tessa – Judy: #998 (24 February 1979) – #1005 (14 April 1979)
Hannah Leroy goes in search of her father, who failed to return from a theatrical tour, and finds him in a debtor’s prison.
World War II story featuring a runaway searching for her mother.
Plot:
In the 19th century, Megan Hughes and her grandfather go in search of Megan’s mother Olwen, who had disappeared from home many years ago after her husband and other children died. Grandfather and Megan use their magic lantern shows to aid the search by always showing audiences a picture of Olwen. Eventually a boy recognises her as “The Ghost Lady”, who haunts the coal mines at Maesglas.
Fiona Phillips’ grandfather is seriously injured when a fire breaks out in his studio. The fire also destroys some precious paintings of rare flowers. Fiona sets out to help replace the artwork by travelling the country to look for 10 of the rarest plants to draw from real life.
