After a fall, orphan Angela Black seemed to lose the use of her legs. Even doctors and specialists were fooled by Angela, who had discovered that being “cripple” had advantages. Now, she had been given a home with the young film star, Karen Sands, and had managed to wangle a small film part for herself.
Dixie Smith and Lionel Wordsworth want to become ballroom dancing champions. But their mothers hate each other, and Mrs Wordsworth starts causing trouble.
Liz Jones becomes Lady Liz when her father becomes a duke. But they still can’t afford much because the maintenance of their stately home, Brookford House, is proving costly. And Amelia Brace-Trent is causing trouble to get them out of Brookford House.
Alison Clegg blames her sister Emma for the road accident that left her badly injured, just because Emma had persuaded her to switch places in the car a few minutes beforehand. She starts playing nasty tricks on Emma in revenge.
Revenge!– M&J: #242 (30 December 1995) – #249 (17 February 1996)
Rachel Allen is a pupil at Grantland Boarding School. She is out to get Ivy Harding expelled because she thinks Ivy played tricks to get her friend Helen Turnbull expelled in order to get her place on the school tennis team. The trouble is, Rachel is mistaken about Ivy and Helen’s expulsion was justified.
Alison Payne and Bettina Clarke (Linda Lee in the reprint) are being fostered by the Frazers on a trial basis for adoption. Alison has looked after Bettina/Linda ever since she was blinded in an accident. But Bettina/Linda has secretly regained her sight and is keeping it that way until she gets rid of Alison, because she does not want to share the Frazers with her. And Bettina/Linda is going as far as animal cruelty (below) in her tricks to get rid of Alison. Bettina/Linda turns everyone against Alison, and there is even talk she should be sent to special school.
Then Bettina/Linda makes a very ironic mistake. She turns a light on while pulling another trick on Alison, while Alison distinctly remembers she had turned it off. As a blind girl would not need a light, Alison begins to suspect the truth. Further investigation confirms Alison’s suspicions, and she makes the accusation against Bettina/Linda in front of all her accusers. A doctor proves Alison’s claims that Bettina/Linda is not blind. Bettina/Linda is taken the children’s officer to be dealt with, and the Frazers adopt Alison.
Every week the splash panel opens with Wendy Ware as the centre of attention. To all appearances Wendy is a kind hearted, angelic girl who is popular with everyone – except one. In the background there always is an unhappy person who knows differently about Wendy.
In flashback, that person tells us how they fell foul of Wendy, who is really a nasty, selfish and extremely clever schemer who stops at nothing and nobody to get what she wants. Usually this means people who are in her way or people she took advantage of, but Wendy is also capable of hurting friends and even members of her own family. Even a famous actress falls foul of Wendy in one episode. Wendy always gets what she wants and ends up the centre of admiration in the last panel with everyone thinking she’s an angel, while her victim ends up with a blackened name and thinking “Only I know the truth about Wendy.” None of them ever seems to think that she might have done the same thing to others.
In the penultimate episode, Wendy steals Cindy Baker’s best friend Lisa because she wants to take advantage of the new wealth Lisa’s family have come into. But in this case Cindy becomes determined to expose Wendy.
However, Cindy has no luck in trying to talk sense into Lisa about how Wendy is taking advantage of her to get what she wants. Worse, Cindy keeps falling into traps set by Wendy to make her look jealous and spiteful. Eventually, Wendy brags to Cindy about how she will never succeed in exposing her; she is just like the people Wendy has fooled in the past, and she is expert in getting her own way and making others pay for it. However, a teacher overhears Wendy and sends her straight to the headmistress. Wendy has no choice but to confess all her crimes and is transferred to another school. She leaves a lot of smiling faces around her old school, and girls express delight that she has gone. Seeing this, Cindy and Lisa realise they were not the only ones to know the truth about Wendy.
New girl Angela Appleby is a pretty and clever girl. But soon someone is playing nasty tricks in class and the girls begin to wonder if Angela is as nice as she appears.
May Maddox is the model daughter, to the point of some schoolmates calling her a goody-goody. Then May writes an essay where she imagines herself as a much wilder girl named Myrna. Soon after, a real girl named Myrna turns up and she starts causing trouble for May.
Jenny Moss’s cousin Paula treats her like a slave, but Jenny tolerates it because she mistakenly thinks Paula saved her life. Jenny is now being considered for a scholarship, which Paula is out to sabotage because she does not want to lose her ‘slave’.
