TENTH BOOK Published 1973 BP Team: Lesley Judd, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Val Singleton Cover: Famed psychedelic cover-within-a-cover schtick that has the team disappearing into infinity. Well, an out of register blob of ink at least. Features: Noakes (who else?) swims the freezing Serpentine on Christmas Day... photo feature recalling Val's 'Special Assignments' which were also available as paperbacks in their own right... Val and Pete dress up to work in a Cornish turn mine... the expedition this year was to Tonga... John's hobby of making glass trees is revealed... This year's appeal is the Treasure Hunt - viewers send in old thimbles and metal junk to be melted into scrap to set up an Old People's Day Centre and provide a fleet of Meals on Wheels vans... A great photo of the team dressed up as Roman nobles with John, tellingly, as their slave... The Shetland Up-Helly-Aa Viking festival... Lesley becomes a trainee nurse Makes: Contractually Obligatory Christmas decoration - those massive big freestanding Santa things made out of coloured paper. An underexplained and over-complicated 'Electric Landflyer'. Garden furniture for dolls - "Let your doll relax in a luxury swing hammock". Note Lesley's pre-hippy tomboy haircut in this feature Historical Figure's Life Story in Pictures: Admiral Nelson. Also, the building of the Eddystone Lighthouse Stories: Bleep and Booster, Paddington and another cartoon picture story featuring Bengo, although this time in a shade of brown and not full colour. Your card's marked, Bengo old son. Rubbish Mystery Story: The Case of the Missing Link - a VIP makes a trip to the BBC to record an appearance on current affairs show 'Diorama'. Also features a cameo appearance by BBC electrician Tony Kingsfold. One of the mistakes made by the criminal is that "television studio cameras are electronic - it is impossible to load them with film as anyone working in the studio would know". And you expect the kiddoes to know this??? Notes: Val is pushed out by Lesley in this one, reversing the previous year's trend and making you wonder why they ever have four people on the show at once. Despite its age a relatively easy book to come by - probably four or five quid tops. Trivia: the inside back cover shot of Lesley was used as a slide in Mel & Sue's 1999 stand up tour.