FOURTEENTH BOOK Published 1977 BP Team: Lesley Judd, John Noakes, Peter Purves Cover: Another classic of the mid-70s team in the gallery with the pets depicted on the monitors behind them. Lesley is young and lovely and very-1977, Pete and John are cast as the reliable oldsters in comfy jumpers. Features: Cross-media BBC fun when John visits the set of Porridge at Ealing. Hope he remembers Ronnie Barker's name this time... The expedition travels to Brunei, although a rather odd illusrated heading makes you think on first glance that this is another article on Brunel... A second dose of cross-media BBC fun when Lesley mans the phones on Swap Shop... Lesley travels to America on Concorde and sends back the first ever live-by-satellite report from Washington DC... A man is pictured touching his enormous swollen gourd... The team visit a host of towns twinned with places in Britain including Coventry and Warsaw... Another unbelievable stunt for Noakes, zooming down a fast-running river - on a lilo!... John also plays Rugby League with Castleford ("There was no turning back now - in five mnutes time I would be out on the field") including a rather risque team bath photo... Lesley goes rally driving Makes: Marble castle - a bagatelle type game in the style of a castle. Decorated with PlayMobil figures for some odd reason. Christmas tat for 1977 - candles made out of flour. Hope that tinsel is fire-retardant. Historical Figure's Life Story in Pictures: Those silly old Burghers of Calais. A royal visit by Queen Elizabeth I Stories: Bleep and Booster - "A stellarific adventure in outer space". January 2nd 1978 and Star Wars would be released, leaving these two looking rather superannuated. Paddington takes a rest and is replaced by cave boy Littlenose, a Jackanory regular at this time. Bengo meanwhile has ben and gone... Rubbish Mystery Story: The Case of the Tangled Tape. Yes we noticed the alliteration too. Notes: Designed by Eileen Strange and John Strange. Strange, that. Was in pretty much every kids' bedroom in 1977-8 but oddly not so common now. Still shouldn't set you back more than 3 or 4 pounds even at collectors' prices.