BOOK TWENTY-ONE Published 1984 BP Team: Groom and Duncan are joined by Janet Ellis. Cover: The team frolic around in the snow for a seasonal cover. Oddly, no sign of Richard Bacon. Features: Opening photos show Pete being strangled by a Cyberman... Pete does a trapeze act, stripped to the waist for camp circus action; "I reached up for Joe's wrists, swung back, and dropped ignominiously into the net. I had failed"... Bring and Buy sales raise funds for the Weatherbeaters appeal, providing shelters and supplies for flood victims... The huge costumes from the stage show of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are visit the studio... some old fossils for schoolboy thrills... the team follow Duran Duran's example and visit Sri Lanka... Simon welcomes fellow sad Elvis impersonator Shakin' Stevens to the studio where the wobblin' Welshman shares the stage with one of his young fans... Simon plays the potentially lethal sport of bicycle polo... The team get to grips with an enormous snake in the studio - how Simon's mind must have been racing... Viewers help in the biggest birdwatch of all time, logging the birds of Britain: "STOP PRESS On June 5th we discovered that great tits were nesting in this box!"... Great title for an article - Pete tries out the RAFs air-sea rescue training in 'Dunking Duncan'... Colin Baker drops into the studio as the 6th Doctor Who and tames Jack the cat, thanks to his vice like grip... Janet dresses up as a maid and goes for a fresh-faced innocent look. Nothing wrong with that... Simon tries carriage driving on another rural jaunt... A Blue Peter competition winner has his giant dragon slide built at the Liverpool Garden Festival... Janet goes on the first of her parachute jumps. Her pelvis stays intact on this occasion... Everyone rallies round to undo the damage done to the BP Garden by vandals, who to this day have never been caught ("...they SMASHED up our sundial!"). Still, a newspaper report last year (2000) fingered a gang of London youths - whose number may well (allegedly) have included modern day football heroes Les Ferdinand and Dennis Wise ("must be mentally ill, Janet" commented a not very PC Percy at the time) Makes: 'Monster masks' made from Lenor bottles that are simultaneously hilarious and strangely unsettling. As seen on the cover, an insanely complex Blue Peter wooden sledge. Woollen ear muffs lend a touch of the Jackie annual to the proceedings. Historical Figure's Life Story in Pictures: Judy the Wonder Dog - a Navy dog (?) who fought in WWII and was awarded the Victoria Cross. Also the building of the Ribble viaduct and railway in Lancashire. Stories: None at all. Rubbish Mystery Story: The Case of The Twitcher's Telescope - ornithological capers accompanied by the worst illustrations ever seen in any annual, anywhere. And we're including the Tomorrow People annual, the Krankies one and all the Metal Mickey ones. Notes: Again lower print runs make this harder to find than you might think, although 15 years is a long time when you consider it. A couple of quid at most though. We recently picked up a copy for 20p. It happens sometimes.