BOOK TWENTY-TWO
Published 1985
BP Team: Peter has gone on a sabbatical
that takes in his Duncan Dares series and so the Janet and
Simon team are joined by forgotten man Michael Sundin.
Cover: A bizarre piece of Children's BBC cross over, with artwork
of Devin Stanfield as Kay Harker springing the team - and a cheap
comedy bicycling cat - from his Box of Delights.
Features:
'Tramp Champ' Sundin bounces in on his trampoline (before being
bounced out just as quickly, of course). And he was the robot in
Return to Oz. Yes, we know. They told us enough times... Pete and
Simon get some male bonding in by tackling the Royal Tournament
and the Field Gun Run... Aid for Ethiopia (say it in a Michael Sundin
voice) and to buy new Lifeboats in a double appeal asking for your
old stamps... Janet smiles through gritted teeth as she shows us
the x-ray photos of her fractured pelvis... Bill and Ben are lost
and found again when they are nicked from a BBC exhibition... Pat
Troughton and Devin Stanfield drop in and demonstrate the kirby
wire fun of The Box of Delights... Janet and Michael get
into uniform and cook for the marines... Simon powders a porker
- he makes up a pig for a breeder's video. Honest... The expedition
is a safari to Kenya... Janet visits a house that became a museum
- shades of Mark Curry's Treasure Houses... Simon press gangs
everyone into visiting his parents' farm in Dethick once more...
Janet tries out cable car safety procedures...
Makes: Some tinselly
candle-holding tat and cotton reel moon creature puppets.
Historical Figure's Life
Story in Pictures: John Masefield - writer of The Box
of Delights.
Lee Boo - a Pacific Prince who travelled to London in 1784, with
hilarious consequences. He died after catching smallpox. Also Dolly
Shepherd, Victorian parachutist - except it's not in picture story
form.
Stories: None at all.
Rubbish Mystery Story: The Case of The Ashen-faced Aussie - a cricket
story with possibly the worst title of them all.
Notes:
A little more common than those either side thankfully - you're
quite likely to find this in a jumble sale or car boot sale if you
look hard enough. Interesting if only as a record of Michael Sundin's
brief tenure on the show - in later years he has been rather swept
under the carpet in retrospectives. He died at a very young age
of an AIDS-related illness.
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