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.

Wheeeeeeee!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.