The New Avengers Annual (© 1977)

This was one of two annuals dedicated to The New Avengers drawn by John Bolton. "Fangs" was one of the two comic strips drawn by Bolton. One was written by Steve Moore but which of the two I never asked. I have a feeling it might have been this one... I'll post the second strip tomorrow and you can make your own mind up which was by Steve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(* The New Avengers © The Avengers (Film & TV) Enterprises Ltd.)

Bleep and Booster

BLEEP AND BOOSTER

by Jeremy Briggs

The adventures of the robot-like alien Bleep and the human boy Booster were created by Austrian artist William Timym, credited as "Tim", for the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter around 1963. In addition to their animated adventures on screen they also appeared in stories, all credited to Tim, in their own annuals and storybooks as well as the annual Blue Peter books where their adventures outlasted their television appearances by many years.

William Timym was born in Austria in 1902 and left the country for the United Kingdom in 1938 around the time of Nazi Germany's takeover of the county during the Anschluss. In Britain, after the war, he created various comic strip animal characters including the puppies Wuff, Tuff & Snuff and Humphrey the donkey for Woman magazine, Caesar the dog for the Sunday Dispatch and Bengo the Boxer puppy for the Daily Express. Later in his life he moved into sculpture and is perhaps best known for his bronze statue of Guy The Gorilla for London Zoo and the bust of the Blue Peter dog Petra originally placed in front of BBC Television Centre in London and later moved to the Blue Peter Garden at the back of the building. William Timym was awarded the MBE just two years before he passed away in 1990.

Timym created the characters of Bleep and Booster in the early 1960s with IMDB placing their first TV broadcast as early as 1963. Booster is a human boy named for his interest in creating a booster rocket powerful enough to go into space. He achieves this ambition and blasts into space where he meets the robot-like alien Bleep from the planet Miron and Beep’s father, the unnamed Captain of the Miron Space Commandos and the commander of Space Freighter Number 9. Booster stays on Miron with Bleep and his father and the many stories document their various adventures.

They first appeared in print in 1964 in the first Blue Peter book in a story in which they journey to the planet of the Frigs, a mischievous race that were renamed as Trugs in later stories probably due to “frig” being a minced oath. On the Frig planet they find and adopt an alien pet that they call Spiky, who resembles an anteater and acts like a dog, and who becomes a regular character in many of the other stories.

This initial Blue Peter story does not set up the situation of how Bleep and Booster know each other which has to wait for a thin hardback storybook published by Purnell in 1965. This first storybook simply entitled Bleep and Booster has two linked illustrated text stories, Into Outer Space and The Space Dragon, plus a selection of pages of models to make and puzzles to draw and colour on plus a dice game. In Into Outer Space Booster is introduced as a small boy who invents a “new type of lightweight slow-burning rocket booster” which he then incorporates into a space rocket that he built at the bottom of his garden and in which he launches himself into space without considering how he is going to get back. Once in space he runs out of fuel but is rescued by a flying saucer making a “bleep, bleep” noise. The pilot of the saucer is Bleep the space boy who, unlike Booster, does not need a spacesuit to survive in space. After an adventure on the planet Miron in The Space Dragon, they are rescued by Bleep’s father in Space Freighter Number 9 who returns Booster to his now refuelled rocket in which he returns safely home. While this storybook’s stories are more juvenile than the other Bleep and Booster stories it introduces the basic situation while acting as a standalone book in its own right. However, just to confuse continuity somewhat, the planet that they discover the Space Dragon on is called Miron which we later discover is Bleep’s home planet, although it is not referred to as such here.

The characters returned in the second Blue Peter book in 1965, as they would until 1977, however in 1966 they appeared in the first of three of their own annuals. These, like the first storybook, were published by Purnell and like all the Bleep and Booster books displayed their Blue Peter credentials prominently on the front cover. This 80 page book has six different stories, four illustrated text stories – A Meeting In Space, The Big Freeze, The Forbidden Planet, and The Threat To Miron, and two nursery style comic strip stories – Adventure On Ziron and Alarm On Freighter 9. In addition to these stories there are puzzle pages, cut-out dioramas and a dice game.

The second storybook, Bleep and Booster’s Space Secret, published in 1967 follows the style of the first in having one story split in two with puzzle and game pages in between. The story tells an expedition to the distant planet of Numa to find out if there is life on it and features the Captain, Spiky and Space Freighter 9 as well as the two boys discovering just what the secret of Numa is.

The second of the three Bleep and Booster Annuals appeared in the same year. With a copyright of 1967, which makes it the annual for 1968, this 80 page book has seven different stories, four illustrated text stories - Space Emergency, The Forbidden Journey, The Giant From Titan, The War Of The Weeds, and three nursery style comic strip stories - Castaways On Peril Planet, The Space School Rebellion, and Starshot. In addition to these stories there are the usual puzzle pages and dice games.

A third annual appeared in 1968 and followed a similar format to the previous ones with text stories, nursery comic strips and the inevitable games and quizzes. Again published by Purnell its 80 pages included three illustrated text stories – The Flying Fortress, A World On Fire, Journey Into Micro Space, and four nursery comic strips – The Rolling Rocks, Miron Safari, Crash Landing, and Famine On Miron. The three annuals are certainly the most impressive of the Bleep and Booster books and include the best stories which are less juvenile than the two storybooks and longer than any of the stories in the Blue Peter books.

Yet it is from the Blue Peter books that the characters are perhaps best remembered due to their appearances in four page illustrated text stories published in these annual books. The Bleep and Booster stories, none of which were given titles, began in the first Blue Peter book published in 1964 and continued in every following book up to and including the fourteenth book published in 1977 and two of these Blue Peter books had extra Bleep and Booster features. The Blue Peter Fourth Book published in 1967, the same year as the first annual and the Space Secret storybook, had a two page full colour painted dice game entitled Space Rescue, while the Mystery Picture in the Blue Peter Ninth Book featured the pair of space boys in 1972. The Mystery Pictures were regular features in the early Blue Peter books, with the majority be credited to Timym, and were a simplistic type of paint-by-numbers with the page size grids having squares to be coloured in based on each number being assigned a colour.

The pair also made it onto the front cover of the Blue Peter Colouring Book released in 1975 along with Bengo, one of Tim’s dog characters who also appeared in the Blue Peter Books, with their cover antics being watched by the four Blue Peter pets of the time, Shep, Jason, Petra and Freda. 

On screen the pair appeared in black and white animated stories inserted within the main live action Blue Peter programme in the 1960s with the animation being limited to animatic style zooms and pans on artwork frames. These were filmed by Timym himself with stories written by Dorothy Smith and narrated by Peter Hawkins. It is interesting to note that some on-line references for Bleep and Booster confuse the final Blue Peter book appearance in 1977 with the final television appearance and therefore assume that the black and white episodes were being broadcast as part of the colour show long into the 1970s when they were not. As a very limited form of black and white animation there have been no modern DVD releases of the episodes although a VHS video of two stories, The Giant Brain and Solaron, was released by Watershed Pictures in 1990 and re-released under PolyGram’s Pocket Money Video in 1993.

Timym had considerable success merchandising his various characters beyond storybooks and annuals with Wade releasing figurines of many of his dog characters including Bengo, while Rylee produced greetings cards and calendars of Wuff, Snuff and Tuff. The marionette company Pelham Puppets had previously released puppets of Caesar, Bengo and the trio of Wuff, Snuff and Tuff (changing the three virtually identical black dogs of the cartoons into three different colours of the same puppet) and they continued the Tim theme with four Bleep and Booster tie-in puppets in the 1960s. These consisted of Bleep and Booster themselves plus two aliens, a Trug and a Rotundan.
The spiky haired, mischievous Trugs from the planet Truga appear in Adventure On Ziron and Alarm On Freighter 9 in the first annual, as pupils in The Space School Rebellion story in the second annual as well as being in the first Blue Peter book in a story in which they are referred to as Frigs. The gangly, three eyed Rotundans from the planet Rotunda also appear in the same school story in the second annual as well as The Big Freeze in the first annual and The Flying Fortress and A World On Fire in the third annual although they did not feature in any of the Blue Peter books stories. The excellent Pelham Puppets Online website has photos of the four puppets (Bleep, Booster, Trug and Rotundan) as well as the original colour artwork produced by Timym for the Pelham designers to work from. The site also has pictures of the puppet versions of the dog characters Bengo, Wuff, Snuff and Tuff, and Caesar.

In addition to the Pelham Puppets, jigsaw manufacturer Philmar produced at least one Bleep and Booster jigsaw, presumably released in the late 1960s. This 50 piece jigsaw was 15 inches long by 10 inches high and used an illustration of both Space Freighter 9 and one of its patrol pods, a smaller spacecraft that Bleep and Booster use in the 1967 Space Secret storybook as well as in several of the Blue Peter Book stories.

 

From their origins in the early 1960s, Bleep and Booster continued on until their final appearance in the Blue Peter Fourteen Book published in 1977. They were missing from the next Blue Peter book which was the first to be published after Star Wars had changed British children’s perception of science-fiction forever - Space Freighter 9 and the Miron Space Commandos simply couldn’t stand up against the Millennium Falcon and Imperial Stormtroopers. Yet as childish as their adventures were, today the characters of Bleep and Booster remain fondly remembered by the pre-Star Wars generation of Blue Peter viewers.

(* This is an updated version of of a Bear Alley column originally published in  March 2011. A full listing of all Bleep and Booster and other Tim stories in the Blue Peter books can be found on Bear Alley here. Bleep and Booster © Cooper Features/the estate of William Timym; Blue Peter © British Broadcasting Corporation. With thanks to Keith Ansell and Steve Holland for additional information and illustrations.)

Hurricane Annual 1974

Hurricane Annual 1974 (IPC Magazines, 1973, 160pp, cover by Ian Kennedy)
2 * [Misc. Material] * Strange But True... They Really Flew * ia; illus. photos
3 * [Misc. Material] * Contents * ms
4 * [Comic Strip] * Hurry of the Hammers * cs
9 * [Comic Strip] * Danny Jones Time-Traveller * cs
17 * [Comic Strip] * Danger Men: The Stuntmen * cs
21 * [Comic Strip] * Sir Hector the Spectre and his Chum Duke Dum * cs
22 * Anon. * The Man in the Middle * ar
24 * Anon. * Soccer Special * ar; illus. photos
28 * [Misc. Material] * Picture Quiz * qz; illus. photos
32 * Anon. * The Worst Boy in the School * ss
38 * [Comic Strip] * Great Escapes! Lieutenant Ted Strever * cs
39 * [Comic Strip] * Skid Solo * cs; art by Nevio Zeccara * rpts Hurricane 12-12-64
43 * [Comic Strip] * Sword for Hire * cs; art by Giovanni Ticci * rps Hurricane 22-08-64
47 * [Comic Strip] * Little Spell * cs
48 * Anon. * The Speed Kings * ar; illus. photos
54 * [Misc. Material] * Inside Laughs * jo
56 * [Misc. Material] * Isn't it Fantastic? * ia
57 * [Comic Strip] * Bobby's Wonder Bike * cs
65 * [Comic Strip] * Typhoon Tracy Trouble-Shooter! * cs
71 * [Misc. Material] * Isn't it Fantastic * ia; illus. Pat Nicolle
72 * [Comic Strip] * Sir Hector the Spectre and his Chum Duke Dum * cs
73 * [Comic Strip] * Danger Men: The Spidermen * cs; art by Ian Kennedy
77 * [Comic Strip] * Escape from Colditz * cs
80 * Anon. * Following in Father's Footsteps * ar; illus. photos
88 * [Misc. Material] * Puzzle it Out! * pz
89 * [Comic Strip] * Skid Solo * cs; art by Nevio Zeccara * rpts Hurricane 28-11-64
93 * [Comic Strip] * Sir Hector the Spectre and his Chum Duke Dum * cs
94 * Anon. * Runway of Fear * ss
100 * [Comic Strip] * H.M.S. Outcast * cs
108 * [Comic Strip] * Great Escapes! The Emperor Napoleon * cs
110 * [Comic Strip] * Sword for Hire * cs; art by Giovanni Ticci * rpts Hurricane 08-08-64
114 * Anon. * Flying High * ar; illus. photos
120 * [Comic Strip] * Little Spell * cs
121 * [Comic Strip] * The Juggernaut from Planet Z * cs
129 * [Comic Strip] * Typhoon Tracy * cs; art by Mario Capaldi * rpts Hurricane 04-04-64
134 * [Misc. Material] * Peals on Wheels * jo
136 * [Comic Strip] * Skid Solo * cs; art by Nevio Zeccara * rpts Hurricane 05-12-64
140 * [Comic Strip] * Sir Hector the Spectre and his Chum Duke Dum * cs
141 * [Comic Strip] * Little Spell * cs
142 * [Comic Strip] * Carlos of the Wild Horses * cs; art by Carlos Roume * rpts Hurricane 16-01—08-05-65

Hurricane Annual 1971

Hurricane Annual 1971 (IPC Magazines, 1970, 160pp, 10/6, cover by Mario Capaldi)
2 * [Misc. Material] * Concorde - Building a Giant * il
3 * [Misc. Material] * Contents * ms
4 * [Comic Strip] * The Juggernaut of Planet Z * cs
12 * Anon. * Hurry of the Hammers * ss
18 * [Comic Strip] * H.M.S. Outcast * cs
26 * Anon. * The Test Pilots * ar; illus. photos
30 * [Comic Strip] * They Came from the Sea * cs
38 * [Misc. Material] * Sports-Action * il; illus. photos
40 * [Comic Strip] * Olac the Gladiator * cs; art by Ruggero Giovanini * rpts Tiger, 20-04—17-08-63
60 * Anon. * Dream Cars * ar; illus. photos
65 * Anon. * The Big Jets * ar; illus. photos
73 * [Comic Strip] * Danny Jones Time Traveller! * cs
77 * [Comic Strip] * He Rides Alone * cs
81 * Anon. * The Black-Archer * ss
87 * [Comic Strip] * Typhoon Tracy Trouble Shooter! * cs; art by Mario Capaldi * rpts Hurricane, 09-05-64
91 * Anon. * The Story of Submarines * ar; illus. photos
97 * [Comic Strip] * Sword for Hire * cs; art by Giovanni Ticci * rpts Hurricane, 14-03-64
102 * [Comic Strip] * Skid Solo * cs; art by Nevio Zecarra * rpts Hurricane, 18-04-64
105 * Anon. * The Worst Boy in the School * ss; illus. Selby Donnison
111 * [Comic Strip] * The Slogger from Down Under * cs
119 * [Misc. Material] * Sports-Action * il; illus. photos
121 * [Comic Strip] * Typhoon Tracy Trouble Shooter! * cs; art by Mario Capaldi
129 * [Comic Strip] * Tiger of the Deep * cs [Louis Bernard]
137 * [Misc. Material] * Building a Giant * ia; illus. photos
142 * [Misc. Material] * Sports-Action * il; illus. photos
144 * [Comic Strip] * Helmet Head * cs; art by Selby Donnison
152 * [Comic Strip] * Danny Jones Time Traveller! * cs
156 * [Comic Strip] * The Inquisitors * cs

Geoffrey Wheeler Cutaways in the Blue Peter Books

Geoffrey Wheeler Cutaways in Blue Peter Books

Compiled by Jeremy Briggs

Geoffrey Edmund John Wheeler was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1929. After school he joined the Great Western Railway in January 1945 and later saw service in the Royal Navy serving onboard a number of ships including HMS Amethyst, a frigate remembered for being captured by Communist Chinese forces in 1949 in what became known as the Yangtze Incident. On leaving the Navy he worked for two years as an illustrator in a technical publications studio before going freelance in 1961.

He is best known to comics collectors as one of the cutaway artists for Eagle for which he produced 44 cutaways, the same number as John Batchelor - only Laurence Dunn, Walkden Fisher and of course L Ashwell Wood produced more. His Eagle cutaways began in Vol 12 Number 52 with a Burrell Showman's Traction Engine and continued through to Vol 17 No 49 which featured the Bluebell Line’s Earl Of Berkley Duke Class steam locomotive.

Less well remembered are the cutaway drawings that he did for the annual Blue Peter books. While the standard Eagle format for cutaways was the painted style that L Ashwell Wood had first used for Modern Wonder magazine in the late 1930s, the Blue Peter books used the black and white line drawings that were typical of more technical publications such as the now century old Flight magazine. Wheeler’s eleven cutaways for the Blue Peter books were all in black and white with three taking up two pages spreads while the rest were all single page size. It is also interesting to note that while Eagle regular illustrated military subjects none of the Blue Peter subjects are military.

Wheeler’s first cutaway appeared in the Blue Peter Fourth Book in 1967 and depicted the programme’s adopted steam engine the 532 Blue Peter, a Pacific Class 4-6-2 locomotive. His cutaways appeared in the next ten Blue Peter books and, unlike the first one, they normally tied in with a feature in the book either historical or based on an event that happened on the television programme itself. These ranged from the 1903 Cadillac motorcar in which presenters Peter Purves and John Noakes drove Valerie Singleton from London to Brighton in the 1970 Veteran Car Run to a cutaway of Concorde in which presenter Lesley Judd flew from London to Washington DC on 24 May 1976.

Like the television series, the books did not use trade names for items that the child readers might buy or ask their parents to buy, but the feature and the cutaway in the Thirteenth Book in 1976 took this to the extreme. The featured vehicle was an enormous eight wheeled John Deere 8430 tractor which then cost £23,300 and was illustrated with photographs of its appearance in the studio as well as a cutaway. Not only did the cutaway not show the manufacturers name on its side, but the two pages that cover the tractor never once make reference to its manufacturer or model number and the John Deer name was even crudely removed from the largest photo of the vehicle.

The cutaway of Concorde in 1977 was the last cutaway by Geoffrey Wheeler to appear in the Blue Peter books. No other artist took over the cutaways as the books ceased to use them as a regular feature.

Geoffrey Wheeler passed away on 15 October 1995 but his work lives on with his family offering prints of his work via the Wheeler Prints website including an alternative cutaway version of the Fowler BB1 steam traction engine as featured in the Blue Peter Sixth Book.

Blue Peter Fourth Book © 1967
Cutaway: Inside Blue Peter (Pacific Class 4-6-2 locomotive - 1 page)
Article: None

Blue Peter Fifth Book © 1968
Cutaway: Apollo (Apollo CSM/LM spacecraft – 1 page )
Article: Gemini X (Gemini 10 capsule in the TV studio – 1 page)

Blue Peter Sixth Book © 1969
Cutaway: Inside the Fowler BB1 (steam traction engine – 1 page)
Article: The Vanishing Giants (steam traction engines – 1 page)

Blue Peter Seventh Book © 1970
Cutaway: Jumbo Jet Giant Of The Skies (Boeing 747 airliner – 2 pages)
Article: None

Blue Peter Eighth Book © 1971
Cutaway: The Cadillac Of 1903 (Cadillac car – 1 page)
Article: Veteran Car Run (London to Brighton vintage car rally – 1 page)

Blue Peter Ninth Book © 1972
Cutaway: RMS Queen Elizabeth (ocean liner – 2  pages)
Article: Queen Of The Seas (history and sinking of the RMS Queen Elizabeth – 2 pages)

Blue Peter Tenth Book © 1973
Cutaway: Skylab (NASA space station – 1 page)
Article: None

Blue Peter Eleventh Book © 1974
Cutaway: The Waveney Life-Boat (RNLI lifeboat – 1 page)
Article: The Life Savers (History of the RNLI lifeboats – 2 pages)

Blue Peter Twelfth Book © 1975
Cutaway: R101 (Airship – 1 page)
Article: The End Of An Era (Crash of the R101 airship in 1930 – 2 pages)

Blue Peter Thirteenth Book © 1976
Cutaway: Inside Story (John Deere 8430 tractor – 1 page)
Article: Country Giant (John Deere 8430 tractor in the TV studio – 1 page)

Blue Peter Fourteenth Book © 1977
Cutaway: Concorde (Supersonic airliner – 2 pages)
Article: Blue Peter Goes Supersonic (Lesley Judd flies to Washington DC on Concorde – 3 pages)

(* Cutaways © the estate of Geoffrey Wheeler; Blue Peter © British Broadcast Corporation.)

William "Tim" Timym in the Blue Peter Books

William “Tim” Timym In The Blue Peter Books

Compiled by Jeremy Briggs

William 'Tim' Timym's Bleep and Booster characters featured in the first fourteen Blue Peter books in 4 page illustrated text stories, one per book. While Bleep and Booster may be Timym's best remembered characters the annual Blue Peter Books, published to tie in with the BBC children's television series, featured more of his work than just the pair of space boys.

The other main Tim character published in the Blue Peter books was Bengo the boxer pup. Bengo dates from the 1950s and in the early Blue Peter books he featured in colour nursery comic style adventures finally ending with several years of single pages of silent newspaper style short comic. Bengo also appeared in the TV21 nursery comic Candy during the same period as he was appearing in the Blue Peter books.

Unusually Timym also created a single page colour by numbers style Mystery Picture for many of the books. These were page size grids with squares to be coloured in based on each number being assigned a colour. These were normally based around animal subjects but the Mystery Picture in the ninth book featured Bleep and Booster. The first of these Mystery Pictures appeared in the second book and was not credited however they are also in the Sixth to Fifteenth Books in which they are all credited to Tim and therefore the details of the first one are also included..

What follows is a listing of all the Tim features appearing in the Blue Peter Books. More details of the first 30 Blue Peter books can be found on The Triangular Shelf website.

Please note that none of the Bleep and Booster stories in the Blue Peter books were given individual titles and those titles listed below in brackets were only created to help differentiate the stories for this article.

Blue Peter (First Book) © 1964
Bleep & Booster (and The Mischievous Frigs) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with red)
Bengo and the Bulldog (4 pages B&W with red & blue)

The Book Of Blue Peter (Second Book) © 1965
Bleep & Booster (and The Princess of Neptune) (4 pages - 2 colour/1 B&W with orange/1 B&W with blue)
Bengo (and the Tiger) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with blue)
Mystery Picture (1 page, cat in front of a fireplace - not credited)

The Third Book Of Blue Peter © 1966
Bleep & Booster (on the Planet of the Dinosaurs) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with orange)
Bengo (and Chee Chee) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with blue)

Blue Peter Fourth Book © 1967
Bleep & Booster (and the Observation Platform Prototype) (4 pages colour)
Bengo (and the Now Cat) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with green)
Space Rescue (Bleep & Booster dice game, 2 pages colour)

Blue Peter Fifth Book © 1968
Bleep & Booster (and the Green Snow) (4 pages colour)
Bengo (and the Seal) (4 pages colour)

Blue Peter Sixth Book © 1969
Bleep and Booster (on Gelatinus-X) (4 pages colour)
Bengo (and the Lighthouse) (4 pages - 2 colour/2 B&W with red)
Mystery Picture (1 page, parrot in a tree)

Blue Peter Seventh Book © 1970
Bleep and Booster (at Lake Stellarus) (4 pages colour)
Bengo – Three Stories Without Words (3 x two line comic strips, 1 page colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page)

Blue Peter Eighth Book © 1971
Bleep and Booster (Bleep’s Birthday Treat) (4 pages colour)
Bengo – Three Stories Without Words (3 x two line comic strips, 1 page colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page)

Blue Peter Ninth Book © 1972
Bleep and Booster (and the Duolaser) (4 pages colour)
Bengo – Three Stories Without Words (3 x two line comic strips, 1 page colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page, Bleep and Booster)

Blue Peter Tenth Book © 1973
Bleep and Booster (and the Romanoids) (4 pages colour)
Bengo – Three Stories Without Words (3 x two line comic strips, 1 page colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page, Bengo and a horse)

Blue Peter Eleventh Book © 1974
Bleep and Booster (and the Space Commando Cubs) (4 pages colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page, circus elephant)

Blue Peter Twelfth Book © 1975
Bleep and Booster (Attack of the Devastoids) (4 pages colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page, monkey and a parrot)

Blue Peter Thirteenth Book © 1976
Bleep & Booster (and the Grimaloid Miners) (4 pages colour)
Bengo – Three Stories Without Words (3 x two line comic strips, 1 page B&W with blue)
Mystery Picture (1 page, two pandas)

Blue Peter Fourteenth Book © 1977
Bleep & Booster – A Stellarific Adventure In Outer Space (4 pages colour)
Mystery Picture (1 page – Crown Jewels)

Blue Peter Fifteenth Book © 1978
Mystery Picture (1 page)
Good-bye Petra (4 page B&W feature on the creation of the Petra statue)

(* Artwork © Cooper Features/the estate of William Timym; Blue Peter © British Broadcasting Corporation.)