All in a Good Cause

Smoke bombs fail to dislodge an old busker who has taken over the kids' headquarters, an abandoned circus caravan. One of Magpie's hidden treasures, a half-eaten fish, finally drives him out.

In hopes of winning a home decoration competition, the overbearing Mrs. Foster employs two men to repaint her flat. The kids volunteer to decorate the neighbouring flat of the elderly sisters. The front door keys are mixed up...

Fiddler tricks Magpie into swapping her stamp collection for a supposed penguin egg.

Magpie wins a duck which proves to be alive and no use for the Sunday dinner. The kids invent a device which makes the duck seem to talk.

English schoolboy and his Dutch pen friend chase a diamond smuggling gang in Holland.

A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's cabbage patch, Fiddler later persuades Magpie's Mum to give her daughter's snail collection to a French restaurant.

The kids take part in a bicycle race and manage to win new bikes, in spite of the organiser's treachery.

The kids decide to earn money by making jam from damaged apples, but disaster occurs.

Putting on a pantomime, the kids find they must share the Church hall with a rock group. They decide to present a rock panto.

A supermarket offers free groceries to the winner of a Shrove Tuesday pancake race. The kids, after messy experiments with pancake batter, enter Susie in the race; she wins, despite the efforts of the unscrupulous "Mrs. Shove".