BABE Of The DAY - LESLEY ANN WARREN...

Here's LESLEY ANN WARREN to

get your pulses racing and make you consider

trading in your wife or girlfriend for a far newer

model with far less mileage on the clock.  (Betcha

any money you've at least thought about it.  Oh

 yes you have - don't dare deny it!)

PLANET Of The DEAD...

Copyright relevant owner

By the time the TV21 Annual for 1973 hit the shops, it was a far different yearly publication than it had once been.  For a start, gone were all the GERRY ANDERSON related stories and in their place were strips typical of just about any other book for boys.  The one exception to blandness was STAR TREK, which maintained the outer space theme once represented by FIREBALL XL5, ZERO X, and even, to some degree, THUNDERBIRDS.  (The previous two Annuals had also lacked any 'CENTURY 21' content.)

  

So, let's take a look at the first of two ST strips which appeared in the last-ever Annual of what had, for a time, been the best-selling children's publication to grace the counters of Britain's newsagents.  I'll present the second titanic tale soon, so keep your palpitatin' peepers peeled for those pulse-pounding pages.

(BOND) BABE Of The DAY - ALEXANDRA BASTEDO...

ALEXANDRA BASTEDO - ee,

champion!  (I'm far too tired to think of

anything original, so you'll just have to

 come up with your own captions.)