Was going to hold off until the original version, was done, but here is the Mystery of the Missing Friends aka Missing Chums UK edition, from the original Hardy boys series for you to read.
There isn't that much different from the U.S.A version to be honest. Some of the spellings have been changed to have the U's put back in them, such as "harbour" and "colour". The bad guy drinks Fizzle Lemonade now instead of Soda and a few other bits such as kerosene and commercial have been changed to paraffin and advertisement. More strange is that Chet Morton's line at the beginning where he says that they will be the death of him has been changed. I wonder if it was policy at Armada to remove all references to death then.
Finally you get the previous and next story changed as we had a different line up here. Your previous tale was the Tower Treasure and The Viking Junk Mystery follows this.
Also a note on "Chums". Nobody really called each other chums here except for the term bum chum from the picking game each, peach, pear plum, choose your best bum chum. A girls version of Ip dip.
Incidentally Bum Chum is one of the many names for homosexuals and is hilarious when used for products such as these. They're easy on your baby's bum apparently, I guess they don't know what we know.
Also have turned up a factsheet from a dead old Channel 4 show called plants for free. I doubt anything exists of this now, but for some reason we have a photocopied version of it done by an old neighbour. I'll get this scanned and added to Archive. org over easter so what out for that.
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