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The Tommy Tricker films are a whimsical blend of adventure and fantasy. In Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988), a mischievous boy and his friends uncover the magical ability to travel the world through postage stamps, leading to daring quests and self-discovery. Its sequel, The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994), expands the concept with a race against time to rescue a stamp traveler trapped for decades, venturing into exotic locales with high stakes and heartfelt moments.
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charles Merriweather, a stamp traveller frozen in time since his last attempt at stamp- travelling, 65 years ago. But Charles turns out to be a girl, his sister Molly! And she is rapidly turning into an old woman. To find a cure, Tommy takes off in a race against the time that leads him and Molly to the exotic and magical South Pacific islands.