I'm a 45 year old american and I have never seen this show until now. This is the best kids show I have ever seen. Makes me wish I had been a kid in Britain in the 70s
You got less than 2 hours television per weekday afternoon dedicated to children's programmes. Blue Peter was shown on a Monday and Thursday as the last show, (or sometimes second to last, as they would sometimes have a 5 minute animation afterwards), before, 'grown-up television', took over with the early evening news. Blue Peter occupied the slot around 5 o'clock, (I remember it being on at 5.10pm), and finished at around 5.35 or 5.40.
What a fantastic programme for children! I used to watch Blue Peter after school for years and it's still interesting decades later. Kids today are missing out.
Nigel Williams It doesn't take much to entertain you then! “Blue Peter” is the equivalent of watching paint dry on the walls and why would you want to inflict that trash on the kids today, don’t you think they have enough problems?
I was one month shy of my 12th birthday when this first aired. I loved watching Blue Peter in the 1970s and rarely missed an episode. Happy days indeed. ☺
As an American, I am astonished how sophisticated the music is, how professional the hosts are, how mature and intelligent they presume their audience to be! Sheesh - we had nothing like this. Maybe Mr. Rogers, but his audience was much younger.
This was on TV for children getting home from school and every child in the country watched it. There was only 3 channels and TV was on 11am-11pm closing down each night with the national anthem. So, if we didn't switch off quick (no remote) we would have to stand for The Queen before bed.
I'm 60 & watched Blue Peter from a young age - Line up Valerie Singleton, John Noakes & peter Purves & bear in mind it went out twice a week & was live - so they had to do the crafting live as well. They did have them done in stages on more lengthy craft builds & there were some mistakes made!
decent folk i loved the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s 90s great times holidays x plenty trees to climb Saturday film s at odeon x going on bike rides x bus trips to cinema x I was such lucky boy my.mum dad ran post office x dad part fire man x and his dad ran Hardware shop next to us they built x bungalows one for Hardware shop and post office later on one at the bottoms of Hardware yard 💙 party's at Fire Station x Christmas x and new year x disco x we had few pints lol Watneys red barrel bitter pass the parcel x the nees up at disco x gosh it was grand x thanks mum dad for your hard work so me and 3 brothers could have x great life of fun and holidays x 💙
@@BaddaBigBoom 🤣🤣🤣 I've just noticed the order I've placed the presenters that I remember! There was a John Leslie who presented the programme years after the lineups we remember! There used to be a spin off called "Blue Peter, special assignment" Valerie singleton presented that.
"Bugging Device" ... What do you mean? ... Additionally, WHY do you use a "bugging device" if you clearly don't like them? ... If you're a luddite, you could always go and live in a cave, if that would suit better? 🤣
@marcse7en He's got a point. We are becoming addicted drones to gadgets that spy on us and spread data and which, possibly, have a long term affect on us psychologically
I arrived to live (or return as I was born there) in England on the 26th January 1976 at 9 years old. So this was 3 weeks earlier. I used to watch this after school. Now I’m 56 and so glad we can see so much from our youth at our finger tips.
If this was still on today it would be as politicized as everything else. This was when those that worked at the BBC took their responsibilities as politically neutral presenters seriously. They were all lovies of course probably on the left but they at least tried to stay neutral. I remember when kids were on you could hear in their voices they were from all kinds of backgrounds. Now on TV shows, there is a distinctly middle-class bias and many have been plucked from expensive stage schools and have undisclosed agendas.
There's a lot to compare it today, as info about the world and current affairs is huge on kids shows. But guess you wouldn't know as like me you're not 11 any more.
I was 9 and remember the heatwave well, there was a hosepipe ban but because there was an underground stream in our garden the grass remained green, a lot of people thought we were watering the lawn but we weren't, even got a visit from the police.
Those flared mens pants and mushroom styled hairdos are something else. The 1970s visually was strange, but I must say I miss when most of us still adhered to standards of behavior, speech and dress. We could laugh at one another without fear. What a mess it is today. Thank you for the upload. 😊
@ Didn’t really like it then. Mind you I was only 13. Our house was filled with flowered wallpapers, avocado greens, orange beads, chocolate brown woods and mustard yellows. But I must say, I actually prefer it over the bleak over saturation the last 20 years of black, grays and whites. It’s become sterile and soul less. Another reason I think earth tones were also popular then, was it hid nicotine from smoking better. So you didn’t have to paint and redecorate so often. Just a guess.
@@larkatmic My father insisted on mushroom coloured paint on woodwork. It hid the nicotine stains. When father past i redecorated the whole house with blue! Had to to white to sell home..
I’m chuckling at the flared trousers! I was 11 when this was shown ….I lived by the South Coast (still do) and that year was the best school summer holiday term ever, 6 weeks on my local beach every day and ‘It’s A Knockout’ ….getting old sucks 🤣
@@KebabMusicLtd totally agree ....back then It’s a Knockout was one of the highlights of the week, as well a The Six Million Dollar Man and Starsky n Hutch ....TV was awesome in them days! 🤣
I was one month away from my 11th birthday. I remember watching this actual show! Blue Peter was my favourite and as we had only one TV at home I always hoped my sister wouldn't turn over to Crossroads on ITV!
@@derekporter7658 I had lots of schoolmates back to my house for tea back then when I was about 11 or 12. One of them, Graham Nameless, said "Ooh can we watch Crossroads?" I instantly went right off him!
People used to criticise Blue Peter saying it was for middle class kids, and stuffy and staid. Well I certainly wasn't, and never have, classed myself as middle class and I loved it. Much better than most of today's TV for kids which seems to involve 'adults' shouting a lot and behaving like idiots. John Noakes was great, and Lesley Judd, by eck, she was lovely.
@@neilfoster814 It’s enough to make a man blush ☺️ That thin wet cotton clinging tightly to her soft form as she slides over the rubber . . . . . Excuse me,I think it’s suddenly bed time!
Beautifly casted BBC, they worked so well together...I loved the blue Peter garden and good ole persy thrower.wow where have those years gone,great memories
same here...the starting part with the opening music zapped me right back to my parents front room watching it....everything felt all 70's to me again...(i wish) lol
@@RetroReminiscing ..moved back in with my mother a while ago and a bit of seventies bbc programming completes the whole picture.. saw a video earlier, with newsround at what would've been 5pm -ish followed by blue peter.. all i need now is the five minute animation that rounded off children's telly.. rhubarb, ivor the engine, magic roundabout.. paddington? etc.. 🙂 x
@@davidevans3227 Ooh yes!!! ha ha ! Do you remember the wheelies? Chorlton and the wheelies too? It has a green witch in that terrified me and spiky black balls around her which looked like spiders... Rhubarb and custard, the wombles..Mr Benn... I sometimes liek to video hop on here with lots of prighrams from that era.. I bet your mum will remember them all too! I remember my mum watching something called tales of the unexpected at night and the music intro used to give me the creeps but today i love it and i have actually got it set to my mobile phone ring tune ha ha ,,its one of those creepy but dreamy tunes....Hhave a great 70's reminiscing morning! 👌🤗
@@RetroReminiscing ooo.. tales of the unexpected! yes.. far too late for me at the time, it was probably on after 11pm.. but i always remember an episode where an inventor makes a machine to listen to plants and finds himself surrounded by horror!! ..because plants are constantly being walked on.. torn up, cut, mowed, eaten etc etc.. and so we left him, stuck in his garden surrounded by all that.. wow.. Anyway! LoL.. it's a lovely lunchtime here in south wales, i hope u enjoy the rest of ur weekend too.. 🙂
In 1975 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded, I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat with a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies - buckaroo! When I sat down on the chair, I looked up and realised it was none other than Peter Purves! It was at the height of his Blue Peter fame! He said "You jammy bastard!" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
Brilliant I love watching these old episodes as I was only 3 made my day when they said about Riding for the disabled because I used to do that I loved it I used to ride a horse named Simon he was a bit stubborn no one else would ride so I did he tried to chuck me once but I put my arms around his neck he had a glint in his eye bless him we got on after that oh yeah he used to fart and poo all over the place I thought that was highly comical being a kid ❤️😊😂👍🏻
Not only was this my era of Blue Peter but the appearance of a 'SkyTrain' DC10 is a personal highlight. This was one of the fleet run by the late Freddie Laker. He was my dad's cousin and a pioneer of affordable transatlantic passenger flights. He predated Richard Branson in that respect and then the budget airline revolution followed. Freddie's success ended when he was squeezed out by the likes of British Airways.
I only watched blue Peter for 3 reasons, 1. The makes, 2. The mishaps and 3. To get out of homework. It was the one programme parents approved of and would even watch. Loved the fearless John Noaks and his many adventures. X
and must have influenced many of the audience to rscognise school dress codes as the oppression enslavement and bodily abuse they are, and it made no dent in their existence.
I think just about all the Blue Peter episodes exist in the archive, hopefully one day us fans will be able to watch them all at our leisure. My era was late 60s to about 1980. The classic years as far as I'm concerned.
Im Australian so we never got blue peter but Ive never stopped hearing about it through British culture, already knew peter purves cos he was in 60s dr who and have seen john noakes scale nelsons column, queens park rangers lighting gantry and shoot down a speedway tunnel but this is the first full length episode of blue peter ive watched. So now ive seen it thanks to the invention of internet.
I watched this all the time when I was kid growing up in London. In fact it was such interesting fun I was still watching it (when I could) into my twenties. John Noakes is a National Treasure.
@@hopebgood well once these programs become dated they become important time capsules to what the world was like back then. You can learn alot. The airline segment alone shows you what tech they had aboard the plane in 1976. I'm a writer and it's incidental details like that which could be important if I ever set a story on a plane in 1976. So they're invaluable reference tools.
I'm an American who never heard of Blue Peter and just found it. The show started good, but the youtube comments section ruined it for me. Thanks ya old brits for being so bitter that nobody new enjoys your TV show. Its true what they say about TH-cam - never read the comments section.
I loved Blue Peter. There's nothing wrong with leaving a funny comment on YT but sometimes (very often, sadly) people just leave weird and bitter comments.
@@redcalx9568 This version was played by Sid Torch & The New Century Orchestra......Mike Oldfields version came three years later in 1979. Here are all of them; th-cam.com/video/JS2NIpWfbRg/w-d-xo.html
As an American, I never heard of this show until Ricky Gervais mentioned it on his old XFM radio show with Stephen Merchant and the brilliant Karl Pilkington. Those shows can be found on YT as well and are ridiculously funny.
Ah..Blue Peter........what wonderful memories and so much information we gained from it. My brother and I ended up with coveted badges and an autogaphed pic, including Val Singleton(?)....probably for making something useful out of a plastic bottle..even back then! But...I have to say....John Noakes was the one for me. Dare-devil of note........younger than Fred Dibnah..........and some years before the Harrison Ford movies. For us kids at that time, the use of animals, gave us pets that we didn't have.....just like "Softly Softly"..where the police dogs were always prominent........I named a junkyard dog that I passed on the way to primary school.......Radar! Not Shep! Thanks for posting this...greatly appreciated!!!! Red beans and lentils from Kaapstad.
Dear old John Noakes….Always remember John climbing Nelsons Column, using wooden ladders laced together with old rope and with no harness to clean out bird crap from Nelsons hat!! 1977 or 78?? HSE would throw a hissy fit if anyone tried doing that today!
I had that clip recommended to me only yesterday. I could remember watching it the first time around but I didn't remember how insanely dangerous it was. The overhanging ladder! The HSE would be dead right to throw a hissy fit. Somebody had to die before Auntie Beeb put a stop to those kinds of stunts.
It's interesting to watch this episode of Blue Peter from 1976. John Noakes has constructed a model plane which resembles Concorde. I seem to recall that an episode of Blue Peter which was shown later that year in 1976 featured a live transmission of Concorde's first transatlantic flight to Washington D.C. airport in the USA ?
Biggest thing I remember about Lesley is when she had that mishap on a rope halfway back from Eddystone (?) Lighthouse, I remember hearing those immortal words "Grab me, grab me" and feeling terribly sorry for her.
Don't you mean just shorts and flip-flops? 😂 Look right knobs walking around industrial cities in the middle of winter dressed like something from Benidorm
4:46 - the sound that ALL home walkie talkies would make when you tried to switch them on. Often blasting this noise when you and your mate were trying to contact each other, long after you were both supposed to be asleep.
Ah memories 🥰was eleven at the time, that was great and my god, Lesley Judd was fit in that Hostess uniform 😍 didn't notice at the time 🤣now I know why my dad watched it, when he got a chance 😉😂
Brings back memories of 1976, I can recall Val Singleton in 1962 the lineup who later went on to co-host PM on Radio 4 in 1982 for 10 years, giving my age away… I can recall Blue Peter went head to head with its dowdy rival Magpie on Thames Television, BP was more popular. in later life BP was presented by a load of children, loosing its appeal and that smashing theme tune heard in 1976. At one stage even had a BP badge.
The flared trousers that somehow let wasps fly inside and had to avoid walking near puddles getting soggy wet flapping around feet and getting filthy. Younger people today don't realise what had to go through as kids then
I was four when this aired, but I do remember them from the year after, I only have a vague recollection of these being so young back then, great stuff.
What a wonderful time to be alive. Television didn't treat its audience like drooling morons, we had a genuine sense of unity and pride in the UK, and we didn't have the questionable merits of "diversity" shoved down our throats at every opportunity. People even looked up to the BBC, imagine that.
Add in tomorrow’s world and panorama and you could learn interesting things, now all you hear is anti Britain anti white and exaggerated climate change.
I must have watched hundreds of Blue Peter episodes as a child and the only things I remember are John Noakes accent,Joey Deacon and those strange ornament stacks in the background 😅
Joey Deacon was a massive own goal by the BBC, I remember watching the programme and the day after at school everyone was doing impressions calling everyone "Joey" or "spastic" and generally ripping on the disabled.
I'm a 45 year old american and I have never seen this show until now. This is the best kids show I have ever seen. Makes me wish I had been a kid in Britain in the 70s
The free school meals were shocking though
They were great times for a child on television. Programming quality. Killed off by garbage such as gunge tanks.
You got less than 2 hours television per weekday afternoon dedicated to children's programmes. Blue Peter was shown on a Monday and Thursday as the last show, (or sometimes second to last, as they would sometimes have a 5 minute animation afterwards), before, 'grown-up television', took over with the early evening news. Blue Peter occupied the slot around 5 o'clock, (I remember it being on at 5.10pm), and finished at around 5.35 or 5.40.
Agree! Better than Zoom or The Electric Company! Even as a kid couldn’t handle those.
You really don't.
Laid back presentation, no nonsensical BGMs, silence between dialogues, no shouting. This is the BBC I used to like.
What a fantastic programme for children! I used to watch Blue Peter after school for years and it's still interesting decades later. Kids today are missing out.
Nigel Williams
It doesn't take much to entertain you then! “Blue Peter” is the equivalent of watching paint dry on the walls and why would you want to inflict that trash on the kids today, don’t you think they have enough problems?
@@redblade8160 Hope you get better soon. Keep taking your meds, thicko.
@@redblade8160 Kids have problems because they don't watch programmes like these. Noakes flying helped my interest in aviation.
@@redblade8160 Keep taking the meds mate. They may kick in eventually.
Magpie for posh kids
Beautiful, lovely & innocent times..... wish I could go back to those days.....❤
I was one month shy of my 12th birthday when this first aired. I loved watching Blue Peter in the 1970s and rarely missed an episode. Happy days indeed. ☺
Nowadays the presenters are less mature than the audience !
Not like the dross these days.
I was one month shy of my 13th.
Lol......That makes two of us then....
@@donnawalser7304 We must be same vintage - I'm 26 1 63
As an American, I am astonished how sophisticated the music is, how professional the hosts are, how mature and intelligent they presume their audience to be! Sheesh - we had nothing like this. Maybe Mr. Rogers, but his audience was much younger.
This was on TV for children getting home from school and every child in the country watched it. There was only 3 channels and TV was on 11am-11pm closing down each night with the national anthem. So, if we didn't switch off quick (no remote) we would have to stand for The Queen before bed.
@@Iazzaboyce oh my gosh, seriously? Stand for the Queen? I thought that only happened on Downton Abbey lol! Thank you for that. You made my evening. 😉
I'm 60 & watched Blue Peter from a young age - Line up Valerie Singleton, John Noakes & peter Purves & bear in mind it went out twice a week & was live - so they had to do the crafting live as well. They did have them done in stages on more lengthy craft builds & there were some mistakes made!
I didn't watch it. Hated it. @@Iazzaboyce
Good English culture fabulous
decent folk i loved the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s 90s great times holidays x plenty trees to climb Saturday film s at odeon x going on bike rides x bus trips to cinema x I was such lucky boy my.mum dad ran post office x dad part fire man x and his dad ran Hardware shop next to us they built x bungalows one for Hardware shop and post office later on one at the bottoms of Hardware yard 💙 party's at Fire Station x Christmas x and new year x disco x we had few pints lol Watneys red barrel bitter pass the parcel x the nees up at disco x gosh it was grand x thanks mum dad for your hard work so me and 3 brothers could have x great life of fun and holidays x 💙
I will never forget blue peter loved every minute of this great programme and I still like to Watch these great clips
Marvellous, I was 9 years old again for 24 minutes. Thank you.
Me too - 9 years old.Oh happy days 😀
So was I !.... Time tunnel trip..
I was 8 in 1976 what a fantastic programme never missed a episode.. Much better than magpie.
What's magpie?
@Ed Thanks.
Agreed! Blue Peter was much better than Magpie but for some unknown reason I still know the words and tune for the Magpie music intro.
"One for sorrow, two for joy...." Magpie was ITV's sad rip off of Blue Peter.
Golden memories of tea-time telly. Miss those days.
John,Lesley and Peter,,,that's the lineup I remember!! "Get down Shep!"
It really feels like the iconic line-up of presenters, doesn't it? But I guess it's all to do with how old you are (or were).
For me, the classic lineup was John, Val and Pete.
@@BaddaBigBoom 🤣🤣🤣 I've just noticed the order I've placed the presenters that I remember! There was a John Leslie who presented the programme years after the lineups we remember! There used to be a spin off called "Blue Peter, special assignment" Valerie singleton presented that.
Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton when I first started watching.
@@derekporter7658 He put the blue into Blue Peter
Who'd have thought in 2022 we'd all be quite happy sat watching TH-cam videos on our own little electronic bugging device..
Buggering device?? Mines not working then......😅
@@jean-paul7251 so your boyfriend has no job
"Bugging Device" ... What do you mean? ... Additionally, WHY do you use a "bugging device" if you clearly don't like them? ... If you're a luddite, you could always go and live in a cave, if that would suit better? 🤣
@marcse7en He's got a point. We are becoming addicted drones to gadgets that spy on us and spread data and which, possibly, have a long term affect on us psychologically
A very high quality and informative programme. I remember them well, but to see this again really shows how good it was.
I arrived to live (or return as I was born there) in England on the 26th January 1976 at 9 years old. So this was 3 weeks earlier. I used to watch this after school. Now I’m 56 and so glad we can see so much from our youth at our finger tips.
This is amazingly educational and interesting. I will show it to my nieces. There is nothing to compare with it today.
If this was still on today it would be as politicized as everything else. This was when those that worked at the BBC took their responsibilities as politically neutral presenters seriously. They were all lovies of course probably on the left but they at least tried to stay neutral. I remember when kids were on you could hear in their voices they were from all kinds of backgrounds. Now on TV shows, there is a distinctly middle-class bias and many have been plucked from expensive stage schools and have undisclosed agendas.
@@JWS1968 I grew up in Liverpool you couldn't get anymore working class, but I still loved Blue Peter for what it was, educational and interesting 😀
@@martinjones8220 Neither do Thai people.
@@JWS1968 It is still on today, what are you talking about?
There's a lot to compare it today, as info about the world and current affairs is huge on kids shows. But guess you wouldn't know as like me you're not 11 any more.
lesley judd + long boots + long skirt ---- telly heaven for me back in the day !
Bring back maxi dresses and boots. 😍
I was 13 and I remember this episode . Also 1976 was the hottest summer on record and the whole country ran out of water
I was 9 and I can’t remember what happened yesterday!
I was 6 & a half. I remember the heatwave of 1976 very well, as I got sunstroke whilst on my summer holiday!
@@victorbrianmcreynolds2200 I had sun stroke playing cricket for my school, the bastard teacher wouldn't let me go to the toilet and I collapsed!
I was 9 and remember the heatwave well, there was a hosepipe ban but because there was an underground stream in our garden the grass remained green, a lot of people thought we were watering the lawn but we weren't, even got a visit from the police.
I remember 76 and how all we were told is it’s hot weather, subsequent heat waves are apparently my fault as I grew up and bought a car.
Great programme. Great days. Happy memories. Thanks for uploading/
Those flared mens pants and mushroom styled hairdos are something else. The 1970s visually was strange, but I must say I miss when most of us still adhered to standards of behavior, speech and dress. We could laugh at one another without fear. What a mess it is today. Thank you for the upload. 😊
Don't miss the brown yellow and beige decor of homes.
@ Didn’t really like it then. Mind you I was only 13. Our house was filled with flowered wallpapers, avocado greens, orange beads, chocolate brown woods and mustard yellows. But I must say, I actually prefer it over the bleak over saturation the last 20 years of black, grays and whites. It’s become sterile and soul less. Another reason I think earth tones were also popular then, was it hid nicotine from smoking better. So you didn’t have to paint and redecorate so often. Just a guess.
@@larkatmic My father insisted on mushroom coloured paint on woodwork. It hid the nicotine stains. When father past i redecorated the whole house with blue!
Had to to white to sell home..
Try walking down street at night with neighbours curtains open, see how many have bland soulless white walls with clinical white led lights.
I’m chuckling at the flared trousers! I was 11 when this was shown ….I lived by the South Coast (still do) and that year was the best school summer holiday term ever, 6 weeks on my local beach every day and ‘It’s A Knockout’ ….getting old sucks 🤣
It's A Knockout was brilliant, especially the International tournament. I still remember the year that Ely won.
@@KebabMusicLtd totally agree ....back then It’s a Knockout was one of the highlights of the week, as well a The Six Million Dollar Man and Starsky n Hutch ....TV was awesome in them days! 🤣
What a brilliant TV show that was.
Best years of my life comming home to the family watching this an art attack
I am 6 years old again crossed legged on the living room carpet with my eyes 'glued' to the telly. Thank you for uploading this.
The wonderful Lesley Judd, a dancer by profession, of course, who tried out for Pans People prior to joining BP. Damn, I loved her at 13!
Yes, and she's a great animator too !!!😊😊😊😉😉
Friendly
I know she was a member of The Young Generation prior to BP.
At this time she was married to Derek Fowlds
@@ianmax69
The lucky bastard!
She danced with Pans People on TotP for one appearance to make a segment for Blue Peter.
I was one month away from my 11th birthday. I remember watching this actual show! Blue Peter was my favourite and as we had only one TV at home I always hoped my sister wouldn't turn over to Crossroads on ITV!
Oh god, Crossroads!! Terrible programme! Where the end credits went up and sideways!!!
If you switched over to ITV you might have seen Magpie!
@@derekporter7658 I had lots of schoolmates back to my house for tea back then when I was about 11 or 12. One of them, Graham Nameless, said "Ooh can we watch Crossroads?" I instantly went right off him!
People used to criticise Blue Peter saying it was for middle class kids, and stuffy and staid.
Well I certainly wasn't, and never have, classed myself as middle class and I loved it.
Much better than most of today's TV for kids which seems to involve 'adults' shouting a lot and behaving like idiots.
John Noakes was great, and Lesley Judd, by eck, she was lovely.
Couldn't agree more on all points.
Lesley looked absolutely ravishing
as an Air-Hostess
She always looked amazing , but in that uniform ...... Oh good grief! 👍😉
In the opening segment, Lesley Judd in those black boots! Mmmmmmmm ❤️❤️
@@neilfoster814
That wet red clinging dress though -- oh my!
@@redpillnibbler4423 I know! Yummy! 🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@neilfoster814
It’s enough to make a man blush ☺️
That thin wet cotton clinging tightly to her soft form as she slides over the rubber . . . . . Excuse me,I think it’s suddenly bed time!
Beautifly casted BBC, they worked so well together...I loved the blue Peter garden and good ole persy thrower.wow where have those years gone,great memories
This was my most favourite episode of Blue Peter. I was horse mad and wanted to be an air hostess when I grew up! Thankyou for the memories!
I used to watch this as a kid memory fades but I believe it was on about 5pm on a weekday.
For 24 minutes I was transported back to my 8-year old self.
i was eight august that year
same here...the starting part with the opening music zapped me right back to my parents front room watching it....everything felt all 70's to me again...(i wish) lol
@@RetroReminiscing ..moved back in with my mother a while ago and a bit of seventies bbc programming completes the whole picture.. saw a video earlier, with newsround at what would've been 5pm -ish followed by blue peter.. all i need now is the five minute animation that rounded off children's telly.. rhubarb, ivor the engine, magic roundabout.. paddington? etc.. 🙂 x
@@davidevans3227 Ooh yes!!! ha ha ! Do you remember the wheelies? Chorlton and the wheelies too? It has a green witch in that terrified me and spiky black balls around her which looked like spiders... Rhubarb and custard, the wombles..Mr Benn... I sometimes liek to video hop on here with lots of prighrams from that era.. I bet your mum will remember them all too! I remember my mum watching something called tales of the unexpected at night and the music intro used to give me the creeps but today i love it and i have actually got it set to my mobile phone ring tune ha ha ,,its one of those creepy but dreamy tunes....Hhave a great 70's reminiscing morning! 👌🤗
@@RetroReminiscing ooo.. tales of the unexpected! yes.. far too late for me at the time, it was probably on after 11pm.. but i always remember an episode where an inventor makes a machine to listen to plants and finds himself surrounded by horror!! ..because plants are constantly being walked on.. torn up, cut, mowed, eaten etc etc.. and so we left him, stuck in his garden surrounded by all that.. wow..
Anyway! LoL.. it's a lovely lunchtime here in south wales, i hope u enjoy the rest of ur weekend too.. 🙂
How far we've fallen
Jesus, you people never give it a break. Let me guess, you can't handle the fact that you can't use slurs against minorities anymore.
@MrxxVENUSxx they've been using that card for years.
In 1975 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded, I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat with a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies - buckaroo! When I sat down on the chair, I looked up and realised it was none other than Peter Purves! It was at the height of his Blue Peter fame! He said "You jammy bastard!" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
Needles to say you took drugs
I was 13 when this aired. What a great programme for children.
Brilliant I love watching these old episodes as I was only 3 made my day when they said about Riding for the disabled because I used to do that I loved it I used to ride a horse named Simon he was a bit stubborn no one else would ride so I did he tried to chuck me once but I put my arms around his neck he had a glint in his eye bless him we got on after that oh yeah he used to fart and poo all over the place I thought that was highly comical being a kid ❤️😊😂👍🏻
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Not only was this my era of Blue Peter but the appearance of a 'SkyTrain' DC10 is a personal highlight. This was one of the fleet run by the late Freddie Laker. He was my dad's cousin and a pioneer of affordable transatlantic passenger flights. He predated Richard Branson in that respect and then the budget airline revolution followed. Freddie's success ended when he was squeezed out by the likes of British Airways.
I went on a Skytrain around that time to Palma, Freddie was on the flight and took me and my brother in the flight deck, what a nice man.
I love how Leslie has a hat on with a wiggy bit at the back!!!
Bless you for posting this. Now and then, a reminder of my childhood does me the world of good.
11:55 - "...and a wet dress clinging to me."
Oh, my.
I must have a good think about that later on 😚
Blue Peter indeed!
I only watched blue Peter for 3 reasons, 1. The makes, 2. The mishaps and 3. To get out of homework. It was the one programme parents approved of and would even watch. Loved the fearless John Noaks and his many adventures. X
John Noaks was an android and Shep was his handler.
First appearance of Rags the pony.
Peter Purves' hair at its longest here. A style that clearly influenced James May.
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and must have influenced many of the audience to rscognise school dress codes as the oppression enslavement and bodily abuse they are, and it made no dent in their existence.
Top Gear borrowed a lot from Blue Peter, probably not even consciously.
I can see the resemblance.
I think just about all the Blue Peter episodes exist in the archive, hopefully one day us fans will be able to watch them all at our leisure. My era was late 60s to about 1980. The classic years as far as I'm concerned.
Lo and behold, Blue Peter - just about the only 1970's BBC programme that can be aired today...
Totally live
Engaging
Educational
Fun
Professionally presented
Children's television at its finest
England forever 🏴
Intellectual kiddy tv? Something this generation have missed out on!
Nowadays it's all daft noise and dope box ticking presenters with the personality of a frying pan
Was born the year after. This is a gold mine here. Nice one.
Brilliant! Ceiling tile glider….you couldn’t get more 1976 than that!
JUST LOVE THE FASHION
Im Australian so we never got blue peter but Ive never stopped hearing about it through British culture, already knew peter purves cos he was in 60s dr who and have seen john noakes scale nelsons column, queens park rangers lighting gantry and shoot down a speedway tunnel but this is the first full length episode of blue peter ive watched. So now ive seen it thanks to the invention of internet.
I watched this all the time when I was kid growing up in London. In fact it was such interesting fun I was still watching it (when I could) into my twenties. John Noakes is a National Treasure.
@@hopebgood well once these programs become dated they become important time capsules to what the world was like back then. You can learn alot. The airline segment alone shows you what tech they had aboard the plane in 1976. I'm a writer and it's incidental details like that which could be important if I ever set a story on a plane in 1976. So they're invaluable reference tools.
LOL @ Lesley Judd with her 70s brown and beige "librarian" dress. I love the orange and brown colour scheme to the furniture!
I'm an American who never heard of Blue Peter and just found it. The show started good, but the youtube comments section ruined it for me. Thanks ya old brits for being so bitter that nobody new enjoys your TV show.
Its true what they say about TH-cam - never read the comments section.
I loved Blue Peter. There's nothing wrong with leaving a funny comment on YT but sometimes (very often, sadly) people just leave weird and bitter comments.
Ah, those were the days. Val, Lesley, John and Peter on Blue Peter and Pertwee in the Tardis.
That drum roll at the start. You don't really have to hear anything else, you know the tune.
I think it mite be called Blue Peter by Mike Oldfield
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@@redcalx9568 This version was played by Sid Torch & The New Century Orchestra......Mike Oldfields version came three years later in 1979. Here are all of them; th-cam.com/video/JS2NIpWfbRg/w-d-xo.html
As an American, I never heard of this show until Ricky Gervais mentioned it on his old XFM radio show with Stephen Merchant and the brilliant Karl Pilkington. Those shows can be found on YT as well and are ridiculously funny.
That was a nice feature with Lesley flying as a hostess with Laker airways.
I was only 2 when this came out but I'm watching it 46 years later.
I was 6 years old when this aired but I really love Blue Peter!
I loved it, I was 22 when this went out and still mad on it
I was 10 in heatwave 76, great show, john noakes was a real daredevil of a presenter !
Ah..Blue Peter........what wonderful memories and so much information we gained from it.
My brother and I ended up with coveted badges and an autogaphed pic, including Val Singleton(?)....probably for making something useful out of a plastic bottle..even back then!
But...I have to say....John Noakes was the one for me. Dare-devil of note........younger than Fred Dibnah..........and some years before the Harrison Ford movies.
For us kids at that time, the use of animals, gave us pets that we didn't have.....just like "Softly Softly"..where the police dogs were always prominent........I named a junkyard dog that I passed on the way to primary school.......Radar! Not Shep! Thanks for posting this...greatly appreciated!!!! Red beans and lentils from Kaapstad.
I actually sat through that entire episode. How much better things were.
Dear old John Noakes….Always remember John climbing Nelsons Column, using wooden ladders laced together with old rope and with no harness to clean out bird crap from Nelsons hat!! 1977 or 78?? HSE would throw a hissy fit if anyone tried doing that today!
I had that clip recommended to me only yesterday. I could remember watching it the first time around but I didn't remember how insanely dangerous it was. The overhanging ladder! The HSE would be dead right to throw a hissy fit. Somebody had to die before Auntie Beeb put a stop to those kinds of stunts.
I remember watching that episode.. 5 years later I was working at Gatwick and got to see the Laker planes for real
It's interesting to watch this episode of Blue Peter from 1976. John Noakes has constructed a model plane which resembles Concorde. I seem to recall that an episode of Blue Peter which was shown later that year in 1976 featured a live transmission of Concorde's first transatlantic flight to Washington D.C. airport in the USA ?
Loved my blue Peter childhood ❤
I loved Blue Peter too debora cos they never spoke down to me.
The 70s Show was a high mark in humanity. Women knew their place they were their hostesses and Men flew the aeroplane.
Oh you gonna get a lot of stick for that - brilliantly played
Crazy Jay….so right!
Oh dear, Jay. Three mistakes in such a short sentence. Did you go to school? What is a _their hostess_ anyway? 😂
@@sarac.3259 Not wrong though is he.
Yes, when women knew their place I think they were probably much happier too. But they'd never admit it..
My favourite episode was when Richard Bacon made a crack pipe out of tin foil and an old special brew can!
Lit off that advent candle thing made from two coat hangers.
Blue Peter taught me more than school I would of watched this 48 years ago
And that is still the same in 2021.....
You would .... if it hadn't been 46 years ago!!!!!
Lesley Judd in that clinging wet dress made me go all funny.
I only saw a very serious training program sir , But that dress , phew 😅
I only watched it for educational reasons.
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Sex education? lol
Loved Blue Peter as a Kid
Still Do
From the days when children where allow to just be children unlike today with the political and sexualised crap
Biggest thing I remember about Lesley is when she had that mishap on a rope halfway back from Eddystone (?) Lighthouse, I remember hearing those immortal words "Grab me, grab me" and feeling terribly sorry for her.
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Thank you :-) @@martinconnor9840
Thanks for sharing. Quality is excellent. Way better than the 405 line black and white TV I remember watching this on back in 70s 🙂.
Those bell bottom trousers still look a thousand times better than the god awful current fashion in mens trousers!
Don't you mean just shorts and flip-flops? 😂 Look right knobs walking around industrial cities in the middle of winter dressed like something from Benidorm
4:46 - the sound that ALL home walkie talkies would make when you tried to switch them on. Often blasting this noise when you and your mate were trying to contact each other, long after you were both supposed to be asleep.
Two of my favorite presenters, Shep and Jason😄
I loved that programme even when l got older
Thank you for uploading this video...just the music alone on the intro zommed me back in time as if i was actually there again...Thank you! Sonique
Ah memories 🥰was eleven at the time, that was great and my god, Lesley Judd was fit in that Hostess uniform 😍 didn't notice at the time 🤣now I know why my dad watched it, when he got a chance 😉😂
Love nostalgia - I was 10 at the time
Brings back memories of 1976, I can recall Val Singleton in 1962 the lineup who later went on to co-host PM on Radio 4 in 1982 for 10 years, giving my age away…
I can recall Blue Peter went head to head with its dowdy rival Magpie on Thames Television, BP was more popular.
in later life BP was presented by a load of children, loosing its appeal and that smashing theme tune heard in 1976. At one stage even had a BP badge.
O_o how did you get a badge, eh?
@@LuckyLChandler Sometime back in the 1960’s, I sent in a drawing or sketch for a competition, they sent me a badge, I hadn’t it now.
I've still got my Blue Peter badges: one blue on white, one silver on blue. At 64 I don't wear them so much now!!
@@Stephen_Challis Not me at 66, chucking it out over 50 years ago.
The flared trousers that somehow let wasps fly inside and had to avoid walking near puddles getting soggy wet flapping around feet and getting filthy. Younger people today don't realise what had to go through as kids then
'I'll be aboard a DC10, so wish me luck.'
lovely, ı really enjoy watching Blue Peter show
I Remember her on other BBC programmes in 1980's
I was four when this aired, but I do remember them from the year after, I only have a vague recollection of these being so young back then, great stuff.
What a wonderful time to be alive. Television didn't treat its audience like drooling morons, we had a genuine sense of unity and pride in the UK, and we didn't have the questionable merits of "diversity" shoved down our throats at every opportunity. People even looked up to the BBC, imagine that.
Add in tomorrow’s world and panorama and you could learn interesting things, now all you hear is anti Britain anti white and exaggerated climate change.
I've just sent in my name recommendation - fingers crossed mine gets the most votes.
I actually remembered this episode, I'd of been about 9 yo. I loved this program as a kid.
Nice to see the room the camera Test Card was used :D
I used to like Blue Peter.I used to think Lesley Judd was ugly.But she wasnt.
Blue Peter had a problem with Magpie spying on them...
Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30 or 5:00 cant quite remember but as children we headed home to watch
I must have watched hundreds of Blue Peter episodes as a child and the only things I remember are John Noakes accent,Joey Deacon and those strange ornament stacks in the background 😅
Joey Deacon was a massive own goal by the BBC, I remember watching the programme and the day after at school everyone was doing impressions calling everyone "Joey" or "spastic" and generally ripping on the disabled.
@@adrianh332 indeed. Same
Met John noakes and Shep at the ideal home exhibition,around this time
I’m 57. I had a sudden blast of jealousy reading your comment 👍
W12 8QT is burnt into my brain hahah Lovin the grey flares too!
What a cool cardy!
Still survives today..it was a hardy cardy..
Continuity announcer is Peter Brook - earlier Peter was an in-vision announcer with Southern Television
Those huge flappy Lionels! I remember having flared jeans backin the 70s