I thought this was a program for adults! It's so sophisticated and doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. No frills and to the point. How far we've fallen.
As a child who watched this programme I understood completely the information they were passing to us. Today I watch so many programmes for adults and children and wonder where it all went wrong.
Yeh,,it is scary. I never watched TV and now I have to... Since I look after my bedridden Dad and he watches TV a lot. It is so painful! The adverts are idiotic and so many programmes are unbelievably stupid and I am like "maybe we do deserve a third world war"?! So painful.
@@thagreatadante I think the "divorced from reality" situation we are in was well portrayed in "Don´t Look Up!". Also "Good Night and Good Luck" film comes to mind. The speech at the beginning th-cam.com/video/NbAb7Ek8z5Y/w-d-xo.html... It seems we are not improving that much as species :(...
When I first started driving in 1973, I found an old phone and kept it in my car. When I would roll up on my friends on the corner. I’d fake taking on the phone. Everybody would collapse in hysterics because it was hilarious that someone would have a phone in their car.
Arlo Guthrie, the folk singer, did a song in the early 70s about having phones everywhere...bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen...even in his car. It was a joke back then.
The sad thing Is that in the 80s there was companies that actually sold fake car phones so people could fake looking rich and important while stuck in traffic, because only the rich had proper car phones.
Back in the days when the BBC was building a world renowned reputation for quality - which they've spent most of the last decade widdling away chasing fake balance. "99.9999% of the population think the Earth is a sphere, but, in the interest of balance, let's put a flat earther on and give them equal screentime as a scientist..." etc.
I was fortunate enough to be on Blue Peter twice as a young boy in 1974 and 1975 with this exact line up of presenters (and animals). I can tell you they were absolutely brilliant with a very awstruck and nervous 7 year old and gave me an amazing time in the studios. They were totally genuine and treated us kids as VIPS (even though we were only on for a minte or two). I also got a chance to watch Brian Cant film Play Away in another studio.
Peter remarking about the parched grass at the end.. worth noting that the legendary summer of 1976 had only JUST ended at the time of transmission. It lasted over 5 months that year
@@davewright8206 Nonsense. The media absolutely did report on how hot it was - photos of young women sunbathing, standpipes in the street and advice to stay out of the sun and avoid beaches were all headline fodder for months on end. And excess deaths spiked by about 20%.
I think they would also have a hard time imagining that a mobile phone wouldn't just be for making calls, but would instead be a handheld computer, camera, color tv screen, music player, compass, navigation device, etc etc. And that it would be far more powerful than even the most advanced super computer available worldwide at the time. It's mind blowing when you think about it.
@@MacXpert74 Well, the design of the flip phone was based on the Star Trek communicator. And Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was about a book sized device that contained all of the information, no matter how trivial , about the whole Galaxy. But it is cool to think about, that we are living in a "Sci-Fi" time when these "magic devices from the future" are real and we can play them. It's a shame they are destroying society, but hey - Pretty Sci-Fi right?
I loved Tomorrow's World I remember hearing about the information super highway that became the internet. Couldn't quite get my head around it at the time and now I use it everyday. I used it today to stream a TV program and a film. Never imagined it would become such a big part of everyday life.
This is fabulous stuff. Also great to see that the presenters are being informative and straight talking in an adult and entertaining fashion to their young audience. No "talking down" to the kids, despite the age range of the typical viewers. What has happened to TV in the last couple of decades?
Phew. I'm glad technology advanced to a stage where we don't have to carry those girly handbags around with the phone. It might have led to social and sexual problems for many.
You're right. The 21st century corporate media have developed a real contempt for their audience that's not grounded in reality. They think that their customers are idiots so they program accordingly.
Oh man you guys are all taking me back!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ THOSE WERE THE DAYS..... Technology may be infinitely better now (illustrated by how I'm using my smartphone now to both watch and comment on the content instantly), but the HUMAN output was SO much better quality then!!!😔😔😔😔😔
I'd forgotten all about this until I saw this clip! I remember watching this as a child during its original broadcast and wanting the phone so badly that I listed it as my only wish from Santa that Christmas.
Effortlessly professional presentation from Peter, John and Lesley - I could listen to them all day..and all this technology we take for granted today - are we really better people for it? I would trade it all for those more genteel times in a heartbeat.
Sure, let's trade in the technology like the Cochlear Implant for a better time where beating a wife, homophobia and racism were rife. Yeah mate, nah. What an inane comment.
You'll notice that Lesley mentions car phones at one point--they had existed for decades, but the early ones were quite different since they didn't use cellular technology. Instead, there would be one tall tower servicing the entire calling area, and making a call required the phone to draw quite a lot of power from the car's electrical system. To do better, there needed to be smaller transmitters arranged in cells, and the trickiest thing about the cells was actually the circuitry required to automatically hand a phone off from one to another as it moved around--by the early 1970s, the technology to do that was just becoming available. This segment aired just about a year after the first hand-held cell-phone call ever made.
Car phones are actually very old technology and date back to the 1950s or so. Bear in mind that military vehicles were fitted with radios even during World War II and it's not that far-fetched. Mind you those early car phones were a) crap and b) billionaire expensive. Most normal people would just use a roadside phone box.
Come on, watching on your phones? Phones do not have cathode ray tubes! You cannot watch stuff on a telephone, you can only transmit and receive sound.
Yeah. I'm watching in on my laptop. Imagine having a computer at home. A small one, that you can carry around with you. And that you can even afford! (Mine was EUR 180, it's a pre-owned Thinkpad that does what it should.)
I was just 3 years old when this was originally broadcast. Who could have imagined that 40 years later we would have smart phones that are phones, cameras, barometers, GPS locators, music players, video cameras, media players, internet browsers, email, text & so on.
@@ajbonmg I ❤️ that it came third on the list! I have a barometer that's over 90yrs old, and likely not accurate (no calibration other than checking against another barometer) but never thought to try my phone as a barometer.
In a few decades people will laugh when they think of that period of time when everyone was walking around staring at a little box they called a "smartphone".
@@lilacfloyd 'Two countries divided by a common language.' Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, no-one seems to be quite certain which great man of letters originated the quote, or even the precise wording. But Americans spell 'ize' endings with a ''z', the British with either 's' or 'z' and Canadians only with an 's' just to give their schoolteachers something to be pedantic and anti-American aboot, eh.
My grandma used to have one of the early mobile phones (and actually a car telephone) since it enabled her employer (a car hire) to do business on Sundays and holidays and during the evening hours without actually having someone on location. She used to work a lot of those shifts and therefore got one to always be available.
Yes I remember this, all seemed so futuristic and Star Trekky. Also don't forget, phone boxes (pay phones) were everywhere in those days for those that didn't have a phone at home.
Not so long ago either! I clearly remember still using payphones about 22 years ago, before I got my first mobile. (Well it doesn't seem like so long ago to me!!)
Oh yeah even in the 90s, children's shows and books were quite mature. I remember the general knowledge sets books and cassette tapes, were quite heavy for childrens but I remember fondly enjoying it
this video is a wealth of conversation points tangential to its actual topic: the clothes, the style of communication in the context of a children's show, _the name of the show,_ *THE PRESENCE OF VERY GOOD DOGS*
It's so nice to see dogs on the screen that aren't these alert working "show" dogs. It's very chill. An unexpected elegance that I wish we could have every now and again.
Yup, that's because it was just using the same old analogue technology except sending the pulses as a radio signal rather than down a physical cable like a wired phone would. True digital just wasn't there yet.
I can just remember the early 80's when not everyone even had a landline (usually a trimphone in the hallway). Passing a message on consisted of ringing a relative or next-door neighbour. In 1974, a phone you could take anywhere with you must have seemed incredible.
O aye ours on the farm had a button on top .exchange call. To obtain dial tone first. As was on a shared party line. . Could not dial of the island .had to use operator to call liverpool.
Well into the late 70s and 80s by no means did everyone have a phone where they lived. It seems a miracle how one kept in touch with people and arranged or rather didn't to meet, you just went to the pub and they might be there. There was always the post or actually going round to their gaff on the chance they may be in.
@@63mckenzie well yes alot of people in them days had a.party line. It was half the normal rent. . Which suited me owl fella on the farm. . Ofcourse if it was genuinely urgent .like we needed to call Davies the vet . Then they would hang up and let us go ahead. People seems to.be more tolerant them days . Some times wish we could hi back to then.
O aye . I wanted a trim phone . But me owl fella on the farm would not let me. . They had the phone put In farm in the 1930's and was original instrument right up until 1991 when me owl fella got his wooden over coat.
Look at how genuinely excited they are by the tech - funny in a way when you see people these days with their smart phones. Nothing is ever good enough for people now. People also spoke so well. Something I miss very much. Eloquence.
Oh please do shut up. No one benefits from your complaining about 'kids nowadays' and the apparent barbaric ways in which people speak today. Furthermore, what do you mean that 'nothing is good for people now'? Just because technology that people were excited about in the past are now commonplace does not mean that they are not respected. To conclude, stop speaking of the present as if it is a degenerate hellhole and look outside once in awhile because your awareness of society is clearly lacking. The youth of roday are much more than what you expect.
I haven't watched the BBC for a number of years, I also live abroad, however, I did tune in recently to watch something (via iplayer) and the continuity announcer was laughably bad, I thought I was being sold apples from an East End market. Many, I know, will proclaim 'but TV must represent the audience!' That's for the programmes to do, the channel would have done a service to society to uphold certain standards, which they have not and now look at society crumbling around us all. So where has your 'diversity' got us all, 'An instrument of education and entertainment' it most certainly is not, just a morass of inconsequential nonsense. So, very, very sad.
@@EuanWhitehead Well look, the fact that you know that, as a kid ;-), it means there's hope for you & perhaps everyone else. You could choose not to be on it (if you are), I'm only on YT, nowhere else. Yes, I didn't grow up with it like you, but we all have to try to make good choices & maybe this is your chance to make some great decisions & perhaps you might inspire others to not bother with SM either.
@@Chillmax You be suprised about the age range of people using such platforms in fact. I find it superficial and bad for my health lol, many of my friends have said the same thing. It won't last forever I don't think hopefully 😆
@@EuanWhitehead Oh no, I know all ages use SM, some because they just want to & maybe others because their families get them into it, & perhaps it's sometimes the easiest way for Grandma to talk to her grandchildren ;-). The difference for most older people (if that's the age range to which you're) is that because they didn't grow up with it & older attitudes seem to be hardier & less fragile than the young, they're less likely to succumb to the pitfalls of SM. Anyway, you & your friends sound like you've your heads screwed on, so if you know it's bad, there's hope for the future!
Just watched a video with an old woman born in the 1860s interviewed around the same time. Weird to think that she lived alongside the invention of the cell-phone.
I tell my nephew about what it was like before all the technology we have today existed and he looks at me as if it was the dark ages! Imagine the world without instant access to the internet. Aaarggg!!
they had phones you could put in your pocket in the mid 90s. It was the StarTAC first flip phone that could fit in your pocket. My dad had one as a government official.
Bell bottoms is a 60s term. They were flares and flared from higher up. John's are closer to bell bottoms as they flare from the knee but the flare is bigger and come right down to the shoes. They got soaked in bad weather.
Absolutely ground breaking technology back in the day. I used to love watching Blue Peter back in the day when I was a child , excellent viewing from our invaluable BBC..😃
Watching these old clips makes me truly feel that different eras have different feeling, I can imagine the sounds, smells and atmosphere of each era, even ones before my time. The fact that I can feel like this watching these clips, makes me truly great for all our technology.
I was in my 30s back then. Smells were mainly cigarettes everywhere, in the office, in restaurants, buses, trains and even planes. As a non smoker I hated it. On the street people still smoked but the smell was swamped by the emissions of vehicles without catalytic converters. I had one pair of flares but didn't often wear them. Women still predominantly wore skirts and many places of work insisted on it. But life was also great, better than now for most young people. In my early thirties I could support a wife, who by choice stayed home to look after our children, buy a house and run two cars.
You’re right about the senses. Smells consisted of more leather, wool, wood, metal, oil. Houses, supermarkets, classrooms, car interiors, kitchens all smelled different than today’s.
I get the same vibe! I like to immerse myself in an era to get a sense of how it was at the time, although in this case I would have just come home from school to watch this, being 5 years old at the time.
@@td370 I was so lucky with that. My weekend job when I was 15 was in a hospital ward full of WW1 veterans. Most of them were suffering from gas exposure in the War which had become more debilitating for them in old age. So many stories and they were so kind and generous to a crass teenager whi was not much younger than they were when they were in the trenches. One of them told me he lied about his age to sign up. I asked if he was too young and he replied, " No Boy ! I was TOO OLD!". So he was over 40 in 1914. Several of them showed me their medals when they saw I was genuinely interested, but all of them said all the real heroes were dead. Years later I found the older guy had lost 2 brothers in WW1 and 2 sons in WW2.
Thousandth comment: As well as the amazing preview of the mobile ‘phone, this clip just encapsulates so much British cultural history. It was a bit before my time, but the next generation of ‘Blue Peter’ presenters were a big part of my childhood, and seeing both Petra and Shep is incredible.
When mobile phones started up they were allowed to stick their gear on BBC transmitter stations, for a modest fee, as they had all the best sites and coverage of the entire country even the last crofter had to be able to get the radio as its in the BBC charter. I worked in the transmitter building section in the 80s when they still owned all the stations in the UK and did all engineering in house. They also built stations all over the world to relay the World Service.
When my daughter poped out we where suprised it was a girl. I asked my wife if she wanted to put her back in and wait for the correct cooking time so that it had time to grow the dangely thing at the front. But she said it was alot of hassle to push it out and from then on we accepted we had a girl and never tried to change her.
I remember dialing on those big black rotary dial landline phones of the 60s. Thank you to the early innovators for paving the way for the powerful mobile phones that we have today.
To be fair, this was cutting edge experimental equipment for the most part. Cell phones didn't really enter the public commercial domain until the late 80s, early 1990s. Even then they were, for the most part, tethered to your vehicle (it's why they used to be called Car Phones). Yes if you were super rich you could get one installed in your car back in the 70s, but it was an otherwise unavailable (and unknown) technology to the public.
@@calessel3139 my father had one of the 50 first cellphones in my city, i think it was in 1993. it wasn't tethered, it was just kinda big. I think it was a Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
@@GraveUypo Yeah, that's about the time tetherless "brick" phones became affordably priced to the general public. My oldest sister had a tethered one that came in a small satchel in about 1992. We all thought she was crazy for buying it because it was so expensive plus, back then, we all basically thought, why would you need to make a phone call while driving a car - LOL.
It’s so refreshing to watch calm none bouncy fame seeking ,cooking cakes ,survival training ,farms with my dad ,dancing on ice ,strictly or walking up or down a bloody hill presenter’s !
I remember growing up in the 00s and I feel like the presenters were the perfect age...they weren't tiktok kids but they weren't old folk that couldn't relate to the kids watching either. These guys were brilliant though as well.
I have an old 60s phone and plugged it in the other day to see if it still worked - if it did I was going to carry on using it. It did work, but the bell was so loud the whole street must have heard (and no volume control) so I had to unplug it.
I wonder if John, Lesley and Peter were aware just how professional they were way back in the day? Now 'celebrity' can be achieved just by being able to talk and by having very white teeth. I can watch this now as an adult as easily as I could as a child - not the slightest bit patronising. At the point where nowadays they would rush on to the next item, leaving everyone with loads of questions, they went up to Leslie to show the RF equipment. Imagine how relatively difficult this 6 mins was. A massive (non portable) studio camera and it's cables out in the rain and the same on the roof. The whole segment flows seamlessly - no autocue, just skilled presenters. I heard that Biddy Baxter had the foresight to insist that tapes of these shows were not wiped like so many others of that era were - thankfully. i was lucky enough to get to walk round TV Centre shortly before it closed. I could almost feel the history of this magic part of my childhood echoing in the vacated studios that housed countless classics like SwapShop and Blue Peter.
The phone went out of existence like his bell bottom pants. I cant imagine millions talking to each other today by means of this phone. Thank you IPhone, Android and others for getting us up to date.
48 years later I'm sat on the bog watching a phone call between Peter Purves and John Noakes on my phone.
Are you done yet?
@@richards9407 Hollywood ending for the win 😀
Me too
Ah yes, the sound of two sailers jumping overboard.
TMI
Absolutely incredible device. I can't wait to get one for myself.
Can anyone recommend a device that will enable me to send text over the airwaves?
@@davidspear9790 have you tried a pigeon?
@@mitzikolo I hadn't thought of that. Can you recommend somewhere I can get one?
@@davidspear9790 - Trust me boys these new fangled device won’t fly. I’ll stick to my trusty dials on my wall.
It looks useless….😂
I thought this was a program for adults! It's so sophisticated and doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. No frills and to the point. How far we've fallen.
As a child who watched this programme I understood completely the information they were passing to us. Today I watch so many programmes for adults and children and wonder where it all went wrong.
Cheer up lads!
Yeh,,it is scary. I never watched TV and now I have to... Since I look after my bedridden Dad and he watches TV a lot. It is so painful! The adverts are idiotic and so many programmes are unbelievably stupid and I am like "maybe we do deserve a third world war"?! So painful.
@@caroline4323 I said much the same to my wife just two nights ago the WWIII part... were almost becoming zombified by media and devices.
@@thagreatadante
I think the "divorced from reality" situation we are in was well portrayed in "Don´t Look Up!". Also "Good Night and Good Luck" film comes to mind. The speech at the beginning th-cam.com/video/NbAb7Ek8z5Y/w-d-xo.html...
It seems we are not improving that much as species :(...
When I first started driving in 1973, I found an old phone and kept it in my car. When I would roll up on my friends on the corner. I’d fake taking on the phone. Everybody would collapse in hysterics because it was hilarious that someone would have a phone in their car.
Arlo Guthrie, the folk singer, did a song in the early 70s about having phones everywhere...bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen...even in his car. It was a joke back then.
The sad thing Is that in the 80s there was companies that actually sold fake car phones so people could fake looking rich and important while stuck in traffic, because only the rich had proper car phones.
If only they could see 25-50 years into the future.....
Lucky Cycling 🚴 Mikey wasn’t around back then lol
I could just listen to these three talk about anything, all day...
Hard to believe this was a children's program when you compare it to the modern drivel made for adults.
They did not assume children wanted to hear trivia.
Back in the days when the BBC was building a world renowned reputation for quality - which they've spent most of the last decade widdling away chasing fake balance. "99.9999% of the population think the Earth is a sphere, but, in the interest of balance, let's put a flat earther on and give them equal screentime as a scientist..." etc.
@@michaelcottle6270 🤔?
@@barryhercules6486 everyone understands the point he is making.
@@happydavid13 you, him or any other commenter doesn't mean "everyone".
I was fortunate enough to be on Blue Peter twice as a young boy in 1974 and 1975 with this exact line up of presenters (and animals). I can tell you they were absolutely brilliant with a very awstruck and nervous 7 year old and gave me an amazing time in the studios. They were totally genuine and treated us kids as VIPS (even though we were only on for a minte or two).
I also got a chance to watch Brian Cant film Play Away in another studio.
did you get a badge each time?
Play Away was epic as well
Envious!
You didn't get the whiff of cigar smoke and jangling jewellery did you 😵💫
@@SG3-wd40 OMG Noooooo!
Compared to what passes for a kids educational TV show today, this is like being in a University class! It's great. Those were the BBC glory days.
Peter remarking about the parched grass at the end.. worth noting that the legendary summer of 1976 had only JUST ended at the time of transmission. It lasted over 5 months that year
and the media didnt have to warn us it was hot or tell us we would be better off staying inside
@@davewright8206 Nonsense. The media absolutely did report on how hot it was - photos of young women sunbathing, standpipes in the street and advice to stay out of the sun and avoid beaches were all headline fodder for months on end. And excess deaths spiked by about 20%.
I loved that summer, as a child in London. It was like being on holiday.
@@ComicalFlask The headline 'Phew - What A Scorcher' was born that summer!
And the told us at the start of the 70s we were going to have another ice age 🤔🤣
I can't wait for technology like this to become mainstream. Imagine the possibilities. A phone that you can carry with you everywhere you go.
Yeaaaaa and the flares comes with it as a bonus
Seems a bit posh, having a phone on you at all times. It will never catch on.
Don't get your hopes up. It'll probably just be a fad...
And you can be tracked everywhere as well - AMAZING!
It will absolutely not happen. This is just futuristic nonsense they copy from those dreadful movies the youngsters enjoy at the theater.
5:45 "People like business men, or Farmers or Doctors"
... or anyone wanting to share pictures of their breakfast.
They never saw that coming.
😂😂😂😂😂
👏👏👏😂🤣😂🤣😂
Or their "personal effects"
I think they would also have a hard time imagining that a mobile phone wouldn't just be for making calls, but would instead be a handheld computer, camera, color tv screen, music player, compass, navigation device, etc etc. And that it would be far more powerful than even the most advanced super computer available worldwide at the time. It's mind blowing when you think about it.
@@MacXpert74 Well, the design of the flip phone was based on the Star Trek communicator. And Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was about a book sized device that contained all of the information, no matter how trivial , about the whole Galaxy.
But it is cool to think about, that we are living in a "Sci-Fi" time when these "magic devices from the future" are real and we can play them. It's a shame they are destroying society, but hey - Pretty Sci-Fi right?
As a child of the 1990s even i found this archive footage amazing. Tomorrow's world eh ..who remembers thats program
Oh, I remember "Tomorrow's world", when the main presenter was WW2 Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter, along with the brilliant James Burke.
I loved Tomorrow's World I remember hearing about the information super highway that became the internet. Couldn't quite get my head around it at the time and now I use it everyday. I used it today to stream a TV program and a film. Never imagined it would become such a big part of everyday life.
Loved that show
even in the 90 that technologies looked old , there was cell phone in the 90 that fit in the pocket
@@johnsmith-yj2cn But this wasn't the 1990s. This episode of Blue Peter aired in 1976.
This is fabulous stuff. Also great to see that the presenters are being informative and straight talking in an adult and entertaining fashion to their young audience. No "talking down" to the kids, despite the age range of the typical viewers. What has happened to TV in the last couple of decades?
Phew. I'm glad technology advanced to a stage where we don't have to carry those girly handbags around with the phone. It might have led to social and sexual problems for many.
Apart from a few programmes TV during the last four decades has gradually turned from Memorable to Muck!
be interested to know where this was broadcast in looks like a copy of the Australian Curiosity Show
You're right. The 21st century corporate media have developed a real contempt for their audience that's not grounded in reality. They think that their customers are idiots so they program accordingly.
Liberalism.
Absolutely fantastic! Blue Peter was a wonderful television programme.
I can’t believe how compact and easy to use it is. Will they be in the shops for Christmas?
😆 🤣😂
British kids show’s in the 1970’s….significantly more sophisticated than anything for adults on Netflix
But, but what about Bridgerton?
@@johnmcgahern3946 woke historically inaccurate tripe.
That totally depends on what look for on Netflix you know…
@@croonyerzoonyer so is stargate, but that's not the point of either of the two shows.
Understatement.
Done in the days when the bbc treated children like intelligent beings, indeed they also treated adults like intelligent beings
yes then they let Jimmy Saville run wild 😲
Blue Peter has always treated kids the same, if you think it has changed then you've been watching something else.
... Back when adults behaved in real life like intelligent beings
@@trueriver1950 very true, river
indeed, except for saville in the top of the pops room with the teen girls, not very genteel at all.
What a great invention. I wonder if it will ever catch on !
Why would anyone need one? Just pop into a telephone box if you need to make a call.
@@rogermacarthur5044 I think you will find they were for urinating in.
Wish it hadn't to be fair, nobody has anytime for anyone these days!
I think it's a bit too big & cumbersome to ever take off!!
Nah, Too crazy.
I loved blue peter as a child in the 1970s. Such simpler times
simpler and better imo.
much bettter times,someone has already said on here ,people were credited with more intellect and common sense
Back in the day it really was incredible. Love vintage videos like that 👍
Nice kind decent presenters who had class and were of an age you could respect
They were probably child abusers, as was the culture at the time.
@@baldieman64 I was thinking it...
@@baldieman64 I didn't think they even made childrens TV anymore, not like the old days anyway.
@@baldieman64 angry old dinosaur alert. You got old and the world has left you behind, where you belong. Get over it.
John Noakes and Shep, both absolute legends to those of us who grew up in the 1970s.
GETDOWNSHEP !!!!
You forgot Jimmy SaVILE!
Go with noakes was pure gold. Cheers
Oh man you guys are all taking me back!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....
Technology may be infinitely better now (illustrated by how I'm using my smartphone now to both watch and comment on the content instantly), but the HUMAN output was SO much better quality then!!!😔😔😔😔😔
Watch this in 2022 on a mobile phone 😉
@@sovietonion72 it looks like late 70s very early 80s
@ANGRY BATMAN Really? Didn't think it was that long ago 🤔 I thought maybe 1979, thanks for the info.
@@sovietonion72 -Try reading the video description for the answer.
I watched it on my TV streaming through the cell network...
I'd forgotten all about this until I saw this clip! I remember watching this as a child during its original broadcast and wanting the phone so badly that I listed it as my only wish from Santa that Christmas.
Wonderful story !
Did you get it?
These 3 are so slick. This item was as good as Tomorrows World. Really enjoyed this
I love the fact it had a rotating dial and was still completely analogue lol
Effortlessly professional presentation from Peter, John and Lesley - I could listen to them all day..and all this technology we take for granted today - are we really better people for it? I would trade it all for those more genteel times in a heartbeat.
We are getting old, mate it's crazy
When racism was popular and beating your wife was a "domestic" and if it wasn't too dangerous, the police saw it as your private business.
No autocue either.
Sure, let's trade in the technology like the Cochlear Implant for a better time where beating a wife, homophobia and racism were rife. Yeah mate, nah. What an inane comment.
iPhones, texting, twitters, electric cars, climate change, diversity, etc. I’m sick of the lot. Get me back to the 60/70s.
i like how they call it an invention. i feel like things dont get called inventions anymore
that's because nothing gets invented anymore. All we get are incremental improvements on technology that was invented 50 years ago
@@thesteelrodent1796 i hate to break it to you but the the things invented 50 years ago were just updates on things from 60 years ago
@@xAlexZifko h'es not talking about that, he's saying things dont get called inventions anymore, despite it being true or not
I don't see many inventors around either like I used to.
@@samanmudannayaka9604 There are tons, especially in software.
You'll notice that Lesley mentions car phones at one point--they had existed for decades, but the early ones were quite different since they didn't use cellular technology. Instead, there would be one tall tower servicing the entire calling area, and making a call required the phone to draw quite a lot of power from the car's electrical system. To do better, there needed to be smaller transmitters arranged in cells, and the trickiest thing about the cells was actually the circuitry required to automatically hand a phone off from one to another as it moved around--by the early 1970s, the technology to do that was just becoming available. This segment aired just about a year after the first hand-held cell-phone call ever made.
Car phones are actually very old technology and date back to the 1950s or so. Bear in mind that military vehicles were fitted with radios even during World War II and it's not that far-fetched.
Mind you those early car phones were a) crap and b) billionaire expensive. Most normal people would just use a roadside phone box.
It explained where the name “mobile phone “ came from . Thank you Blue Peter
and the Germans call it "Handy" 5:44 😄
The flares and the platforms, love them.
Yep, they too come with the phone
Not good fashion in the rain though! Thank God for athleisure.
I wore flared pants and platform shoes in the 70s. 😊
Would you like a paper hat? @@brenthaymon280
I am watching this on my mobile phone😁. It's amazing how far tech has come.
Same, and I didn’t even realise before I read your comment 🙈
Come on, watching on your phones? Phones do not have cathode ray tubes! You cannot watch stuff on a telephone, you can only transmit and receive sound.
Yeah. I'm watching in on my laptop. Imagine having a computer at home. A small one, that you can carry around with you. And that you can even afford! (Mine was EUR 180, it's a pre-owned Thinkpad that does what it should.)
Crikey I remember watching this back in 74 , I never missed blue Peter It was a good show back then .
I only remember as far back as the early 2000s (I was born in the late 90s) and I never used to find the show fascinating lol
@@qk1050 it had gone downhill by the late 80s
Show was always good but became very boring for kids. It became a time filler for the BBC.
was before my time. I was an infant and not suitable for my mental age back then
It was late 1976..
I'm watching this on my cell phone. It's amazing how times change!
☎️
Imagine walking down the hood with a ‘shoulder bag’ cordless phone next to your pocket. ☎️👜
I was just 3 years old when this was originally broadcast.
Who could have imagined that 40 years later we would have smart phones that are phones, cameras, barometers, GPS locators, music players, video cameras, media players, internet browsers, email, text & so on.
Don't forget *shopping centers, stocks exchange, business meetings, health advisors* 😁👍
'Barometers'? I'm amazed that came third on your list when listing the functions of a smartphone... 😆
@@ajbonmg I ❤️ that it came third on the list! I have a barometer that's over 90yrs old, and likely not accurate (no calibration other than checking against another barometer) but never thought to try my phone as a barometer.
And that we would complain like our lives were coming to an end when just one of those features stopped working for 2 minutes
@@Mike-me3sp which two are yours?
Mine for sure would be video player and internet browser.
I miss the 70s so much ✌️🙏🙃
Go back then
@@imranjaved4425 that was a smartass joke that fell head first !
I remember watching this on TV at the time.It was cutting edge technology at the time.It’s amazing how fast things change.
Hope you were not hurt by the cutting edge technology
I would exactly call 45 years of technology development "fast". Cell phones were a regular affordable thing less than 20 years after this video
I remember watching this episode and being absolutely amazed by it
Thank you to the time traveler who runs this channel for a wonderful glimpse into the distant past.
Born 3 years after this footage was filmed. Watching this on an iPhone 13. Taking a step back to realize how far we’ve come technology wise.
The telephone in the video was already very much better than iPhone
@@aniciomanliotorquatoseveri2702 But can they play Angry Birds. 😂😂
In a few decades people will laugh when they think of that period of time when everyone was walking around staring at a little box they called a "smartphone".
Back when TV shows for kids weren't either patronizingly silly and or just trying to sell toys.
or trying to sell you feminist or lgbtq indoctrination..
Patronisingly. ;)
@@lilacfloyd 'Two countries divided by a common language.' Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, no-one seems to be quite certain which great man of letters originated the quote, or even the precise wording. But Americans spell 'ize' endings with a ''z', the British with either 's' or 'z' and Canadians only with an 's' just to give their schoolteachers something to be pedantic and anti-American aboot, eh.
@@Ballinalower I was just being patronis(z)ing. ;)
I remember John Noakes, and how upset he was when Shep passed away.
The good old days of Blue Peter,
Love this program when I was a kid...Good Times....😉
Extraordinary. Absolutely Extraordinary.
Looks amazing, I'm going to order one of these new fangled telephones. I will look really cool
Actually, by hipster metrics, you probably will look cool.
It also comes with no customer service support lol
If you used those flared trousers as antennae, the phone could pick up signals from Mars.
😂
I still think they look better than men today in skinny fit half mast jeans with underpants showing, saggy arse, pumps and white socks!
😂😂😂😂😂
Or make a phone call to the clangers. 😃
Lol 👻😂
Petra and Shep. Wonderful!
Question: when the first cellphones came up how did they make calls without the transmission towers??
My grandma used to have one of the early mobile phones (and actually a car telephone) since it enabled her employer (a car hire) to do business on Sundays and holidays and during the evening hours without actually having someone on location. She used to work a lot of those shifts and therefore got one to always be available.
We’ve had mobile phones for decades here in the USA. I’m glad England is finally being introduced
I bet it has great 'right to repair' support too!
@@cujoedaman they control our minds, send help…
😆
At last we are getting mobile phones. Been a long time coming
They'll never catch on. Bloody ridiculous idea.
Yes I remember this, all seemed so futuristic and Star Trekky. Also don't forget, phone boxes (pay phones) were everywhere in those days for those that didn't have a phone at home.
Not so long ago either! I clearly remember still using payphones about 22 years ago, before I got my first mobile. (Well it doesn't seem like so long ago to me!!)
Oh yeah even in the 90s, children's shows and books were quite mature. I remember the general knowledge sets books and cassette tapes, were quite heavy for childrens but I remember fondly enjoying it
WOW great idea for that era (1974). I was a little child (infant) and so never watched BP till my teens in the 80s
this video is a wealth of conversation points tangential to its actual topic: the clothes, the style of communication in the context of a children's show, _the name of the show,_ *THE PRESENCE OF VERY GOOD DOGS*
It's so nice to see dogs on the screen that aren't these alert working "show" dogs. It's very chill. An unexpected elegance that I wish we could have every now and again.
During lockdown, dogs and cats were all over home-casts everywhere.
im sure shep could actually do a bit of work
I love how this bleeding edge modern mobile phone has a rotary-dial XD
Yup, that's because it was just using the same old analogue technology except sending the pulses as a radio signal rather than down a physical cable like a wired phone would.
True digital just wasn't there yet.
It WAS bleeding edge.
I can just remember the early 80's when not everyone even had a landline (usually a trimphone in the hallway). Passing a message on consisted of ringing a relative or next-door neighbour.
In 1974, a phone you could take anywhere with you must have seemed incredible.
O aye ours on the farm had a button on top .exchange call. To obtain dial tone first. As was on a shared party line. . Could not dial of the island .had to use operator to call liverpool.
@@cherryred1732 I think everybody had a party line. Incredible you had to wait for your neighbour to finish their call so you could could make yours!
Well into the late 70s and 80s by no means did everyone have a phone where they lived. It seems a miracle how one kept in touch with people and arranged or rather didn't to meet, you just went to the pub and they might be there.
There was always the post or actually going round to their gaff on the chance they may be in.
@@63mckenzie well yes alot of people in them days had a.party line. It was half the normal rent. . Which suited me owl fella on the farm. . Ofcourse if it was genuinely urgent .like we needed to call Davies the vet . Then they would hang up and let us go ahead. People seems to.be more tolerant them days . Some times wish we could hi back to then.
O aye . I wanted a trim phone . But me owl fella on the farm would not let me. . They had the phone put In farm in the 1930's and was original instrument right up until 1991 when me owl fella got his wooden over coat.
I remember this episode and being amazed. We didn't even have a house phone.
So wholesome :)
Seeing the Blue Peter dogs again after all those years is the best part of this video ❤️❤️
whats shep up to nowadays ?
@@matspurs1629 On a farm in Shaftsburry
@@CancellerPalpatine Fertiliser cool
struck me too !
Look at how genuinely excited they are by the tech - funny in a way when you see people these days with their smart phones. Nothing is ever good enough for people now.
People also spoke so well. Something I miss very much. Eloquence.
Oh please do shut up. No one benefits from your complaining about 'kids nowadays' and the apparent barbaric ways in which people speak today. Furthermore, what do you mean that 'nothing is good for people now'? Just because technology that people were excited about in the past are now commonplace does not mean that they are not respected.
To conclude, stop speaking of the present as if it is a degenerate hellhole and look outside once in awhile because your awareness of society is clearly lacking. The youth of roday are much more than what you expect.
I haven't watched the BBC for a number of years, I also live abroad, however, I did tune in recently to watch something (via iplayer) and the continuity announcer was laughably bad, I thought I was being sold apples from an East End market. Many, I know, will proclaim 'but TV must represent the audience!' That's for the programmes to do, the channel would have done a service to society to uphold certain standards, which they have not and now look at society crumbling around us all. So where has your 'diversity' got us all, 'An instrument of education and entertainment' it most certainly is not, just a morass of inconsequential nonsense. So, very, very sad.
The Water in Majorca Don't taste like what it Ought to
Yeah we've been spoilt now. The tech in our hands is bloody impressive. I still find new ways to do all sorts of things on my phone.
I'd happily give up the technology I enjoy today to be able to go back to this simpler time.
There’s something about this that just feels really sweet
Aaaaand, now you are all tracked! Marvelous!
I really hope this technology catches on it would be soo cool in 30 years time to be able to call one another anywhere any time.
I really hope it doesn't catch on, I think it will ruin everybody's' lives..... oh, too late!
It got bad when we started getting social media even though I was born in 2000 it's already changed people's lives for the worse
@@EuanWhitehead Well look, the fact that you know that, as a kid ;-), it means there's hope for you & perhaps everyone else. You could choose not to be on it (if you are), I'm only on YT, nowhere else. Yes, I didn't grow up with it like you, but we all have to try to make good choices & maybe this is your chance to make some great decisions & perhaps you might inspire others to not bother with SM either.
@@Chillmax You be suprised about the age range of people using such platforms in fact. I find it superficial and bad for my health lol, many of my friends have said the same thing. It won't last forever I don't think hopefully 😆
@@EuanWhitehead Oh no, I know all ages use SM, some because they just want to & maybe others because their families get them into it, & perhaps it's sometimes the easiest way for Grandma to talk to her grandchildren ;-). The difference for most older people (if that's the age range to which you're) is that because they didn't grow up with it & older attitudes seem to be hardier & less fragile than the young, they're less likely to succumb to the pitfalls of SM. Anyway, you & your friends sound like you've your heads screwed on, so if you know it's bad, there's hope for the future!
I can remember watching this when it was first shown and couldn't believe this would ever happen
First used a mobile phone in about 1988, but it was rented not owned. A Vodafone.
OMG...Are these out yet??? Science never stops amazing me with all of the new technology .
That crossbody shoulder bag is so chic
Just watched a video with an old woman born in the 1860s interviewed around the same time. Weird to think that she lived alongside the invention of the cell-phone.
I tell my nephew about what it was like before all the technology we have today existed and he looks at me as if it was the dark ages! Imagine the world without instant access to the internet. Aaarggg!!
It only took 25 years from here to the first 'proper' 2G mobiles - that you could put in your pocket!
How does it work? Magic!
Only 25 years!? That’s a long time.
that took a long time!! i bet these technologies were suppressed thats why it took to long to reach the masses!!
they had phones you could put in your pocket in the mid 90s. It was the StarTAC first flip phone that could fit in your pocket. My dad had one as a government official.
@@miamitten1123 it's really not.
"but who would want to go out into the rain to make a phone call" "This device has no future". This retro is hilarious; complete with bell bottoms.
Bell bottoms is a 60s term.
They were flares and flared from higher up.
John's are closer to bell bottoms as they flare from the knee but the flare is bigger and come right down to the shoes.
They got soaked in bad weather.
If you buy one you receive Doctor Who Tardis 😃
@@julianshepherd2038 caught in the bike chain
Absolutely ground breaking technology back in the day.
I used to love watching Blue Peter back in the day when I was a child , excellent viewing from our invaluable BBC..😃
Back when it was invaluable... utterly depressing how much formerly great national institutions have since become international embarrasments.
1976, it took me another 22 years before I got my first mobile phone!
That call went through faster than any call I've ever made on my 5G phone in 2022!
AND calls can be made in the countryside.. better that any O2/Vodaphone coverage today!
yeah because the whole network had 2 mobile subscribers :))
A phone that comes in its own luggage, brilliant!
I absolutely love the professionalism of these people. These shows were so so so good. Now it's all nonsense and stupidity.
So Elegant presenters 👏‼️
46 years later and I still have to go upstairs and open one particular window to get a signal, thank heavens for landlines.
Loving Peter Purves' shirt... I have one just like that !
Haven't worn it yet. 😄
The shirt was to help you tune your TV in, like the test card with the girl and the clown
@@timdickson5531 and you could use his flares for horizontal adjustment.
A wolsely special
So they were kind enough to let you try their ultra new mobile phone and you immediately took it out in the pouring rain.
That was Blue Peter for you. No hiding from the real world.
I was thinking the same thing. There's no way that equipment was weather proof.
I suspect it was still more water resistant than an Apple mobile.
Watching these old clips makes me truly feel that different eras have different feeling, I can imagine the sounds, smells and atmosphere of each era, even ones before my time. The fact that I can feel like this watching these clips, makes me truly great for all our technology.
I was in my 30s back then. Smells were mainly cigarettes everywhere, in the office, in restaurants, buses, trains and even planes. As a non smoker I hated it. On the street people still smoked but the smell was swamped by the emissions of vehicles without catalytic converters. I had one pair of flares but didn't often wear them. Women still predominantly wore skirts and many places of work insisted on it. But life was also great, better than now for most young people. In my early thirties I could support a wife, who by choice stayed home to look after our children, buy a house and run two cars.
You’re right about the senses.
Smells consisted of more leather, wool, wood, metal, oil.
Houses, supermarkets, classrooms, car interiors, kitchens all smelled different than today’s.
I get the same vibe! I like to immerse myself in an era to get a sense of how it was at the time, although in this case I would have just come home from school to watch this, being 5 years old at the time.
Unbelievable!!! How do they do it??? Magic! )))
lady said this will be particularly good for busy people who don't have a standard phone particularly Businessmen and farmers
I was 22 that year. I still think two bean cans and a string is pretty high tech.
Which year was is please
@@TCM215 1974 I think.
@@TCM215 1974
You ever talk with old WW1 vets? Considering the fact you were 22 in 1974
@@td370 I was so lucky with that. My weekend job when I was 15 was in a hospital ward full of WW1 veterans. Most of them were suffering from gas exposure in the War which had become more debilitating for them in old age. So many stories and they were so kind and generous to a crass teenager whi was not much younger than they were when they were in the trenches. One of them told me he lied about his age to sign up. I asked if he was too young and he replied, " No Boy ! I was TOO OLD!". So he was over 40 in 1914. Several of them showed me their medals when they saw I was genuinely interested, but all of them said all the real heroes were dead. Years later I found the older guy had lost 2 brothers in WW1 and 2 sons in WW2.
The young people don't remember the days when phones didn't work without a nearby dog, they just take it for granted.
Yes, nowadays our phones are completely corgi-less.
Thousandth comment: As well as the amazing preview of the mobile ‘phone, this clip just encapsulates so much British cultural history. It was a bit before my time, but the next generation of ‘Blue Peter’ presenters were a big part of my childhood, and seeing both Petra and Shep is incredible.
Oh my goodness, this is so innovative, I can't wait to buy one of those.
Amazing footage! Thank you!
Irony is they get better mobile reception in the 1970's than I get today in London, living in sight of the BT tower :(
When mobile phones started up they were allowed to stick their gear on BBC transmitter stations, for a modest fee, as they had all the best sites and coverage of the entire country even the last crofter had to be able to get the radio as its in the BBC charter. I worked in the transmitter building section in the 80s when they still owned all the stations in the UK and did all engineering in house. They also built stations all over the world to relay the World Service.
😂😂😂 I grew up in that era. And the aerial, hahaha. It's sooooo funny watching this now 😂😂😂
Oh I remember the dreaded aerial, when you had to move it umpteen times to get a decent picture on the black and white t.v.
@@jamesmacleod671 I do believe we called them "rabbit ears", right?? 😂😂😂
“And in future years, you might be lucky enough to be able to view videos of strangers revealing the gender of their unborn child” 😉
I think you mean the unknown gender of their child!!
You're spot on with that one. What the hell has the world come to.
When my daughter poped out we where suprised it was a girl. I asked my wife if she wanted to put her back in and wait for the correct cooking time so that it had time to grow the dangely thing at the front. But she said it was alot of hassle to push it out and from then on we accepted we had a girl and never tried to change her.
... and it'll always be a boy. Nobody ever does gender reveals for girls.
Comes with a DOG, and a BONE😂😊
I remember dialing on those big black rotary dial landline phones of the 60s. Thank you to the early innovators for paving the way for the powerful mobile phones that we have today.
As a 2002 kid, I can’t imagine have to walk round hold a bag with a landline attached to it. Wonder what they think of modern phones
As someone who was born in 1963 I cannot fathom what it would be like to be a 2002 kid. Nevertheless I wish you a long and happy life.
To be fair, this was cutting edge experimental equipment for the most part. Cell phones didn't really enter the public commercial domain until the late 80s, early 1990s. Even then they were, for the most part, tethered to your vehicle (it's why they used to be called Car Phones). Yes if you were super rich you could get one installed in your car back in the 70s, but it was an otherwise unavailable (and unknown) technology to the public.
@@calessel3139 my father had one of the 50 first cellphones in my city, i think it was in 1993. it wasn't tethered, it was just kinda big. I think it was a Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
@@GraveUypo Yeah, that's about the time tetherless "brick" phones became affordably priced to the general public. My oldest sister had a tethered one that came in a small satchel in about 1992. We all thought she was crazy for buying it because it was so expensive plus, back then, we all basically thought, why would you need to make a phone call while driving a car - LOL.
@@calessel3139
So right you are - well said
It’s so refreshing to watch calm none bouncy fame seeking ,cooking cakes ,survival training ,farms with my dad ,dancing on ice ,strictly or walking up or down a bloody hill presenter’s !
You have no idea of how much I agree with you.
Don't forget all the child abuse.
@@danielturner9027 What are you talking about?
I remember growing up in the 00s and I feel like the presenters were the perfect age...they weren't tiktok kids but they weren't old folk that couldn't relate to the kids watching either. These guys were brilliant though as well.
@@grahamhume5953 yes i wonder what he is saying too
I have an old 60s phone and plugged it in the other day to see if it still worked - if it did I was going to carry on using it. It did work, but the bell was so loud the whole street must have heard (and no volume control) so I had to unplug it.
I wonder if John, Lesley and Peter were aware just how professional they were way back in the day? Now 'celebrity' can be achieved just by being able to talk and by having very white teeth.
I can watch this now as an adult as easily as I could as a child - not the slightest bit patronising.
At the point where nowadays they would rush on to the next item, leaving everyone with loads of questions, they went up to Leslie to show the RF equipment.
Imagine how relatively difficult this 6 mins was. A massive (non portable) studio camera and it's cables out in the rain and the same on the roof. The whole segment flows seamlessly - no autocue, just skilled presenters.
I heard that Biddy Baxter had the foresight to insist that tapes of these shows were not wiped like so many others of that era were - thankfully.
i was lucky enough to get to walk round TV Centre shortly before it closed. I could almost feel the history of this magic part of my childhood echoing in the vacated studios that housed countless classics like SwapShop and Blue Peter.
The phone went out of existence like his bell bottom pants. I cant imagine millions talking to each other today by means of this phone. Thank you IPhone, Android and others for getting us up to date.
besize apple......what other small phones can u find?