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.
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.
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?
"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 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. ☺
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 🤣
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 💙
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.
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. 😊
@@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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.. 🙂
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!
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.
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.
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 UA-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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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; ua-cam.com/video/JS2NIpWfbRg/v-deo.html
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.
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 ❤️😊😂👍🏻
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 ?
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.
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
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 😉😂
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.
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.
@@kentcyclist That's right, these days they'd kit John Noakes in a red dress and lipstick and have him hand out peanuts to the passengers. Even in the Blue Peter days the rot was starting with Peter Purvis sissy long hair. The whole world is one big old trans woke fest. In fact I'm just off to buy a dress myself.
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.
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
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.
![Take Hart [BBC Children's TV 70s] whole episode](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/P0i8g0n6qGo/mqdefault.jpg)
Laid back presentation, no nonsensical BGMs, silence between dialogues, no shouting. This is the BBC I used to like.
Beautiful, lovely & innocent times..... wish I could go back to those days.....❤
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.
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. 😉
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
I will never forget blue peter loved every minute of this great programme and I still like to Watch these great clips
Who'd have thought in 2022 we'd all be quite happy sat watching UA-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
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
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 🤣
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 💙
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..
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.
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. 😊
From the days when children where allow to just be children unlike today with the political and sexualised crap
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Golden memories of tea-time telly. Miss those days.
Intellectual kiddy tv? Something this generation have missed out on!
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.
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.
A very high quality and informative programme. I remember them well, but to see this again really shows how good it was.
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.. 🙂
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.
lesley judd + long boots + long skirt ---- telly heaven for me back in the day !
Bring back maxi dresses and boots. 😍
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!
Best years of my life comming home to the family watching this an art attack
What a brilliant TV show that was.
First appearance of Rags the pony.
Peter Purves' hair at its longest here. A style that clearly influenced James May.
captain slow
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.
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.
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.
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 UA-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.
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.
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
11:55 - "...and a wet dress clinging to me."
Oh, my.
I must have a good think about that later on 😚
Blue Peter indeed!
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.
Lo and behold, Blue Peter - just about the only 1970's BBC programme that can be aired today...
Great programme. Great days. Happy memories. Thanks for uploading/
I used to like Blue Peter.I used to think Lesley Judd was ugly.But she wasnt.
I was 10 in heatwave 76, great show, john noakes was a real daredevil of a presenter !
Totally live
Engaging
Educational
Fun
Professionally presented
Children's television at its finest
England forever 🏴
That Horse is now 51 🐴
or not
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
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
ua-cam.com/video/q4lb0gXOq4I/v-deo.html
@@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; ua-cam.com/video/JS2NIpWfbRg/v-deo.html
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.
@@roops2939
Sex education? lol
I actually sat through that entire episode. How much better things were.
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.
Bishop Rock Lighthouse
Thank you :-) @@martinconnor9840
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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That was a nice feature with Lesley flying as a hostess with Laker airways.
LOL @ Lesley Judd with her 70s brown and beige "librarian" dress. I love the orange and brown colour scheme to the furniture!
Blue Peter had a problem with Magpie spying on them...
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.
I used to watch this as a kid memory fades but I believe it was on about 5pm on a weekday.
I love how Leslie has a hat on with a wiggy bit at the back!!!
I was 13 when this aired. What a great programme for children.
Couldn't pretend that was any other decade!
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 ?
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.
I've just sent in my name recommendation - fingers crossed mine gets the most votes.
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.
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..
Was born the year after. This is a gold mine here. Nice one.
JUST LOVE THE FASHION
Those bell bottom trousers still look a thousand times better than the god awful current fashion in mens trousers!
Bless you for posting this. Now and then, a reminder of my childhood does me the world of good.
No "Diversity" in sight...happy days.
A fundraiser for disabled kids (riding) and a black air stewardess shown training in the pool. Nope. No diversity whatsoever.
@@Queen-of-Swords ...the presenters....
Yes there was - John Noaks Yorkshire accent - very controversial back then 😅
@@redpillnibbler4423 Ha Ha..love it !
Those huge flappy Lionels! I remember having flared jeans backin the 70s
This was my era, I wanted to grow up to be John Noakes
I wanted to grow up and marry John Noakes! :/
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 😉😂
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!
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.
Pony ended up being called Rags , I think.
I was only 2 when this came out but I'm watching it 46 years later.
Lesley Judd - so pretty
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.
'I'll be aboard a DC10, so wish me luck.'
There’s nothing like the weight of lots of sausages to make your left arm ache 😅
Yes.
I wish i didn't have to think like that. I was happily reminiscing about being 9 year old and then that happens.
I was 6 years old when this aired but I really love Blue Peter!
Wow, way back when you could actually learn stuff from TV shows.
Exact!
All they teach you now is how they believe everyone should be woke and transgender
@@kentcyclist 👌
@@kentcyclist That's right, these days they'd kit John Noakes in a red dress and lipstick and have him hand out peanuts to the passengers. Even in the Blue Peter days the rot was starting with Peter Purvis sissy long hair. The whole world is one big old trans woke fest. In fact I'm just off to buy a dress myself.
@@jamesrindley6215 And I'm sure you'll look lovely n it.
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!!!!!
What a cool cardy!
Still survives today..it was a hardy cardy..
Remember my mother putting a stemmed glass to the wall and her ear when the neighbours started off lol
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 👍
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.
A kids show but they speak to them like adults. America is light years behind.
That was the reason I liked Blue Peter. I was a kid but they spoke to me as an adult.
Brilliant! Ceiling tile glider….you couldn’t get more 1976 than that!
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
Loved my blue Peter childhood ❤
I loved Blue Peter too debora cos they never spoke down to me.
Loved Blue Peter as a Kid
Still Do
Ah, those were the days. Val, Lesley, John and Peter on Blue Peter and Pertwee in the Tardis.
Nice to see the room the camera Test Card was used :D
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.
Simpler times, kid’s nowadays just don’t get it
I was a wee lad in the 70s
My eyes hurt looking at those flares.
Peter Purves’ hair cut was made illegal after this program.
And his trousers are helping the police with their enquiries...
Those wonderful days are long gone and I don't watch the BBC at all now.
"Hello children...on today's show... industrial espionage, the horrors of a plane crash at sea and a wet dress clinging to Lesley's body"