Blue Peter

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#1

The BBC has announced they’re going to digitise and release every episode to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary. This is of interest to me as I was once on an episode and would be very interested in seeing it again (I have no idea where the VHS tape is, and even if I did, I do not have a VHS player).

Did you watch Blue Peter as a child? Any favourite moments? Presenters? Pets? Makes?

At university my friends all realised we had been big Blue Peter watchers as children, I think there is a strong correlation between watching Blue Peter as a child and degree-level education. That or something to do with class. Not sure.

#2

Konnie Huq was the first celebrity I ever fancied. Still do.

I have no other strong memories of Blue Peter.

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#3

Remember watching Richard Bacon’s weepy apology and farewell. Will probably just youtube it tho

#5

Not a Katy Hill fan?

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#6

She’s no Konnie Huq.

#7

I wanted to make the Tracy Island because I didn’t get the actual Tracy Island for christmas unfortunately.

I also fancied/fancy Konnie Huq

I think it’s funny about how Richard Bacon got into whatever that scandal was.

I like it when there is a dog that is on a TV show and the dog just gets on with their life but on tv.

I hated it when they went in the garden because it was dead boring.

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#8

Was Newsround on before or after Blue Peter?

I think the schedule was
5pm Blue Peter
5:25pm Newsround
5:35pm Neighbours

That was a solid hour of television there, everything a child needed.

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#9

Oh yeah, one other Blue Peter related thing. When I am using mouthwash I use the Blue Peter theme tune in my head and swish the mouthwash from cheek to cheek in time with the tune.

#10

Was it you that fucked over the Blue Peter Garden with Les Ferdinand?

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#11

I think it was Newsround at 5pm, THEN Blue Peter / Grange Hill / Byker Grove.

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#12

Radzi seems alright.

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I watched it - starting with the John Noakes era cos I;m old

It was good - I liked watching it when they made things, but I never actually made the things. Every year they made an advent crown out of coat hangers

I have also stood in the actual Blue Peter garden on multiple occasions cos I worked at TV center for a bit and to my surprise it was ok to just wander into the garden. It looked smaller in real life

#15

Yeah,
5.00 Newsround
5.05 (or maybe 5.10) Blue Peter/Byker Grove/Grange Hill
5.35 Neighbours

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#16

I remember my mum shouting at the TV as Yvette Fielding completely fucked up her pancake. Brilliant stuff

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#17

pre neighbours

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I’ve fallen down a rabbbit hole

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#18

Watching this puts the wind up me now but I don’t remember it terrifying me as a child. Clearly no health & safety at the bbc in the 70s!

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#19

“Dustin Hoffman in Agatha”? Filth!

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