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Post by TallPaul on Oct 16, 2018 13:18:43 GMT
What an institution!
It's difficult to believe that a TV programme that is still running, and relevant, was already almost 20 years old when I first became a viewer.
My first threesome was Peter (briefly), John and Lesley. And as I was still watching all through university and into my early 20s, I think I can just about remember all the presenters up to Gethin Jones.
I've collected tin foil and stamps for the annual appeals, and my first record player, a Dansette type, came from a bring and buy sale in the local scout hut.
Being quite a lazy child, I never did anything that would have qualified for a badge, but now that it's based in Salford, I did visit the garden just last year.
Happy 60th Birthday Blue Peter.
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Post by peggysue on Oct 16, 2018 17:34:45 GMT
Happy Birthday indeed. My first 3 presenters were John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves. Many years ago when travelling back to London I sat next to Simon Groome with his dog Goldie and he was busy learning his script for the next day. It’s a fun family show and long may it continue. I happen to share my birthday with the show so celebrations all round 😊
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 18:35:07 GMT
John, Peter P and Lesley were also my first presenters. My favourite group was Peter D, Simon and Sarah, I think. I LOVED Simon Groom quite passionately for quite a long time.
I've got a Blue Peter badge too! In fact, I had two. My mother washed the first one and all the colour came off, and I was so upset she wrote in and apologised and I got a new one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 18:45:34 GMT
Blue Peter, with John, Val and Peter, brings back such precious memories of childhood.
Mother’s day cards made with doilies and glitter, Father’s day gifts made of matchboxes and paper fasteners, and endless storage pots to keep your pencils in on your (non-existent) desk...
Educational items like the story of Guy Fawkes, when to put your tortoise into hibernation (yes, I had one!) and films of structures around the world that one of the presenters would climb wearing a harness and a crash helmet...
Cartoons... I loved Bleep and Booster...
But the most special time of year was the run up to Christmas with an annual appeal, the lighting of candles on the Advent crown made of coat-hangers and fireproof tinsel, and then the opening of those vast studio doors to let in the Salvation Army band and school choirs to sing carols around the tree.
Biddy Baxter was on Desert Island Discs a few years back and one of her chosen pieces was Victor Hely Hutchinson’s A Carol Symphony which she said reminded her of the Blue Peter item on the journey of the Norwegian fir tree to London’s Trafalgar Square. I had to stop the car to listen to it. And I had to buy the CD to let all the memories come flooding back...
Happy Birthday!
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Post by lynette on Oct 16, 2018 20:59:43 GMT
What a programme. I watched and my kids watched it. It didn’t talk down, it didn’t hype up. I haven't watched for years now and grandkids don’t watch it.
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Post by martello736 on Oct 16, 2018 22:36:14 GMT
I hate to be a misery guts, but shouldn't they let this programme die now? It caters to children that haven't existed for some years, it was dated and irrelevant when I was a child and that was over a decade ago now. I know in recent years they've shifted its length and time slot around a lot, they had three editions a week in 2006, then they dropped to two, and now since 2012 they only have one. I feel it was a great and groundbreaking programme even as late as the early 90s but nobody can really name a Blue Peter presenter from the last 20 years (even I know of John Noakes and Peter Purves - "get down, Shep!" - but have zero clue who presented it when I was a kid). The children of 2018 aren't collecting Blue Peter badges and I think only adults would really mourn its loss.
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Post by Jon on Oct 16, 2018 23:44:02 GMT
The Blue Peter special was quite good and it was nice to see some of the past faces. My era was Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker and Katy Hill the latter was replaced by Liz Barker. I can still remember the infamous Richard Bacon sacking due to his cocaine expose where the controller of CBBC had to apologise and read a statement on air
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Post by n1david on Oct 17, 2018 10:27:35 GMT
I saw the "Once Seen on Blue Peter" at the Edinburgh Fringe this year - with Peter Purves, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Mark Curry and Tim Vincent. It was very much in the same tone as the coverage of the 60th birthday, very warm and fuzzy. There was a thin storyline about which of the former presenters would accept a Lifetime Achievement award, but mostly it was an excuse to show some old clips again and bathe in the warmth emanating from the audience...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 10:55:50 GMT
I guess my "era" was Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding (making pancakes has never been as much fun as watching her do it) and Caron Keating who I thought was simply the loveliest thing in the world at the time. I was lucky to meet her much much later and I'm pleased to say that she absolutely was. Much missed.
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Post by jaqs on Oct 17, 2018 11:59:10 GMT
I loved Peter Duncan but didn't like the show as a child, much preferred it if it was a Byker Grove or Grange Hill day.
Did all the appeals though with school or brownies and Blue Peter along with newsround did a terrific job of giving kids information on the world issues of the day.
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Post by poster J on Oct 17, 2018 13:52:10 GMT
The Blue Peter special was quite good and it was nice to see some of the past faces. My era was Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker and Katy Hill the latter was replaced by Liz Barker. I can still remember the infamous Richard Bacon sacking due to his cocaine expose where the controller of CBBC had to apologise and read a statement on air Same era here, and I also remember the Richard Bacon scandal! |
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