#OnThisDay 20 September 1993
HAPPY BIRTHDAY?
BLUE PETER NEARLY DROVE ME POTTY!
#BluePeter is set to celebrate a historic event - its 35th birthday. But the programme that gave joy to generations of children put years on one presenter. #JohnNoakes confessed yesterday . . .

Which was you your #BluePeter era?

Mine -

#ValerieSingleton
#JohnNoakes
#PeterPurves

#BiddyBaxter

Died #otd John Noakes (1934-2017), English television presenter, 8 years ago today #JohnNoakes life story...

FILM / TV AND MORE LISTS… Recalling Blue Peter’s All Action Hero for UK Kids, John Noakes Some Seventies memories of Blue Peter’s avuncular Yorkshire presenter… John Noakes will always fondly be remembered as my fave Blue Peter presenter.

Happy Birthday to Valerie Singleton, here with #JohnNoakes in some Blue Peter memories...
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FILM / TV AND MORE LISTS… Recalling Blue Peter’s All Action Hero for UK Kids, John Noakes Some Seventies memories of Blue Peter’s avuncular Yorkshire presenter… John Noakes will always fondly be remembered as my fave Blue Peter presenter.

Remembering Blue Peter's #JohnNoakes on his birthday...
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#TVSky television that impressed & stayed with you: the UK's ICONIC #BLUEPETER a magazine show for under-15s that covered global events, inspired you to skydive or pot-hole, make submarines out of sticky-backed-plastic, & collect rubbish for recycling & fund-raising #JohnNoakes #SarahGreene

TV presenter John Noakes lights a candle on an Advent crown, made with coathangers, baubles, tinsel and candles. This happens on the BBC show Blue Peter every year in the run-up to Christmas, and viewers are shown how to make the crown. The Blue Peter logo is on the wall in the background.

It's (nearly) time.

#Advent #Coathangers #Candles #BluePeter #JohnNoakes

#ScenarioSongs
#MusicChallenge
#NowPlaying
#Music

9/7 - walking the dog

It's years since I last heard this, yet it's just popped into my mind. Our brains are amazing🙂

Sheep Dip Disco by John Noakes

Legendary UK childrens' tv presenter John Noakes with his dog Shep
#UKTV #JohnNoakes

The Baxter Regime Reading a fairly awful account by former Blue Peter presenter, Yvette Fielding, about how awful the then Editor, Biddy Baxter, was, and how...

#MarsHillBlog Post On the tough Baxter Regime from the 1960s-1980s, overseeing Blue Peter #BiddyBaxter #YvetteFielding #JohnNoakes #PeterPurves #ValerieSingleton #BluePeter paulburgin.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-...

At the time, and I had no sense of how terrifying it was; now I can barely watch it: https://youtu.be/p4YFCJETmwI #JohnNoakes