Season 13
1976-1977
Season 13
1976-1977
- Air date:1976-09-13
- User score:0.0
- Number of episodes:80
List of Episodes
Air date: 1976-09-13
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John Noakes , Peter Purves and Lesley Judd explore one of the world's first commuter waterways 9,000 miles from the Blue Peter studio, and take part in a Hash Chase-a sweltering five-mile slog through jungle and quicksand.
Air date: 1976-09-16
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The summer holidays have meant hard work for Rags, Blue Peter's trainee pony for handicapped riders. Today she copes with her first experience of traffic on the open road.
Air date: 1976-09-20
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In a land of contrasts tribal hunters stalk their prey a mere 100 miles from Brunei's sophisticated natural gas plant. The men of the Punan tribe give John a lesson on their deadly blow-pipes.
Air date: 1976-09-23
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Lesley returns to the scene of her narrow escape from death-but exchanges the breeches buoy for the new Trinity House helicopter service to the Bishop Rock Light-house.
Air date: 1976-09-27
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Blue Peter's trainee pony for handicapped riders goes to the races and joins the VIPs in Tattersalls at Britain's premier race-course.
Air date: 1976-10-04
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It's over 40 years since Britain's last Royal Silver Jubilee and already preparations for the 1977 celebrations are under way. Today John, Peter and Lesley will be announcing details of a special competition for designing a commemorative picture and the best of all the designs will be picked for the Radio Times souvenir cover. As silver jubilees are so rare, one day this painting might become a collectors' item, so don't miss your chance to enter and win a prize.
Air date: 1976-10-07
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John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd have a cup of tea inside the piston of the world's largest working beam engine at Kew Bridge Pumping Station.
Air date: 1976-10-11
Runtime: min
John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd visit a dentist who mends shoes, fly with 10,000 bats, take part in a Hash Chase through the sweltering jungle and broadcast in Malay on Brunei TV.
Air date: 1976-10-18
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George Stephenson's 'Locomotion' thundered along the track between Stockton and Darlington 151 years ago. Today JOHN and PETER go back in time and drive a full-size replica.
Air date: 1976-10-21
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A fly-past of state helicopters and a procession of stilt walkers and jugglers marked the 30th birthday of the Sultan, His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien. JOHN, PETER and LESLEY join the crowds during the celebrations that lasted 40 days and 40 nights.
Air date: 1976-10-25
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Today you can see the results of the competition to design a picture to commemorate the 25 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and to discover whether your painting has been chosen for a Radio Times Jubilee cover. Art Editor David Driver (seen here with Lesley) who helped to judge the competition, will be in the studio with John, Peter and Lesley to explain how the winning design was chosen and to give some tips to would-be artists.
Air date: 1976-10-28
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Including a report from France, in which LESLEY tells the story of the Burghers of Calais and how 600 years ago, six brave citizens walked out of their besieged town to face certain death. Their dramatic exploits made them national heroes.
Air date: 1976-11-08
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Real gladiators' armour and a 2,000-year-old loaf of bread are two of the fascinating collectors' items John saw when he took Blue Peter cameras to Italy and visited the site of the world's most devastating volcanic eruption.
Air date: 1976-11-15
Runtime: min
Lesley joins 'Missus' and meets her baby - the first dolphin ever to be born and bred in Britain.
Air date: 1976-11-18
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The lights go down in London as John helps with a spectacular piece of demolition that will change the face of world-famous Piccadilly Circus, and Lesley starts a series of 'cheap-and-easy' Christmas presents with some ideas for cards to make at home.
Air date: 1976-11-22
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Trainee guide dogs Imogen, Ivan, Jonathan; Jasmine, Tina, Tracey, Merry, Misty, Meg and Bella were bought by viewers as a result of the 3B's Appeal. The pups made their first TV appearance 18 months ago, today they return as they start their new careers.
Air date: 1976-11-25
Runtime: min
We've four weeks left to prepare for Christmas. Lesley shows a present to make for mums, aunts and older sisters.
Air date: 1976-11-29
Runtime: min
Somebody, somewhere needs your help. Today JOHN, PETER and LESLEY will be announcing details of the 1976 Appeal and showing how old junk can save lives. Have a paper and pencil handy to take down the Depot address.
Air date: 1976-12-02
Runtime: min
The 1976 Appeal is on! Help fill the Blue Peter Depot. Find out today how much has already arrived and what you can do to help reach the target.
Air date: 1976-12-06
Runtime: min
As the result of the Civil War hundreds and thousands of children and babies-many of them orphans-are in a desperate condition. Some are badly burned, others have been injured by shells and gunfire, all are suffering from malnutrition and are in need of urgent medical care. Britain has provided the only mercy mission to be allowed into the war zone, but to keep this lifeline going and enable the doctors and nurses to extend their stay, Blue Peter is asking for your old postage stamps and postcards. 300 old stamps or 10 postcards can be sent for the minimum postage rate of 61p. Even the smallest donation will help to save a life so send it off to: [address removed]
Air date: 1976-12-09
Runtime: min
Blue Peter film cameras bring a stop press report from the Appeal Depot to show how the Lifeline Lebanon stamps and postcards are being sorted.
Air date: 1976-12-13
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Naturalist Grahame Dangerfield badly needs a mate for his rare Indian wood owl - one of the 120 different species of birds and animals filmed by Blue Peter cameras at the new wildlife Breeding Centre.
Air date: 1976-12-23
Runtime: min
Join in with carols round the tree, with the children of the John Scurr Junior School, Warlingham County Secondary School and the Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army in this special Christmas edition.
Air date: 1976-12-30
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when John and Peter helped bath Rodney Bewes's triplets? Lesley's historic flight to America on Concorde? Wobbling Wally, Britain's largest flag and John's Fierljeppen? They're all in today's programme when John, Peter and Lesley pick their favourite adventures of 1976.
Air date: 1977-01-03
Runtime: min
Has the Lifeline Reached the Lebanon? Will the stamps and postcards pouring into the Collection Depot reach the two million target on the Totaliser? If so, Blue Peter viewers will have provided badly needed aid for the sick and injured babies and children who are victims of the Civil War.
Air date: 1977-01-06
Runtime: min
Twelfth Night is coming, but don't throw your Christmas cards away - turn them into an exciting game that anyone can play.
Air date: 1977-01-10
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Blue Peter film cameras take to the high seas when Lesley meets the crew of HMS Dance, alias 'HMS Hero' of Warship fame.
Air date: 1977-01-13
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PETER becomes a carillonneur when he plays the 47 bells of Loughborough's world-famous Carillon, and discovers how manure played a vital part in their casting.
Air date: 1977-01-17
Runtime: min
John goes mattress racing in Scotland and joins the men of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team on their annual splash down the icy rapids of Glen Nevis.
Air date: 1977-01-24
Runtime: min
For hundreds of years the Shetland Islanders have celebrated the end of the Viking winter with a spectacular and fiery ceremony. John reports from the great blaze at Lerwick.
Air date: 1977-01-27
Runtime: min
Jack and Jill, Blue Peter's twin tabbies, celebrate their first birthday on Saturday. Today you can see a flashback of their very first TV appearance.
Air date: 1977-02-07
Runtime: min
An important day for Buttons, Blue Peter's third guide dog, as she joins her new owner.
Air date: 1977-02-14
Runtime: min
If you want to grow your own vegetables this spring and summer, Percy Thrower will be giving some useful tips direct from the Blue Peter garden.
Air date: 1977-02-17
Runtime: min
But not the kind you eat - when John joins Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale and the rest of the team during filming for the new series of Porridge.
Air date: 1977-02-24
Runtime: min
Olympic gold medallist Jim Fox and news of the latest scheme to win more British Olympic medals.
Air date: 1977-02-28
Runtime: min
Including a preview of Britain's National Stamp Exhibition and details of a special concession for all Blue Peter badge winners.
Air date: 1977-03-03
Runtime: min
A prototype of the first OO gauge model of the high-speed train makes a test run on the Blue Peter layout, and for railway enthusiasts who want to keep their locos clean, an easy to make model train wash.
Air date: 1977-03-07
Runtime: min
Captain Yvonne Sintes , Britain's only woman commercial airline Captain, shows LESLEY what happens behind the scenes to get a flight into the air.
Air date: 1977-03-14
Runtime: min
Can you write backwards, inside-out and upside-down with both hands at the same time and in italics, and carry on a conversation? Britain's ' Trionic Man', John Clogg of Addlestone, demonstrates his amazing skills.
Air date: 1977-03-21
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An attempt by 15-year-old Peter Pinsent, British Lightweight Champion, to create a new weightlifting record.
Air date: 1977-03-24
Runtime: min
Peter joins the West Country's Five in a Bar, winners of BBC Radio's National Barbershop Competition.
Air date: 1977-03-31
Runtime: min
Halifax comes to the Blue Peter studio in full voice with their 150-strong choral society.
Air date: 1977-04-04
Runtime: min
The Big Band Sound with the girls and boys of Rawlins School, Quorn joined by guest soloist Roy Castle.
Air date: 1977-04-18
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Lesley makes a splash as she's put through the rigours of an Army Assault Course.
Air date: 1977-04-21
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John demonstrates his culinary skills with another of his Noakes Gastronomic Specials.
Air date: 1977-04-28
Runtime: min
There's another four months before Dr Who returns to television, but why wait? Ask your grocer for a large cardboard box and build your own toy theatre complete with scenery and monsters. Have a pencil and paper handy for details.
Air date: 1977-05-02
Runtime: min
John visits Zeebrugge and reports on one of the most dangerous and daring exploits of the Great War.
Air date: 1977-05-12
Runtime: min
News of the latest Guide Dogs for the Blind Training Centre and the 3Bs Appeal Puppy Kennels.
Air date: 1977-05-16
Runtime: min
Jaff, a border collie from Wales, demonstrates his amazing skill of feeding a lamb from a bottle.
Air date: 1977-05-19
Runtime: min
Guide Dog Buttons takes her owner ELSIE WHITEHEAD to Chelsea, for the world's most famous flower show.
Air date: 1977-05-23
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Nicola Griffin, the youngest artist ever to design the cover of Europe's best-selling magazine. Today John and Nicola go behind the scenes at the printers to watch the first of the three-and-a-half million copies of next week's Radio Times come off the presses.
Air date: 1977-05-30
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JOHN joins steeple-jack Reg Dosell on a perilous 170-foot ascent by stepladder to give Admiral Lord Nelson a wash and , brush-up for the Queen's Silver Jubilee Procession.
Air date: 1977-06-02
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A preview of Britain's newest tourist attraction. JOHN and Shep follow the trail of the 5ΒΌ-mile walk to be dedicated by the Queen on 9 June.
Air date: 1977-06-09
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Two years ago Blue Peter viewers collected 800 tons of old wool and cotton to provide badly needed help for handicapped children and adults. Now Rags, the trainee pony for disabled riders, is nearing the end of her special schooling and today John, Peter and Lesley over the past 16 months to review her progress, under the expert guidance of top trainer Tessa Martin Bird.
Air date: 1977-06-13
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Shep made history when he became the first dog ever to be sculpted for Madame Tussaud 's famous waxworks. Today JOHN and Shep come face to face with John and Shep at the official unveiling.
Air date: 1977-06-16
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JOHN, PETER and LESLEY relive some of their most heart-stopping moments during the past ten years. Hold your breath with them as John falls five miles, Lesley escapes death by inches and Peter crashes at 60 mph straight through a furniture van!
Air date: 1977-06-23
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Highlights of Blue Peter's eventful expedition to Brunei in Northern Borneo, when the Chief of the Punan tribe gave JOHN a blowpipe lesson, LESLEY met a mini parasite with a mighty bite, and PETER tried his hand at raft building during a Jungle Survival course.
Air date: 1977-06-27
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Lesley demolishes ten chimneys and creates an industrial world record with "Blue Peter"'s biggest ever blast-off.
Air date: 1977-06-30
Runtime: min
John goes sailing with Claire Francis as she prepares for her round-the-world race and the "Blue Peter" team prepares for its 1977 Summer Expedition. Discover which foreign country John, Peter and Lesley will be exploring this year.
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