Blue Peter
1981-1982
TV-PG
British children's-magazine program which has run since the end of the 1950s, aimed at 6-to-14-year-olds. The show has different segments where the presenters would show the viewers how to make things, how to care for their pets, and other features.
Where to Watch Blue Peter • 1981-1982
79 Episodes
- Episode 1E1
Episode 1Expedition Japan: Who was the 'tall, fair-haired and very red-faced European' pulling the float at Kyoto's famous Gion Festival? None other than Simon, sweltering in 90°F, and that's how he was described by five "Blue Peter" viewers who just happened to be in the crowds lining the streets! But that was nothing compared with wading shoulder high into a sea of 50,000 eels, playing the part of a Samurai warrior at the Kyoto Movie Studios and coming face-to-face with the massive 30-stone Sumo wrestlers who make Big Daddy look a mere midget. And talking of giants, see how Prince has grown during the summer break and catch up with the latest news about all the other four-legged members of the team - Goldie, Jack and Jill and Maggie and Jim. - Episode 2E2
Episode 2Prince's Progress Goldie's puppy, Prince, spent his first night under canvas when he went to camp with the First Glen Hill Guide Company last month. All excellent experience for a trainee guide dog puppy who has to learn to ' be prepared' if he's to pass his tests and qualify as a pair of eyes for the blind. There'll be progress reports on his brothers, Buster, Sandy and Henry too, who are also being puppy walked. If you have the time and the patience to train a puppy for the Association, and you live within 40 miles of Bolton, Exeter, Forfar, Leamington Spa or Wokingham, write to Derek Freeman , the Guide Dogs for the Blind Puppy Walking Manager, at the following address: Tollgate House, Ban-bury Road, Bishops Tachbrook , Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. - Episode 3E3
Episode 3Expedition Japan Slippery Customers Thirty thousand wriggling eels were Simon's ' catch' when he waded up to his waist at the Hamana Lagoon Eel Farm. But the problems didn't end there - Master Chef Kyoshi Motohashi had his hands full when he showed Peter how to cook this gastronomic delicacy! - Episode 4E4
Episode 4Expedition Japan Sarah discovers you have to take lessons before you can wear a Japanese kimono. Peter learns to fly in a jet cockpit where a flick of a computer switch changes night to day and fair weather to foul. Another computer gets Simon in the swing as he perfects his drive at a top Tokyo Golf Clinic. - Episode 9E9
Episode 9Expedition Japan Hot Stuff! Peter takes a bath in a pool of volcanic mud, Simon is buried up to his neck in scorching sand (a recognised cure for hysterics!) and Sarah boils an egg in a hellpool where the water bubbles at 176°F! The setting is Beppu in southern Japan where the town lives in the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous active volcanoes: Mount Aso. - Episode 29E29
Episode 29"Grange Hill" Special Your chance to see behind the scenes as Blue Peter films rehearsals for the "Grange Hill" Christmas Special. Competition winner Paul Manning, who wrote the story line, was allowed to join the actors as part of his prize - watch out for him at the Christmas disco when the Brookies get their come-uppance! - Episode 30E30
Episode 30The latest news of the Operation Pipeline Appeal. Your stamps and coins are still desperately needed to give villages in Java supplies of pure water, and the Depot at [address removed], is open over Christmas except for tomorrow and Boxing Day. Join in with carols round the tree with children of Allfarthing's School, Warlingham County Secondary School and the Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army, and can you penetrate the disguises worn by Simon, Sarah and Peter in the Blue Peter Panto? - Episode 31E31
Episode 31Remember Simon as an Elvis look-alike, Sarah wearing corsets and Peter slogging it out in the first ever London Marathon? They are just a few of Blue Peter's 1981 highlights and others include Kevin Keegan in action in the studio, a meeting with Morph, the birth of Goldie's puppies and leaping through fire with the legendary White Helmets. If you missed any of these mile-stones today's your chance to catch up and to look forward to 1982. - Episode 63E63
Episode 63Maggie and Jim Britain's fastest tortoises make their spring debut. Because of regional variations in climate, it's impossible to make any hard and fast rule about when to bring your tortoise out of hibernation, but beware of late frosts and bring tortoises indoors at night until the warmer weather's here to stay. - Episode 65E65
Episode 65Marathon Man!: Relive those gruelling 3 hours, 11 minutes and 42 seconds as Peter competes in the first-ever London Marathon and comes 1,868th out of 6,418 runners to finish the course. This year Peter's determined to beat his time and come in the first 500. Watch out for his "Blue Peter" strip amongst the 17,000 runners in Sunday's 'live' Marathon coverage on BBC1, and check his feet for blisters on next Monday's "Blue Peter"! - Episode 66E66
Episode 66Operation Pipeline Auction: "Blue Peter" viewers created a record with the auction for the Operation Pipeline Appeal held at Phillips last week. The collectors items, from the stamps and coins donated to provide pure piped water systems and health care services for the people of Java, formed the biggest "Blue Peter" sale ever held! See the lots go under the hammer wielded by top auctioneer Christopher Hawkings - aided by porters-for-the-day Simon, Sarah and Peter. And discover how much the biggest lot raises - the unique Merlin sports car complete with the "Blue Peter" ship on its doors! - Episode 67E67
Episode 67Glasshouse Giant Today HM The Queen opens the pride of Kew Gardens, the renovated Temperate House. Over 3,000 species thrive there, including Kew's second-oldest inhabitant, the giant Chilean wine palm, otherwise known as Jubaea chilensis. Percy Thrower takes Sarah behind the scenes for a hothouse preview. - Episode 68E68
Episode 68Each year more than 30,000 new recruits join hospitals all over Britain at the start of their nursing careers. Sarah spends the day at one of the most famous of the great teaching hospitals - St Thomas's, London. On Seymour Ward for children, a trainee nurse is expected to cope with anything from babies who don't want to be bathed, to cheering-up new and nervous patients. - Episode 69E69
Episode 69Lloyds of London In 1688 Edward Lloyd opened a house near the River Thames for the new popular drink, coffee. Simon reports from the world's centre for Shipping Insurance, where the tragic Loss Book records disasters like the sinking of the Titanic, and rings the famous Lutine Bell from the French frigate captured by the British in 1793. For over a century the bell has been rung at Lloyds to warn of stop-press events - once for bad news, twice for good. - Episode 79E79
Episode 79Metro Magic How long does it take to change the engine of a car? The men of RAF Strike Command and Support Command claim they can do it in 60 seconds flat! Two teams race to break this astonishing record in the Blue Peter studio, in preparation for this year's Royal Tournament.