The Blue Peter team of John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd are spooked out by Dr Who, before the first in a series of Fred Basset cartoons. Check out our other videos and follow us on twitter @thetvmuseum for more archive goodies.
Can't imagine an animated series based on a cartoon in the Daily Mail being on kids TV these days . . . ahh, kids TV in the 1970s, so much better, when you could actually understand what everyone was saying. I had a toy theatre like that too!
Yep. Same people. However, it was animated at their U.K. division, Melendez Films. The same team will later go on to animate select Peanuts shorts for The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show.
I was five going on six, and I remember making that theatre, and the Dr Who stuff. (Some of which was cardboard cutouts on sticks that you sent away for and coloured in yourself, if I recall...)
This was imperial era Blue Peter, classic theme( rather than the Mike Oldfield remix), the three best ever presenters and, of course, Shep the dog. Petra must have died round about this time, as there's no sighting of her on the show( I know it was early 1977 when she died). Actually Peter Purves revealed she was a bad tempered dog with not many teeth thankfully who'd snap at people a lot and had terrible breath.
This is the trio I personally remember, but the classic trio surely is Purves, Noakes and Singleton. The end of an era - within a year all 3 were gone, replaced by Groome, Heath and Wenner but only Simon Groome would last more than a year.
@@darganx Loved both trios and I think there is much to debate in terms of which was the "classic". Ostensibly "classic" is often determined by the age of the viewer when watching the show. If you look at it purely in terms of longevity: the Singleton, Noakes, Purves trio lasted five years (1967-72) whilst the Noakes, Purves, Judd era lasted six years (1972-78).
