The golden age of children’s tv. I was 10 in June 1977. Blue Peter was a must watch back then. Always remember Magic Roundabout followed BP or Paddington Bear before the 5.45pm news with Kenneth Kendal. Oh the nostalgia…I would have been watching this exactly 45 years ago today…18.4.2022!
Even Blue Peter treated kids the same. They operated under the assumption that the most intelligent kids were the "average" ones. Nowadays they operate under the assumption that the dumbest kids are the average ones
It was always said that John Craven did not talk down to children, either on Newsround or the other programmes he was involved in, including as a regional TV reporter.
As said, Newsround is still going on the CBBC channel. And it's worth bearing in mind that there was a LOT of opposition to Newsround's introduction in 1972. Many people felt that children shouldn't be exposed to news during children's programming time.
Yes indeed. But remember, we kids were also allowed out of their houses back then, too, because fear of paedophiles had not been invented by the press. I mean...'play dates' for fuck's sake. Fucking play dates. WE used to just go out and bump into other kids or we'd go knock on a mate's door.
Ah ! Good old Blue Peter, it kept me amused and inspired for years.....although I never did get a "Blue Peter Badge". Think what doors would have opened to me if I had had one of those much coveted things.
All you had to do to get one was write a letter to Blue Peter and they would send one - come to think of it, I might write them a letter and get a badge... If you were a bit more inventive, like my older brother, who sent in 'designs' for spaceships etc, you might get a silver, which he did.
Noakes did some mad stuff in his day. loved seeing all of it. the girls got in on the act to like in this program with Lesly and the troops. what we didn't get was PC and WOKEed to death and the programming was fun and interesting.
I loved watching this and blue peter mr noakes deserves a plaque for climbing nelsons collum he’s fearless respect to John craven John noakes peter and Valerie
17:09 Little soldier doll feller... My friends and I made these Action Man houses and would link them together so we had an Action Man base. We'd play with them outside. Of course the local bullies would come along and destroy them. But when I was a kid life was a bit like being in a Beano comic strip.
There seems to be polarisation between those of us who grew up loving Blue Peter and those who hated it. It would be interesting to compare the career paths of the two groups. Signed, A. Nerdy Kidd.
A very different time when children were treated as intelligent in their own right and not force-fed 'trends' to prepare them as consumers, as seems to be the case today.
Mum, can we get three lots of dog-biscuits, some tea, nine boxes of matches, some rice crispies and some paint? No, we can't, do you think I'm made of money? We haven't even got a dog!
John noakes an absolute ledgend golden days of 📺 of which we won’t see again the qualities the presenters had years ago compared to the woke trash box ticking turns my stomach!
The BBC began to add the year of production to its programmes in late 1972. Certainly shows recorded that year but transmitted in early 1973 included "BBC Colour (c) 1972". They began to use Roman numerals in January 1977 or MCMLXXVII. Some say this was so the viewer would take longer to notice when the show was a repeat!
In this crazy age, children would create that 3D house in software on an iPad, thinking nothing of saying they had “made” it. Trouble is, you can’t gleefully dig out a dusty 3D computer model from your attic and reminisce.
The fact that you have Martin Bell, diplomatic correspondent, telling children what is going on in Africa and not talking down to them, is staggering by today's standards. Most kids wouldn't know anything, let alone care. It's tragic to see the end of Britain and the end of intellect. But it's our own fault.
We wanted it to be run by the African majority by that stage, although we were never keen on Mugabe. We were no longer the imperialists after 1956-57- we just wanted out. In 1968 Smith declared independence as a little apartheid state, preventing the then UK PM, Harold Wilson, from handing the country over to an African government where Mugabe could still be restrained, or better still, completely excluded.
spazticks huh omg flashback to childhood the boy in a leg brace outside shops the spasticks society Funny but so wrong, still funny remember the little blue 3 wheeler 1 seater handle bar car and was nearly always a person with a big foot in a big boot - childhood memories wasnt it called erm cant remember erm a something chariot lol You cant beat UK 60s 70s humour and kids TV, Mary Whithouse just turned over
As a kid back in the 70's....even then I thought people taking the piss out of spastics were sad losers. And you STILL find it funny now? You're one sad person.
