1983: Make your own BLAKE'S SEVEN Teleporter! | Blue Peter | Science Fiction | BBC Archive

[@gwheregwhizz]

Next week, make your own Dalek. You need tennis balls, Morris Minor indicator lights and a sink plunger.

[@dogwalker666]

I have full blueprints from the original.

[@Larry]

and a whisk!

[@johnd8538]

Love it 😂

[@ilyasVa]

I used to watch Blake’s 7. Anyone else?✌🏼❤️

[@naomipurdy7045]

Me too

[@michaelturner4457]

I still watch it, as I have the complete DVD set.

[@piccalillipit9211]

My comment; I just re-watched Blake's 7 Honestly it is really good - not the sets obviously LOL. But the storylines are GREAT It is DEFINITELY worth re-watching.

[@jonkirk2118]

Yep, saw them all again quite recently. The enhanced audio dramas with the original cast are really good too. There are loads of them and they're on many streaming services. There's a list here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7_(audio_drama)

[@smash461986]

"Used to". I'll force my gf to watch it soon.

[@_bushy]

i'm 53 years old ...... and i've just watched that video in its entirety!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Congratulations!🥳 well done you.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1983: Make your own BLAKE'S SEVEN Teleporter! | Blue Peter | Science Fiction | BBC Archive 1021am 25.11.24 alright, john... er.. jared.. erm... anyhow... i think blake 7 had an audience of 1 during it's heyday. i had to watch corrie, though... so relied on the vhs tapes from wayyyyy back to garner what all th fuss was about. i am surprised the lads from anderson clan podcast who chat about all things gerry anderson haven't instigated a skit such as this in their presentations... re: blake's 7... old RSC hams camping it up for the beeb.. they could bag themselves decent actors in them days...

[@BOZ_11]

you were a little tyke back then.

[@_bushy]

@BOZ_11 back when there were only 3 channels on TV.....and grange hill..... 80's teen :)

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@BOZ_11 Comments on ‘1983: Make your own BLAKE'S SEVEN Teleporter! | Blue Peter | Science Fiction | BBC Archive’ 25.11.24 2104pm who me? i was neve any bother - at all!! really boring but it was football football and more football.. and that was it. the old cliche of it keeping you out of trouble and off the streets was very true in my case... we had a school pitch to play on... i dont even think these mr liberals let them play on it nowadays..

[@RolandoRatas]

It's finally time for Blue Peter to teach me how to make an Orac Cube power PC gaming rig with all the lights and an A.I. voice which gives you witty repartee.

[@dogwalker666]

I built one back in the day, Full size with lights and sounds, No speech unfortunately.

[@RolandoRatas]

@@dogwalker666 that was trickier to do in those days with no internet ordering or 3d printing.

[@dogwalker666]

@ Indeed, The sound effect was actually a stylophone .

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

That bracelet is amazing, and so creative, yet reasonably easy for a kid to follow, I loved Blue Peter crafting because it was ingenious and fun, and so much thought had gone into dreaming these up. Better than a Swatch watch in terms of bling and I wish I had one so I could teleport myself back to the 80s and be a kid again😅

[@piccalillipit9211]

*I just re-watched Blake's 7* Honestly it is really good - not the sets obviously LOL. But the storylines are GREAT It is DEFINITELY worth re-watching.

[@Slothsnail]

Blake 7 is a fun watch, highly recommend ❤

[@michaelturner4457]

Scorpio teleport bracelet. I'm sure this was the second teleport bracelet Blue Peter featured. Because earlier they showed you how to make a Liberator bracelet in about 1979.

[@micrashed]

I remember that - it used a fairly liquid bottle chopped up and a red eraser

[@chinnyvision]

Yep. And when Matt Irvine ran out of money to make more (because people kept nicking them) he made up some Blue Peter ones to be used in the background so that the teleport bracelet holder still looked full!

[@charlygriffin2828]

You are 100% correct because I remember making the Liberator bracelet

[@charlygriffin2828]

@@micrashed and the Mk1 was brown not silver

[@charlygriffin2828]

I found the Liberator bracelet video on KZbin Leslie Judd was the presenter for that 'Blue Peter 'How to make a Liberator Teleport Bracelet. (1978)'

[@Tali412]

كم كانت الحياة بسيطة ورائعة تحية طيبة لكم من العراق

[@jonahspiper]

Janet Ellis fully engaged me after school.

[@garrylawless3550]

I remember making that bracelet, I was a huge fan of Blake's 7, and Blue Peter, and Janet Ellis! 👍🏻😊

[@kumachan9311]

CONFIRMED

[@TinLeadHammer]

Self-sticking material? I guess velcro had not become a genericized trademark yet forty years ago.

[@michaelturner4457]

BBC at the time had to be careful about not using registered trademarks, as it could be seen as advertising.

[@piccalillipit9211]

Velco is a trade name and it would have been advertising - so they were not allowed to use it as a public service broadcaster.

[@jeffmcc75]

Where do I send off for the fact sheet?

[@AtheistOrphan]

Blue Peter BBC Television Centre Wood Lane London W12 8QT (I remember the address from my childhood!)

[@fredo1070]

Oh wished you showed the one from the 70s with the original teleporter made from an orange squash bottle and an pencil eraser.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1983: Make your own BLAKE'S SEVEN Teleporter! | Blue Peter | Science Fiction | BBC Archive 1024am 25.11.24 i'm demanding a few archive skits featuring mark currie who had a real knack for f***** up his make do and mends... same with that bird who now fronts the ghost effort.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@charlygriffin2828 ????? Is she still alive?

[@oddnuts5764]

Do they have any earrings and necklace to match? Just thinking of a Xmas present for the wife.

[@lofi-guy]

Holy stuff! I remember attempting to make this at the time. It was a tangled mess of Sellotape and I was hugely disappointed with the result!

[@charlygriffin2828]

I made one and it worked as did my 'jaunt' belt

[@lofi-guy]

@@charlygriffin2828 🤣

[@76ToneCrome]

Was the blonde in the picture Makepeace from Dempsey & Makepeace fame?

[@shingitai5882]

The actress was called Glynis Barber.

[@richardjones8699]

​@@shingitai5882And she still is.

[@SueTube7]

Yes

[@jann5362]

Her face was always a calming presence to me as a child. Strange comment, i see that, but it's how i felt lul

[@ModMokkaMatti]

When you power it up, does it play Pulp's "We Can Dance Again", with the legend that is Jarvis instantly materializing?

[@cloverfield911]

The Liborator bracelets were nicer.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Wait a minute, shouldn't those "studs" line-up with the paper tubes on the inside? And have 8 of them?

[@smash461986]

I didn't know 250 grams was a size!

[@JohnSmith-it6hj]

Blakes seven was finished by 1983

[@michaelturner4457]

Blakes 7 actually finished at the end of 1981. But the repeats were still popular in 83.

[@jonkirk2118]

And the audio dramas with original cast went on throughout the 2010s. They're rather good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7_(audio_drama)

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Why didn't they just ask the prop makers at the BBC ow they did it? I suspect they didn't use anything that wasn't available in the shops.

[@flowerpot5207]

Maybe they did ask and this is exactly how the 'real' ones were made.

[@deliusmyth5063]

Velcro shall not be named.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1983: Make your own BLAKE'S SEVEN Teleporter! | Blue Peter | Science Fiction | BBC Archive 1017am 25.11.24 beam me up snotty? akin to going to mothers. you get there and you might as well be invisible and somewhere else... but, yeah... we all dream of teleporting, for sure...

[@jonathansmythe6273]

Still searching for a grown up.

[@logical_evidence]

No they just showed how the real prop was made.

[@ahmedahmed9644]

Unless iam. Going. Mad she. Was on. The sweeny Janet Ellis

[@Kool-AidAbstainer]

"What even is 'English culture'? hurr hurr"

[@lewis7515]

I wonder if anyone actually made and wore that crap?...

[@brianmorecombe2726]

What an effing load of nonsense. Making paper braceletts that actors wear on tv shows.Remember being bored watching this daft tv show.Janet Ellis was fit though so it was quite hard to totally ignore it.

[@michaelturner4457]

Is it any worse than some peeps spending hundreds on prop replicas, like Bluetooth Doctor Who sonic screwdrivers, and Bluetooth Star Trek communicators and tricorders?

[@charlygriffin2828]

bet you were fun as a child

[@beausexon7546]

I must say I was somewhat offended at the bbc showing the woman making things. Must it always be a women doing crafts? Women are useful for other things and can have careers too. Also, I object to the silly music at the end of these clips. It’s as if the bbc is trying to “joke off” these sexist clips with music, as if to imply they were just being silly and weren’t sexist really. This is my feedback.

[@Ravendarkwytch]

Aww you poor little thing, I am guessing that you never saw an entire series of Blue Peter because they regularly had both genders making things in the studio. I remember Mark Curry was also often in the kitchen during the 80s

[@ctid107]

Having actually been around then, I can tell you all the tasks were shared - though only Noakes did the crazy stuff. Think of this video as looking through a pinhole into a large room, you don't get the whole view.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I seem to remember he was quite accident-prone.

[@Ravendarkwytch]

@@ctid107 didn’t Peter Simon also do some stunts during the 80s?

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

​@@RavendarkwytchPeter Duncan did, he was climbing on Big Ben's clock face, you had to watch it through your hands and fingers, in case he fell. That man was brave!