Blue Peter Time Capsules 1971 - 2000 | BBC Archive presents...

[@sevenwatson5854]

I actually was 8 when this programme went out and couldn't imagine being 37 or in the year 2000...then I blinked and I was! 😅....how can 2000 be 23 years ago.😢 I lived these presenters ❤

[@rabbit64sj91]

I was seven years old in 1971, so turned 36 at the start of 2000. As you say, time really does fly by! I turn sixty in just a few weeks time, yikes! 😀

[@angelacooper2661]

The 1971 time capsule was buried two days before my first birthday, so I was still an infant! In 2000 I naturally hit the big 30 (now in my early fifties).

[@alcazarugerio]

2050 is so far

[@purefoldnz3070]

yeah the future sucks and what did we get? Flat earthers and more wars. What an enlightened age.

[@original.dwornboy]

The quality of the video tape and the presenters was far superior in 1971 than of subsequent years.

[@scaredyfish]

Luckily the BBC Archives did a better job of preserving the original broadcast than the time capsule did its contents.

[@hgm8337]

lead-lined means radiation can't get in Val, water will find away

[@Budbrothers420]

If only they had taken this much care with doctor who

[@adelaideautowashes]

@@Budbrothers420The Goodies as well. The curiosity is killing me as to what the original 1971 broadcast of Kitten Kong was like.

[@Budbrothers420]

@@adelaideautowashes I find it mad how the unaired pilot of doctor who survived but most of the early show didn’t 🤣

[@softshallow7435]

if you watch the opening of it you’ll notice 2000 the things were wrapped altogether in a black plastic bag and taped up. also no annual or radio times or coins, also there was a christmas pudding! This one had the objects just put in the box and no christmas pudding. i wonder the real one was already in the ground and this was just for show then took it out after this show finished that day?

[@effess8698]

Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves, John Noakes. The Blue Peter holy trinity They were an important part of my childhood. May they forever be remembered whenever baby elephants are mentioned.

[@davewalker7126]

I buried my own time capsule on the same day in 1971, but dug mine up within a week or two as I wanted the coins back!

[@adelaideautowashes]

These television broadcasts are time capsules themselves. Look at all those old cars!

[@rabbit64sj91]

I watched Blue Peter in 1971, as a seven year old, and thought the year 2000 sounded so far away. Now I'm almost sixty and can see for myself just how quickly time goes by! Great memories of watching BP in the 1970s. 🥰

[@Oakleaf700]

Same here! 2000 seemed aeons away, and 39 seemed so old!

[@PollokPoochesDogWalking]

They could have saved themselves a lot of hassle and just given it to Sir Patrick Moore to keep in his desk until the year 2000.

[@Liofa73]

It's a shame they didn't use plastic boxes or vacuum bag everything. I'm sure one of the local universities could have helped.

[@stephenwilliams926]

I remember watching this when it was broadcast in 1971. Nice TR5 in the background.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

Goldie playing with the contents is comedy gold.

[@ovr4tee]

Was a few weeks from being born when the first box was buried and vaguely remember the reburial and addition in 1984, but felt a bit emotional when they were being opened, especially hearing the slight quivering in Simon's voice when mentioning Goldie...

[@davidhamm7909]

They didn’t need to bury the box to see what they were like in 1971. They had it all on film. So all was not really lost.👍

[@robinofilfracombe712]

Remember it like it was only yesterday. A little sad that there were as many Grandparents that watched Blue Peter than children who didn't live to see it being opened.

[@AllMy78s]

John Noakes was a real hero as well as a legend..

[@AtheistOrphan]

I agree. His standalone series ‘Go With Noakes’ was excellent.

[@Ian-gw2vx]

So basically after all that we have learned that a lead lined container does not keep out moisture. Poor old Simon not getting paid by Oldfield.

[@271chrissy]

Wow in the blink of an eye .....time passes.Great idea great episode....but happened to the tree.

[@matthewpayne42]

I was 6 weeks old when this programme was on tv 📺

[@AtheistOrphan]

Val, Pete and John, the classic triumvirate.

[@rjjcms1]

Absolutely.

[@RaveDave871]

If only BBC had demanded Jimmy Savile get in those capsules......

[@zigzagtoes]

Lead lined to keep water out. That worked well 🤣

[@dean6816]

keeps out all the radiation though if the cold war turns into a hot war!!

[@ebismusic8813]

They really didn’t think this through did they 😂 It is wet in the soil. And it does rain. And they didn’t water seal the boxes. Mmm who could have foreseen 😅

[@rjjcms1]

Looks like they did a slightly better job of that with the 1971 one than the 1984 one.

[@worldVHS]

So the they buried the box with the contents not in bags in 1971 then magically in 2000 they were in bags

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘The magic of television!’ (I’m guessing the box was refilled prior to John moving it further away from the tree).

[@worldVHS]

@@AtheistOrphan But clearly they said not to be opened unto 2000 LOL

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@worldVHS - You mean the BBC not being entirely honest? No waaaaay!!! 😉

[@ebismusic8813]

Bags were a great success 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bigmikebamber]

When a shelf would have done better. The stuff of legend.

[@kimgrant3879]

the classic cars xx

[@BeatUpRecordsCDs]

Percy was very proud that day!

[@krispysox]

I was born in 1971 :) About 3 months after tthis was broadcast lol.

[@rrbh]

Noakes namedropping Halifax yet again elevates him to beyond legendary status.

[@OlafProt]

Val really was rather scrummy. I loved the time capsule. Really exciting as a kid. Blimey auld Katy Hill was amazing looking too. Glad Noaksie came back for this.

[@edcaley]

Read on Wikipedia that she had a fling with Peter Purves "while he was between marriages" (hmmm....!)

[@OlafProt]

@@edcaley ahh to be young, free and using sticky back plastic

[@BBC600]

Did the BBC ever try and play those tapes that got wet or were they too far gone to get anything off of them?

[@jeffrey44]

We know what was on them, some stuff from 1971 that still exists in other formats, even today. There would be no reason to try to play them. They are more interesting as physical items that spent 29 years underground than what is recorded on them.

[@BBC600]

@@jeffrey44 the audio tapes though of the presenters saying "hello" though is what I think would be the most interesting (the reel to reel). That particular recording wouldn't have been anywhere else.

[@jeffrey44]

​@@BBC600I suppose. Maybe they could put it on BBC Sounds, they always seem to be promoting that. It would bring in the hard to reach 60+ demographic who want to hear a long dead dog barking.

[@nobordersnoflags9905]

@@jeffrey44 I'd like to hear the long dead dog barking. I am under 60+, but I confess not by a whole lot.

[@BBC600]

@@jeffrey44 That would actually be a fun addition to the BBC Sounds section. More people may click on it than you think.

[@stevesmith3990]

I was 8 in 1971, remember this so clearly. Where did the time go?

[@kelvin8326]

14:04 how more colorful the vision becomes in a second!

[@Licenciadopedro]

I never was sent a Blue Peter pin in England no matter how many times I sent letters. When I moved to Venezuela, I sent as letter with the most colourful stamps I found in 1976. I was sent two Blue Peter Badges, one Blue Peter pin and a very friendly letter from Biddy Baxter. Unfortunately all the items have been lost. One of my badges was kindly requested by classic musical director Sir James Tudd when he came to Venezuela to direct the National Symphony Orchestra in 1980, so with great honour I gave the badge to him

[@dogbreath8396]

Man they was in a rush to get that box in the ground 😂

[@purefoldnz3070]

I'm surprised of the picture quality for 1971

[@thealbionarchivist9127]

I thought the point of a time capsule is that you leave in the ground till it's time to open it? They moved that more times than some people move house 😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

Didn’t the tree subsequently die following the replanting? (I vaguely remember hearing something like that). It doesn’t seem to be there for the digging-up of the boxes.

[@JohnSwindells-zm4sq]

For a moment there,I thought they were planting Saville.😮

[@theaylesburycyclist8756]

I remember the 1984 box being buried...

[@philward2538]

The box was secretly opened in 1984 and contents were wrapped in bin liners then buried in the BP garden...Has anyone else wondered why black bags were in the 2000 event......

[@rickiehoxton]

Good point

[@DJSwezzleMusic]

BP are sneaky, lying con artists. A show by criminals.

[@nicolepowell5470]

I did watch the 84 episode i was 12 and thinking i hope i remember to watch it being dug up in 2000.

[@bid84]

That tree was buried wayyyy to deep, the trunk was half under the ground 🤦‍♀️

[@StephenRyan1951]

To think that 1971 capsule is now 53 years old.

[@seanmcmichael2551]

"Unscrew your nuts" Y2K Noakes to Purves, when opening the box.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa69]

The cameras from the 70s look better than those from the 80s

[@prp3231]

Along with the state of the box, the quality of the presenters had also gone downhill by 2000

[@turboslag]

The type of box and preparation were bad enough in 1971 but the 1984 one was a joke! They needed to be evacuated and hermetically sealed in airtight containers to have any chance of surviving.

[@dean6816]

Let's hope we don't get Nucked before the year 2000!!

[@marcse7en]

In 1971, Blue Peter received "letters" about the recently buried Time Capsule ... 1971 Blue Peter also received an email from 2000, to say they f****d up! 🤣

[@robertoneill1979]

Petra ❤

[@lindathomas5500]

Born in the sixties, and I remember watching the first one buried, not the second as by then I cared more about partying 😂🤣

[@Richiecandylover]

No one ever thought to add rubber sealant?

[@user-jambo-white]

WHAT'S IN THE BOX??? Detective David Mills (1995)

[@MrDavey2010]

Why didn’t they use a durable waterproof box as a time capsule? So stupid!

[@jeshkam]

You can tell they're so disappointed.

[@AtheistOrphan]

9:44 - A rare sighting of a pre-blonde Janet Ellis.

[@RaveDave871]

Epyptian capsules intact after 3000 years and ours 💩 after 16 😂😂😂😂

[@sonofednawelthorpe8609]

Why put it underground - it always ends in disaster. Just put it slightly raised incased in brick or concrete.

[@gabriel771100]

If only they did one that could travel back in time I'd volunteer to be buried in a flash!

[@swaneknoctic9555]

They act as if the year 2000 is the year 5070. Did they really think things would change that much lol. 2023 and things aren't that much different.

[@johnq4951]

Have you ever watched space 1999 or 2001: a space Odyssey? They were crazy optimistic

[@rabbit64sj91]

To young children the year 2000 did seem way off into the future, it certainly did to this seven year old boy! 😂🤣

[@thewotsit]

Makes yer think dunnit

[@scottyk200]

It said 17 PACES, not “do an impression of Nazis on parade”

[@DJSwezzleMusic]

This is stupid. Why not dig up the box every bloody year and add crap to it all the way up to 1999?

[@scottyk200]

Shall we make it watertight? Nah.

[@teddy1066]

Who dresses like that to dig and plant trees?!?

[@helenhughes9420]

1984 presenters "Dont want to damage anything" 🤪 bloody hated blue peter !

[@TurboNutterBastard.]

Seems kinda pointless if you’re filming what you’re putting in it…it’s on the internet forever now, nobody ever needs to dig it up.

[@melgrant7404]

Except for when they dug it up in 2000.before the Internet really took off.they didn't forsee the Internet being a thing back then obviously.