Blue Peter: Opening the time capsules Part 3

[@pdlawson-venusloon359]

And now it’s 21 years ago since they dug it up and I remember it being first buried…life really does zoom by..

[@wardjunior1450]

I mean, I’m 20 years old born in 2003 so I wasn’t even around for any of this.

[@LincolnTank-StillOnTheSprue]

Two boxes of water damaged guff. I can't believe no-one thought about making sure it was in a waterproof container. Major fail

[@TOTRAVEL-f3c]

John Val and Pete - The Golden Era.

[@train672]

If they had stored this in the Blue Peter office everything would have been in perfect condition ;-)

[@borderlands6606]

The classic line up. Val the headmistress, Pete the groovy guy from central casting, John the slightly deranged scout leader. I doubt they were anything like that off camera (Noakes was reputed to be short-tempered with young fans) but they fit the stereotypes of the era. Janet Ellis was the biggest heartthrob of them all.

[@myalfie]

The 1970s with Peter purves ,John noakes ,val singleton and Lesley judd were the golden years of the show.bye for now

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

The 44 gallon drum they buried in 1998 will probably be another water-filled rust bucket!! Way to go, to ruin stuff!! Keep it indoors, and it will stay preserved!

[@stevelondon2791]

Such great memories - I'm now 53, but remember those shows so well.

[@hoopenhanger]

Magnificent walk down memory lane. I remember it well. My dad was interned in Long Kesh, and we received these gigantic Christmas hampers from America.

[@Tenortalker]

We really loved Val , John and Pete . This show alternating with Magpie ( sorry to mention in the same breath ) made childhood very special. I remember my Gran returning excitedly from a holiday in Italy to tell us that she had seen Val filming by the Trevi Fountains. She was kindness itself- 'How lovely the sound of English voices' she said and chatted with my Gran and her friends between takes. These days she would have ended up in a selfie!

[@liverpix]

Val and Pete are still with us, thankfully.

[@Rosehawka]

So sad that it was all wet, thanx for putting it up

[@DavijoBoy]

Wonder if they'll have trouble getting the time capsule in 2050 now that the Millennium Dome is the O2 Arena...

[@JamesAHirons_]

Didn't do much research on time capsules did they. Imagine how much more remarkable the contents would have been if done properly

[@Stiffd1]

Yeah waste really. Water logged waste then..not a great Blue Peter effort all round!

[@SigmundJaehn]

I remember being very disappointed at how rubbish it all was.

[@simonsansome4100]

Great to see Val, Peter and John. They had a certain class about them when they presented Blue Peter - also I remember Leslie Judd and Jason the cat!!!!

[@angelacooper2661]

I remember Janet Ellis and Simon Groom burying the 1984 time capsule as by then I was fourteen. The new millennium saw me hit the big 30. Memories from early adolescence. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for the previous capsule as I was still in the pram and two days before my first birthday!

[@tyronewhitehead3123]

Fabulous Television mat. And Janet and Simon great presenters Valerie peter and John fabulous Gold Badges for a golden era of brilliant TV thank you👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Hannah591]

I'm surprised they thought that box would be protected from water when they did it. 😂

[@bangtwister]

I would have stuck a Top Shelf Gash magazine from 1971 in it. Imagine the change from the full bush back in the day to today's hairless examples. Unthinkable in 1971, that would have been crazy talk!

[@Stiffd1]

Major black and white pulp! No Razzle then Lol

[@danw1374]

😂😂😂

[@Celtic-Silver-countryman]

R.I.P John you were a TV Hero.

[@DZ0]

John... Craven? He's uh, still alive my man...

[@rainbows9060]

@@DZ0 Noaks?

[@PutTheTellyOn]

Sadly I doubt in 2050 Blue Peter will even still be going. I doubt even this comment will still be here! Funny how time moves on though. Who'd have thought wooden boxes were a good idea to bury at the time. :)

[@rainbows9060]

@TheRenaissanceman65 indeed,I'm hoping NOT to be around for the 2050 one, tho I believe it has been smashed to bits by builders, nothing sacred in these trying times...

[@canids]

I was 13 in 1971. I remember the items and the show. I also remember petra.

[@angelacooper2661]

I was just a year old in 1971 and in the pram at the time. Remember the 1984 one, by which time I was fourteen!

[@tomfoskett3471]

I was a school kid when they buried the millennium one. I was lucky to have my idea chosen to be put into the capsule..

[@angelacooper2661]

I was at the end of my twenties (turned 30 in 2000!)

[@emptypages1970]

I was 87 when they buried that capsule. Doesn't time fly by ?

[@Realm-of-Horror]

A thought occurs to me, is the blue peter time capsule under the millenium dome still there seeing as it was completely gutted when they turned it into the O2 arena?

[@RooBiebalooo]

It's a shame that bluepeter isn't very good now, I was obsessed with it.

[@97channel]

A round of drinks for Mr Noakes and co keeping up the pretence that it wasn't a 29 year wait for a soggy, muddy disaster.

[@2001JamesTV]

Been wanting to see this for years. Never actually saw it at the time, even though I wanted to. Looking forward to Part 4 once you get it up!

[@Htiler]

Over 100 years of Blue Peter....and still going.

[@davidfrobel7582]

remember them buring that box,,never thought I would see them open it,,,nice.

[@ninjatlsss]

Why the hell didnt they seal it in lead welded box or something better! Everything ruined

[@johnmcglinchey]

You had one job ....one job

[@Wasted_on_4loko]

+John McGlinchey Hahahaha !!

[@darganx]

😁😁😁😁

[@MasterMoyle]

As of 2018 the programme is still running and yesterday (Tue 16th Oct 2018) the programme celebrated it's 60th birthday. Certainly enjoyed watching the programme when I was a young lad and watching the odd clip on KZbin is OK but I think im a little bit old for it now. Also as of 2018 the programme's namesake steam engine no 60532 Blue Peter (as can be seen at 8:15) is also undergoing a full overhaul for a return to steam, hopefully the TV programme will film an episode for the engines return to steam aswell as maybe even it's inaugural mainline railtour. Last we saw her on the mainline was in 2001 and she's been out of service since 2002.

[@what-uc]

This is why we have museums. Burying stuff in a porous box in a wet country is a notoriusly unreliable method of preservation. :)

[@darganx]

You would have thought there would be somebody at the BBC who had the logic in 1971 to know that burying a time capsule outside for any length of time, it would need to be protected against nature. They had the technology, or was this another example of the famous BBC scrimping?

[@farmbrough]

I expect they didn't really care. The idea was to make the programme for then and there and not worry about digging it up.

[@BNStudios1]

And now the 1998 capsule has been dug up and smashed by builders... What a waste!

[@CherryVizz]

I was in my mum's tum when this first aired! Life seemed so simple then in comparison to now

[@angelacooper2661]

I was a toddler just about to celebrate my first birthday in 1971, then fourteen in 1984, hit the big 30 at the new millennium and now 52!

[@hermankatnip]

Led lined but not waterproof, what a complete joke.

[@danw1374]

Rubber might have been a better option, but then that might have deteriorated and thus rendered ineffective as well with the passage of time. Who knows?

[@nightw4tchman]

3:13 I went to the dome in 2000 and wanted to see the location of the time capsule. No one knew where is was or had heard of it; as I was young I thought I'd made it up. :( I knew I didn't imagine it!!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I believe that ones been moved due to being accidentially being dug up by the works. Now in the national archive.

[@nightw4tchman]

@@TheStevenWhiting You would appear to be correct, thanks.

[@icthar]

How strange. We never go this show in Australia, but all Dr Who fans are aware of it. It feels a bit like looking through someone else's old photo's.

[@terence2678]

The future will come and we will all be history. Ashes to ashes.

[@stevegordon5689]

which 🔔end didn't water proof it!

[@Jeffybonbon]

My grandchildren have never mentioned Blue Peter

[@mariomorgan1862]

Amazing

[@04nbod]

It wouldn't have gotten so bloody wet had they not moved it. I wonder where that stuff is archived now?

[@Rosehawka]

@icthar The only reason i know about it is cos my dad had all these old 'Blue Peter Annuals.' Beautiful books documenting the best years of Blue Peter. I must say i was quite disappointed when i finally went to England and watched an episode of the newer series, it seemed so cheap compared to the golden days documented in my dads books

[@enzomangono7239]

2000 time capsule buried 2 years before i was born then i first saw this video in 2013 now im waiting for 2029 to be for it to be opened

[@Jake-d8d]

Richard Herring sent me here.

[@Ozzyman200]

RHLSTP

[@Rosehawka]

but new people are...? a whole new generation of Blue Peter fans are seeing the time capsules opened. If you must, you can view the original people as part of the time capsule itself, relics of another age.

[@jorich7123]

Really, you can't expect anything better from the Blue Peter team, everything they did or tried seemed to muck up in some way or another... Remember Yvette Fielding's pancake flop lol... ah well.

[@julieharper9638]

Did John say fuuuuk off ?? When she presented, badges to him 😮😂

[@gold27b]

I think he said “A gold”.

[@DrPangloss]

John Noakes; my hero

[@Oakleaf700]

Goodness what a disappointment! I was a little kid when the FIRST Blue Peter time capsule was buried, and i remember thinking that I would be ''old'' when it was opened! But why on earth didn't they take real care, making the box properly watertight....surely not impossible, as others have said, Tupperware! a great disappointment.

[@sw33tsapphir3]

Aww thats so sweet ;) did the guy in the yellow coat really say fuck off when she handed him a badge?! Lol

[@danfenton3181]

Richard Herring sent me here. "Bone Dry"?!

[@104ist]

Dan Fenton I remember this clip being mentioned in a RHLSTP but don’t remember which episode, any chance you can point me to it?

[@Mirozenx]

12 years ago? fuck i'm getting old

[@andrewscott1253]

I really hoped someone unspoiled those tapes and films and cleaned them up. They would have done better storing the stuff in the BBC archives.

[@farmbrough]

It's arguable.

[@DominicButler3D]

...it won't be if they keep faking phone-ins...LOL! What a lovely video...it is really sad that they had to dig them up and that is it now! Amazing to think they have just been lying there under the soil so organically!

[@KinseySwartz]

Part 4 is already up.

[@whistlingbanshee5038]

Aww!! I was three when this was first aired! Mind you, konnie, matt and Simon (and Liz!) will always be my presenters!

[@Tiger89Lilly]

@TheRenaissanceman65 mine are Stuart, Tim, Katie at first. I do remember these boxes been opened and been a bit disappointed that everything had been waterlogged. I also remember Katie and Simon burying the one at the "millennium dome" (what a farce that was)

[@TesterAnimal1]

Val, John and Pete are the line up I remember too!

[@04nbod]

Yes but the dome was always a one year thing. An absolute disaster though, nobody went.

[@white-dragon4424]

7:19 I'm afraid you wont John.

[@cuztomhiaceNZ]

yeah thatle be like 47 year come back in 47 years on youtube if it exists

[@sussexmews]

Pity there wasnt any Grummer in that capsule

[@hayarotle]

No, dogs obviously are able to live 30 years

[@taxidude]

See ya all in 2050 but I suspect not in this dimension. :)

[@rainbows9060]

Ahhh like walking on freshly laid snow..... Soggy anti climax with the contents, shame!

[@cuztomhiaceNZ]

what i mean is the one they will open in 2050

[@mukatuna]

Same for me. I remember watching them buying the 1971 capsule, and hearing about the relocation and the 1984 capsule. But like you I missed the digging up. I'd had completely forgotten about it until now.

[@Pizzpott]

Well at least they let the real Blue Peter presenters of the real Blue Peter programme open the box that they buried. I was expecting the new new useless politically correct versions to be allowed to take over. It is unfortunate that they were there at all as there were three professionals there in Purves, Noakes and Singleton.

[@lizclegg7556]

The last time I watched Blue Peter was about 30 years ago. Katie seems like a good presenter.

[@zazz63]

lead lined!! could have been tupperware and done a better job!

[@Verdoux007]

They should have insulated the boxes a little better.

[@cuztomhiaceNZ]

i think he said hang on in the british way it sound like it

[@Mirozenx]

did he died?

[@Wasted_on_4loko]

That 1984 unboxing was lame as fuck. They should have got some drug dealers to wrap that shit, now THEY know how to wrap a package ! And Noakesey's hair is only slightly less shit than it was in the 70's.

[@moofishcosten4598]

blue peter was soooooo good. now, not so much

[@cuztomhiaceNZ]

no wait am i 54 years old or am i nine how long was i on youtube

[@hoopenhanger]

It just goes to show how small minded the British really are. As the great IRA leader, Michael Collins, said: 'How the hell did these people ever build an empire"

[@wilkinson8707]

What a disaster. I can only comment on blue peter of the 2000’s and all i can say was that it absolutely stank. Awful presenters such as Matt Baker et al.

[@Dianaemanuel]

For me, the entire thing is too 'larky' - as if it's all a big joke. So disappointing.

[@rainbows9060]

Big Anti-climax

[@oilthatgate]

@ capsule35, well I laughed

[@GMT439]

Time = Fictional Concept.