Newsround and Blue Peter 18 4 1977

[@macchiatomachiato]

im glad i was a kid in the 70s ….. they were much better times

[@paulfrost8895]

Your telling me.

[@michaelrodgers7109]

Yeah and the 80s I was a 60s 70s and a 80s never beat that x

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Yes things were normal then!

[@David-uq6yb]

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!

[@paulfrost8895]

Same age as me.

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

and me!@@paulfrost8895

[@michaelrodgers7109]

Better days x

[@manjulajayakody4741]

Great memories of my childhood...feel a bit sad thinking back to those golden days.

[@hopebgood]

I just remember the silly, fun, odd, weird times Manjula. The good and not so good. But mainly GOOD! ;)

[@manjulajayakody4741]

@@hopebgood life seemed simpler...perhaps not better just simpler. :-)

[@TheWalrus999]

How far we have fallen.

[@matoko123]

Great comment. A very sad comment.

[@DRAINPIPE57]

The news was so different then They treated chilldren like young Adults in the 70s Blue peter Happy 60th

[@johntomlinson6849]

Yep, Dick, Dom, the bungalow and the gunge tank have a lot to answer for....

[@newuk26]

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

[@ajs41]

@@newuk26 Totally agree.

[@ajs41]

Not only that, the adult news today is more silly than Newsround was back then.

[@PhilofBristol]

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.

[@mbvideoselection]

The news for kids in the 70s was far better than the news for adults now.

[@paulfrost8895]

This was Silver Jubilee year ' 1977 ' have nice memories of that time.

[@seansands424]

@@paulfrost8895 Year I lift school

[@paulfrost8895]

@@seansands424 I changed schools that year.

[@flybobbie1449]

Started A level studies that year.

[@martynthomas7486]

John Craven: 'Hello again. In Rhodesia.....' seemed to be the opening lines to every Newsround in the 1970s!

[@cc-ic7rj]

I've sent this to my son's this was what it was like growing up in the 70s ....great days !!

[@BNCA70]

Back in the days when you wrote to TV programmes! Nostalgia overload. The innocent 70s are a world away.

[@bustedfender]

Remember when society was civilised enough to treat kids with some respect by giving them their own news show in the middle of kids TV?

[@danwoodhouse9290]

they still do - on the CBBC channel

[@videonut1988]

NewsRound is still on the CBBC Channel (if you have Freeview or satellite)

[@dunebasher1971]

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.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

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.

[@NRTSean]

Brought back many memories... Thank you.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Thanks for uploading this marvelous trip down memory lane.

[@robalexander8065]

"...put hairs on the top of Kojak's head" John Noakes at his finest!

[@robferguson8696]

Can you imagine kids today watching this? Demonstrates how much tv has dumbed down

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Great memories and lots of sticky back plastic 😀

[@DB-sh4gh]

god i feel so old... great memories... thanks.

[@geoffjoffy]

Fantastic blast from the past. Cheers

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Mr Cheetham seems sensible. What an attractive helmet.

[@josephryan362]

I love blue Peter and John carvings news round because they are both still running today but blue Peter at is its best in the 1960st to 2023

[@simonlunt353]

I remember those days happy times 😊👍

[@SunburntHands]

I couldn't be happier to be learning about Edward Woodward's rollerblades

[@seanmacleod1724]

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.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

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.

[@seanmacleod1724]

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Lol 😂.... if only I’d known !

[@autumnleaves2766]

Lesley Judd was a very good replacement for Valerie Singleton. It's good to see some vintage Blue Peter after all these years.

[@flybobbie1449]

Never into Judd, arrived just as i got too old to watch. But she brushed up well in the episode as a stewardess, quite tasty.

[@paulfrost8895]

Loved the dogs ' Shep was one.

[@matoko123]

@@flybobbie1449 I fancied her too :)

[@matoko123]

@@paulfrost8895 Petra was the other.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Gods I remember watching this and the feelings it evokes! Rather wonderful - Thanks for uploading

[@edcampion3998]

Ah memories nostalgia overload

[@tommyfred6180]

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.

[@UPTHETOWN]

GAMMONTASTIC

[@darganx]

John Craven's Newsround, they brung in Martin Bell as part of the Rhodesia report! The BBC took kids seriously back then..

[@StuartAxe]

Poor old Petra barely moves in this episode, She passed away this year too ;-(

[@tyronewhitehead3123]

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

[@paulfrost8895]

The days before health & safety craze.

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

17:18 & 17:41 I'd have sold me granny for those Action Man set-ups as a child back in 1977 Ha ha!

[@fatbelly27]

Those were the days. Proper letters, not all this digital stuff.

[@2Tricky]

@charliemouse1234 - Wonderful! Thanks for posting.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

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.

[@barryporteous4904]

I enjoyed the programme link - I have not seen the BBC globe for many years!!

[@paulfrost8895]

Nostalgia.

[@flybobbie1449]

Well Rhodesia, they got the country they wanted.

[@doodemog]

Yep a shithole

[@lesmup2159]

Straight down the toilet.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Oh my word! I’m shocked at how young everyone looks! This is over 40 years ago.

[@paulfrost8895]

45 years.

[@mikehudson8884]

I wonder what happened to Mr Cheetham of Walsall.

[@christopherhulse8385]

I was 7 in 1977 and my mother kept pulling me away from the front of the TV saying i was sitting too close!

[@TesterAnimal1]

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.

[@alisonlee3314]

I wanted to watch Magpie, because everyone did at school, but my parents thought the BBC more educational.

[@matoko123]

@@alisonlee3314 Same here. I was never cool.

[@paulspice720]

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!

[@READYTEDDYBEAR]

That Mugabe bloke turned into a lovely fellow. 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@richjones4956]

Not a Diversity in sight. Happy days!

[@TesterAnimal1]

“A Diversity” being what exactly?

[@matoko123]

@@TesterAnimal1 don't you know?

[@myalfie]

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!

[@grobbler1]

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.

[@juho6903]

Loved Peter Purves's snazzy shirts.

[@robalexander8065]

Not to mention John Craven's trendy round collared shirt...

[@philskype101]

I would say they are still protesting but doing a far better job!

[@george.mathieson2]

He was a good presenter John Noakes.

[@drfloxy2779]

I have come here from watching thermobaric detonations over Ukraine, so calming.

[@matoko123]

me too

[@GYRUSS]

Good quality.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Back when such shows as John Craven's Newsround treat kids as intelligent viewers and not barely toddlers.

[@teddy1066]

John Craven’s collar!

[@BrayTube]

"......so the blood is on their hands if they insist on doing this, yes." "Well, finally tonight, in the luxurious American resort of Miami..."

[@JakePurches-Base2music]

David Owen does look young.

[@djpaul146]

Program's where more fun back and not much health and safety as well lol

[@vinnysamways63]

It's a programme.

[@paulfrost8895]

I never knew what health and safety was then.

[@matoko123]

@@vinnysamways63 Don't you just love the spelling police, little Hitlers all of them.

[@chuckmaddison2924]

I loved BP , seems you could make anything with a cardboard box and a pair of Valerie's knickers.

[@PhilofBristol]

It wouldn't be a Blue Peter make without sticky-back plastic!!

[@keef71]

@28:45 Good old Shep lets us know what he really thinks........

[@richardsmith3585]

God shes great

[@wendydavenport9418]

Those were the day's.

[@matoko123]

my friends, we thought they'd never end.

[@joe-vl3nd]

Good old John Craven

[@unlokia]

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.

[@davecallan1274]

ok so bear with me Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy came out in 1978, this vid @4.16 had to be the inspiration

[@darganx]

Windsurfing? Rollerblades? Nah it'll never catch on.

[@jourellelane1686]

John knokes with his dog shep I watched this when i was 13

[@Ridersonthestorm8899]

Ahhh always remember John Craven's ilittle puns at the end of each broadcast.

[@SteveM-ly7oy]

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.

[@JohnFekoloid]

Kind of precursor to the internet. General articles and activities.

[@LeeAirVideos]

Rhodesia. What became Zimbabwe and 40 years of black rule and a country in ruins.

[@rlevans0602]

Doesn't make white rule right.

[@flybobbie1449]

People should determine their own future. But new administration still blamed whites for their troubles as years went by.

[@Leonards-leopard]

It was ‘ruined’ by white colonialism, will take many years to recover

[@am4793]

The shirt is criminal.

[@vanillaorchid]

Shep!

[@melgrant7404]

Trim phone in the background xx

[@willkemp9495]

Dat music tho

[@plangeama608]

Peter Purves was hot when he was young.

[@willkemp9495]

Wait this was on bbc1

[@robalexander8065]

Yes, back in April 1977.

[@Luka-zi9kv]

TheRenaissanceman65 most people didn’t know Blue Peter was on bbc1 bc they know it from cbbc

[@dunebasher1971]

@@Luka-zi9kv Who is "most people"? Blue Peter was on BBC-1 until 2012, which was only 9 years ago as I write this.

[@melgrant7404]

No i pads.just letters.

[@Matt571]

Does anyone know when they started having the date under the ship on the credits?

[@paulcarmichael2368]

1973

[@robalexander8065]

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!

[@channelclosingastrollshave9447]

Anyone answering that or asking it even should go away....far far away...far

[@pauljones1350]

What ever happened to mr cheatham with his house

[@matoko123]

I was wondering the same. Maybe his alien friends beamed him up ;)

[@MrEurochannel]

Rhodesia - Britain still clinging to that ridiculous colonial outpost! What the rest of the world must’ve thought. Just extraordinary!

[@flybobbie1449]

Yes, basket case now.

[@anonUK]

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.

[@jimmygee1969]

About the same as they think now with Brexit and a corrupt, self-serving and clueless Govt

[@davidrenton]

and look at how well it went :) Zimbabwe a failure of a country for 40 years would have been better for all to keep hold of it, same with S Africa.

[@daviddixey]

I think Mr Cheetham had issues.

[@TesterAnimal1]

A precursor to Mr Trebus.

[@martint.w.priestley8363]

I used to find Newsround so boring, it was the cue to go get a drink from the kitchen.

[@hopebgood]

It was Rentaghost for me mate. I'm still amazed some people actually got paid for "writing" that shite.

[@Admiralhall2000]

Blue Peter 2 guys and 1 girl. 2 on 1

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Are you collecting you milk bottle tops ??.....

[@stumpy5353]

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

[@hopebgood]

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.

[@Trigger_000]

*All those sheep are dead now.*

[@MrNinjaFish]

Pollution.

[@lisalarson9860]

awwwww : (((

[@flybobbie1449]

@@MrNinjaFish Chernobyl.

[@MrNinjaFish]

@@flybobbie1449 All around.

[@channelclosingastrollshave9447]

Wtf that guy w cycle lid on 🤔 But wtf is it even on tv that?:((

[@andrewjones-productions]

Could you re-post that comment in English and not Gobbledegook please?

[@andrewwells531]

love the flares not

[@flybobbie1449]

Round collar shirt, think i only ever owned one. And the nylon slacks.

[@seansands424]

It was a dumb program

[@TesterAnimal1]

Can you explain why you think that?

[@Leonards-leopard]

Programme

[@matoko123]

@@Leonards-leopard so you can spell, nice contribution.

[@seansands424]

@@TesterAnimal1 because they explain the obvious and talk to you if you are dumb