Blue Peter's 60th anniversary

This is the video I mentioned from the episode where they properly displayed the contents of the time capsules, as well as burying their own for 2029. The tape from the 1971 capsule plays suprisingly well, but the vinyl from the 1984 one doesn't- even though you'd expect vinyl to be able to withstand damp conditions better than tape! According to them, the VHS tape was FUBAR.



Does anyone know if the 2029 capsule was moved to Salford? When I google all I get are results about the Milennium Dome capsule being dug up last year.

On a not entirely unrelated note I found myself being interviewed by Richard Bacon today who was in my town centre doing a piece for Tonight about Brexit. I hope to god it doesn't get broadcast...

Odd reply. It’s nothing to do with when shouting was invented (🙄) more that, despite TV Forumers often implying that kids’ TV these days is dumbed down, unless you are in the target audience it’s difficult to view things without your adult lens.

I can't find a clip, but I'm pretty certain when they did a feature of moving the garden up to Salford they mentioned moving the time capsule up there as well.

At no point did I suggest that kids TV has "dumbed down". My point was about the shouty delivery of Blue Peter rather than making a commentary on the editorial of the programme (or kids TV as a whole).

I thought I said clearly enough: that sort of delivery was around in the 90s and 00s and it didn't suit Blue Peter then, and doesn't now. The stereotype that children won't take notice unless something's shouted at them in an erratic style does young people a huge disservice.

Also, the idea that adults can't hold opinions on kids telly is ridiculous considering it's adults that produce it.

That's not to say the show isn't in a good place at the moment.

Vastly improved from this (when at the time it seemed on the critical list)

That time did look like the beginning of the end and whatever “ decade “ you’re from or watched / watching, that does not resemble Blue Peter.

Once Barney / Helen / Joel became a team, things definitely started to look up. Perhaps the only faux pas ( and I don’t believe it was a deliberate move ) was when they abandoned Barnacle Bill for the Sailor’s Hornpipe as the theme. Thankfully edited and rectified some weeks after it happened to sound a bit more like it should.

Does anyone remember if anything was made of their 30th birthday ? I know there was the design a Radio Times cover which became more an “ art gallery “ picture on the front of the magazine but remember little else. Maybe it was played down after the big 25th in 1983?

I don't recall them doing much - it was celebrated on the show itself and it was around the same time they released those VHS tapes of highlights, but that was about it. Of course, Biddy had just left so they'd already had quite a bit of nostalgia that year. That said, in 1983 they also had the sixtieth anniversary of Children's BBC, which was quite a big deal, with BBC1 idents and everything.

I remember they did quite a bit for the 35th in 1993 - they had a primetime documentary and a couple of repeats, and invited back the surviving presenters onto the show itself. But telly nostalgia exploded in the early nineties, there was loads of it about.

Incidentally, this week's anniversary show is repeated on BBC Two later this afternoon, after John Noakes: TV Hero

It was an odd move, but I think it came with a change of editor and some budget cuts. Why were they both running around and shouting? Having a fixed set alone isn’t very blue peter, admittedly the current one uses the same layout each week but it’s also based on a modular system, as could be seen on the anniversary show when the sofa stage and the make area were used within the larger studio.

I’m unsure if it has been asked but was the second studio with the guests at tables and the philharmonic orchestra a sound studio rather than tv?

The second studio is the Philharmonic Studio, which is mostly used for radio.

Bloody hell. I haven’t seen that before. Dreadful. Like the bleeding Tikkabilla house. And that’s shouting.

I think someone on here has said previously, that the outgoing editor saw that and it was everything he didn't want to do to the progamme.