Blue Peter or Magpie??

[jessi]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie??

lol...well my bobsleigh could have been steered by Mick any day ...

[darren]

Magpie

I remember magpie.
it was a kids show from the early seventies.

saw a clip of it on tb last night.

here is a link to the opening credits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37LYpB4fb0

it was picture format.
it was on itv.
it ran from
30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980
episodes where 25 mins long.

[marilynd04]

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Blue Peter. I loved making the different projects. Saving the washing liquid bottles and toilet rolls. Do you remember the xmas star out of a coat hanger!

[Trickyvee]

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My one and only hazy memory of Magpie is it being presented by a bloke who looked like Kevin Keegan. Infact I think I thought it was Kevin Keegan, so I suppose that makes me a Blue Peterer.

[kazboot]

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I got Mick Robertson's autograph once in Woolworths

[darren]

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I got Mick Robertson's autograph once in Woolworths

how long ago was this,
have you still got it pride of place above your bed.

[kazboot]

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how long ago was this,
have you still got it pride of place above your bed.

This would have been 1973 and it is in an autograph book I still have, but not above my bed

[darren]

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This would have been 1973 and it is in an autograph book I still have, but not above my bed

its great you still have it after all these yrs.
could so easily have been lost or accidentally thrown out.

is the fella in your avatar that same fella who's signature u have had all these yrs KAZ??

[Falco]

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Hehe...well it's the Swap Shop/TISWAS debate on a whole different level, isn't it? I stayed with my gran when I got home from school in the 70s, and she had a vaguely sniffy disapproval of "the commercial channel", so I grew up on Blue Peter, while always having a suspicion that Magpie, with its much more catchy and inspiring theme tune, was somehow racier, looser-moralled and therefore, probably, rather better.

[kazboot]

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its great you still have it after all these yrs.
could so easily have been lost or accidentally thrown out.

is the fella in your avatar that same fella who's signature u have had all these yrs KAZ??

No, that is my first love, David Cassidy

[shilton dipper]

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dont forget the christmas advent crown

[Richard1978]

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My Mum mentioned the BP advent crown last weekend.

I never tried making one, but at least one person told me they tried & managed to set the tinsel on fire.

[Trickyvee]

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I'm tempted to make a BP advent crown this year for a laugh as I never made one when I was young. Only need a couple of wire coat hangers and some nasty gold tinsel from the pound shop. Will post a pic of the results...

As for presenters, well I think it was Peter Duncan, Sarah Greene and Simon Groom when I first started watching, then later Janet Ellis, Mark Curry and Caron Keating before I grew out of it. Of those I think Mark Curry was top entertainment. Always got stuff wrong like dropping the cookery pots.

[sf1378]

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The programmes terrible now. Looks like its filmed in a naff nightclub. Presenters are too 'trendy' and young and the whole thing puts me off. Time it was binned or they try the old format as it worked far better.

[Trickyvee]

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The programmes terrible now. Looks like its filmed in a naff nightclub. Presenters are too 'trendy' and young and the whole thing puts me off. Time it was binned or they try the old format as it worked far better.

I agree, I saw it the other day for the first time in years and wasn't impressed. It seems to be a trend now that children's TV presenters must be young and cool. I think the opposite was true in the past. Presenters at least seemed to be older (I'm sure some were quite young but everybody seems ancient when you're a kid) and most were far from cool, but in a good way. Bring 'em back!