Blue Peter or Magpie??

[shilton dipper]

Re: Blue Peter- your thoughts please.

I was a 'magpie' kid in the 70's ..............my sister liked 'blue peter' and she usually got her way............it was ok but like Marine boy i too am getting old haha and dont appreciate the prog as it is today

[Marine Boy]

Re: Blue Peter- your thoughts please.

I loved it as a kid in the 60s and 70s ...and even through the 80s and early 90s to some degree. Don't like the episodes I've seen, now and then, over the past 15 years or so. But then I'm getting old

There are a number of existing threads on the show if you do a search.

MB

[Powdered toast man]

Blue Peter- your thoughts please.

This was never one of my favourite programmes as a kid. I still don't like it now. Anybody else hate BP?

[sweep]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie kid

Magpie with the lovely Jenny Hanley and no posh twonks.

[shilton dipper]

Blue Peter or Magpie kid

Which were you a Blue Peter or a Magpie kid?.............I was having this discussion with work mates the other day.............I'm a Magpie kid ......Blue Peter was for the posh kids where I lived lol

Re: Blue Peter

I think the best way to describe the old Blue Peter was that the male presenters were avuncular, the female presenters like a bigger sister or an Aunt. Its the same with the old Dr Who, he was avuncular too. I also think the new presenters aren't as angelic as they make out. You just couldn't think of the old BP presenters in any other way than clean cut.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Blue Peter

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!

Re: Blue Peter

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]

Re: Blue Peter

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.

[Richard1978]

Re: Blue Peter

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.

[shilton dipper]

Re: Blue Peter

dont forget the christmas advent crown

[kazboot]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie??

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

[Falco]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie??

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.

[darren]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie??

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??

[kazboot]

Re: Blue Peter or Magpie??

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