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Blue Peter
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Hey everyone, today we're going to learn how to write an article on TV Tropes using nothing but a keyboard, some sticky-back plastic and an empty washing-up bottle. But first, here's One I Prepared Earlier: | |
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A Winner Is You | |
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A Winner Is You: The 50th Anniversary of Blue Peter and what do we get? One very short montage and the other 44 minutes talking about McFly. We did get a cool book about it though. | |
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Muppet Cameo | |
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Muppet Cameo: A list. | |
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Milestone Celebration | |
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There have been various other limited edition badges, most of which were to mark a Milestone Celebration of the show (including a diamond badge for the 60th anniversary). | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: When the BBC was serializing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one host got zapped aboard the title ship and was mistaken for an intruder by Reepicheep. | |
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Threatening Shark | |
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Threatening Shark: Caron Keating dives with blue sharks off the coast of California. She is in a cage with an open front, and an experienced diver Terry bats the sharks away by punching them on the nose. She then finds that she has to swim out of the cage to return to the boat. | |
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The Christmas Annual | |
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The Christmas Annual: The Blue Peter Book, published from 1964 to 2011 with occasional gaps. | |
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Nipple and Dimed | |
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Nipple and Dimed: Anthea Turner once did a feature about training with Great Britain's Olympic high-diving hopefuls. The camera man chose to shoot her in increasingly perverted and unflattering angles, including her being filmed shivering in the cold with both visibly erect nipples making a very obvious point about the air temperature. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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A 2008 Christmas Episode Reunion Show, casting various current and past presenters in a musical, featured an unseen villain named "Richard". Following his defeat the male lead said to the camera "I've cooked his bacon." | |
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Time Capsule | |
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Time Capsule: Blue Peter has placed six time capsules so far throughout its long run. Typically the capsules contain not only several artifacts of the time, but also memorabilia from the show, including its famous badges, and photographs of the presenters, crew and mascots, along with videotapes/clips and scripts of recent or upcoming episodes and issues of the annual magazine. Typically, the contents aren’t very well-preserved. The first was buried in June 1971 in front of the BBC Television Centre in White City, London and intended for opening in January 2000. That was successfully carried out, though it had to be relocated twice, the first time some yards away a week later due to nearby tree root growth and the second instance to the show’s garden in 1984 when the original site was due to be developed. A second time capsule would be entombed in concrete in a multi-storey car park near the Television Centre in March 1981 with no recovery date in mind (it was found in 2022 and opened live on ITV). A third time capsule was buried in 1984 alongside the relocated 1971-2000 capsule. A fourth capsule, built for the show’s 40th anniversary, was buried beneath the Millennium Dome in East London in 1998 for opening in 2050, but it was accidentally uncovered and damaged in 2017, with the contents going on tour the following year. A fifth was buried in January 2000 in the same place as the 1971 and 1984 capsules that had been recovered three days earlier, and intended for opening in 2029, though it was relocated when the programme moved from London to Salford in 2011. The sixth, created in 2018 to commemorate the show’s 60th anniversary, is not buried, but contained in The National Archives for safekeeping, not to be opened until 2038. | |
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: There are several different varieties of Blue Peter badge, which are all different colours: The standard white badge with a blue ship, usually worn by the show's presenters, is awarded for appearing on the show (or submitting a piece of writing or drawing that appears on the show). The silver badge is awarded to anyone who already has a white badge who makes a further achievement that would ordinarily merit a white badge. The green badge is awarded for environmental-related accomplishments; the badge itself is made out of recycled materials. The orange badge is awarded to competition winners. The purple badge is awarded under the show's "Team Player" badge, where a group of children got the opportunity to work on the show for a day by submitting ideas for it (later changed to being awarded for writing a review of the show). The gold badge (actually a brooch in the shape of the Blue Peter ship) is awarded for "exceptional achievement"; holders of this badge include J. K. Rowling, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Steven Spielberg. There have been various other limited edition badges, most of which were to mark a Milestone Celebration of the show (including a diamond badge for the 60th anniversary). | |
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Brand X | |
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Brand X: Enforced due to the ban on Product Placement in all BBC programming. The show invented the phrase "sticky-backed plastic" (for Fablon and Coveron) and used "sticky tape" for Sellotape until it was officially declared genericised. The show once did an entire feature on the production of Smarties, while never naming the product. They also nearly always used the distinctive cylindrically-shaped bottle from Fairly Liquid dish soap without ever actually mentioning the brand-name. | |
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Parent Service | |
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Parent Service: Lots and lots and lots. Lesley Judd, Sarah Ellis, Katy Hill, Connie Huq, Anthea Turner, Zoe Salmon, and (OK then) Gethin Jones or Matt Baker... | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: The cast's response to Katarina's death scene from The Daleks' Master Plan in the Tenth Anniversary of Doctor Who episode. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Here's one I made earlier" and "And now for something completely different". The former is rarely used now - it's that cliché - and the latter is far better known for its use on Monty Python's Flying Circus. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: John Noakes became a legendary figure in UK pop culture for his willingness to join in with stunts such as skydiving, bobsleigh runs, and scaling heights. All of these were done with a severe lack of safety equipment or any risk assessment to a level that would give later generations of safety consultants palpitations. Probably the most astonishing feat was climbing up a steeplejack's ladder on Nelson's Column in central London, without a safety harness. This included an extraordinary moment as he had to climb up the overhang on the plinth where the ladders tilted backwards significantly. He was tied on by the crew at the top, but then had to climb into a bosun's chair to be lowered over the edge, at no point wearing a helmet or gloves. He even had to repeat the shot of climbing up over the edge because the sound hadn't recorded. Years later Noakes also learned that he (and his equally nerve-less cameraman) hadn't been insured either. He was also fairly badly knocked about when the bobsleigh thing went wrong, but still limped into the studio to show off his less intimate bruises and bashes, so as to reinforce the lesson that bobsleighing can be risky. Especially if it overturns, you fall out, and go down a long fast run with only two thicknesses of clothing between your backside and a lot of friction burns. | |
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One I Prepared Earlier | |
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One I Prepared Earlier: The Trope Namer, from the above Catchphrase. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: On Monty Python, there was once a sketch featuring a spoof children's magazine programme, featuring John Cleese and Eric Idle in drag, called How to Do It ("And now, how to play the flute: just blow down one end and run your fingers up and down the outside"). At least one ad for Fairy Liquid riffed on the fact that the crafting segments often used one of their washing-up liquid bottles, to the frustration of a kid who needs an empty one thanks to their new long-lasting formula. A reboot of the ensemble comedy show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again spoofed the veteran BP presenter with the parody line | |
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Metapuzzle | |
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Metapuzzle: During the 2000s, Blue Peter had an annual miniseries starring the various presenters. Each installment, prior to the last one, had a puzzle for both the characters and the viewers to solve; invariably, the answers to those puzzles then had to be put together in a certain way during the finale (for example, taking the first letter of the first clue, the second letter of the second clue, and so on) to obtain a vital plot-relevant clue. | |
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Saturday Morning Kids’ Show | |
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Sarah Greene. Also known from Saturday Morning Kids’ Show Going Live, and yet another Doctor Who actor (one of the Cryons in "Attack of the Cybermen"). | |
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Role-Ending Misdemeanor | |
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Richard Bacon's sacking for taking cocaine on October 1998, which resulted in a senior BBC official reading a live on-air apology and him being stripped of his Blue Peter badge (he went on to have a successful presenting career despite this; 20 years later, they buried the hatchet and reinstated his badge). A 2008 Christmas Episode Reunion Show, casting various current and past presenters in a musical, featured an unseen villain named "Richard". Following his defeat the male lead said to the camera "I've cooked his bacon." Shortly after Bacon's sacking, Michael Palin was a guest on BP, there to talk about his latest globetrotting TV series. In true Monty Python style, Palin, invited to help with "the make", was seen on camera experimentally holding the glue-pot to his nose and taking a long, deep, investigative sniff. | |
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Depraved Kids' Show Host | |
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Depraved Kids' Show Host: Largely averted. There was a long-standing rumour that Valerie Singleton was a lesbian, but it was never proven. Speaking about it decades after her departure, Singleton pointed out that she did date her co-star Peter Purves and radio DJ Pete Murray, but nobody looked into that because of the rumours — but it was frustrating having to live with that rumor for over thirty years. Later presenter Michael Sundin got it far worse: he was subject to some serious homophobia for being a gay man presenting a children's show, which contributed to his sacking in a way that would never have been considered twenty years later. Downplayed with Richard Bacon. He was fired mid-season in 1998 for taking cocaine, and as a result, Head of Children's Programing Lorraine Heggessey read an on-air apology. | |
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Sideboob | |
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Sideboob: Zoe Salmon became the first BP presenter to go topless in the history of the show, and quite possibly the first presenter to do so in the entire history of BBC children's broadcasting. This wasn't even with any high-minded purpose, such as education or art. The presenters were reproducing iconic images from the James Bond movies and it fell to the blonde and pneumatic Zoe to do the one where the girl is covered in gold paint. The Blue Peter Annual no. 36 records the completed image, with a gold-painted Zoe clearly topless in sideboob pose and a combination of hair and right arm covering the contentious bits. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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A contest to design the Monster of the Week for "Love & Monsters". | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: With Paddington Bear. The series author Michael Bond worked as a cameraman on the show, and wrote two books in which Paddington meets the Blue Peter cast. | |
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You Will Be Spared | |
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You Will Be Spared: The Daleks' reaction to Blue Peter's role in the retrieval of the stolen Dalek props. | |
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Priceless Ming Vase | |
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Mark Curry, a man who epitomized all that was tackiest about 1980's style and fashion. Once demonstrated some life-size human sculptures in lego bricks and in a Priceless Ming Vase moment, succeeded in breaking the head off one, which rolled off across the studio floor. | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution: In 2021, Blue Peter got a new logo in which the "U" is a Blue Peter badge. | |
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