Blue Peter (Season 14)

Episode 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 1977-09-12

Overview: Expedition Brazil Rio de Janeiro is one of South America's most exciting cities. In today's film report John, Peter and Lesley climb two of its famous mountains, Sugar Loaf and Coreovado. and join the kite fliers on Copacabana beach. In the studio - a stunning display by the US Army Drill Team.

Episode 2 (Episode 2)

Air date: 1977-09-15

Overview: STOP PRESS -BLUE PETER INDOOR RIDING SCHOOL OPENED BY PRINCESS ANNE That was the welcome news that greeted handicapped riders in Tyne and Wear this summer. The Indoor School was provided by some of the old wool and cotton donated by viewers to the Clothes Horse Race Appeal. Today PETER reports on the Official Opening and talks to some of the disabled children who are now able to ride whatever the weather.

Episode 3 (Episode 3)

Air date: 1977-09-19

Overview: Expedition Brazil Do you capoeira? JOHN didn't until he met CLAUDIO in Salvador. Watch them capoeira together today!

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 1977-09-22

Episode 5 (Episode 5)

Air date: 1977-09-26

Overview: Peter Purves and Lesley Judd England goalkeeper Peter Shilton joins the team to announce the results of the Save of the Century Competition. LESLEY helps to give Rags, the pony for handicapped riders, her first-ever bath.

Episode 6 (Episode 6)

Air date: 1977-09-29

Overview: Expedition Brazil PETER joins the gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul and helps to round up some of Brazil's five jmillion cattle.

Episode 7 (Episode 7)

Air date: 1977-10-03

Overview: Ondeko-za! The demon drums of Japan's Sado Island, including the 7001b Great Drum Odaiko.

Episode 8 (Episode 8)

Air date: 1977-10-06

Episode 9 (Episode 9)

Air date: 1977-10-10

Episode 10 (Episode 10)

Air date: 1977-10-13

Overview: Master chef JOHN NOAKES creates another culinary miracle with his exotic green tomato chutney. Have a pencil and paper handy for his recipe.

Episode 11 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1977-10-17

Episode 12 (Episode 12)

Air date: 1977-10-20

Episode 13 (Episode 13)

Air date: 1977-10-24

Episode 14 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1977-10-27

Overview: Expedition Brazil Peter reports from Brazil's Maracana Stadium - the largest in the world and scene of Pele's greatest triumphs. And John and Lesley go back to school to brush up the steps of Brazil's most popular dance - the Samba.

Episode 15 (Episode 15)

Air date: 1977-10-31

Overview: Sky High John helps Tom Chapman in an attempt to fly 50 kites simultaneously.

Episode 16 (Episode 16)

Air date: 1977-11-03

Overview: On the day The Queen opens Parliament, John and Lesley discover how it feels to drive in an open carriage down The Mall wearing the Coronation robes and coronets of Peers of the Realm!

Episode 17 (Episode 17)

Air date: 1977-11-07

Overview: Can you multiply 129498541 by 9878 and work out the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in less than two minutes? Mrs Shakuntala Devi can, and Peter will be putting her to the test today.

Episode 18 (Episode 18)

Air date: 1977-11-10

Overview: Cut Price Cards: Save your pocket money by making your own cards this Christmas; Lesley demonstrates three good ideas. And Peter helps to x-ray a penguin when he spends a day with the London Zoo's Vet.

Episode 19 (Episode 19)

Air date: 1977-11-14

Episode 20 (Episode 20)

Air date: 1977-11-17

Episode 21 (Episode 21)

Air date: 1977-11-21

Overview: Including a Supersonic Plane, Two Fat Rabbits, and Percy in the Garden.

Episode 22 (Episode 22)

Air date: 1977-11-24

Overview: Rags, the "Blue Peter" pony, has finished her training and passed all her tests. Today, "Blue Peter" film cameras follow her progress as she starts work as a fully-qualified pony for Handicapped Riders.

Episode 23 (Episode 23)

Air date: 1977-11-28

Overview: Today JOHN, PETER and LESLEY will be announcing details of the 1977 Appeal. In the past Blue Peter viewers have collected old rags, scrap metal, postcards, books and stamps. Find out how you can help this year. Have paper and pencil handy for the depot's address.

Episode 24 (Episode 24)

Air date: 1977-12-01

Overview: 'Tu mowi Londyn' 'This is London' These words greet millions of people all over the world who tune to the BBC's World Service. John goes to Bush House and meets the broadcasters, including Hitoshii Fukuda, a Japanese newsreader, and Noel Edmonds!

Episode 25 (Episode 25)

Air date: 1977-12-05

Overview: Tawny owls Rin, Tin and Tiny made their first television appearance last May when they were seven weeks old. Today, nine-year-old Philip Smith, who rescued them, and naturalist Grahame Dangerfield, who has cared for them at his Wildlife Breeding Centre, released the orphans back into the wild.

Episode 26 (Episode 26)

Air date: 1977-12-08

Overview: Do you dance with two left feet? Today Peggy Spencer, MBE, teaches John and Lesley some simple steps for Christmas parties that anybody can learn. Watch today's demonstration, and if you'd like a leaflet, send an SAE to: Peggy's Party Dances [address removed]

Episode 27 (Episode 27)

Air date: 1977-12-12

Overview: Today JOHN lights the first candle on the Advent Crown, PETER goes north to Beamish and rides on a Sheffield tram, and Britain's top pet cats compete for the title Blue Peter Champion Top Cat 1977 and the silver trophy ' live' in the studio.

Episode 28 (Episode 28)

Air date: 1977-12-15

Overview: Today JOHN lights the first candle on the Advent Crown, PETER goes north to Beamish and rides on a Sheffield tram, and Britain's top pet cats compete for the title Blue Peter Champion Top Cat 1977 and the silver trophy ' live' in the studio.

Episode 29 (Episode 29)

Air date: 1977-12-19

Overview: Peter Purves and Lesley Judd and the latest news of the Key-Note Appeal. Watch the totaliser totting up your envelopes. Every single key and car will help reach the Two Million Target. Send your contribution to the depot at: [address removed]. Also in today's programme, PETER visits the studio of sculptor WILLIAM TYMIM to film the first stages in the making of the bronze statue of Petra.

Episode 30 (Episode 30)

Air date: 1977-12-22

Overview: Join in with carols round the tree with the children of Allfarthings School, Warlingham County Secondary School, and the Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army.

Episode 31 (Episode 31)

Air date: 1977-12-29

Overview: Review of the Year Relive Blue Peter's highlights of 1977 as John climbs to the top of Nelson's Column. Spot the disappearing cats and listen to James Galway's double tin whistles and the Vicar who sounds like a train. Fly over Brazil's mighty Iguacu Falls and sail in a force nine gale with Clare Francis.

Episode 32 (Episode 32)

Air date: 1978-01-02

Overview: Has the Key-Note Appeal hit the jackpot? Will the keys and cars pouring into the collecting depot reach the two million target on the totaliser? If so, "Blue Peter" viewers will have provided four mobile classrooms for deaf children in Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, Norfolk and Cornwall. To start the new year "Blue Peter" travels back in time to the days of old when knights were bold! Peter goes to Knight School and learns the skill of jousting under the expert eye of Max Diamond. And 52 gnomes invade the studio for a 'live' phone-in with Noel Edmonds.

Episode 33 (Episode 33)

Air date: 1978-01-05

Episode 34 (Episode 34)

Air date: 1978-01-09

Overview: During the Second World War the skies of Britain were criss-crossed with beams of light searching out the enemy aircraft. Today one of those searchlights, on its way to the RAF Museum in Hendon, makes a lightning visit to spotlight the Television Centre.

Episode 35 (Episode 35)

Air date: 1978-01-12

Overview: Lesley joins Crispin Cranwell and Barnaby as they face the cymbal, rattle and banner test at their police-horse training school.

Episode 36 (Episode 36)

Air date: 1978-01-16

Episode 37 (Episode 37)

Air date: 1978-01-19

Episode 38 (Episode 38)

Air date: 1978-01-23

Episode 39 (Episode 39)

Air date: 1978-01-26

Episode 40 (Episode 40)

Air date: 1978-01-30

Overview: Happy Birthday Jack and Jill!: Yesterday Blue Peter's silver spotted tabbies were two years old. Join in the celebrations.

Episode 41 (Episode 41)

Air date: 1978-02-02

Overview: Now You See It - Now You Don't: Schoolboy Russ Stevens is hailed as the most exciting new magician in Britain. See if you agree as he performs his tricks today in the studio.

Episode 42 (Episode 42)

Air date: 1978-02-06

Episode 43 (Episode 43)

Air date: 1978-02-09

Episode 44 (Episode 44)

Air date: 1978-02-13

Episode 45 (Episode 45)

Air date: 1978-02-16

Episode 46 (Episode 46)

Air date: 1978-02-20

Episode 47 (Episode 47)

Air date: 1978-02-23

Episode 48 (Episode 48)

Air date: 1978-02-27

Episode 49 (Episode 49)

Air date: 1978-03-02

Episode 50 (Episode 50)

Air date: 1978-03-06

Episode 51 (Episode 51)

Air date: 1978-03-09

Episode 52 (Episode 52)

Air date: 1978-03-13

Episode 53 (Episode 53)

Air date: 1978-03-16

Episode 54 (Episode 54)

Air date: 1978-03-20

Episode 55 (Episode 55)

Air date: 1978-03-23

Episode 56 (Episode 56)

Air date: 1978-03-30

Episode 57 (Episode 57)

Air date: 1978-04-03

Episode 58 (Episode 58)

Air date: 1978-04-06

Episode 59 (Episode 59)

Air date: 1978-04-10

Episode 60 (Episode 60)

Air date: 1978-04-13

Episode 61 (Episode 61)

Air date: 1978-04-17

Episode 62 (Episode 62)

Air date: 1978-04-20

Episode 63 (Episode 63)

Air date: 1978-04-24

Episode 64 (Episode 64)

Air date: 1978-04-27

Episode 65 (Episode 65)

Air date: 1978-05-01

Episode 66 (Episode 66)

Air date: 1978-05-08

Episode 67 (Episode 67)

Air date: 1978-05-11

Episode 68 (Episode 68)

Air date: 1978-05-15

Episode 69 (Episode 69)

Air date: 1978-05-18

Episode 70 (Episode 70)

Air date: 1978-05-22

Episode 71 (Episode 71)

Air date: 1978-05-25

Episode 72 (Episode 72)

Air date: 1978-06-01

Overview: For the past week Blue Peter viewers have been sending their suggestions for a name for the new Golden Retriever puppy. Today Simon announces the most popular choice.

Episode 73 (Episode 73)

Air date: 1978-06-05

Episode 74 (Episode 74)

Air date: 1978-06-08

Overview: John takes an Onca for a walk and back in the studio the Sweet Adelines sing a serenade.

Episode 75 (Episode 75)

Air date: 1978-06-12

Episode 76 (Episode 76)

Air date: 1978-06-15

Episode 77 (Episode 77)

Air date: 1978-06-19

Episode 78 (Episode 78)

Air date: 1978-06-22

Episode 79 (Episode 79)

Air date: 1978-06-26

Episode 80 (Episode 80)

Air date: 1978-07-03

Overview: A thousand programmes later ... ' Way back in 1966, if anyone had told me that during the next 12 years I'd make a five-mile fall out of an aeroplane, crash at 90 mph on a bob-sleigh, climb to the top of Nelson's Column-twice, become a cook, vault over a ditch and be trodden on by an elephant, I'd never have believed them! But they've all happened to me during my thousand or so appearances on Blue Peter. Today you can watch some of those extraordinary experiences.' (JOHN NOAKES )