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===<center>Blue Peter is the worlds longest running childrens program ever!!! It started in 1958 and is still on today!!! They have had many presenters and hundreds of funny mistakes!!! Trust me, watch it once, and you'll love it!!! Tune in on BBC1, Monday and Tuesday, 4:30 to watch it!!!</center>===
  
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<br style="clear:both;" /><p style="text-align: left;">{{Maintop}} [[Blue Peter]] is the world's longest running childrens' program ever! It started back in 1958 and is still on today. Blue Peter is the home of free games, exclusive clips, fun things to do and all the latest news from BP presenters [[Lindsey Russell]] and [[Richie Driss]].</p>
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Who is your favourite past Blue Peter presenter?
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Who is your favourite present Blue Peter presenter?
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Lindsey Russell
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Radzi Chinyanganya
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Revision as of 20:22, 1 May 2019


Welcome to the Blue Peter Wiki

We are currently editing over 169 articles, and 227 files.

Blue Peter is the world's longest running childrens' program ever! It started back in 1958 and is still on today. Blue Peter is the home of free games, exclusive clips, fun things to do and all the latest news from BP presenters Lindsey Russell and Richie Driss.

The Blue Peter Appeal - 1999
Thunderbird's Tracey Island
Get a Badge

The Blue Peter Appeal - 1999

Thunderbird's Tracey Island

Get a Badge

The Blue Peter Appeal - 1999
Thunderbird's Tracey Island
Get a Badge


Latest News!

Digitising Blue Peter

This month, October 2018, the BBC plans to digitise every Blue Peter show they have on the iplayer! Look out for your favourite memories, they're coming your way!


Blue Peter to Turn 60

As of the 16th October 2018, Blue Peter is to turn 60 - the show has gone on since 1958. The line up will include an hour-long show featuring many old presenters - challenges, competitions and a load of memories from the past years!



The Presenters

Past Presenters

Please help Contribute To This Wiki

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Poll #2!


Featured Article

Opening and Closing Titles

Over the years Blue Peter has featured a large variation of the opening and closing titles.

Opening Titles

1958–1989: The earliest episodes featured stock footage of a sailing ship under the opening credits.

By the late 1960s, Blue Peter's opening sequence featured extracts of that edition's filmed inserts or an event in the studio where speech was absent accompanied by the signature tune and superimposed presenter credits. The theme music would either play out in full, or fade out appropriately depending on the programme's content.

1989–1997: From 1989, a 2D animation of the Blue Peter ship had been developed and used alongside the 1985-introduced word-logo and was used as a method of displaying both the ship and Blue Peter name to precede any film or episode footage as before. From 1992 a 3D animation was used and further replaced by another graphical sequence in 1994. Once again, these animations preceded any film, studio or episode footage. Occasionally, from the 1994 series onwards, the 3D animation of the Blue Peter ship would be followed by a preview of certain items on the day's programme with a "coming up" caption and a presenter commentary. Again, the theme music would either play in full or fade out at an appropriate time.

1997–1999: From 1997, a more generic title sequence was used with the 1994 ship and title animation remaining, but was followed by clips of different action shots from a variety of the past years' filming assignments intermixed with specially filmed...

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