To be sad that Blue Peter is ending on TV?

I think with some toilet-roll tubes, some sticky-back plastic and a couple of wire coat hangers, and a PP3 battery (you should probably ask an adult to help you with this bit) you may be able to pick up the original TV programmes that are bouncing off objects in space.

(Based on what Patrick Moore once said.)

Even in the 70s it was rather dull and worthy, I much preferred Magpie. It seemed to have been made by adults who had a rather sheltered view of what kids truly like. I also watched Get It Together and The Tomorrow People, ITV kids shows were so much better than the Beeb.

My kids both really like Blue Peter. I found it really dull growing up. It's changed a lot and is much less worthy nowadays.

the whole nation tuned in to watch a lot of dross as there were only 3 channels!

I love tat my kids can choose to watch stuff that interests them or I can always find something which I think would benefit them in some way.

I once accidentally saw a part of Mark Curry that I shouldn’t have. Disclaimer: I was an adult and it as not his fault in the slightest

I always prefered Magpie. It was a bit more trendy.

Or wanting to talk about it at school the next day.

I never liked it, always found it dull as ditchwater, and I'm in my 60s.

To be Honest, I think it has long had its Day. Todays children, on the whole, do not seem to watch TV as much as I did, say, in the 1970s. They watch online films and TV Shows etc
I was a Magpie girl myself, though sometimes saw Blue Peter as a friend I visited sometimes liked it.
Only 3 channels we had.

All 3 of my DC have Blue Peter badges but TBH they never really watched it very much. I liked it as a child and DH was at school with someone who became a presenter!

I don't think it matters if it's not live TV anymore. And who watches terrestrial TV?

Yep, agree with everyone else. It was boring when I was a kid in the 70s. My own DC never watched it. Didn't realise it had still been on!

Ah,live Blue Peter....no more incontinent elephants or out-of-control bonfires.Happy days 😆

DS is 8 and loves it but never watches it live, as he is at a Sports club on Friday evenings. I'd imagine that many more of the target audience are in wraparound care or at organised clubs during the evenings than back in the 1990s when I watched it.

Blue Peter was a programme that adults thought kids liked but no kid I knew liked it. Certainly not in the 70s.
My friend said she and her brother always started to fight when that came on, they didn't want to watch that!
My husband claims he liked it.......not sure I believe him!
Should have been binned years ago - decades ago!

Yeah it’s sad in a way but let’s be honest, even in the classic time of John Noakes, Peter Purves and Val Singleton, I’d be ever so slightly disappointed remembering it was Tuesday or Thursday and Blue Peter was ion instead of something more exciting. Used to turn it over to Little House on the Prairie in our house.

That elephant clip from the Sixties is still gold though. Never get that kind of thing again will we?

Also Simon Groom: “and what a beautiful pair of knockers…”

The BBC made a massive mistake in launching cbbc. They had a captive audience in a traditional slot which was simple to just switch on and watch. They limited their product to the under 10s so cutting off a large part of the after school watching demographic.
Blue Peter was a strange show when I was a kid in the 80s. Simon Groom was a main presenter, chosen it seems in the basis his parents had a farm used in another BBC children's show. He was dreadful, despite so many attempts to relax him. We had countless visits to the farm, him singing elvis....it's unsurprising he's done nothing since.
Janet Ellis was sacked for having a baby and not being married.
They had the presenters doing ridiculously dangerous things...like climbing Nelson column without any safety equipment...just a ladder.

Simply it was there because it represented the middle class boys own adventures world that the BBC bosses liked.

I didn't know what sticky back plastic was until I was 17, no it's not selotape, it's sheets of plastic used to line cupboards. Also pipe cleaners! Who the hell had pipe cleaners....and don't start me on the fire risk advent candle holders!

I remember the original series with Chris and Val. I also remember Petra the dog being introduced as a puppy. Then Val was joined by Peter Purvis and John Noakes which was the best combo imo. I stopped watching when they left and switched over to Magpie - by then I was in my early teens. After that I discovered alcohol, weed and an insatiable crush on Marc Bolan.

I thought it was boring in the 80s/90s so I’m surprised it’s lasted as long as it has!

I was born in 1973 and it was boring as shit in my day too.

I don't mind it being recorded a few hours or a day beforehand. What I would like to see is it being given a slot on BBC1, along with some other children's tv. Say for half an hour in the early evening, we could cope with one less game show.

Children's tv should not be shut away altogether.