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"Blue Peter" (1958)

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• Is the UK's longest running children's TV show.
  
  
• Used by the BBC as a platform to launch several up coming programs aimed at children, in particular "Doctor Who" (1963).
  
  
• The title music is called "Barnacle Bill".
  
  

• The "Blue Peter" referred to in the title is a flag flown by Royal Navy ships to indicate they are about to leave port. It is a blue flag with a white square in the center. The same flag also stands for the letter "P" in the international flag signal alphabet.
  
  
• Amongst the memorable TV performances was "The Papadum Song" by The R.J. Wagsmith Band (Mo Foster & Mike Walling) which struck a chord with anyone (i.e. everyone) who had ever had a few drinks and gone out for an Indian meal. For a giggle Mo Mike sang the song live on Blue Peter, though Mo had to hand back his Blue Peter badge when he inadvertently sang "fuck" instead of "duck".
  
  
• The show has buried time-capsules at BBC TV Centre, London (for excavation in 2029) and at the Greenwich Millennium Dome site (to be recovered in 2050).
  
  

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