Blue Peter S16E59 · Episode 59

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Dr Who's Spring Clean The BBC's travelling Dr Who exhibitions are constantly changing to keep pace with the latest monsters the Doctor tackles. Tina goes behind the scenes, to lend a hand with this very unusual spring clean.

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1. 1 1. Episode 11979-09-10Expedition Egypt: Treasure and Camels Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one still stands today, the massive Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycetimus, built by the
2. 2 2. Episode 21979-09-13Fit for a Queen A teddy made of chrysanthemums, a koala bear with a plum for a nose and an owl sitting under a banana moon were just three of the hundreds of stunning floral displ
3. 3 3. Episode 31979-09-17Expedition Egypt: Hall of Pillars Simon and Tina explore one of the Wonders of the World-the temple built in honour of the great god Amun, at Karnak. One hundred and thirty-four m
4. 4 4. Episode 41979-09-20Transglobe Ahoy! Ran, Ginny and the crew will be reporting back to Blue Peter throughout the Transglobe Expedition's 55,000-mile voyage. Chris was on board the Benjamin Bowring f
5. 5 5. Episode 51979-09-24The Gardening Family Are there michaelmas daisies at the bottom of your garden? Do you grow lilac, gladioli, tradescantia, Virginia creeper, or tulip, plane and acacia trees? All
6. 6 6. Episode 61979-09-27'Expedition Egypt' Do you know what an oil tanker, a grand opera, a French engineer and an empress have in common? You can find out in today's report from Egypt, where Tina and Si
7. 7 7. Episode 71979-10-01Goldie Goes to School Ex-guide dog trainer Richard Duckworth puts pupils of all breeds and temperaments through their paces at his unusual school for dogs.
8. 8 8. Episode 81979-10-04Expedition Egypt The amazing child weavers of Herrania, whose tapestries are sought after by collectors all over the world.
9. 9 9. Episode 91979-10-08It's smelly work down on the farm as Simon and Goldie get to grips with silage-making to feed the cows this winter.
10. 10 10. Episode 101979-10-111066 and All That.... It's 913 years since Britain was successfully invaded and next Sunday marks the anniversary of the famous battle that took place at Hastings. Christopher has
11. 11 11. Episode 111979-10-1521st Birthday Programme Join in the celebrations with Simon, Chris, Tina and the animals, including the first-ever presentation of the Blue Peter 'Award for Outstanding Endeavour'
12. 12 12. Episode 121979-10-18
13. 13 13. Episode 131979-10-22Good news for model railway fans today! Vintage '00' gauge ocos dating from the 1920s will be chugging along the Blue Peter layout-making what may well be their last public run. be
14. 14 14. Episode 141979-10-25'Oh I wish I'd looked after me teeth' - says Pam Ayres who will be in the studio today rendering her famous poem with its awful warning to compulsive sweet-suckers.
15. 15 15. Episode 151979-10-29The Long Sleep Tortoises Maggie and Jim make positively their last appearance before their winter hibernation!
16. 16 16. Episode 161979-11-01Where are they Now? News of the eight puppies born to Petra in September 1965.
17. 17 17. Episode 171979-11-05Next Saturday's Lord Mayor's Show features a covered wagon from Alberta, Canada, birthplace of the new Lord Mayor. Meet the four outriders as they mosey along to the Blue Peter stu
18. 18 18. Episode 181979-11-08Top cook Delia Smith joins the team for the results of the Gorgeous Grub competition. Find out if you've won one of the unique Blue Peter aprons and whether your recipe has been c
19. 19 19. Episode 191979-11-12Catch up with the latest news about The Great Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale... Find out how your gifts are helping to save the lives of the starving children of Cambodia.
20. 20 20. Episode 201979-11-15
21. 21 21. Episode 211979-11-19
22. 22 22. Episode 221979-11-22Make your pocket-money go further and give your friends and relations home-made cards this Christmas. They're cheap and cheerful and different from anything you'll see in the shops
23. 23 23. Episode 231979-11-26Flying Cats Jack and Jill take to the skies and jet their way to Dunfermline for a guest appearance at the Edinburgh and East Scotland Cat Show. Blue Peter cameras follow their fli
24. 24 24. Episode 241979-11-29George Cansdale, who's bringing a mysterious animal to the studio. George has travelled all over the world in search of rare animals and birds - he once carried some exotic snakes
25. 25 25. Episode 251979-12-03
26. 26 26. Episode 261979-12-06
27. 27 27. Episode 271979-12-10
28. 28 28. Episode 281979-12-13With only four Blue Peters to go before Christmas Day, it's time to light the first candle on the Advent Crown. Chris will be demonstrating another gastronomic treat to delight you
29. 29 29. Episode 291979-12-17Two hundred years ago this week the most famous pantomime star of all time was born. His name was Joseph Grimaldi , and everyone from King George III to flower-girls in the gallery
30. 30 30. Episode 301979-12-20Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! This week's your last chance to join in with the Great Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale before the Oxfam shops take down their posters this Saturday. Thanks to yo
31. 31 31. Episode 311979-12-24Christmas is Coming! And today you can see the results of the Great Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale Auction and find out how Blue Peter viewers all over Britain have given help and
32. 32 32. Episode 321979-12-31Question: What do Her Majesty The Queen, Rameses II, Yul Brynner, the Prime Minister, James Callaghan and 80 pantomime horses have in common? Answer: They've all taken part in Blu
33. 33 33. Episode 331980-01-03
34. 34 34. Episode 341980-01-07On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Join Simon and Goldie deep in the heart of the Scottish Highlands and discover how an artist's sketches drawn on a wall in a mountain lodge have
35. 35 35. Episode 351980-01-10In the Swim Chris spends the day with Britain's 800m Women's Freestyle record holder, 14-year-old Jackie Willmott from Southend. Jackie swims a gruelling 10,000m per day and start
36. 36 36. Episode 361980-01-14Frightful Flies to Freedom The remarkable story of the baby kestrel rescued and hand-reared by student Wendy Page of Loughborough University.
37. 37 37. Episode 371980-01-17Shampoo and Set Tina shows how to make a dolls' hairdressing salon, complete with basins, showers and driers.
38. 38 38. Episode 381980-01-21Cleopatra's Needle Each year thousands of tourists visit London's famous obelisk on the banks of the River Thames. Simon and Tina explore the quarry in Egypt where this gigantic g
39. 39 39. Episode 391980-01-24Operation Oily Bird A mysterious oil-slick off the coast of Somerset has resulted in the biggest bird rescue operation since the Torrey Canyon disaster. Tina helps John Hughes, Wa
40. 40 40. Episode 401980-01-28
41. 41 41. Episode 411980-01-31Join Simon on a trip back in time on the Severn Valley Railway and discover how you can win a ride on the footplate of a famous old loco.
42. 42 42. Episode 421980-02-04Deep in the heart of Buckinghamshire, lepidopterist Margaret Beer has come up with a world first. By breeding death's-head hawk moths in captivity she has succeeded where internati
43. 43 43. Episode 431980-02-07Welcome World ... We're Ready! That's the claim of Lake Placid, the small mountain village in the United States of America where the 13th Winter Olympic Games open next week. Tina
44. 44 44. Episode 441980-02-11Champions All There's a studio full of celebrities today with Crufts' Supreme and Obedience Champions and, ' Great Balls of Fire', none other than rock 'n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis.
45. 45 45. Episode 451980-02-14
46. 46 46. Episode 461980-02-18Eager Beavers Barney and Bumble, two seven-month-old Canadian beavers bred at Chessington Zoo, try out the pond in the Blue Peter studio, with animal expert George Cansdale keepin
47. 47 47. Episode 471980-02-21Calling All Gardeners Now is the time to be making plans for a bumper crop of spring vegetables and flowers. Percy Thrower joins the team in the Blue Peter garden with more helpfu
48. 48 48. Episode 481980-02-25
49. 49 49. Episode 491980-02-28Vote, Vote, Vote! Do metres and milligrammes drive you dotty? Are you flummoxed by feet and ounces? Today is your chance to join in with Blue Peter's nationwide Weights and Measur
50. 50 50. Episode 501980-03-03Ever seen a duck with six wheels? Now's your chance as Simon drives one at the Grange Cavern Museum -a mysterious labyrinth of caves underneath a Welsh hillside.
51. 51 51. Episode 511980-03-06Operation Newt! The Cheltenham Tote Gold Cup horse race is in jeopardy-the water jump is full of great crested newts. Chris reports from the course on their rescue.
52. 52 52. Episode 521980-03-10With Mothering Sunday only six days away, now's your chance to beat the high cost of flowers in the shops and make some everlasting violets that cost only a few pence. (Have a pape
53. 53 53. Episode 531980-03-13Mountain Rescue! Chris takes to the hills on exercise with the RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team and helps in the search for injured mountaineer Simon Groom.
54. 54 54. Episode 541980-03-17A special programme for St Patrick's Day.
55. 55 55. Episode 551980-03-20A-Z of Space Since 1957 five planets in our solar system have been photographed and men have walked on the moon. Reg Turnill, who reported for the BBC on the space programmes, inv
56. 56 56. Episode 561980-03-24"I name this ship..." With the traditional crash of a champagne bottle, Tina launches the latest cross-channel ferry at Harland and Woolff's shipyard in Belfast. Watch out for det
57. 57 57. Episode 571980-03-27
58. 58 58. Episode 581980-03-31The Great Everest Mystery Fifty-six years ago two English climbers, GEORGE MALLORY and ANDREW IRVINE , made a bid to reach the summit of Mt Everest -and were never seen again. New
59. 59 59. Episode 591980-04-03Dr Who's Spring Clean The BBC's travelling Dr Who exhibitions are constantly changing to keep pace with the latest monsters the Doctor tackles. Tina goes behind the scenes, to len
60. 60 60. Episode 601980-04-10Octavia Aviator! Twelve-year-old Paul Sharp from Retford won Blue Peter's 'Name the Owl' competition and two days as a VIP guest of the RAF's Number 8 Squadron at Lossiemouth. As
61. 61 61. Episode 611980-04-14Metric or Imperial? The results of a nationwide survey of 19,000 viewers are announced on today's programme. Find out how children voted in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and
62. 62 62. Episode 621980-04-17Chris goes behind-the-scenes with the Mines Rescue Service - the emergency teams on 24-hour call to cope with pit disasters.
63. 63 63. Episode 631980-04-21Crack Pots Do you throw away your broken plates and cups and saucers? They don't in Guernsey! Simon and Goldie investigate the Channel Island's famous crockery-covered Chapel.
64. 64 64. Episode 641980-04-24St Christopher Ahoy! The results of the competition to design a mural for the newest cross-channel ferry. Find out whether you have won a vip trip on the St Christopher's maiden v
65. 65 65. Episode 651980-04-28The Rochdale Pioneers It's hard to imagine life without supermarkets and nowadays we take clean shops and clearly-marked prices and weights for granted. But 130 years ago finding
66. 66 66. Episode 661980-05-01
67. 67 67. Episode 671980-05-05
68. 68 68. Episode 681980-05-08
69. 69 69. Episode 691980-05-12
70. 70 70. Episode 701980-05-15William and Dorothy: Dorothy Wordsworth's diary was the inspiration behind many of her brother's most famous poems Tina and Chris go back in time and become 19th-century detectives
71. 71 71. Episode 711980-05-19
72. 72 72. Episode 721980-05-22A ginger tom-cat and Britain's oldest garden under continuous cultivation are two of the unexpected finds Tina makes when she explores Westminster Abbey.
73. 73 73. Episode 731980-05-29Portable Pavement: A replica of the largest Romano-British pavement north of the Alps fills the Blue Peter studio today-all 115,052 pieces of it! Simon, Chris and Tina help to fit
74. 74 74. Episode 741980-06-02
75. 75 75. Episode 751980-06-05
76. 76 76. Episode 761980-06-09Fred, the bionic tortoise, shows off his new shell after a death-defying encounter with a tractor-drawn mower.
77. 77 77. Episode 771980-06-12The Fishers of Mousehole Sarah goes mackerel fishing and eats Starry Gazey Pie.
78. 78 78. Episode 781980-06-16Twelve years ago schoolboy Ray Gluckman grew a crystal in an eggcup. See it today in a dustbin - tipping the scale at 40 lbs and still growing!
79. 79 79. Episode 791980-06-19' Dear Tina, Can you still cut your toenails? ' Find out today and hear Tina's baby's heartbeats through an electronic stethoscope.
80. 80 80. Episode 801980-06-23Highland Fling! Goldie barks open the Irvine New Town Highland Games, Jill's kittens make their first-ever studio appearance and the team prepare for the summer expedition.
81. 81 81. Episode 811980-06-30Goldie Special with Simon Groom Britain's best-loved golden retriever gets a programme all to herself today starting with a flashback to her first-ever appearance on Blue Peter on