Blue Peter - Season 10

First aired: 9/10/1973 82 episodes
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Episodes

1. Expedition Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/10/1973

In today’s programme, John and Pete in their dug-out canoe battle with 15-foot waves and Lesley explores a ghost town on the edge of the jungle.

2. Expedition Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/13/1973

When the jungle trail runs out, John, Pete and Lesley take to canoes to visit Tiegba, a fishing village built on stilts over the muddy waters of a tropical lagoon. Making a splash on the Ivory Coast.

3. Expedition - Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/17/1973

John, Pete and Lesley meet the knife painters of Fakar, where each man paints a picture every day, and six-year-old Emmanuel who sews faster than a machine.

4. Expedition Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/20/1973

The sinister story of the Sacred Masks and the Yacouba acrobats.

5. Expedition - Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/24/1973

John, Peter and Lesley come face to face with crocodiles at the Sacred Lake and meet the strolling Balafon players-with six foot xylophones made of solid wood.

6. Expedition - Ivory Coast

Aired: 9/27/1973

John, Peter and Lesley cross the jungle barefoot on a sweeping creeper bridge to find the ten-foot stilt dancers of Gouessesso.

7. Episode 7

Aired: 10/1/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

8. Episode 8

Aired: 10/4/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

9. Episode 9

Aired: 10/8/1973

John Noakes trains with the RAF’s Flying Falcons In preparation for his five-mile drop through the sky. According to the Guinness Book of Records, John is the first civilian in Britain ever to have achieved this spectacular feat.

10. Episode 10

Aired: 10/11/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

11. Episode 11

Aired: 10/15/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

12. Episode 12

Aired: 10/18/1973

John meets a famous actress - Charlotte Rhodes. Few people realise that The Onedin Line‘s famous ship plays many different parts, and today you can see how the transformations take place.

13. Episode 13

Aired: 10/22/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

14. Episode 14

Aired: 10/25/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

15. Episode 15

Aired: 10/29/1973

Five months ago Lesley visited Whipsnade Zoo for the selection of the 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales’s new mascot. Today you can watch Dewi II’s debut at Cardiff Castle in front Of HRH the Prince of Wales, and see how he reacted to his period of intensive square bashing.

16. Episode 16

Aired: 11/1/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

Episode 17

17. Episode 17

Aired: 11/5/1973

Petra celebrates her 11th birthday, and Dr Who, alias Jon Pertwee, demonstrates his amazing new car.

18. Episode 18

Aired: 11/8/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

19. Episode 19

Aired: 11/12/1973

Today Valerie and John go behind-the-scenes at Westminster Abbey to see the preparations being made for this week’s Royal Wedding. More than 500-million people in five continents are expected to be viewing on Wednesday, and the Wedding will be televised ' live ' to 16 different countries. The BBC will be using 50 cameras and 14 mobile control rooms to cover the event, and in today’s Blue Peter you can see where the cameras are hidden in the Abbey.

20. Episode 20

Aired: 11/15/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

21. Episode 21

Aired: 11/19/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

22. Episode 22

Aired: 11/22/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

23. Episode 23

Aired: 11/26/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

24. Episode 24

Aired: 11/29/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

25. Episode 25

Aired: 12/3/1973

Over 2,000 cats and kittens entered for Saturday’s National Cat Club Championship Show at Olympia. Lesley judged the Blue Peter classes and, today, the eight first prizewinners will be in the studio to compete for the Blue Peter Supreme Championship.

26. Episode 26

Aired: 12/6/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

27. Episode 27

Aired: 12/10/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

28. Episode 28

Aired: 12/13/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

29. Episode 29

Aired: 12/17/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

30. Episode 30

Aired: 12/20/1973

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

31. Episode 31

Aired: 12/24/1973

Arthur Askey shows John and Pete how to play the parts of the Ugly Sisters, with Lesley as Prince Charming and Val as Cinderella. Join in carols around the tree with the Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army plus news of the Blue Peter Stampede.

32. Episode 32

Aired: 12/31/1973

Review of the Year - including John’s five-mile free fall, the amazing Uri Geller and the special message from Pope Paul VI.

33. Episode 33

Aired: 1/3/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

34. Episode 34

Aired: 1/7/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

35. Episode 35

Aired: 1/10/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

36. Episode 36

Aired: 1/14/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

37. Episode 37

Aired: 1/17/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

38. Episode 38

Aired: 1/21/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

39. Episode 39

Aired: 1/24/1974

Paco Pena and his Flamenco Puro Paco, with dancers Margarita and Faiquillo De Cordoba, teach Lesley the basic flamenco steps to rhythm provided by John and Pete with Barrilito, El Sordera and Basilisco.

40. Episode 40

Aired: 1/28/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

41. Episode 41

Aired: 1/31/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

42. Episode 42

Aired: 2/4/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

43. Episode 43

Aired: 2/7/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

44. Episode 44

Aired: 2/11/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

45. Episode 45

Aired: 2/14/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

46. Episode 46

Aired: 2/18/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

47. Episode 47

Aired: 2/21/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

48. Episode 48

Aired: 2/25/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

49. Episode 49

Aired: 2/28/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

50. Episode 50

Aired: 3/4/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

51. Episode 51

Aired: 3/7/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

52. Episode 52

Aired: 3/11/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

53. Episode 53

Aired: 3/14/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

54. Episode 54

Aired: 3/18/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

55. Episode 55

Aired: 3/21/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

56. Episode 56

Aired: 3/25/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

57. Episode 57

Aired: 3/28/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

58. Episode 58

Aired: 4/1/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

59. Episode 59

Aired: 4/4/1974

Hannah, the labrador bought by Blue Peter viewers with a silver paper collection, and her latest litter of six puppies (one of them is shown here) - plus Bonnie the Kennel cat. The pups make their debut today.

60. Episode 60

Aired: 4/8/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

61. Episode 61

Aired: 4/11/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

62. Episode 62

Aired: 4/18/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

63. Episode 63

Aired: 4/22/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

64. Episode 64

Aired: 4/25/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

65. Episode 65

Aired: 4/29/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

66. Episode 66

Aired: 5/2/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

67. Episode 67

Aired: 5/6/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

68. Episode 68

Aired: 5/9/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

69. Episode 69

Aired: 5/13/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

70. Episode 70

Aired: 5/16/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

71. Episode 71

Aired: 5/20/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

72. Episode 72

Aired: 5/23/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

73. Episode 73

Aired: 5/27/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

74. Episode 74

Aired: 6/3/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

75. Episode 75

Aired: 6/6/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

76. Episode 76

Aired: 6/10/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

77. Episode 77

Aired: 6/13/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

78. Episode 78

Aired: 6/17/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

79. Episode 79

Aired: 6/20/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

80. Episode 80

Aired: 6/24/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

81. Episode 81

Aired: 6/27/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

82. Episode 82

Aired: 7/1/1974

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd. Today you can discover where the Blue Peter team is off to for the summer expedition.