Blue Peter - Season 12

1. Expedition Turkey

Aired: 9/8/1975

with John Noakes, Peter Purves , Lesley Judd Today the temperature rises as John and Peter sample a turkish bath at a sizzling 40 degrees centigrade and East meets West on the famous Bosphorus Bridge where you can stand in two continents at once.

2. Episode 2

Aired: 9/11/1975

For the past six months Buttons, the 3 Bs Appeal trainee guide dog puppy, has been puppy-walked on the programme. Now, in her Advanced Test, she has to prove whether or not she's good enough to go away to school to be enrolled at a Guide Dogs for the Blind Training Centre.

3. Expedition Turkey

Aired: 9/15/1975

Sunken Cistern: JOHN, PETER and LESLEY boat through the mysterious Roman reservoir that lies beneath the pavements of Istanbul and discover the spot where the world's first bird-man leapt into space.

4. Episode 4

Aired: 9/18/1975

Monster Raffle: who will win Hemel Hempstead Fire Station's life-size mate for the Loch Ness Monster? Today ' Nessie ' returns to the studio where the prize draw will be made, and the lucky winner will become the owner of a spectacular mobile giant.

5. Episode 5

Aired: 9/22/1975

Seal Survival: John joins George Cansdale in a rescue operation with a happy ending. Baby seals washed ashore at Skegness are released into the sea after rehabilitation at Nature-land Marine Zoo.

6. Episode 6

Aired: 9/25/1975

John, Peter and Lesley explore the mysterious Goreme Valley, where St George is said to have fought the dragon, and discover hidden churches hewn into the rocks by early Christians who fled from persecution.

7. Episode 7

Aired: 9/29/1975

8. Episode 8

Aired: 10/2/1975

9. Expedition Turkey

Aired: 10/6/1975

John, Peter and Lesley visit one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and swim through the columns of a Roman town.

10. Everest Monster Competition

Aired: 10/9/1975

Yeti or Ape? Bear or Creature from Outer Space?

11. Episode 11

Aired: 10/13/1975

12. Episode 12

Aired: 10/16/1975

13. Who Can Ever be Tired of Bath?

Aired: 10/20/1975

When Jane Austen wrote these words in 1801 Bath was the centre of fashionable society. To celebrate Jane Austen's bicentenary Valerie revisits the city and takes the waters.

14. Cotton Castles

Aired: 10/23/1975

John, Peter and Lesley visit Pamukkale in Western Turkey, where hot mineral springs have transformed the mountainside into curious swimming pools that were first discovered by the Romans.

15. Episode 15

Aired: 10/27/1975

16. Episode 16

Aired: 10/30/1975

17. Episode 17

Aired: 11/3/1975

18. Episode 18

Aired: 11/6/1975

19. Episode 19

Aired: 11/10/1975

20. Episode 20

Aired: 11/13/1975

21. Episode 21

Aired: 11/17/1975

Anything's likely to happen in today's programme - and probably will - with the visiting team of The Goodies.

22. Christmas Money Savers

Aired: 11/20/1975

Today: Home-made Christmas Cards and Gift Tags

23. Episode 23

Aired: 11/24/1975

24. Episode 24

Aired: 11/27/1975

Don't miss Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year! Find out how you can help the 1975 Christmas Appeal.

25. Episode 25

Aired: 12/1/1975

26. Episode 26

Aired: 12/4/1975

Lost a glove? Don't throw the odd one away! Torn your shirt? Save it for us! Send your old wool and cotton to Blue Peter and help the great Clothes-Horse Race. Two hundred tons are wanted to provide badly-needed aid for disabled people all over Britain. In today's programme the Totaliser will show the latest score and if you can help the race to the winning post, here's the Appeal Depot address: [address removed].

27. Episode 27

Aired: 12/8/1975

28. Episode 28

Aired: 12/11/1975

29. Episode 29

Aired: 12/15/1975

30. Episode 30

Aired: 12/18/1975

31. Episode 31

Aired: 12/22/1975

See Lesley shrink as she becomes Alice - and watch her adventures in Blue Peterland. Join in with carols round the tree, with the children of The John Scurr Junior School, Warlingham County Secondary School, and The Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army, and hear the latest news of the Blue Peter Clothes-Horse Race.

32. Do you remember...

Aired: 12/29/1975

When John crashed his bobsleigh at 90 miles an hour? When a gorilla pounced on Lesley and Rod Hull's Emu grabbed Peter's hair for his nest? These are all in today's programme when Valerie, John, Peter and Lesley pick their favourite adventures of 1975.

33. Has the Clothes-Horse Race Been Won?

Aired: 1/1/1976

Will the mountain of old wool and cotton weighed at the Collection Depot finally reach the 200-ton target on the Totalisor? If so, Blue Peter viewers will have helped hundreds of handicapped people all over the country by providing a pony and also equipment for 289 disabled riding groups in Great Britain.

34. Episode 34

Aired: 1/5/1976

Lesley serves dinner in the clouds as she learns how to be a waitress on wings.

35. Episode 35

Aired: 1/8/1976

John goes wire-walking along the cables of Scotland's greatest suspension bridge.

36. Episode 36

Aired: 1/12/1976

37. Episode 37

Aired: 1/15/1976

38. Episode 38

Aired: 1/19/1976

39. Fish and Chips!

Aired: 1/22/1976

JOHN and LESLEY become cook and waitress at the world's largest and most luxurious fish and chip shop -where the lights are glass chandeliers and the ingredients of the batter one of Britain's top secrets.

40. Episode 40

Aired: 1/26/1976

41. Episode 41

Aired: 1/29/1976

42. Episode 42

Aired: 2/2/1976

43. Episode 43

Aired: 2/5/1976

44. Episode 44

Aired: 2/9/1976

45. Episode 45

Aired: 2/12/1976

46. Episode 46

Aired: 2/16/1976

47. Episode 47

Aired: 2/19/1976

48. Episode 48

Aired: 2/23/1976

49. Episode 49

Aired: 2/26/1976

50. Episode 50

Aired: 3/1/1976

51. Episode 51

Aired: 3/4/1976

52. Episode 52

Aired: 3/8/1976

53. Episode 53

Aired: 3/11/1976

54. Episode 54

Aired: 3/15/1976

55. Episode 55

Aired: 3/18/1976

56. Episode 56

Aired: 3/22/1976

57. Episode 57

Aired: 3/25/1976

58. Episode 58

Aired: 3/29/1976

59. Episode 59

Aired: 4/1/1976

60. Episode 60

Aired: 4/5/1976

61. Episode 61

Aired: 4/8/1976

62. Episode 62

Aired: 4/12/1976

63. Episode 63

Aired: 4/15/1976

64. Episode 64

Aired: 4/19/1976

65. Episode 65

Aired: 4/22/1976

66. Episode 66

Aired: 4/26/1976

67. Episode 67

Aired: 4/29/1976

68. Episode 68

Aired: 5/3/1976

69. Episode 69

Aired: 5/6/1976

70. Episode 70

Aired: 5/10/1976

71. Episode 71

Aired: 5/13/1976

72. Episode 72

Aired: 5/17/1976

73. Episode 73

Aired: 5/20/1976

74. Blue Peter Goes Supersonic

Aired: 5/24/1976

This morning John and Peter. waved Lesley off at London Airport as she joined the VIPs on Concorde's first passenger flight to Washington. At 4.50 (our time) LESLEY arrives at Dulles Airport and makes Blue Peter's first live report from the United States in this specially extended edition of the programme. Back in the Blue Peter studio JOHN and PETER meet Bluey and Jester, two of Britain's last remaining pit ponies, who are now film stars and Val visits the Music Room at Brighton Pavilion, devastated by fire six months ago, and talks to the craftsmen who will be working on the restoration.

75. Episode 75

Aired: 5/27/1976

76. Episode 76

Aired: 6/3/1976

77. Episode 77

Aired: 6/7/1976

78. Episode 78

Aired: 6/10/1976

79. Episode 79

Aired: 6/14/1976

80. Episode 80

Aired: 6/17/1976

81. Episode 81

Aired: 6/21/1976

82. Episode 82

Aired: 6/24/1976

83. Episode 83

Aired: 6/28/1976

Next week a spaceship lands on an unexplored planet. Today you can see how a British invention may help to answer the question... Is there Life on Mars?

84. Episode 84

Aired: 7/1/1976

85. Blue Peter Flies the World: Turkey: Getting into Hot Water

Aired: 7/5/1976

Discover what Cotton Castles are! See John and Peter pummelled by a Masseur in a Turkish Bath. Explore a Roman cistern underneath the pavements of Istanbul.

86. Blue Peter Flies the World: Turkey: Romans and Wrestlers

Aired: 7/12/1976

See the world's most slippery sport - oil wrestling! Tunnel underground in a secret city where the early Christians hid. Go sightseeing round the ruins of a Roman town - by swimming down the High Street.

87. Blue Peter Goes West

Aired: 7/19/1976

Cornwall and the Scilly Isles with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd John joins the gruelling 'Gigs Race' which began when the men from the Scilly Isles rowed between the Islands to guide ships off the jagged rocks around the coast. In Cornwall Peter finds out how fireworks became lifesavers. At sea Lesley makes the terrifying journey by breeches buoy on to the Bishop Rock Lighthouse.