h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

NO you really really don't want to recall this...





















Don't Look Down.





















I'm warning you...












It's really not nice...














To quote Deep Thought. "You're really *not* going to like it"














Oh go on then....






Peter Duncan's Green and White Suit designed for him by a viewer of Blue Peter.!



What on earth was that all about!

He even wore it when he ran the London Marathon! WHich means he *must* have had more than one! Surely it could not have survived that experiece.


Sorry, I'm going to thave to lie down now.

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I am old enough to remember that suit Orcus. However I had managed to erase it from my memory up to that point, I half expected him to be wearing it when he showed up in Flash Gordon!

Aaah, well he made that film *before* he was on Blue Peter but I think he was wearing green

Why oh why oh why didn't I listen? I was warned. Now I have to saw the top of my head off and scoop out the memories with a spoon.

If you recall.....a viewer designed that suit for him.

They must be SOOOO proud now, eh??

he was on one of those nosdtalgia programmes recently - and he brought the damn thing out! he's kept it - fancy that! The BBC kept Shep the dog, but they let Peter Duncan take the suit away - what does that say???

I only caught the back end of the 80s. What a shame! I've never liked Blue Peter - I hated the presenters too much, they are too annoying. I wasn't too keen on the theme tune either. The new version is ear-splitting. Worse than bagpipes! (The Horror!)

Haven't really seen it for years thank god.

Not only was *that suit* a horror but those sort of competitions in general were a nightmare. Mainly because they'd divide up the competitions into age categories with a prize in each category and an overall prize.

The overall prize would inevitably get given to the under 5s age group.

So What? I hear you cry.

Well, when the prize is to design artwork to be painted as a massive mural on the side of a Ferry then that's a problem.
Anyone remember that stupid Kindergarten painting that got painted 30ft high and 50ft wide on that ferry?

Really, it was a good painting for a five year old but you don't put them in the Tate Gallery do you?

Channel 4 recently did a Top 100 children's programmes ever and it was concluded that *everybody* hated Blue Peter, it was only the parents who loved it, not the kids.

I remember thinking that at the time, Orcus, but nowadays I've changed my mind! At least the 5 year old's work was reasonably spontaneous and heartfelt. The 12 year olds was invariably done by a precocious brat with a pushy Mum, and did their best to include Save The Panda, or whatever was the latest Blue Peter bug-a-boo, in a desperate effort to win

Anybody here actually got a Blue Peter badge? not me!

This conversation must be soo impenetrable t our overseas researchers!

didn't that have a song out too?

he did you know-and he wore that
suit in the video for it!!!


and of course there's the porno flick rumour.

and Mark Curry of BP's awful specs

what a great thread!

and of course Ace from Dr 'oo has a BP badge.

That was in Electric Blue 4, if i recall correctly, not as a star but as a peeping tom. In a startling moment of pre-cognition he is peeping on none other than struggling actress and later kids tv presenter Sarah Greene.

Aaaaarggggghhhh - the Song too

Now I *had* forgotten that but never mind. My own fault for starting off the thread in the first place.

I presume you are joking there Blues Shark - about Sarah Greene that is.

*dons memory hat*

She came to Blue Peter from an unremembered children's drama serial called "The Swish of the Curtain".

Did she really do an Electric Blue video in between?

Cloviscat I think it was also the myster of who was going to win that was missing also.

The youngest kids won every single time!

Having said that of course. Who were these 16 year old sending in stuff to Blue Peter????
Talk about loss of street cred.

A girl in my maths class in Upper School appeared as a guest on Saturday Superstore once - she won a competition - she got flayed alive on coming back to school. It would nave been better she'd never entered really - and Saturday Superstore was much higher in the cred stakes than Blue Peter.

Sarah Greene, yes she did. By all accounts a bit of a girl.
Ask any attendee at Hull University about the old Pool table.

Let's put it this way-I've never seen the video in question, but several unrelated sources have told me that they have seen both and La Greene in the same episode of the Electric Blue series. Either it's true or it's an urban myth-but if the latter a very restricted one as no-one else on the site has come forward to confirm it...

As to the rumours about Hull, they come from a source that I would say was pretty solid, if not *entirely* unimpeachable.

Trouble is I've heard *very similar* stories about Carole Vorderman at Cambridge... I even heard someone saying similar stiff about Jan Leeming (remember her?)

Orcus, an old cynic

There you go.
I don't say either is true, merely that I am inclined to believe.

By the time I was told about Sarah Greene, she was well and truly out of the public eye(post swap shop, pre-chopper crash), and I can't think of anything to be gained by someone spreading such rumours AT THAT TIME.

We shall never know. Though for what it's worth I do remember a news story where Duncan and Greene were caught in a west end restaurant together and certain acts were alleged by the 'popular' press.

I think you just collect pervy stories...

I remember Swish of the Curtain - 1950's kids form drama group - she wore a charming cardy I think

What about the Xmas stamps - they had onbe form each age category? And the Sil;ver Jubilee Radio Times - she was at least 7!

I see nothing wrong with collecting pervy stories about Sarah Greene. The only reason I watched Blue Peter or the wretched Saturday Superstore to be honest.

And I think you'll find the same can be said for many a young man my age.