Blue Peter: 1975-1976
Season 12 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Blue Peter Season 11.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 12 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 8, 1975
Expedition Turkey 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
Episode 2
Sep 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 g
Episode 3
Sep 15, 1975
Expedition Turkey 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 wo
Episode 4
Sep 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
Episode 5
Sep 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-l
Episode 6
Sep 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
Episode 9
Oct 6, 1975
Expedition Turkey John, Peter and Lesley visit one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and swim through the columns of a Roman town.
Episode 10
Oct 9, 1975
Everest Monster Competition Yeti or Ape? Bear or Creature from Outer Space?
Episode 13
Oct 20, 1975
Who Can Ever be Tired of Bath? When Jane Austen wrote these words in 1801 Bath was the centre of fashionable society. To celebrate Jane Austen's bicentenary Valerie revisits the c
Episode 14
Oct 23, 1975
Cotton Castles John, Peter and Lesley visit Pamukkale in Western Turkey, where hot mineral springs have transformed the mountainside into curious swimming pools that were first di
Episode 21
Nov 17, 1975
Anything's likely to happen in today's programme - and probably will - with the visiting team of The Goodies.
Episode 22
Nov 20, 1975
Christmas Money Savers Today: Home-made Christmas Cards and Gift Tags
Episode 24
Nov 27, 1975
Don't miss Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year! Find out how you can help the 1975 Christmas Appeal.
Episode 26
Dec 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 a
Episode 31
Dec 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, Warling
Episode 32
Dec 29, 1975
Do you remember... 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 to
Episode 33
Jan 1, 1976
Has the Clothes-Horse Race Been Won? 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
Episode 34
Jan 5, 1976
Lesley serves dinner in the clouds as she learns how to be a waitress on wings.
Episode 35
Jan 8, 1976
John goes wire-walking along the cables of Scotland's greatest suspension bridge.
Episode 39
Jan 22, 1976
Fish and Chips! 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 o
Episode 74
May 24, 1976
Blue Peter Goes Supersonic 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
Episode 83
Jun 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?