Blue Peter: 1983-1984
Season 20 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 19.
- 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 20 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 12, 1983
Gentle Giants! There's no doubt who stole the show during this year's Summer Expedition - the elephants. They're Sri Lanka's most useful piece of farm equipment, with great advan
Episode 2
Sep 13, 1983
Hidden Treasure ' King Solomon in all his glory' was probably wearing a robe studded in jewels that came from Sri Lanka. The quarter-of-a-million pounds' worth of jewels Janet wea
Episode 3
Sep 19, 1983
Expedition Sri Lanka with Simon Groom , Peter Duncan and Janet Ellis Coconuts Galore! Simon braves a tightrope walk across the tree tops and tracks down a Toddy Tapper - the death
Episode 4
Sep 22, 1983
Expedition Sri Lanka: Shipwrecked Sailor! More than 300 years before "Blue Peter"'s expedition Robert Knox, a young English sailor, was shipwrecked on the island and taken prisone
Episode 5
Sep 26, 1983
Meet the bird with a six-foot wing span that can soar to an incredible 200 feet before swooping on its prey at 45 miles-an-hour: Heidithe white bellied sea eagle.
Episode 6
Sep 29, 1983
Tea for Two Janet toils In the plantations at Nuwara Eliya and discovers there's far more to producing a good cuppa than meets the eye. it takes five kilos of leaves to fill one b
Episode 7
Oct 3, 1983
Expedition Sri Lanka - Up the Pole! SIMON and PETER join the stilt fishers of Weligama who perch for hours under the burning sun without moving or speaking, to catch the timid Kor
Episode 8
Oct 6, 1983
Peter scales one of London's best known landmarks and helps to demolish Fulham Power Station.
Episode 9
Oct 10, 1983
To celebrate Blue Peter's Silver Jubilee year, Janet begins her training with the RAF's Falcons in an attempt to win back Blare Peter 's entry in the Guinness Book of Records for t
Episode 10
Oct 13, 1983
More than half the population of Sri Lanka follow the teachings of the Lord Buddha, which began nearly 600 years before Christ was born. The monks start their training when they ar
Episode 11
Oct 17, 1983
Blue Peter Goes Silver! Simon, Peter and Janet launch Blue Peter 's 25th birthday week with a giant lift off! Find out how you can win one of the special Silver Jubilee badges -
Episode 12
Oct 20, 1983
Prickles Galore ! Baby hedgehogs reared by Blue Peter viewers make their first public appearance and inspire chef Duncan to create a cake in their honour.
Episode 13
Oct 24, 1983
The remarkable story of Judy, the only dog ever to become an official prisoner of war. Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Judy survived the gruelling conditions
Episode 14
Oct 27, 1983
Jumping Janet! Janet sees how parachutes like the one she'll use for her free-fall drop with the Falcons are carefully packed. Then comes a jump of 1,000 feet - not from a plane bu
Episode 15
Oct 31, 1983
They said it could not be done! For 72 miles through 12 tunnels and over 17 viaducts, the railway line from Settle to Carlisle climbs over some of the most spectacular countryside
Episode 16
Nov 3, 1983
Blue Peter's silver tabby, Jack, will be in good company today, meeting champions who'll be competing in the chinchilla, silver tabby and Smoke Cat Society's 75th Anniversary Show.
Episode 17
Nov 7, 1983
See How They Run! Six of the fastest feet in Britain flash past today when Himalayan runners Richard and Adrian Crane join Steve Cram in the studio.
Episode 18
Nov 10, 1983
Evil Edna 's dream comes true as her career as a pop star begins, with a little help from Kenneth Williams.
Episode 19
Nov 14, 1983
Today SIMON, PETER and JANET make their most important announcement of the year - so have a pencil and paper handy for details of the 1983 Appeal and find out what it is Blue Peter
Episode 21
Nov 21, 1983
Happy Birthday "Doctor Who"! "Blue Peter" salutes television's most popular sci-fi series with a monstrous flashback to the days of the Cybermen, the Terileptils, the Sea Devils,
Episode 22
Nov 24, 1983
Weather Beaters SOS! The world's weather has gone bonkers! Tens of millions of people in 40 countries are suffering because of droughts or floods. If you join the Blue Peter Weat
Episode 23
Nov 28, 1983
Christmas is Coming!: Don't be down-hearted if you cant afford the decorations in the shops. You can make Janet's Christmas stars - they'll transform your tree and you can use them
Episode 24
Dec 1, 1983
Cry Just a Little Bit Hankies at the ready as Shaky joins the team! If you're a fan - and who isn't? - there's a whole lot of Shakin' goin' on and a big surprise in store for Brit
Episode 25
Dec 5, 1983
Viewers who are short of pocket money to buy their grans and grandads a Christmas present should tune in. Janet will come the rescue with an idea that can be made at home for next
Episode 26
Dec 8, 1983
Fun and games in the studio with Simon and Janet introducing more items of interest. Janet takes to the skies in her bid to break the British civilian freefall record. She makes he
Episode 29
Dec 19, 1983
Lift-off for Simon: Today's the great day for 14-year-old Simon Holtom, the winner of Blue Peter's Intelpost Greetings Card Competition. His glorious view of balloons over the Lond
Episode 30
Dec 22, 1983
On the last Blue Peter before Christmas catch up with the latest news of our Weather Beaters appeal, in aid of 25,000 families in five countries suffering from the effects of droug
Episode 31
Dec 29, 1983
1983 was the year Blue Peter took off! Remember when Simon went spinning upside-down in a jet at 40,000 feet, Peter flew through the air on a flying trapeze, and Janet risked life
Episode 32
Jan 2, 1984
Weather Beater Stop Press! The Blue Peter bring and buy sales are producing fantastic results and if the £750,000 mark lights up on the Totaliser today, the original appeal target
Episode 34
Jan 9, 1984
Merseyside: Twenty-five nations will be building gardens for Britain's first International Garden Festival that opens on Merseyside in May, and your design could be included! Have
Episode 35
Jan 12, 1984
Winged Waitress! Janet discovers there's more to being an air stewardess than meets the eye, as she fights a fire in the galley and escapes down an inflatable chute-part of the ro
Episode 36
Jan 16, 1984
Ski Monday! Peter reports from the French Alps where 232 12 to 18-year-olds have been competing in the 1984 British Junior Ski Championships. Who will be the Ingemar Stenmark ot
Episode 39
Jan 26, 1984
ClockThis! Time has stood still for a century for Gaulby Church's one-handed clock. Simon joins Bob Ovens the expert who aims to get it ticking back to life.
Episode 41
Feb 2, 1984
The 17th-century kitchens at Richmond's Ham House have been newly restored. Not only the furniture, but every single utensil from the spits for roasting larks to the graters, colan
Episode 42
Feb 6, 1984
Garden of Delight! Today's the day the winners of the Blue Peter Festival Garden Competition will be announced. Discover whether your design has won you a 'holiday of a lifetime'
Episode 43
Feb 9, 1984
Be My Valentine! Send your true love a home-made heart on 14 February. Janet shows how to make a double-purpose card.
Episode 44
Feb 13, 1984
'Sit' and 'Stay'! Two top dogs from Crufts, the Obedience Champion bitch and dog, put on a special studio display of their award-winning skills.
Episode 49
Mar 1, 1984
Happy Birthday Sospan! The oldest goat in the British army is 11 years old today. It's Sospan's tenth year with the Royal Regiment of Wales - a regimental record. Fourteen drummer
Episode 52
Mar 12, 1984
A birthday tribute as Janet joins the RNLI's newest crew for their toughest training assignment.
Episode 54
Mar 19, 1984
The Great Escape This Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest mass escapes of all time. Seventy-six allied POWs broke out of Stalag Luft III, using the 350-foot
Episode 60
Apr 9, 1984
Petra, the programme's very first dog, survived the upheaval and today you can see her in her new place of honour in the Blue Peter garden.
Episode 61
Apr 12, 1984
Boxes X 2 4 2000 A giant tree transplant completes the move of Blue Peter's souvenirs for the year 2000.
Episode 65
Apr 30, 1984
Resistance Secret agents' equipment, hidden message compartments and two dolls made in the notorious Revensbruck concentration camp by Second World War heroine Odette Hallowes , a
Episode 66
May 3, 1984
Dragon Builder! Wednesday was a red-letter day for 14-year-old Theo Gayer-Anderson. Not only has his competition sketch for a red dragon been transformed into a flame-breathing, 3
Episode 69
May 17, 1984
Yabby Dabby Doo!: Meet America's Don Messick - the man with elastic vocal chords, and discover how he creates the voices of Muttley, Klunk and Zilly, Godzooky, Boo Boo, Ranger Smit
Episode 71
May 24, 1984
Lee Boo , the Stranger in Rotherhithe The extraordinary story of the 19-year-old prince who left his Pacific Ocean island in 1784 to go to school in London. For five months he was
Episode 75
Jun 11, 1984
Your Life in Their Hands! The men and women of the 110 Lifeguard Clubs will be patrolling Britain's beaches this summer and preventing holidays turning into tragedies. Last year a
Episode 77
Jun 18, 1984
'Come On, You 'Orrible Pair!' There was no sympathy for Simon and Peter when they faced the most gruelling of all their assignments - training with the Devonport Field Gunners for