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84 episodesEpisode 1
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 you can stand in two continents at once.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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 world's first bird-man leapt into space.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 9
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
Everest Monster Competition Yeti or Ape? Bear or Creature from Outer Space?
Episode 13
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 city and takes the waters.
Episode 14
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 discovered by the Romans.
Episode 21
Anything's likely to happen in today's programme - and probably will - with the visiting team of The Goodies.
Episode 22
Christmas Money Savers Today: Home-made Christmas Cards and Gift Tags
Episode 24
Don't miss Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year! Find out how you can help the 1975 Christmas Appeal.
Episode 26
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].
Episode 31
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.
Episode 32
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 today's programme when Valerie, John, Peter and Lesley pick their favourite adventures of 1975.
Episode 33
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 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.
Episode 34
Lesley serves dinner in the clouds as she learns how to be a waitress on wings.
Episode 35
John goes wire-walking along the cables of Scotland's greatest suspension bridge.
Episode 39
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 of the batter one of Britain's top secrets.
Episode 74
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 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.
Episode 83
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?