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RIP John "Get Down, Shep" Noakes
Posted: 29 May 2017, 19:51
by EvilBastard
Probably won't mean much to you young'uns, or to anyone not fortunate enough to have been middle-class and English 40 years ago, but
this 
Posted: 29 May 2017, 19:52
by Pista
I read this earlier.
Gone to the big Blue Peter garden in the sky.
Another chunk of my childhood gone
Posted: 29 May 2017, 23:16
by Microcosmia
Pista wrote:I read this earlier.
Gone to the big Blue Peter garden in the sky.
Another chunk of my childhood gone
Mine too. We got BBC here on east coast Ireland back when the postcode was W12 8QT and remember him and Shep well. RIP.
Posted: 29 May 2017, 23:20
by Swinnow
It's alright we loved him in distinctly working class Birkenhead too in those black and white TV days. RIP
Posted: 29 May 2017, 23:20
by million voices
Certainly part of my TV childhood
When kids TV was good and not on all the time
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 09:15
by markfiend
They had to dub over a lot of his more "exciting" stunts (abseiling down Nelson's Column etc.) to cover up all the effing and jeffing he used to do.
RIP.
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 15:57
by eastmidswhizzkid
the only blue peter presenter i ever gave a s**t about was Caron Keating; i fancied her so much that i watched blue peter religiously during her tenure (a bit sad for a drug-crazed 20 year old man but i was dedicated) and was almost as upset at her quitting as i was her untimely death. still, RIP noakesy.
Posted: 05 Jun 2017, 17:03
by EvilBastard
markfiend wrote:They had to dub over a lot of his more "exciting" stunts (abseiling down Nelson's Column etc.) to cover up all the effing and jeffing he used to do.
RIP.
Apparently they discovered that the sound guy failed to record the audio for the first trip up Nelson's Column...so they had to do the whole thing over again. Not sure I'd blame him for a little salty language at that juncture.