48 years later I'm sat on the bog watching a phone call between Peter Purves and John Noakes on my phone.

@richards9407

2 жыл бұрын

Are you done yet?

@explorer806

2 жыл бұрын

@@richards9407 Hollywood ending for the win 😀

@Ballinalower

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@oddities-whatnot

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the sound of two sailers jumping overboard.

@julianshepherd2038

2 жыл бұрын

TMI

Hard to believe this was a children's program when you compare it to the modern drivel made for adults.

@Jlipnicki

2 жыл бұрын

They did not assume children wanted to hear trivia.

@michaelcottle6270

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the days when the BBC was building a world renowned reputation for quality - which they've spent most of the last decade widdling away chasing fake balance. "99.9999% of the population think the Earth is a sphere, but, in the interest of balance, let's put a flat earther on and give them equal screentime as a scientist..." etc.

@barryhercules6486

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcottle6270 🤔?

@happydavid13

2 жыл бұрын

@@barryhercules6486 everyone understands the point he is making.

@barryhercules6486

2 жыл бұрын

@@happydavid13 you, him or any other commenter doesn't mean "everyone".

When I first started driving in 1973, I found an old phone and kept it in my car. When I would roll up on my friends on the corner. I’d fake taking on the phone. Everybody would collapse in hysterics because it was hilarious that someone would have a phone in their car.

@hopefletcher7420

Жыл бұрын

Arlo Guthrie, the folk singer, did a song in the early 70s about having phones everywhere...bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen...even in his car. It was a joke back then.

@bubba842

3 ай бұрын

The sad thing Is that in the 80s there was companies that actually sold fake car phones so people could fake looking rich and important while stuck in traffic, because only the rich had proper car phones.

@Keithbarber

3 ай бұрын

If only they could see 25-50 years into the future.....

@lucaschapman2188

3 ай бұрын

Lucky Cycling 🚴 Mikey wasn’t around back then lol

I can't wait for technology like this to become mainstream. Imagine the possibilities. A phone that you can carry with you everywhere you go.

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

Yeaaaaa and the flares comes with it as a bonus

@danw4237

Жыл бұрын

Seems a bit posh, having a phone on you at all times. It will never catch on.

@adelaideautowashes

6 ай бұрын

Don't get your hopes up. It'll probably just be a fad...

@thesatisfiedcustomer4869

2 ай бұрын

And you can be tracked everywhere as well - AMAZING!

@The_Curious_Cat

Ай бұрын

It will absolutely not happen. This is just futuristic nonsense they copy from those dreadful movies the youngsters enjoy at the theater.

I thought this was a program for adults! It's so sophisticated and doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. No frills and to the point. How far we've fallen.

@richardrichard9631

2 жыл бұрын

As a child who watched this programme I understood completely the information they were passing to us. Today I watch so many programmes for adults and children and wonder where it all went wrong.

@herrfister1477

2 жыл бұрын

Cheer up lads!

@caroline4323

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh,,it is scary. I never watched TV and now I have to... Since I look after my bedridden Dad and he watches TV a lot. It is so painful! The adverts are idiotic and so many programmes are unbelievably stupid and I am like "maybe we do deserve a third world war"?! So painful.

@thagreatadante

2 жыл бұрын

@@caroline4323 I said much the same to my wife just two nights ago the WWIII part... were almost becoming zombified by media and devices.

@caroline4323

2 жыл бұрын

@@thagreatadante I think the "divorced from reality" situation we are in was well portrayed in "Don´t Look Up!". Also "Good Night and Good Luck" film comes to mind. The speech at the beginning kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJZ1xJl-m5vgZbw.html... It seems we are not improving that much as species :(...

Absolutely incredible device. I can't wait to get one for myself.

@davidspear9790

Жыл бұрын

Can anyone recommend a device that will enable me to send text over the airwaves?

@mitzikolo

Жыл бұрын

@@davidspear9790 have you tried a pigeon?

@davidspear9790

Жыл бұрын

@@mitzikolo I hadn't thought of that. Can you recommend somewhere I can get one?

@inisipisTV

Жыл бұрын

@@davidspear9790 - Trust me boys these new fangled device won’t fly. I’ll stick to my trusty dials on my wall.

@lordcharfield4529

Жыл бұрын

It looks useless….😂

Peter remarking about the parched grass at the end.. worth noting that the legendary summer of 1976 had only JUST ended at the time of transmission. It lasted over 5 months that year

@davewright8206

Жыл бұрын

and the media didnt have to warn us it was hot or tell us we would be better off staying inside

I miss the 70s so much ✌️🙏🙃

5:45 "People like business men, or Farmers or Doctors" ... or anyone wanting to share pictures of their breakfast. They never saw that coming.

@lynrowan2521

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@luckybutterfly1382

2 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏😂🤣😂🤣😂

@DigitalDiabloUK

2 жыл бұрын

Or their "personal effects"

@MacXpert74

2 жыл бұрын

I think they would also have a hard time imagining that a mobile phone wouldn't just be for making calls, but would instead be a handheld computer, camera, color tv screen, music player, compass, navigation device, etc etc. And that it would be far more powerful than even the most advanced super computer available worldwide at the time. It's mind blowing when you think about it.

@EmperorSmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@MacXpert74 Well, the design of the flip phone was based on the Star Trek communicator. And Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was about a book sized device that contained all of the information, no matter how trivial , about the whole Galaxy. But it is cool to think about, that we are living in a "Sci-Fi" time when these "magic devices from the future" are real and we can play them. It's a shame they are destroying society, but hey - Pretty Sci-Fi right?

Done in the days when the bbc treated children like intelligent beings, indeed they also treated adults like intelligent beings

@doodsydoodsy5370

2 жыл бұрын

yes then they let Jimmy Saville run wild 😲

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

Blue Peter has always treated kids the same, if you think it has changed then you've been watching something else.

@trueriver1950

2 жыл бұрын

... Back when adults behaved in real life like intelligent beings

@robinburn4974

2 жыл бұрын

@@trueriver1950 very true, river

@chrysalis72

2 жыл бұрын

indeed, except for saville in the top of the pops room with the teen girls, not very genteel at all.

I could just listen to these three talk about anything, all day...

I can’t believe how compact and easy to use it is. Will they be in the shops for Christmas?

@richardea4223

Жыл бұрын

😆 🤣😂

Watch this in 2022 on a mobile phone 😉

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

@@sovietonion72 it looks like late 70s very early 80s

@sovietonion72

2 жыл бұрын

@ANGRY BATMAN Really? Didn't think it was that long ago 🤔 I thought maybe 1979, thanks for the info.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

@@sovietonion72 -Try reading the video description for the answer.

@jpofgwynedd3878

2 жыл бұрын

I watched it on my TV streaming through the cell network...

British kids show’s in the 1970’s….significantly more sophisticated than anything for adults on Netflix

@johnmcgahern3946

Жыл бұрын

But, but what about Bridgerton?

@croonyerzoonyer

Жыл бұрын

@@johnmcgahern3946 woke historically inaccurate tripe.

@eova

Жыл бұрын

That totally depends on what look for on Netflix you know…

@Khronogi

Жыл бұрын

@@croonyerzoonyer so is stargate, but that's not the point of either of the two shows.

@RaniaIsAwesome

Жыл бұрын

@@ghostmall2421 yeah, I think they just didn't tailor it much for kids. It's probably the right way, but on the other hand kids might become bored. Their version of this segment for adults wouldn't have been different.

I'd forgotten all about this until I saw this clip! I remember watching this as a child during its original broadcast and wanting the phone so badly that I listed it as my only wish from Santa that Christmas.

@ianrogerburton1670

2 ай бұрын

Wonderful story !

@zef2dadeff173

Сағат бұрын

Did you get it?

It's so nice to see dogs on the screen that aren't these alert working "show" dogs. It's very chill. An unexpected elegance that I wish we could have every now and again.

@CraftyZanTub

Жыл бұрын

During lockdown, dogs and cats were all over home-casts everywhere.

@davewright8206

Жыл бұрын

im sure shep could actually do a bit of work

I was fortunate enough to be on Blue Peter twice as a young boy in 1974 and 1975 with this exact line up of presenters (and animals). I can tell you they were absolutely brilliant with a very awstruck and nervous 7 year old and gave me an amazing time in the studios. They were totally genuine and treated us kids as VIPS (even though we were only on for a minte or two). I also got a chance to watch Brian Cant film Play Away in another studio.

@slicedpage

2 жыл бұрын

did you get a badge each time?

@HuplesCat

Жыл бұрын

Play Away was epic as well

@treestandsafety3996

Жыл бұрын

Envious!

@simongood3

Жыл бұрын

You didn't get the whiff of cigar smoke and jangling jewellery did you 😵‍💫

@slicedpage

Жыл бұрын

@@simongood3 OMG Noooooo!

Compared to what passes for a kids educational TV show today, this is like being in a University class! It's great. Those were the BBC glory days.

It explained where the name “mobile phone “ came from . Thank you Blue Peter

@sbnluk332

3 ай бұрын

and the Germans call it "Handy" 5:44 😄

I can remember watching this when it was first shown and couldn't believe this would ever happen

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

First used a mobile phone in about 1988, but it was rented not owned. A Vodafone.

As a child of the 1990s even i found this archive footage amazing. Tomorrow's world eh ..who remembers thats program

@baldieman64

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I remember "Tomorrow's world", when the main presenter was WW2 Spitfire pilot Raymond Baxter, along with the brilliant James Burke.

@missaj5623

2 жыл бұрын

I loved Tomorrow's World I remember hearing about the information super highway that became the internet. Couldn't quite get my head around it at the time and now I use it everyday. I used it today to stream a TV program and a film. Never imagined it would become such a big part of everyday life.

@danielwggudan2

2 жыл бұрын

Loved that show

@johnsmith-yj2cn

2 жыл бұрын

even in the 90 that technologies looked old , there was cell phone in the 90 that fit in the pocket

@baldieman64

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith-yj2cn But this wasn't the 1990s. This episode of Blue Peter aired in 1976.

If you used those flared trousers as antennae, the phone could pick up signals from Mars.

@untissify

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@peterbilt3385

2 жыл бұрын

I still think they look better than men today in skinny fit half mast jeans with underpants showing, saggy arse, pumps and white socks!

@lynrowan2521

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@jamesmacleod671

2 жыл бұрын

Or make a phone call to the clangers. 😃

@KN-wi4ns

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 👻😂

These 3 are so slick. This item was as good as Tomorrows World. Really enjoyed this

Imagine walking down the hood with a ‘shoulder bag’ cordless phone next to your pocket. ☎️👜

i like how they call it an invention. i feel like things dont get called inventions anymore

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

that's because nothing gets invented anymore. All we get are incremental improvements on technology that was invented 50 years ago

@xAlexZifko

Жыл бұрын

@@thesteelrodent1796 i hate to break it to you but the the things invented 50 years ago were just updates on things from 60 years ago

@fmshazam

Жыл бұрын

@@xAlexZifko h'es not talking about that, he's saying things dont get called inventions anymore, despite it being true or not

@samanmudannayaka9604

Жыл бұрын

I don't see many inventors around either like I used to.

@rodrigobarraza

Жыл бұрын

@@samanmudannayaka9604 There are tons, especially in software.

I was just 3 years old when this was originally broadcast. Who could have imagined that 40 years later we would have smart phones that are phones, cameras, barometers, GPS locators, music players, video cameras, media players, internet browsers, email, text & so on.

@MinutesOfMemes

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget *shopping centers, stocks exchange, business meetings, health advisors* 😁👍

@ajbonmg

Жыл бұрын

'Barometers'? I'm amazed that came third on your list when listing the functions of a smartphone... 😆

@Skittenmeow

Жыл бұрын

@@ajbonmg I ❤️ that it came third on the list! I have a barometer that's over 90yrs old, and likely not accurate (no calibration other than checking against another barometer) but never thought to try my phone as a barometer.

@Mike-me3sp

Жыл бұрын

And that we would complain like our lives were coming to an end when just one of those features stopped working for 2 minutes

@Khronogi

Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-me3sp which two are yours? Mine for sure would be video player and internet browser.

I loved blue peter as a child in the 1970s. Such simpler times

@stevesgaming7475

Жыл бұрын

simpler and better imo.

@davewright8206

Жыл бұрын

much bettter times,someone has already said on here ,people were credited with more intellect and common sense

Just watched a video with an old woman born in the 1860s interviewed around the same time. Weird to think that she lived alongside the invention of the cell-phone.

This is fabulous stuff. Also great to see that the presenters are being informative and straight talking in an adult and entertaining fashion to their young audience. No "talking down" to the kids, despite the age range of the typical viewers. What has happened to TV in the last couple of decades?

@raccuia1

2 жыл бұрын

Phew. I'm glad technology advanced to a stage where we don't have to carry those girly handbags around with the phone. It might have led to social and sexual problems for many.

@steadyeddie7

2 жыл бұрын

Apart from a few programmes TV during the last four decades has gradually turned from Memorable to Muck!

@garyp4374

2 жыл бұрын

be interested to know where this was broadcast in looks like a copy of the Australian Curiosity Show

@LittleLordFancyLad

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. The 21st century corporate media have developed a real contempt for their audience that's not grounded in reality. They think that their customers are idiots so they program accordingly.

@michaelversace456

2 жыл бұрын

Liberalism.

I love the fact it had a rotating dial and was still completely analogue lol

You'll notice that Lesley mentions car phones at one point--they had existed for decades, but the early ones were quite different since they didn't use cellular technology. Instead, there would be one tall tower servicing the entire calling area, and making a call required the phone to draw quite a lot of power from the car's electrical system. To do better, there needed to be smaller transmitters arranged in cells, and the trickiest thing about the cells was actually the circuitry required to automatically hand a phone off from one to another as it moved around--by the early 1970s, the technology to do that was just becoming available. This segment aired just about a year after the first hand-held cell-phone call ever made.

@halfbakedproductions7887

Жыл бұрын

Car phones are actually very old technology and date back to the 1950s or so. Bear in mind that military vehicles were fitted with radios even during World War II and it's not that far-fetched. Mind you those early car phones were a) crap and b) billionaire expensive. Most normal people would just use a roadside phone box.

I remember this episode and being amazed. We didn't even have a house phone.

What a great invention. I wonder if it will ever catch on !

@rogermacarthur5044

2 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone need one? Just pop into a telephone box if you need to make a call.

@paulh3935

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogermacarthur5044 I think you will find they were for urinating in.

@colindavid2078

2 жыл бұрын

Wish it hadn't to be fair, nobody has anytime for anyone these days!

@danniifan3115

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's a bit too big & cumbersome to ever take off!!

@graphicsRat

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, Too crazy.

I remember John Noakes, and how upset he was when Shep passed away.

Back in the day it really was incredible. Love vintage videos like that 👍

I'm watching this on my cell phone. It's amazing how times change! ☎️

Back when TV shows for kids weren't either patronizingly silly and or just trying to sell toys.

@ayanned

2 жыл бұрын

or trying to sell you feminist or lgbtq indoctrination..

@lilacfloyd

2 жыл бұрын

Patronisingly. ;)

@Ballinalower

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilacfloyd 'Two countries divided by a common language.' Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, no-one seems to be quite certain which great man of letters originated the quote, or even the precise wording. But Americans spell 'ize' endings with a ''z', the British with either 's' or 'z' and Canadians only with an 's' just to give their schoolteachers something to be pedantic and anti-American aboot, eh.

@lilacfloyd

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ballinalower I was just being patronis(z)ing. ;)

I love how this bleeding edge modern mobile phone has a rotary-dial XD

@halfbakedproductions7887

Жыл бұрын

Yup, that's because it was just using the same old analogue technology except sending the pulses as a radio signal rather than down a physical cable like a wired phone would. True digital just wasn't there yet.

@VJETRA

3 ай бұрын

It WAS bleeding edge.

WOW great idea for that era (1974). I was a little child (infant) and so never watched BP till my teens in the 80s

Absolutely fantastic! Blue Peter was a wonderful television programme.

John Noakes and Shep, both absolute legends to those of us who grew up in the 1970s.

@grantross2609

Жыл бұрын

GETDOWNSHEP !!!!

@johnmcgahern3946

Жыл бұрын

You forgot Jimmy SaVILE!

@TheGodParticle

Жыл бұрын

Go with noakes was pure gold. Cheers

@colinluckens9591

3 ай бұрын

Oh man you guys are all taking me back!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ THOSE WERE THE DAYS..... Technology may be infinitely better now (illustrated by how I'm using my smartphone now to both watch and comment on the content instantly), but the HUMAN output was SO much better quality then!!!😔😔😔😔😔

I am watching this on my mobile phone😁. It's amazing how far tech has come.

@CaroAbebe

2 жыл бұрын

Same, and I didn’t even realise before I read your comment 🙈

@u.v.s.5583

2 жыл бұрын

Come on, watching on your phones? Phones do not have cathode ray tubes! You cannot watch stuff on a telephone, you can only transmit and receive sound.

@Petra44YT

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'm watching in on my laptop. Imagine having a computer at home. A small one, that you can carry around with you. And that you can even afford! (Mine was EUR 180, it's a pre-owned Thinkpad that does what it should.)

And now I used my mobile phone to watch the very show broadcasting them marvelling at the older and similar brother of today phone.

I like old footage of animals. Two handsome retro pups that had no idea people would be watching them 46 years later.

That call went through faster than any call I've ever made on my 5G phone in 2022!

@darganx

Жыл бұрын

AND calls can be made in the countryside.. better that any O2/Vodaphone coverage today!

@thegreatujo

Жыл бұрын

yeah because the whole network had 2 mobile subscribers :))

Born 3 years after this footage was filmed. Watching this on an iPhone 13. Taking a step back to realize how far we’ve come technology wise.

@aniciomanliotorquatoseveri2702

Жыл бұрын

The telephone in the video was already very much better than iPhone

@WiseAssGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@aniciomanliotorquatoseveri2702 But can they play Angry Birds. 😂😂

@Kalumbatsch

Жыл бұрын

In a few decades people will laugh when they think of that period of time when everyone was walking around staring at a little box they called a "smartphone".

My grandma used to have one of the early mobile phones (and actually a car telephone) since it enabled her employer (a car hire) to do business on Sundays and holidays and during the evening hours without actually having someone on location. She used to work a lot of those shifts and therefore got one to always be available.

"I knew you were going to say that, because that's what you said during rehearsals..."

We’ve had mobile phones for decades here in the USA. I’m glad England is finally being introduced

@cujoedaman

2 жыл бұрын

I bet it has great 'right to repair' support too!

@mlce4701

2 жыл бұрын

@@cujoedaman they control our minds, send help…

@seshenofthenile2363

2 жыл бұрын

😆

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

At last we are getting mobile phones. Been a long time coming

@vordman

2 жыл бұрын

They'll never catch on. Bloody ridiculous idea.

Crikey I remember watching this back in 74 , I never missed blue Peter It was a good show back then .

@qk1050

2 жыл бұрын

I only remember as far back as the early 2000s (I was born in the late 90s) and I never used to find the show fascinating lol

@pc3983

2 жыл бұрын

@@qk1050 it had gone downhill by the late 80s

@MaximusJohal

2 жыл бұрын

Show was always good but became very boring for kids. It became a time filler for the BBC.

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

was before my time. I was an infant and not suitable for my mental age back then

@darganx

Жыл бұрын

It was late 1976..

Thank you to the time traveler who runs this channel for a wonderful glimpse into the distant past.

The good old days of Blue Peter, Love this program when I was a kid...Good Times....😉

Looks amazing, I'm going to order one of these new fangled telephones. I will look really cool

@lanolinlight

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, by hipster metrics, you probably will look cool.

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

It also comes with no customer service support lol

"but who would want to go out into the rain to make a phone call" "This device has no future". This retro is hilarious; complete with bell bottoms.

@julianshepherd2038

2 жыл бұрын

Bell bottoms is a 60s term. They were flares and flared from higher up. John's are closer to bell bottoms as they flare from the knee but the flare is bigger and come right down to the shoes. They got soaked in bad weather.

@neriozulberti1492

2 жыл бұрын

If you buy one you receive Doctor Who Tardis 😃

@markusantonio4866

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 caught in the bike chain

46 years later and I still have to go upstairs and open one particular window to get a signal, thank heavens for landlines.

I love how the handset has a rotary dialler - it's that old.

The flares and the platforms, love them.

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, they too come with the phone

@darganx

Жыл бұрын

Not good fashion in the rain though! Thank God for athleisure.

The young people don't remember the days when phones didn't work without a nearby dog, they just take it for granted.

@GeeEee75

4 ай бұрын

Yes, nowadays our phones are completely corgi-less.

If only they knew how far this would go. Near 50 years later I'm typing on a portable foldable phone, tablet and computer in one the size of my hand.

@Open_DoorMedia

10 ай бұрын

It is amazing 👏

There’s something about this that just feels really sweet

Yes I remember this, all seemed so futuristic and Star Trekky. Also don't forget, phone boxes (pay phones) were everywhere in those days for those that didn't have a phone at home.

@colinluckens9591

3 ай бұрын

Not so long ago either! I clearly remember still using payphones about 22 years ago, before I got my first mobile. (Well it doesn't seem like so long ago to me!!)

4:00 What technology is that!? 😯 😂

In the 70's you don't need to wear a tie, because your shirt is already a tie

Can you imagine in 50 years time when everyone's watching ancient tiktok clips, and saying how sensible and factual everybody on them is.

I remember watching this on TV at the time.It was cutting edge technology at the time.It’s amazing how fast things change.

@Kim_Jong_Un_2023

Жыл бұрын

Hope you were not hurt by the cutting edge technology

@DannyBPlays

Жыл бұрын

I would exactly call 45 years of technology development "fast". Cell phones were a regular affordable thing less than 20 years after this video

I'd happily give up the technology I enjoy today to be able to go back to this simpler time.

The phone went out of existence like his bell bottom pants. I cant imagine millions talking to each other today by means of this phone. Thank you IPhone, Android and others for getting us up to date.

@calinandrei8374

Жыл бұрын

besize apple......what other small phones can u find?

I found the flares and the glimpse back in time to a rainy day in England in 1974 more interesting

Effortlessly professional presentation from Peter, John and Lesley - I could listen to them all day..and all this technology we take for granted today - are we really better people for it? I would trade it all for those more genteel times in a heartbeat.

@RomarioFouardo

2 жыл бұрын

We are getting old, mate it's crazy

@julianshepherd2038

2 жыл бұрын

When racism was popular and beating your wife was a "domestic" and if it wasn't too dangerous, the police saw it as your private business.

@StuartJ

2 жыл бұрын

No autocue either.

@shakesfirst2443

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, let's trade in the technology like the Cochlear Implant for a better time where beating a wife, homophobia and racism were rife. Yeah mate, nah. What an inane comment.

@philsimpson3556

2 жыл бұрын

iPhones, texting, twitters, electric cars, climate change, diversity, etc. I’m sick of the lot. Get me back to the 60/70s.

Oh yeah even in the 90s, children's shows and books were quite mature. I remember the general knowledge sets books and cassette tapes, were quite heavy for childrens but I remember fondly enjoying it

never mind being mobile, i was amazed with the first telephone set i saw in 1974 which had push button numbers instead of a rotating dial! 😂🤣😂

lady said this will be particularly good for busy people who don't have a standard phone particularly Businessmen and farmers

Petra and Shep. Wonderful!

So they were kind enough to let you try their ultra new mobile phone and you immediately took it out in the pouring rain.

@classicraceruk1337

2 жыл бұрын

That was Blue Peter for you. No hiding from the real world.

@duwanmorrison2492

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. There's no way that equipment was weather proof.

@CasinoWoyale

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect it was still more water resistant than an Apple mobile.

2:56 - "Put up... My aerial....." Lol. Brilliant.

Great to see this stuff it was all ways around it took the Japanese to make the chips small enough and to hold the memory. That was the break through. I was working in the bush and a boss had a mobile you carried in a brief case 1987 blew my mind. Here I am typing on mobile while watching videos and doing my banking and shopping while laying in my bed amazing!!!!

Seeing the Blue Peter dogs again after all those years is the best part of this video ❤️❤️

@matspurs1629

2 жыл бұрын

whats shep up to nowadays ?

@CancellerPalpatine

2 жыл бұрын

@@matspurs1629 On a farm in Shaftsburry

@matspurs1629

2 жыл бұрын

@@CancellerPalpatine Fertiliser cool

@grantross2609

Жыл бұрын

struck me too !

I can just remember the early 80's when not everyone even had a landline (usually a trimphone in the hallway). Passing a message on consisted of ringing a relative or next-door neighbour. In 1974, a phone you could take anywhere with you must have seemed incredible.

@cherryred1732

2 жыл бұрын

O aye ours on the farm had a button on top .exchange call. To obtain dial tone first. As was on a shared party line. . Could not dial of the island .had to use operator to call liverpool.

@63mckenzie

2 жыл бұрын

@@cherryred1732 I think everybody had a party line. Incredible you had to wait for your neighbour to finish their call so you could could make yours!

@Jlipnicki

2 жыл бұрын

Well into the late 70s and 80s by no means did everyone have a phone where they lived. It seems a miracle how one kept in touch with people and arranged or rather didn't to meet, you just went to the pub and they might be there. There was always the post or actually going round to their gaff on the chance they may be in.

@cherryred1732

2 жыл бұрын

@@63mckenzie well yes alot of people in them days had a.party line. It was half the normal rent. . Which suited me owl fella on the farm. . Ofcourse if it was genuinely urgent .like we needed to call Davies the vet . Then they would hang up and let us go ahead. People seems to.be more tolerant them days . Some times wish we could hi back to then.

@cherryred1732

2 жыл бұрын

O aye . I wanted a trim phone . But me owl fella on the farm would not let me. . They had the phone put In farm in the 1930's and was original instrument right up until 1991 when me owl fella got his wooden over coat.

That crossbody shoulder bag is so chic

Twerp is a word I haven't heard in years, takes me back 40+ years.

Nice kind decent presenters who had class and were of an age you could respect

@danielturner9027

2 жыл бұрын

They were probably child abusers, as was the culture at the time.

@kupus6622

2 жыл бұрын

@@baldieman64 I was thinking it...

@thebadtemperedbrit

2 жыл бұрын

@@baldieman64 I didn't think they even made childrens TV anymore, not like the old days anyway.

@th8257

2 жыл бұрын

@@baldieman64 angry old dinosaur alert. You got old and the world has left you behind, where you belong. Get over it.

I tell my nephew about what it was like before all the technology we have today existed and he looks at me as if it was the dark ages! Imagine the world without instant access to the internet. Aaarggg!!

100 years later I'm watching this conversation on my bed with my eyes close hahahaha ill jump to Same place to see it live how looks like now

Just remarkable that video quality. I would forget this was shot in 1976, it looks like it was made a few years ago and they're all just wearing retro fashion.

Look at how genuinely excited they are by the tech - funny in a way when you see people these days with their smart phones. Nothing is ever good enough for people now. People also spoke so well. Something I miss very much. Eloquence.

@qwepqwop4901

2 жыл бұрын

Oh please do shut up. No one benefits from your complaining about 'kids nowadays' and the apparent barbaric ways in which people speak today. Furthermore, what do you mean that 'nothing is good for people now'? Just because technology that people were excited about in the past are now commonplace does not mean that they are not respected. To conclude, stop speaking of the present as if it is a degenerate hellhole and look outside once in awhile because your awareness of society is clearly lacking. The youth of roday are much more than what you expect.

@thebadtemperedbrit

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched the BBC for a number of years, I also live abroad, however, I did tune in recently to watch something (via iplayer) and the continuity announcer was laughably bad, I thought I was being sold apples from an East End market. Many, I know, will proclaim 'but TV must represent the audience!' That's for the programmes to do, the channel would have done a service to society to uphold certain standards, which they have not and now look at society crumbling around us all. So where has your 'diversity' got us all, 'An instrument of education and entertainment' it most certainly is not, just a morass of inconsequential nonsense. So, very, very sad.

@spidyman8853

2 жыл бұрын

The Water in Majorca Don't taste like what it Ought to

@richards1708

Жыл бұрын

Yeah we've been spoilt now. The tech in our hands is bloody impressive. I still find new ways to do all sorts of things on my phone.

It's 2022 and I am still waiting for this device to become available on the market

@FHIPrincePeter

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you live , North Korea ?

Question: when the first cellphones came up how did they make calls without the transmission towers??

Can't get over those trousers. They're just hilarious.

It only took 25 years from here to the first 'proper' 2G mobiles - that you could put in your pocket! How does it work? Magic!

@miamitten1123

2 жыл бұрын

Only 25 years!? That’s a long time.

@fidelcatsro6948

2 жыл бұрын

that took a long time!! i bet these technologies were suppressed thats why it took to long to reach the masses!!

@mathgasm8484

2 жыл бұрын

they had phones you could put in your pocket in the mid 90s. It was the StarTAC first flip phone that could fit in your pocket. My dad had one as a government official.

@GraveUypo

2 жыл бұрын

@@miamitten1123 it's really not.

I absolutely love the professionalism of these people. These shows were so so so good. Now it's all nonsense and stupidity.

This was the year I was born 😭😭 I always loved Blue Peter such a great program. Then who can remember Newsround straight after? Lol ah those were the days of proper television 📺 😁

I remember dialing on those big black rotary dial landline phones of the 60s. Thank you to the early innovators for paving the way for the powerful mobile phones that we have today.

I was 22 that year. I still think two bean cans and a string is pretty high tech.

@TCM215

2 жыл бұрын

Which year was is please

@choughed3072

2 жыл бұрын

@@TCM215 1974 I think.

@Crusty_Camper

2 жыл бұрын

@@TCM215 1974

@td370

2 жыл бұрын

You ever talk with old WW1 vets? Considering the fact you were 22 in 1974

@Crusty_Camper

2 жыл бұрын

@@td370 I was so lucky with that. My weekend job when I was 15 was in a hospital ward full of WW1 veterans. Most of them were suffering from gas exposure in the War which had become more debilitating for them in old age. So many stories and they were so kind and generous to a crass teenager whi was not much younger than they were when they were in the trenches. One of them told me he lied about his age to sign up. I asked if he was too young and he replied, " No Boy ! I was TOO OLD!". So he was over 40 in 1914. Several of them showed me their medals when they saw I was genuinely interested, but all of them said all the real heroes were dead. Years later I found the older guy had lost 2 brothers in WW1 and 2 sons in WW2.

“And in future years, you might be lucky enough to be able to view videos of strangers revealing the gender of their unborn child” 😉

@sjm6963

2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean the unknown gender of their child!!

@SirReginaldBlomfield1234

2 жыл бұрын

You're spot on with that one. What the hell has the world come to.

@75MalcolmX

2 жыл бұрын

When my daughter poped out we where suprised it was a girl. I asked my wife if she wanted to put her back in and wait for the correct cooking time so that it had time to grow the dangely thing at the front. But she said it was alot of hassle to push it out and from then on we accepted we had a girl and never tried to change her.

@adrianridgway4333

2 жыл бұрын

... and it'll always be a boy. Nobody ever does gender reveals for girls.

31sec they yellow tonka dump truck, I'm 46 and still have mine and its still like new. Loved playing with that thing

Absolutely ground breaking technology back in the day. I used to love watching Blue Peter back in the day when I was a child , excellent viewing from our invaluable BBC..😃

A phone that comes in its own luggage, brilliant!

Amazing, the phone signal quality hasnt changed since 1974

Happy memories of watching Blue Peter all those years ago. (Although remember Valerie more than Leslie).

This was pure magic in it's day