Paperless Office - Blue Peter 1989

Believe it or not they were no computers in the Blue Peter Office, until 1989 that is.

Blue Peter Presenters:

John Leslie

Mark Curry

Yvette Fielding

Caron Keating

Editor Lewis Bronze

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• computers
• pc
• mark
• curry
• blue
• peter
• 80's
• karon
• keating
• john
• leslie
• Yvette
• Fielding
• tulip
• pacman
• spelling
• script
• retro

[garty22]

"Pictuires" is the old English spelling. Still quite acceptable in most circuimstances.

[saintlythe1]

Fascinating, should have told that to Mark Curry, little bit late now. But he might appreciate it?

[ndgreenaway]

mark robbins is a sexy chap isn't he ladies cooor! (6.13)

[littlesmew]

Thanks for posting this; it's a gem. I enjoyed your little quips too. By 1989 I'd stopped watching and I was one of the office juniors stepping into the brave men world of IT. This captures all that (also I had a very similar blouse to Yvette's).

[rachel7000rf]

It has to be 1989 due to the fact that John and mark appear togehter

[sarahjane4eva]

If you look up the intro for the 50th anniversary programme, it shows a montage of clips, one of which is the Lego man. It may have been included in the actual programme (but I can't remember).

Even from a two second clip, it looked absolutely brilliant

[Thraxwhirl]

Used to enjoy watching Mark Curry on Blue Peter. Something about his awkwardness, appearance and general demeanour that went beyond comedy.

Wish I could find that clip of him and the life-size Lego man whose head fell off when he put his hand on its shoulder. Hilarious. I remember watching it live when it was broadcast, and I nearly wet myself.

Despite being too old for the programme by the late 80s, I used to tune in just to see him hoping he'd balls something up spectacularly for us all.

[jimmyass]

omg forgot about how much more effort eerything must have ben without computers, the generation that have grown up wiht them (myself) forgets how life was, type writers what was one of them lol!!!

[CycolacFan]

the words slow news day come to mind...

Was that weird little Morris dancer puppet from RentaGhost? The thing that Mr Claypole used to shake?

Notice the gorgeous and much missed Caron K wisely decided to pop back home to NI instead of staying in the office for this filler item.

Final question to ponder, the BBC model B computer was available some 5 years before this - couldn't the Blue Peter office afford to buy those?

Thanks for posting!

[westendellie]

Yvettes hair is awful though i love her earrings!