Blue Peter

Blue Peter was a popular BBC children's television programme.
== History ==
=== 20th century ===
Around the 1970s, the Master once appeared on Blue Peter, disguised as "Dr Derek Drake", a popular climate scientist. The Brigadier joked that this meant Dr Drake couldn't possibly be up to no good. (AUDIO: Terror of the Master)
Ace, who left Earth in 1987, wore two Blue Peter badges on her black bomber jacket: one standard blue badge and one silver. (TV: Dragonfire - Survival, et al.) One of them had been awarded for heroic achievement. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
Faction Paradox attacked the Blue Peter garden in 1996. This caused a far more intense psychological reaction than any direct assault on the people's psyche. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)
=== 21st century ===
On 6 March 2006, an alien ship crashed into the Thames. Blue Peter presenter Matt Baker did a feature on how to make an alien ship cake. (TV: ) Following the feature, a BBC internal memo questioned whether it was appropriate to promote the creation of "space confectionary" for children, stating that it could be seen as pandering to incoming Prime Minister Joseph Green — the former Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionary. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)
In the 2000s, Maria Jackson watched an episode in which the presenters Gethin Jones and Konnie Huq promoted the Bane's Bubble Shock! soft drink. (TV: Invasion of the Bane)
During the time the series Surrender, Earthlings! aired on the BBC, Blue Peter did a feature on how to make a Xyz from toilet-roll holders, Blu-Tak and two boiled eggs. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life)
== References ==
Laurence recalled that the Doctor had a companion whose name was the same as a girl on Blue Peter. (PROSE: Telling Tales)
Upon meeting his tenth and eleventh incarnations, the War Doctor compared the outfits of his future selves to Blue Peter presenters. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
Missy quipped that if she started saving the Doctor's companions' lives, they'd put her on Blue Peter. (AUDIO: Masterful)
== Behind the scenes ==
== Footnotes ==
== External links ==
* BBC Cult TV page on the Doctor Who-Blue Peter connection
* Screencaps of Doctor Who stars on Blue Peter
 
Category:Television series from the real world