Top 10 Blue Peter Disasters

If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, especially on live TV. For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the top 10 "Blue Peter" disasters. We're including everything from Lulu the Elephant's famously gross appearance, to Richard Bacon's scandalous sacking, a time capsule getting unearthed decades early, and many more!

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[alexmarman]

Ashes to Ashes gave an explanation about what happened to the garden. Gene Hunt caused the damage whilst arresting a criminal!

[tonymcgeachin]

How did Janet Eliis keep a straight face when she was talking about the garden vandalism. Good on Gene Hunt taking the blame for her.

[darthvadersith]

I’m not even from the UK, but I think these videos are more interesting than the US version of WatchMojo.

[ShazlovesmusicYT]

When you see Richard Bacon In the thumbnail, you know It's going to be a good video

[JoeBleasdaleReal]

“I accidentally bit him on the nose. Quite hard. And I now realise that this was wrong.”

[oneparthippieoneparthoolig]

I knew about Richard Bacon’s cocaine issues but never knew about the Snortoise adventure.

[AntoKyuuketsuki]

"I didn't give any tortoises coke." 😂

[capwhittaker]

I remember the 1984 capsule opening and it was largely destroyed by water and I just thought 16 years??!? Why didn't they just put it in someone's loft? Time capsules should sit there for 100s of years if you're going to bury them

[Lu-zpft]

Sorry but Kate & Will acting overwhelmed with the gold blue Peter badge 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[MarkPMus]

I’m glad you mentioned poor Michael Sundin, and the phone-in scandal high up on the list. In particular, Michael Sundin’s sacking was homophobic. I know Mark Curry, a later presenter, was also gay and not sacked, but he didn’t APPEAR gay. Michael Sundin was a bit more stereotypical gay, as far as parents writing in to Biddy Baxter were concerned. She listened to their bigotry and sacked him. I appreciate the photo with the stripper also scuppered him, but that was also pure homophobia. If Simon Groom went out to a bar with female strippers, it’s not as newsworthy as a celeb gay man in a gay bar. The salacious paparazzi just decided to wreck Sundin’s career. The media were incredibly homophobic in the 80’s. It’s tragic, especially when taken with the news of his death a few years later.

[buffclary]

I know why lulu the elephant was so wild, she was used to being "managed" with a stick to follow instructions, but someone from the show said not to let the handler have the stick in front of cameras, so lulu thought it was party time 🤣

[terrortorn]

Like how the thumbnail of "Disaster" is Richard Bacon! Still never stopped him working and earning at the BBC.

[AtheistOrphan]

For an old fart like me there can be no other Blue Peter presenters than Pete, John and Valerie, just like there can be no other Dr Who other than Tom Baker.

[foxmccloud]

How about the time that they sang a happy song while the studio was on fire?

[shakyelarnold]

Now the "Ru Peter" badge makes sense 🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

[RaveDave]

1.25 i old enough to remember that wife of Prince William !

[granthostheflatulent]

I remember back in the late 60's or early 70's they were trying to make a model hovercraft - I think it was John Nokes? who cut a tin lid to make a lift propeller, attached it to a small electric motor and took a slice out of his fingers with it - it must have been live as it went from "here's how to do it" straight to "don't do this at home", while his fingers bled. I really wanted to make one and but after that Mum said "no"... Then I proposed building a full size one as my major design and make project for my Engineering Product Design degree in the mid '80's but my lecturers said "no" (that was in spite of agreed loan of 2 gas turbine engines from the company sponsoring me at the time). Blue Peter has a lot to answer for...

[carlyonbay]

I remember Richard Bacon and the drugs story - then he got a better paid full time job on the Big Breakfast - and popped up on TFI with chris Evans - it didnt harm his career much at all .

[peterjones]

he full Lulu the elephant clip should have been shown, it's hilarious, including (if I remember correctly) John Noakes slipping on the wet floor created by Lulu's 'leak'.. Also, it was strongly rumoured that presenter Peter Duncan had vandalised the Blue Peter garden over contractual issues in (once again, if I remember correctly) the first vandalisation... But, you gotta love Blue Peter! For thise old enough to remember John Noakes' Cresta Run where he crashed and slid about 200 metres on his backside, then showed the other presenters (child-safely) his bruises...

[NirvanaPhoenix]

The zero viewers thing is nonsense since it the figures were based on the BARB system, which tracks the viewing of *checks notes* 5300 households across the entirety of the UK.