Episode 1

S17 E01 • Monday, Sep 8, 1980 • Sep 8

Expedition Malaysia There's more than a touch of Eastern promise in this year's expedition! Simon and Sarah have explored one of the world's most exotic countries. Giant turtles, coconut collecting monkeys, dragon boat races, Sepak Raga - the football game where you kick with the back of your heel, blow-pipe hunters and the world's largest and hottest tin smelting works are just a few of the unusual sights they saw. Studio surprises include entries in the world's fastest man-powered super-cycle contest - the quadri-cycle record stands at 57 MPH! And you can catch up with the latest news about the four-legged members of the team - Goldie, Jack and Jill and Jill's kittens - not forgetting Britain's speediest tortoises, Maggie and Jim!

Episode 2

S17 E02 • Thursday, Sep 11, 1980 • Sep 11

Today, Blue Peter's new boy makes his first-ever appearance on the programme. Think you've seen him before? You probably have, if you watched the "King Cinder" series, where Peter Duncan played the dare-devil speedway fanatic Kerry. Peter's keen to get into more action in "Blue Peter", and today he has a go at navigating Keying II, a 20-metre Chinese sailing junk, up the River Thames. In the studio there's the first-ever television appearance of Britain's record-breaking litter of 17 poodle pups.

Episode 3

S17 E03 • Monday, Sep 15, 1980 • Sep 15

Six-and-a-half thousand miles from Lord's and The Oval, Simon and Sarah watch the cricket at Kuala Lumpur's Selangor Club, explore the Sunday market on Saturday night and hold their noses as they sample 'durian' - the exotic tropical fruit that smells like a cowshed!

Episode 4

S17 E04 • Thursday, Sep 18, 1980 • Sep 18

The next time you have baked beans on toast, spare a thought for the rabblers who produced the tin. They are the men who stir the molten metal in temperatures of 200°F. Sarah sizzles as she reports on Malaysia's vast tin smelting works.

Episode 5

S17 E05 • Monday, Sep 22, 1980 • Sep 22

Episode 6

S17 E06 • Thursday, Sep 25, 1980 • Sep 25

'Allemande Left, Buckle Up Two, Dish Rag Turn and Do-Si-Do' Join the Hoe-Down in the Blue Peter studio as Simon, Sarah and Peter master the steps of the latest craze - Square Dancing!

Episode 7

S17 E07 • Monday, Sep 29, 1980 • Sep 29

Introducing 'Muhammad Ali', Malaysia's coconut-collecting baboon!

Episode 8

S17 E08 • Thursday, Oct 2, 1980 • Oct 2

Episode 9

S17 E09 • Monday, Oct 6, 1980 • Oct 6

Episode 10

S17 E10 • Thursday, Oct 9, 1980 • Oct 9

Episode 11

S17 E11 • Monday, Oct 13, 1980 • Oct 13

Episode 12

S17 E12 • Thursday, Oct 16, 1980 • Oct 16

Episode 13

S17 E13 • Monday, Oct 20, 1980 • Oct 20

Episode 14

S17 E14 • Thursday, Oct 23, 1980 • Oct 23

Episode 15

S17 E15 • Monday, Oct 27, 1980 • Oct 27

Meet the only rabbit in Britain brought up by a goat. Two months ago an orange rex doe died before giving birth to 12 babies. The only survivor was fostered by the family's British alpine goat and today Miracle and her foster mum Samantha make their first public appearance.

Episode 16

S17 E16 • Thursday, Oct 30, 1980 • Oct 30

Star Gazey Pie, with its seven sorts of fish, is a recipe that dates back 200 years when Skipper Tom Bawcock was the only fisherman in Mousehole to put to sea in a fierce storm. Tradition has it that the fish heads stick up through the pastry, but even if you can't find seven different fish you can try out the modern version demonstrated in today's programme - with pilchards!

Episode 17

S17 E17 • Monday, Nov 3, 1980 • Nov 3

If you have ever resorted to counting sheep to send you off to sleep, try visiting Biggin-by-Hartington the next time you can't nod off. It's the scene of Derbyshire's biggest sheep sale and this year 13,500 lambs and ewes went under the hammer in six hours flat! Simon was there to sell a few of his father's flock and report for Blue Peter.

Episode 18

S17 E18 • Thursday, Nov 6, 1980 • Nov 6

David Attenborough and Sir Hugh Casson have been hard at work helping to judge the Blue Peter/ Natural History Museum Centenary Poster Competition. Today is results day and even if you don't win a bronze stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex or brontosaurus, there are thousands of runners-up, so you never know your luck!

Episode 19

S17 E19 • Monday, Nov 10, 1980 • Nov 10

Episode 20

S17 E20 • Thursday, Nov 13, 1980 • Nov 13

Episode 21

S17 E21 • Monday, Nov 17, 1980 • Nov 17

Simon reports from Loch Ryan, where 50,000 tons of the Royal Navy's best-loved aircraft carrier are being turned into scrap metal.

Episode 22

S17 E22 • Thursday, Nov 20, 1980 • Nov 20

An estimated 20 million trees have been killed by the dreaded Dutch Elm disease and unless 50 million saplings are planted during the next three years, Britain's landscape could look like a moonscape by the year 2000. To mark National Tree Week, Simon, Sarah and Peter are planting a Japanese Elm at Television Centre - with expert guidance from Percy Thrower.

Episode 23

S17 E23 • Monday, Nov 24, 1980 • Nov 24

Episode 24

S17 E24 • Thursday, Nov 27, 1980 • Nov 27

Today Simon, Sarah and Peter make Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year - so have a paper and pencil handy for details of the 1980 Appeal.

Episode 25

S17 E25 • Monday, Dec 1, 1980 • Dec 1

Last year nine million Blue Peter viewers raised nearly £4 million to help the starving people of Cambodia. Today you can discover more details about the 1980 Appeal. Your help is urgently needed, so have a paper and pencil handy to take down the Appeal address. There's good news for pocket money savers too, because Sarah will be showing a Christmas present to make for Grannies and Grandads - so keep a look out for old margarine carton lids - and all will be revealed!

Episode 26

S17 E26 • Thursday, Dec 4, 1980 • Dec 4

Peter joins a team of men with one of the most dangerous jobs in Britain - the crew of the fishing boat Fruitful Harvest. Seventy miles off the coast of north-east Scotland, skipper Robert Reid and his men battle with Force 9 gales and 30-foot waves as they haul in their six-ton catch.

Episode 27

S17 E27 • Monday, Dec 8, 1980 • Dec 8

Top Cats! Last Saturday 2,450 cats and kittens took part in the National Cat Club's 84th annual show - the largest in the world. Sarah was there judging the Blue Peter classes for pet moggies, and today the eight first prize winners come to the studio with their owners to compete for the silver cup and the title Blue Peter Supreme Champion.

Episode 28

S17 E28 • Thursday, Dec 11, 1980 • Dec 11

Christmas is Coming! Lighting the first candle on the Advent Crown means there are only four Blue Peters to go before the Great Day! There's an idea for a present to make for Dads and uncles, too, so don't despair if you've run out of pocket money.

Episode 29

S17 E29 • Monday, Dec 15, 1980 • Dec 15

'Merry Christmas' in Cornish, and today four brothers from Bodmin, Merv, Andy, Chris and Neil, otherwise known as Bucca, make their very first appearance on TV. They'll be singing old favourites like 'Tom Bawcock's Eve' and playing some of their amazing collection of 40 instruments, including the bombarde. And Sarah tells the story of the Unknown Armada, when Mousehole, Newlyn, Penzance and Paul were invaded by Spanish troops in 1595. Story Dorothy Smith

Episode 30

S17 E30 • Thursday, Dec 18, 1980 • Dec 18

This time next week, Christmas Day will be nearly over. If your cards are arriving thick and fast and there's nowhere left to put them, you might like to make a Christmas card hanger that doubles up as a very attractive last-minute decoration.

Episode 31

S17 E31 • Monday, Dec 22, 1980 • Dec 22

On the last Blue Peter before Christmas there's news of the help you're giving, that will change the lives of disabled people all over Britain. Join in with carols round the tree with the children of Allfarthing's School, Warlingham County Secondary School and the Band of the Chalk Farm branch of the Salvation Army, and see if you can spot your card among the display in the studio.

Episode 32

S17 E32 • Monday, Dec 29, 1980 • Dec 29

1980 was an eventful year for "Blue Peter"! Tina had her baby, Jill had kittens, Simon got married and Sarah and Peter joined the team. If you missed any of these milestones, join Simon, Sarah and Peter today for "Blue Peter"'s highlights of the past 12 months - plus a look forward to 1981.

Episode 33

S17 E33 • Thursday, Jan 1, 1981 • Jan 1

Ring in the New! On the very first day of the International Year of Disabled People, Blue Peter leaps into 1981 with the latest news of the Great Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale Appeal. There's the chance to see in print 14-year-old Amanda Taylor's design for a poster to celebrate the centenary of the Natural History Museum plus something hot and spicy to cheer up the cold January nights!

Episode 34

S17 E34 • Monday, Jan 5, 1981 • Jan 5

Who Stole the Stone? Thirty years ago this year, the Coronation Stone, one of Westminster Abbey's most precious treasures, was stolen from beneath the Coronation Chair on which all the sovereigns of Britain have been crowned since the days of Edward II. Sarah tells the story of the most audacious theft of the century.

Episode 35

S17 E35 • Thursday, Jan 8, 1981 • Jan 8

High Diver! Peter joins British diving champions LINDSEY FRASER and ANDREW JEFFS at Crystal Palace pool and picks up a few tips on perfecting Olympic dives like the double somersault, the pike and the half twist.

Episode 36

S17 E36 • Monday, Jan 12, 1981 • Jan 12

Episode 37

S17 E37 • Thursday, Jan 15, 1981 • Jan 15

Episode 38

S17 E38 • Monday, Jan 19, 1981 • Jan 19

Episode 39

S17 E39 • Thursday, Jan 22, 1981 • Jan 22

Including rare archive film of the funeral procession of Queen Victoria who died 80 years ago.

Episode 40

S17 E40 • Monday, Jan 26, 1981 • Jan 26

The result of the Christmas Stamps competition.

Episode 41

S17 E41 • Thursday, Jan 29, 1981 • Jan 29

Happy Birthday! Jack and Jill, Britain's favourite Silver Tabbies, celebrate their fifth birthday today. But will Jill do her famous disappearing act on this important day? All will be revealed!

Episode 42

S17 E42 • Monday, Feb 2, 1981 • Feb 2

Will You be Mine? A preview of the 1981 St Valentine's Bay stamp and an unusual way of sending a message to your true love. Have a paper and pencil handy to take down details of a recipe for an edible Valentine.

Episode 43

S17 E43 • Thursday, Feb 5, 1981 • Feb 5

Peter helps build the course for canoeing's most hazardous race - the White Water World Championships and tests the run.

Episode 44

S17 E44 • Monday, Feb 9, 1981 • Feb 9

Mucking out and milking were the main jobs Simon was asked to tackled when he took charge of his Dad's farm for a day. But the unexpected happened in the shape of 11 new-born lambs! See how Farmer Groom Jr coped in today's film report.

Episode 45

S17 E45 • Thursday, Feb 12, 1981 • Feb 12

Simon reports from Germany where children of the British Forces are helping the Great Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale Appeal.

Episode 46

S17 E46 • Monday, Feb 16, 1981 • Feb 16

Episode 47

S17 E47 • Thursday, Feb 19, 1981 • Feb 19

Episode 48

S17 E48 • Monday, Feb 23, 1981 • Feb 23

Episode 49

S17 E49 • Thursday, Feb 26, 1981 • Feb 26

Episode 50

S17 E50 • Monday, Mar 2, 1981 • Mar 2