Episode 1

S18 E01 • Monday, Sep 14, 1981 • Sep 14

Expedition Japan: Who was the 'tall, fair-haired and very red-faced European' pulling the float at Kyoto's famous Gion Festival? None other than Simon, sweltering in 90°F, and that's how he was described by five "Blue Peter" viewers who just happened to be in the crowds lining the streets! But that was nothing compared with wading shoulder high into a sea of 50,000 eels, playing the part of a Samurai warrior at the Kyoto Movie Studios and coming face-to-face with the massive 30-stone Sumo wrestlers who make Big Daddy look a mere midget. And talking of giants, see how Prince has grown during the summer break and catch up with the latest news about all the other four-legged members of the team - Goldie, Jack and Jill and Maggie and Jim.

Episode 2

S18 E02 • Thursday, Sep 17, 1981 • Sep 17

Prince's Progress Goldie's puppy, Prince, spent his first night under canvas when he went to camp with the First Glen Hill Guide Company last month. All excellent experience for a trainee guide dog puppy who has to learn to ' be prepared' if he's to pass his tests and qualify as a pair of eyes for the blind. There'll be progress reports on his brothers, Buster, Sandy and Henry too, who are also being puppy walked. If you have the time and the patience to train a puppy for the Association, and you live within 40 miles of Bolton, Exeter, Forfar, Leamington Spa or Wokingham, write to Derek Freeman , the Guide Dogs for the Blind Puppy Walking Manager, at the following address: Tollgate House, Ban-bury Road, Bishops Tachbrook , Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Episode 3

S18 E03 • Monday, Sep 21, 1981 • Sep 21

Expedition Japan Slippery Customers Thirty thousand wriggling eels were Simon's ' catch' when he waded up to his waist at the Hamana Lagoon Eel Farm. But the problems didn't end there - Master Chef Kyoshi Motohashi had his hands full when he showed Peter how to cook this gastronomic delicacy!

Episode 4

S18 E04 • Thursday, Sep 24, 1981 • Sep 24

Expedition Japan Sarah discovers you have to take lessons before you can wear a Japanese kimono. Peter learns to fly in a jet cockpit where a flick of a computer switch changes night to day and fair weather to foul. Another computer gets Simon in the swing as he perfects his drive at a top Tokyo Golf Clinic.

Episode 5

S18 E05 • Monday, Sep 28, 1981 • Sep 28

Episode 6

S18 E06 • Thursday, Oct 1, 1981 • Oct 1

Episode 7

S18 E07 • Monday, Oct 5, 1981 • Oct 5

Christmas Stamps This year's Christmas stamps and official First Day Cover have been designed by "Blue Peter" viewers. A colossal 500 million have been printed and you can see them roll off the presses at the printers in today's first public preview.

Episode 8

S18 E08 • Thursday, Oct 8, 1981 • Oct 8

The Battle of the Giants!: Japan is Sumo mad! The 30-stone wrestlers are an awesome sight, and it was a dramatic moment when Peter stepped in the ring with the giant Kotonoryu!

Episode 9

S18 E09 • Monday, Oct 12, 1981 • Oct 12

Expedition Japan Hot Stuff! Peter takes a bath in a pool of volcanic mud, Simon is buried up to his neck in scorching sand (a recognised cure for hysterics!) and Sarah boils an egg in a hellpool where the water bubbles at 176°F! The setting is Beppu in southern Japan where the town lives in the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous active volcanoes: Mount Aso.

Episode 10

S18 E10 • Thursday, Oct 15, 1981 • Oct 15

Straight and Narrow! There's more to ploughing with a team of horses than meets the eye, as Simon discovers when he joins some of Britain's top plough-men in the 1981 Championships in Oxfordshire.

Episode 11

S18 E11 • Monday, Oct 19, 1981 • Oct 19

William Adams was shipwrecked on Black Island off the coast of Japan in 1600. Sarah traces the true story of the Englishman who became samurai to the Shogun.

Episode 12

S18 E12 • Thursday, Oct 22, 1981 • Oct 22

Episode 13

S18 E13 • Monday, Oct 26, 1981 • Oct 26

Episode 14

S18 E14 • Thursday, Oct 29, 1981 • Oct 29

Butterfly Safari You don't have to go to the tropics to see orange tips, monarchs and woodnymphs. Keen lepidopterists can spot them only a few miles from London Airport! Join Sarah on an unusual safari and discover how you can go butterfly hunting the easy way.

Episode 15

S18 E15 • Monday, Nov 2, 1981 • Nov 2

Episode 16

S18 E16 • Thursday, Nov 5, 1981 • Nov 5

Episode 17

S18 E17 • Monday, Nov 9, 1981 • Nov 9

Episode 18

S18 E18 • Thursday, Nov 12, 1981 • Nov 12

Episode 19

S18 E19 • Monday, Nov 16, 1981 • Nov 16

If you missed last Thursday's programme, now's your chance to catch up with "Blue Peter"'s most important announcement of the year - the 1981 Appeal. Have a pencil and paper handy!

Episode 20

S18 E20 • Thursday, Nov 19, 1981 • Nov 19

Episode 21

S18 E21 • Monday, Nov 23, 1981 • Nov 23

Episode 22

S18 E22 • Thursday, Nov 26, 1981 • Nov 26

Episode 23

S18 E23 • Monday, Nov 30, 1981 • Nov 30

Episode 24

S18 E24 • Thursday, Dec 3, 1981 • Dec 3

Save this copy of RADIO TIMES and transform the pages into a reindeer. A cardboard sledge completes the model and you'll end up with a magnificent Christmas decoration that would cost pounds to buy in the shops.

Episode 25

S18 E25 • Monday, Dec 7, 1981 • Dec 7

Episode 26

S18 E26 • Thursday, Dec 10, 1981 • Dec 10

Episode 27

S18 E27 • Monday, Dec 14, 1981 • Dec 14

Episode 28

S18 E28 • Thursday, Dec 17, 1981 • Dec 17

Episode 29

S18 E29 • Monday, Dec 21, 1981 • Dec 21

"Grange Hill" Special Your chance to see behind the scenes as Blue Peter films rehearsals for the "Grange Hill" Christmas Special. Competition winner Paul Manning, who wrote the story line, was allowed to join the actors as part of his prize - watch out for him at the Christmas disco when the Brookies get their come-uppance!

Episode 30

S18 E30 • Thursday, Dec 24, 1981 • Dec 24

The latest news of the Operation Pipeline Appeal. Your stamps and coins are still desperately needed to give villages in Java supplies of pure water, and the Depot at [address removed], is open over Christmas except for tomorrow and Boxing Day. Join in with carols round the tree with children of Allfarthing's School, Warlingham County Secondary School and the Band of the Chalk Farm Branch of the Salvation Army, and can you penetrate the disguises worn by Simon, Sarah and Peter in the Blue Peter Panto?

Episode 31

S18 E31 • Thursday, Dec 31, 1981 • Dec 31

Remember Simon as an Elvis look-alike, Sarah wearing corsets and Peter slogging it out in the first ever London Marathon? They are just a few of Blue Peter's 1981 highlights and others include Kevin Keegan in action in the studio, a meeting with Morph, the birth of Goldie's puppies and leaping through fire with the legendary White Helmets. If you missed any of these mile-stones today's your chance to catch up and to look forward to 1982.

Episode 32

S18 E32 • Monday, Jan 4, 1982 • Jan 4

RAF Airlift: Operation Pipeline gets a big boost when the RAF comes to the aid of viewers in Scotland, and heavy loads of stamps and coins reach the appeal depot in record time.

Episode 33

S18 E33 • Thursday, Jan 7, 1982 • Jan 7

Episode 34

S18 E34 • Monday, Jan 11, 1982 • Jan 11

Simon meets the man who doesn't have fairies at the bottom of his garden - he has a giant satellite aerial instead. Steve Birkhill designed and built his own satellite receiving station. Now he watches the Russian six o'clock news and the weather forecast from Saudi Arabia!

Episode 35

S18 E35 • Thursday, Jan 14, 1982 • Jan 14

'Aunt Jane was the delight of all her nephews and nieces - but, as Sarah discovers, Aunt Jane had a secret!

Episode 36

S18 E36 • Monday, Jan 18, 1982 • Jan 18

Episode 37

S18 E37 • Thursday, Jan 21, 1982 • Jan 21

Episode 38

S18 E38 • Monday, Jan 25, 1982 • Jan 25

Episode 39

S18 E39 • Thursday, Jan 28, 1982 • Jan 28

Episode 40

S18 E40 • Monday, Feb 1, 1982 • Feb 1

Episode 41

S18 E41 • Thursday, Feb 4, 1982 • Feb 4

Episode 42

S18 E42 • Monday, Feb 8, 1982 • Feb 8

Episode 43

S18 E43 • Thursday, Feb 11, 1982 • Feb 11

Simon and Tina reveal secrets of the tombs of the Pharaohs to mark the centenary of the Egypt Exploration Society, and the 'Excavating in Egypt' exhibition opening in the British Museum.

Episode 44

S18 E44 • Monday, Feb 15, 1982 • Feb 15

Episode 45

S18 E45 • Thursday, Feb 18, 1982 • Feb 18

Episode 46

S18 E46 • Monday, Feb 22, 1982 • Feb 22

Episode 47

S18 E47 • Thursday, Feb 25, 1982 • Feb 25

Episode 48

S18 E48 • Monday, Mar 1, 1982 • Mar 1

Episode 49

S18 E49 • Thursday, Mar 4, 1982 • Mar 4

Scruffy or sharp? Tatty or trendy? What's your verdict on Peter's clothes? No one seems to agree on what suits him best, so now's your chance to design the ideal outfit!

Episode 50

S18 E50 • Monday, Mar 8, 1982 • Mar 8