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The Best Episodes of Blue Peter Season 17

Every episode of Blue Peter Season 17 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Blue Peter Season 17!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #1 - Episode 1

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    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!

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  2. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    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.

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  3. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    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!

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  4. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    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.

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  5. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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  6. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    '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!

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 7 - Episode 7
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    Introducing 'Muhammad Ali', Malaysia's coconut-collecting baboon!

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  8. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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  9. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 9 - Episode 9
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  10. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 10 - Episode 10
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  11. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 11 - Episode 11
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  12. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 12 - Episode 12
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  13. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 13 - Episode 13
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  14. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 14 - Episode 14
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  15. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 15 - Episode 15
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    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.

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  16. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 16 - Episode 16
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    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!

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  17. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 17 - Episode 17
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    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.

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  18. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 18 - Episode 18
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    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!

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  19. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 19 - Episode 19
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  20. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 20 - Episode 20
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  21. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 21 - Episode 21
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    Simon reports from Loch Ryan, where 50,000 tons of the Royal Navy's best-loved aircraft carrier are being turned into scrap metal.

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  22. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 22 - Episode 22
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    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.

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  23. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 23 - Episode 23
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    S17:E23

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  24. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 24 - Episode 24
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    S17:E24

    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.

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  25. Blue Peter Season 17 Episode 25 - Episode 25
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    #25 - Episode 25

    S17:E25

    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!

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Season 17 Ratings Summary

"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Blue Peter" season 17. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/8/1980. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".