Go With Noakes, 1976
John Noakes was a TV legend to kids of a certain age. The action man from Blue Peter. In 1976 whilst still working on Blue Peter he embarked on his own series: Go With Noakes.
Running until 1980 (two years after leaving Blue Peter) Go With Noakes ran for 31 episodes over 6 series.
The series was produced by BBC Manchester and recorded on film, allowing greater flexibility with the shooting and editing of each week’s subject matter.
Summary
Go With Noakes was effectively a kids documentary series, it was broadly similar to the reports he made for Blue Peter.
Each episode had an adventure-based outdoor theme in keeping with Noakes’s reputation on Blue Peter as a man of action. In most episodes Noakes is accompanied by his famous dog Shep, who had left Blue Peter at the same time.
Travelling around the country, Noakes and Shep got involved in diverse activities like motor racing, rowing, aerobatics and painting.
In each series Noakes was seen travelling around Britain in a particular mode, e.g. sailing, narrow boat, walking, open top car, etc.
Clips
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Starring
John Noakes and Shep the dog
Details
Channel: BBC1
Original Transmission Dates: 28th March 1976 – 21st December 1980
Repeats and Spin Offs
A series of repeats was later broadcast under the title “Look Back With Noakes” in 1983
A similar series entitled Duncan Dares followed the same idea and was hosted by one of Noakes’s successors on Blue Peter, Peter Duncan, followed in 1985.