1976: JOHN NOAKES tries the CRESTA RUN | Blue Peter | Classic BBC clips

1976: JOHN NOAKES tries the CRESTA RUN | Blue Peter | Classic BBC clips | BBC Archive

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Blue Peter's resident daredevil, the one and only John Noakes, tries his hand at a bit of tobogganing at the legendary Cresta Run course in the Swiss town of St. Moritz. The British-run Cresta Club hosted the Olympic Skeleton contest at the 1928 and 1948 Winter Games.
Originally broadcast 5 February, 1976.
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@davidcoleman757 10 ай бұрын

Climbed Nelson's Column, flew with the Red Arrows, did a record-breaking sky-dive, threw himself down the Cresta Run: Noakes remains a legend. It was damned good being a kid in '76.

@neilbowers6956 2 жыл бұрын

Watching these men do Skeleton runs on very basic sleds. Now, Team GB alone spend millions on areo dynamics and getting the perfect sled. John Noakes was a true Blue Peter legend.

@crediblemulk4638 2 жыл бұрын

So glad to have grown up in this era of kids TV. No bs, its just as it was, no scripts persay, just showing the presenters living the experience. Look at the pads! Great stuff.

@virtualunreality8326 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too! That was when they were daredevils!

@peterflynn9123 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! My Grandpa made me a go-kart. Pram wheels, string and a plank of wood. I even had a Safety Pullover just like John Noakes 🤣

@jamiecullum5567 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely had scripts mate

@crediblemulk4638 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamiecullum5567 Thats why I did say persay and not that they did everything adlib. Thats also why im glad I watched this era as it enabled me to be concise and make correct statements I can justify, especially if others cant read whats in front of them or interpret it themselves.

@jamiecullum5567 2 жыл бұрын

@@crediblemulk4638 ah so putting persay means thats meaning of the following statement is infact the opposite of what it means

@charleigh195 2 жыл бұрын

Completely and utterly fabulous thank god I grew up with John.

@happyfeet4506 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad this was the TV when I was growing up. Real TV shows with real people doing amazing things unlike today's TV!

@matthewprince9705 Жыл бұрын

Don't you remember that Celebrity Ski Jump series on Channel 4 10 years ago? So many people got injured it was scrapped!

@nickrobinson7096 10 ай бұрын

@@matthewprince9705 usually if a show is cancelled they were doing something right

@ashleyhoward8926 2 жыл бұрын

Proper telly. Imaginative & informative ideas, put into practice on a modest budget, by my someone who can string a sentence together.

@PibrochPonder 2 жыл бұрын

And no box tickers.

@ianwhitehead691 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah proper t.v. & proper winters Back then.

@oldskoolfool141 2 жыл бұрын

So game was Noakesy, a great filter of info and enthusiasm, infectious spirit

@TheHarrip 2 жыл бұрын

Why does it not surprise me that it’s RAF pilots treating this like a hobby 🇬🇧👍

@sarahbowen7721 2 жыл бұрын

John Noakes was an iconic presenter…. I love the RAF Chaps!

@crimsonpirate1710 9 ай бұрын

Tally ho!

@simonm7133 8 ай бұрын

The legend that is .....John Noakes!

@stephenasbridge878 2 жыл бұрын

Bloody brilliant.

@roytait629 2 жыл бұрын

He was so excited. How I loved Blue Peter and was enthused by him

@spitalul2bad 2 жыл бұрын

I am amazed at the audio. Especially during the 5:10 instructions. Great quality and isolation.

@weejim48 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I remember watching this when I was about 20. John Noakes was my hero. The way he put his life on the line with his daredevil antics . He was an inspiration to youngsters. Not like todays overpaid cry babies on I’m a celebrity this that and the other. The man is a LEGEND. If anyone in show business deserved a knighthood it was John. 👍

@derek876544 2 жыл бұрын

What a great man John was balls of steel

@pegasus9280 2 жыл бұрын

What excellent television

@ppgedez 2 жыл бұрын

It’s very safe they’ve got some blankets up to stop you flying off the corners. 🙂 Get down Shep .

@apacherider7110 2 жыл бұрын

John Noakes is a legend.

@davidrenton 2 жыл бұрын

I'm impressed by the on board footage, i was expecting a Cameraman with a fullsize camera sitting on John's back and a soundman dragging at his heels.

@danielstroubledthoughts5386 2 жыл бұрын

Exciting adrenaline filled content for boys and girl to aspire to.. So what happened BBC?

@stepheno1870 9 ай бұрын

The closest I got to this in the late 70’s was secretly borrowing one of my Mums best coffee trays & using it like a skateboard down a icy/snowy hill between a bank of trees, soooo much fun😀👍

@hopebgood Ай бұрын

I was 16 and with my best mate on the back of an old London Routemaster bus and as it was speeding along over a local bridge I said JOKINGLY to my mate "I'm gonna jump off" with absolutely no intention of actually doing it. The next thing I knew I was rolling and tumbling head over heels in the gutter. To this day I still don't know exactly what happened. It was just a laugh 😀

@metalman4141 2 жыл бұрын

What a bloke a John was 🙏

@davidpayne3938 5 ай бұрын

What a guy John Noakes was to do that, although Blue Peter was a children's program my mum loved watching it as well when I was a child back in the 70's, ..❤

@peterdickinson7842 2 жыл бұрын

The waxed aero dynamic moustache is advantageous.

@davidfirth6535 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic character, all done in his high tech RAF jumper.

@phillipecook3227 Жыл бұрын

Lying on your stomach going downhill at 60 + mph on a baking tray. You were a hero John Noakes.

@DB-sh4gh 2 жыл бұрын

great memories... !!

@stevesmith3990 5 ай бұрын

I wish we could have John Noakes back, what a legend.

@drfloxy2779 2 жыл бұрын

Guy Martin is John's lovechild.

@Sol-Cutta Жыл бұрын

Noakes was one daredevil of a man

@sebastianapollodelavega1445 5 ай бұрын

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx love the program well done BBC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

@bm6563 2 жыл бұрын

Legend

@korma9732 11 ай бұрын

When watching 37 year old BBC tv is more entertaining than watching current BBC tv 😂

@thebat7048 Жыл бұрын

Ahhhh,my youth right here 😄

@matthewprince9705 Жыл бұрын

Don't you remember that Celebrity Ski Jump series on Channel 4 10 years ago? So many people got injured it was scrapped!

@DIYBFF123 2 жыл бұрын

So this was kids TV and the there was Fawlty Towers also on TV , what an era!!!!

@adrianpeters2413 Жыл бұрын

On a Crest of a wave of nostalgia here ....... o.k. ....... and here is one we prepared earlier....yeah good advice for the rock concerts......up in smoke ...great times

@johnny5805 2 жыл бұрын

How did Noakes fit his massive balls on that toboggan ?!

@deefox7333 2 жыл бұрын

that looks a lot of fun!

@johnneville403 2 жыл бұрын

What they don't show here is John partially pulling down his pants to show Peter and Lesley the bruising on the side of his ass/hip. I'm genuinely not joking!

@highdownmartin 2 жыл бұрын

Sure that wasn’t after the bobsleigh crash.?

@johnneville403 2 жыл бұрын

@@highdownmartin That's a very good point. I forgot he crashed that, too! Fantastic presenter, though.

@graememorrison333 2 жыл бұрын

No, that was a year previously. Fair play to John though for doing the Cresta on a glorified tea-tray after that horrific smash-up.

@richardhunter7363 2 жыл бұрын

@@highdownmartin I think you are right if I remember correctly - plus John mentioned at the start of this that the Cresta Run was not like the bob run he had done and crashed at before. I remember watching the show where John showed off the battle scars after the crash - the bruising was fairly awesome.

@andys2856 2 жыл бұрын

crazy.

@user-wp8vy8le3y 6 ай бұрын

Classic television from a great era for kid's TV. If you want the equivalent in print, then read the chapter from Ian Fleming's novel 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' in which James Bond chases the arch-villain Blofeld - also on a bobsleigh - down the mountain. It's also pretty graphic - and terrifying !

@rhysroberts 6 ай бұрын

The Socially Distant Sports Bar brought me here

@Reelin_In_The_Years Жыл бұрын

Came here for the bobsleigh where he came off... remember it well, live, back in the mid 70s... am sure it'll be somewhere...

@themoondial2627 7 ай бұрын

No health and safety. Just freedom.

@paulhunter6178 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the days before Health and Safety, protective clothing and crash helmets! I'm glad to have been a product of the 60's and this brings back so many memories. Noakes was FEARLESS. He'll not be forgotten so long as this video survives!

@baldieman64 2 жыл бұрын

His Nelson's Column climb was terrifying and legitimately dangerous.

@odl21 Жыл бұрын

same safety procedures today on the cresta. beginners normally aim for 70s on their first run.

@SeanAtkinson-tp9bk 11 ай бұрын

2:40 Just love this guy what it was all about don't ya know what! Seriously better times genuinely happier people enjoying themselves without any self obsessed extremist finding something to moan about. ❤

@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын

What can I do with all these BLOODY milk bottle tops ...?

@worldofameiso5491 2 жыл бұрын

I used to love watching Blue Peter when i was a kid, back in the 60s and 70s. Just good, honest entertainment by professionals, no stupid woke agendas to push.

@user-et6pj4db9s 6 ай бұрын

John Noake's death wish crusade continues

@mancavehobbies6213 10 ай бұрын

Was Shep holding the camera lol

@DavidImpatief 20 күн бұрын

When men smoked pipes.

@cyclesgoff9768 Жыл бұрын

Take note Mr Linaker.

@vesavius 2 жыл бұрын

Now this would all be labelled as 'toxic masculinity', but these role models are what boys today need... Honest men that overcome their fear to do great things.

@bigolebot 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you weren't alive then.

@Leonards-leopard Жыл бұрын

No it wouldn’t

@odl21 Жыл бұрын

not in switzerland.

@davidevans3227 11 ай бұрын

i was wondering if they're should've kept John on b p..

@sofakingjewish 4 ай бұрын

and Simon Bedford. UK af.

@malcolmclements9254 Жыл бұрын

The last time John was on ice it didn't work out too well!

@steveo726 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this when men were men and not mirror hugging nancys

@hopebgood Жыл бұрын

Sad homophobic bigot. I bet you're scared of black people too Steve, eh?

@pmrose18 2 жыл бұрын

Needs at least one lgbt physically challenged /mentally challenged ethnic minority presenter with an accent we cant understand to bring it bang up to date. Thanks goodness I was a kid in the early 70's

@Leonards-leopard Жыл бұрын

You can get arrested these days, just for saying you’re English

@caterhamgraeme Жыл бұрын

@@Leonards-leopard these days...