Blue Peter (in-universe)
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Blue Peter was a popular BBC children's television programme.
Ace, who left Earth in 1987, wore two Blue Peter badges on her black bomber jacket: one standard blue badge and one silver. ((TV: Dragonfire - Survival, et. al) One of them had been awarded for heroic achievement. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
Faction Paradox attacked the Blue Peter garden in 1996. This caused a far more intense psychological reaction than any direct assault on the people's psyche. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)
On 6 March 2006, an alien ship crashed into the Thames. Blue Peter presenter Matt Baker did a feature on how to make an alien ship cake. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) Following the feature, a BBC internal memo questioned whether it was appropriate to promote the creation of "space confectionary" for children, stating that it could be seen as pandering to incoming Prime Minister Joseph Green — the former Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionary. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Maria Jackson watched an episode in which the presenters Gethin Jones and Konnie Huq promoted the Bane's Bubble Shock! soft drink. (TV: Invasion of the Bane)
During the time the series Surrender, Earthlings! aired on the BBC, Blue Peter did a feature on how to make a Xyz from toilet-roll holders, Blu-Tak and two boiled eggs. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life)
Laurence recalled that the Doctor had a companion whose name was the same as a girl on Blue Peter. (PROSE: Telling Tales)
Upon meeting his tenth and eleventh incarnations, the War Doctor compared the outfits of his future selves to Blue Peter presenters. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
Behind the scenes
- Main article: Blue Peter (series)
Footnotes
- ↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
