Get down Shep ! RIP John Noakes

Jalapeno

  There goes my childhood .....

cruxiform

RIP John.

axisus

Yeah, real childhood memories. I'll never forget his grief at Shep passing, showed what an unbelievable bond you can have with a dog. 

scrumhalf

EricTheWeary

Ahh, sad.  Wasn't a regular Blue Peter watcher but John I liked, I remember Go With Noakes much more - that ieal of rambling across a moor with a faithful canine companion. 
RIP John. 

equalsql

Oh MAN! That is just bloody awful news.
An absolute childhood hero of mine and just one the best children's TV presenters who ever lived.
I loved his 'just get on and do it' personality.

Another little piece of me has died inside

proggy

That is a real, real shame. RIP.

merlin

Bless him, he was a real trooper. I'll never forget the trip to the lighthouse where he puked over the side of the boat. 

Apparently, according to John Noakes himself, he wanted to be a serious actor and got the job presenting Blue Peter and Biddy Baxter bullied him into staying, despite him wanting to leave and pursue his real creative dream. He entertained me enormously as I was growing up and gave live television a real human touch. For posterity, here is one of my favourite Blue Peter clips ever....

Funkfingers

He had not been well for a good while.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/0

tone1

I remember him crying when Shep died..R.I.P

ronnyb

Still got my Blue Peter badge and accompanying letter from the BBC, John Valerie and Peter, 1968. 

ICBM

RIP .

As already said, an inspired children's TV presenter - one of the greatest ever - and by all accounts a really nice man. A big part of my childhood too.

Sad to hear that he'd suffered from Alzheimer's. I'll always remember him as the have-a-go-at-anything nutcase of forty years ago - in particular falling out of a bobsleigh and bruised all down one side. What health & safety?

Stavros

Very sad, like others he was a big part of my childhood, along with Val and Peter 

blobb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQ_wBHfEzg

TheBlueWolf

John was my favourite Blue Peter presenter.

RIP

57Deluxe

...children's telly was sooo much better in Black and White... Many vivid memories of the 4pm-5.45pm daily telly fest after school...espsh during in (then) real cold winters.

Moominpapa

A legend of children's television. RIP.

boogieman

RIP. Very sad way to go, Alzheimer's is a horrible disease.

I saw on the news that he wasn't that happy doing Blue Peter. He reckoned he was overworked, underpaid and most definitely under-insured.

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jonnyburgo

He went up Nelson's column with zero safety equipment, no harness or anything, even on the stomach churning overhang right at the top. Crazy bastard! Remember that like it was yesterday. RIP.

stratman3142

Very sad. One of life's characters. He came across as really genuine.