RIP John Noakes

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

This really is part of my childhood gone. The Go With Noakes Red Arrows episode was one of those unforgettable childhood telly memories. I hope he's reunited with Shep.

[ElyDave]

Not another one.

I guess all my memorable faces from childhood are now approaching that same age range.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Oh well. They can't replace him with one they made earlier.

[bobb]

 

TBH, I thought he died years ago... Or maybe I was thinking of Shep

[T42]

"Here's a coffin I made earlier out of toilet-roll centres..."

[clarion]

He was a one-off, and a hero of mine.

[Jaded]

Nelson's Column. That is it for me.

[ElyDave]

I don't think he ever experienced nipple rash like Peter Duncan though

[redshift]

No, but he showed off the bruises on his arse after crashing on the Cresta Run at about 80 mph.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The Cresta Run crash was scary. Perhaps a precursor of the modern trend for reality crash TV, too.

[Vince]

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

No, but he showed off the bruises on his arse after crashing on the Cresta Run at about 80 mph.

I think my dad's the only person in the country who watched that and said "I want a go."

[Gattopardo]

Get down shep...

[T42]

Nelson's Column. That is it for me.

https://youtu.be/p4YFCJETmwI

Couldn't find the Cresta Run one, though.

[rr]

I met him, and Shep, when they filmed an episode of go with Noakes on the Malvern Hills. Fortunately my singing ended up on the cutting room floor.

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[LEE]

Noakes, Singleton & Purves.
My Childhood.

Getting to grips with Nelson's column showed amazing courage (and something even Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy shied away from)

[Veloman]

Introduced me to the Trangia stove when he was walking the Pennine Way (with Shep of course) and I suddenly saw a stove you could use in the wind.  Always very grateful for that and no doubt lots of other folk too.

Note his family have said "Whilst he will be greatly missed by his wife, family and many friends his release from continuing ill health must be counted as a blessing" which is sad that his health was so poor after all the entertainment and inspiration he gave to many over the years.

[barakta]

John Noakes was truly inspiring.

In the '60s I managed to earn a Blue Peter badge. The morning it arrived in the post I wore it to school, where I got beaten up at break time and that was the last I saw of my badge. I have spent the last 50 years wanting to earn another one. I should check what I need to do.

I'm sure if you wrote to Blue Peter and explained they would send you another one, they're known for being lovely like that and trade on their nice image.

[Vince]

Note his family have said "Whilst he will be greatly missed by his wife, family and many friends his release from continuing ill health must be counted as a blessing" which is sad that his health was so poor after all the entertainment and inspiration he gave to many over the years.

He was on Pointless Celebrities a couple of years ago and I had the impression he didn't really know what was going on. Peter Purves was clearly looking after him.

[Chris S]

I know nothing of such a show - "Pointless Celebrities" but it doesn't sound like anything I'd want to watch.

If it was/is as grim as it sounds, why on earth would any caring soul allow someone who might need "looking after" onto such a thing?

Oh well. I know little to nothing about his life after I stopped watching Blue Peter, which must have been in the early 70s. He was a major reason why I watched Blue Peter - the others were very "BBC" of the time, but John was something of a maverick, jumping out of planes, riding bobsleighs and the like.

Thanks for all that, John. Bye. 

[Mr Larrington]

Sadly he was long gone from Blue Peter by the time I had my fifteen minutes in 1983   We had to make do with Simon Groom, second-rate Noakes impersonator Peter Duncan, Sarah Greene and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's mum.

RIP, John.

[Oscar's dad]

When I was at college some of my dim witted fellow students thought I looked like John Noakes and at regular intervals would shout "Get down Shep!" in my general direction thinking they were taking the piss. Little did they know John Noakes was a hero of mine and I took their taunts as a compliment.

One of the highlights of Christmas in the 70s was getting a copy of the latest Blue Peter album so I could re-live John's exploits from the year just gone. His 5 mile free fall with the Red Devils was a favourite.

RIP John 

[Legs]

I know nothing of such a show - "Pointless Celebrities" but it doesn't sound like anything I'd want to watch.

If it was/is as grim as it sounds, why on earth would any caring soul allow someone who might need "looking after" onto such a thing?

Whoosh!  It is a popular quizzical televisual transmission, m'lud.  Gentle humour; about as far to the opposite end of the spectrum from 'grim' as you can get.  I didn't see the episode in question, but I can't think that it would have been anything less than respectful to the great man.

RIP, John.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Nelson's Column. That is it for me.

https://youtu.be/p4YFCJETmwI

Couldn't find the Cresta Run one, though.

The cameraman had to get up there with a camera, then hang off to one side to film him! 

Unsung bloody heroes, cameramen

[Oscar's dad]

Nelson's Column. That is it for me.

https://youtu.be/p4YFCJETmwI

Couldn't find the Cresta Run one, though.

The cameraman had to get up there with a camera, then hang off to one side to film him! 

Unsung bloody heroes, cameramen

And a sound chappy too?