Blue Peter Summer Expedition
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The Blue Peter Summer Expedition is a yearly tradition in which the presenters of the British programme Blue Peter go to a foreign country and experience the culture and film special reports from that country, which are broadcast over several weeks in September and October. The first expedition was in 1965 and they have gone somewhere every year after that, apart from 1986.
The places and years in which the Blue Peter team have gone are:
- 1965 - Norway
- 1966 - Singapore and Borneo
- 1967 - Jamaica and New York
- 1968 - Morocco
- 1969 - Ceylon
- 1970 - Mexico
- 1971 - Iceland, Norway and Denmark
- 1972 - Fiji, Tonga and San Francisco
- 1973 - Côte d'Ivoire
- 1974 - Thailand
- 1975 - Turkey
- 1976 - Brunei
- 1977 - Brazil
- 1978 - USA
- 1979 - Egypt
- 1980 - Malaysia
- 1981 - Japan
- 1982 - Canada
- 1983 - Sri Lanka
- 1984 - Kenya
- 1985 - Australia
- 1986 - No Trip
- 1987 - Soviet Union
- 1988 - West Coast of the United States (Only Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding)
- 1989 - Zimbabwe
- 1990 - The Caribbean
- 1991 - Japan (Only John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan)
- 1992 - Hungary and New Zealand
- 1993 - Argentina
- 1994 - New England, USA
- 1995 - South Africa
- 1996 - Hong Kong and China
- 1997 - Canada
- 1998 - Mexico
- 1999 - Australia
- 2000 - Spain
- 2001 - Vietnam
- 2002 - Morocco
- 2003 - Brazil
- 2004 - India
- 2005 - Japan (without Liz Barker)
- 2006 - Southern United States
- 2007 - Bolivia
