Blue Peter Summer Expedition
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The Blue Peter Summer Expedition is a yearly tradition in which the presenters of the BBC children's TV 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 and 2011.
The Summer Expedition is traditionally announced on the last programme of the series which is usually towards the end of June. The highlights of the expedition are often shown as a special programme the following summer.
To date, the Blue Peter team has visited the following countries:
- 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 - Ivory Coast
- 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 - the presentation team was undergoing a number of changes that summer.
- 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 with Anthea Turner and New Zealand with Yvette Fielding
- 1993 - Argentina (only Diane-Louise Jordan and Anthea Turner)
- 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
- 2008 - Alaska (with new presenters)
- 2009 - Turkey
- 2010 - Italy
- 2011 - No Summer Expedition due to Salford Move