So sad that he had Alzheimer's. He was part of the first 'Blue Peter' team that I can remember, along with Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton, and I loved his cheeky-chappy, derring-do attitude: that bobsleigh run when he came off (pulling down his trousers later in the studio to reveal the abrasions on his leg) lives on in the memory as does the more frightening ascent of Nelson's Column on a blustery day, with the part where he had to clamber past the overhang making me nervous even now. Somewhere in a cupboard at my mum's, there are still a few Blue Peter annuals; I must fish them out and relive those moments and see if there's still the flickbook of Shep jumping for a ball. Thanks John Noakes.
RIP, used to love Blue Peter. My dad used to take us somewhere near Brixton to watch the London to Brighton car run in the 70's and the BP team always used to take part.
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Great 3-some telly - Noakes, Purves & Singleton. I was a BBC boy & never watched the rival programme on ITV (Magpie)
RIP
The video of him climbing Nelson's Column gives me vertigo no matter how many times I watch it!
A brilliant presenter in his day - I always wondered how close he was to an expletive.
RIP
As a child of the sixties he was part of my weekly Blue Peter fix and maybe one of the first people I was aware of with a regional accent on TV
Remember when he cried when was recalling Shep - proper dog man
RIP