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Blue Peter - Studio Fire (With Kids Present!) - BBC1 1971

Blue Peter studio set alight? Uh-oh! Disaster apparently looms as a group of Girl Guides and Brownies sing a song around a potentially out-of-control camp fire inside the Blue Peter studio. Yes INSIDE the studio!! What WERE the BBC thinking? Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves look increasingly anxious as the fire begins to burn through artificial logs. Acrid black smoke starts billowing around the studio. The Brownies are clearly very apprehensive, but since none of the adults in the room takes any evasive action they girls bravely conclude that the show has to go on, albeit with increasingly frenetic singing. One of the artificial logs becomes dislodged at one point with the potential to start all the logs rolling. Oh and is that Val's highly flammable purple jacket lying on the floor alarmingly close to the blaze? Fortunately the pile of logs stays in place, BBC Television Centre doesn't burn down, no children were hurt in the making of the programme and Val's clothing remained unharmed. It could have been very different. The logs may not have rolled, but whether heads rolled as a result we shall never know. Watch the Brownies and Guides clear out of the way in a hurry when the CO2 extinguisher is finally unleashed. The operator takes no chances and keeps the extinguisher going even when John Noakes tells him to stop. Biddy Baxter must have been fuming that day - every bit as much as the fire was. We're all too ready to roll our eyes at things like risk assessments but as this video shows, however frustrating they may be, health and safety procedures are nevertheless essential. Peter Purves for one has been critical of Blue Peter's policy of regularly putting the presenters in the line of danger without even having insurance in place. He said that they cared more about the pets than the presenters! If the incident had happened today we'd all have received dozens of nuisance calls from so-called ambulance chasers in a call centre asking whether we have ever been subjected to toxic fumes in a TV studio .... Postscript. My thanks to Trigger47W12 who was working in the studio that day and comments: "This was not a real fire in the studio but a small lamp with red lighting "gel" over it then the fireproof logs. It was the lamp which overheated and ignited the "gel" There would never have been a real fire in the studio...."