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>And although I really really looked I could not find any explanation of the name.
blue pe·ter (blû pç'tər)
n. Nautical.
A blue flag with a white square in the center, flown to signal that a ship is ready to sail (courtesy of Atomica)
The programme's logo is a ship in a bottle and the music is the hornpipe. It was the main BBC children's magazine programme for many years and has a very loyal following.
It was famous for the things it made, using "sticky back plastic" they never used the tradename "Sellotape" and old breakfast cereal packets
Here is a rather typical spoof:
http://www.ashtons.demon.co.uk/c1/blue/blue.html
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