Expedition Malaysia There's more than a touch of Eastern promise in this year's expedition! Simon and Sarah have explored one of the world's most exotic countries. Giant turtles, coconut collecting monkeys, dragon boat races, Sepak Raga - the football game where you kick with the back of your heel, blow-pipe hunters and the world's largest and hottest tin smelting works are just a few of the unusual sights they saw.
Today, Blue Peter's new boy makes his first-ever appearance on the programme. Think you've seen him before? You probably have, if you watched the "King Cinder" series, where Peter Duncan played the dare-devil speedway fanatic Kerry. Peter's keen to get into more action in "Blue Peter", and today he has a go at navigating Keying II, a 20-metre Chinese sailing junk, up the River Thames. In the studio there's the first-ever television appearance of Britain's record-breaking litter of 17 poodle pups.
Six-and-a-half thousand miles from Lord's and The Oval, Simon and Sarah watch the cricket at Kuala Lumpur's Selangor Club, explore the Sunday market on Saturday night and hold their noses as they sample 'durian' - the exotic tropical fruit that smells like a cowshed!
The next time you have baked beans on toast, spare a thought for the rabblers who produced the tin. They are the men who stir the molten metal in temperatures of 200°F. Sarah sizzles as she reports on Malaysia's vast tin smelting works.
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'Allemande Left, Buckle Up Two, Dish Rag Turn and Do-Si-Do'
Introducing 'Muhammad Ali', Malaysia's coconut-collecting baboon!
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Meet the only rabbit in Britain brought up by a goat. Two months ago an orange rex doe died before giving birth to 12 babies. The only survivor was fostered by the family's British alpine goat and today Miracle and her foster mum Samantha make their first public appearance.
Star Gazey Pie, with its seven sorts of fish, is a recipe that dates back 200 years when Skipper Tom Bawcock was the only fisherman in Mousehole to put to sea in a fierce storm. Tradition has it that the fish heads stick up through the pastry, but even if you can't find seven different fish you can try out the modern version demonstrated in today's programme - with pilchards!
If you have ever resorted to counting sheep to send you off to sleep, try visiting Biggin-by-Hartington the next time you can't nod off. It's the scene of Derbyshire's biggest sheep sale and this year 13,500 lambs and ewes went under the hammer in six hours flat! Simon was there to sell a few of his father's flock and report for Blue Peter.
David Attenborough and Sir Hugh Casson have been hard at work helping to judge the Blue Peter/ Natural History Museum Centenary Poster Competition. Today is results day and even if you don't win a bronze stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex or brontosaurus, there are thousands of runners-up, so you never know your luck!
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Simon reports from Loch Ryan, where 50,000 tons of the Royal Navy's best-loved aircraft carrier are being turned into scrap metal.
An estimated 20 million trees have been killed by the dreaded Dutch Elm disease and unless 50 million saplings are planted during the next three years, Britain's landscape could look like a moonscape by the year 2000. To mark National Tree Week, Simon, Sarah and Peter are planting a Japanese Elm at Television Centre - with expert guidance from Percy Thrower.
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Today Simon, Sarah and Peter make Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year - so have a paper and pencil handy for details of the 1980 Appeal.
Last year nine million Blue Peter viewers raised nearly £4 million to help the starving people of Cambodia. Today you can discover more details about the 1980 Appeal. Your help is urgently needed, so have a paper and pencil handy to take down the Appeal address. There's good news for pocket money savers too, because Sarah will be showing a Christmas present to make for Grannies and Grandads - so keep a look out for old margarine carton lids - and all will be revealed!
Peter joins a team of men with one of the most dangerous jobs in Britain - the crew of the fishing boat Fruitful Harvest. Seventy miles off the coast of north-east Scotland, skipper Robert Reid and his men battle with Force 9 gales and 30-foot waves as they haul in their six-ton catch.
Top Cats! Last Saturday 2,450 cats and kittens took part in the National Cat Club's 84th annual show - the largest in the world.
Christmas is Coming!
'Merry Christmas' in Cornish, and today four brothers from Bodmin, Merv, Andy, Chris and Neil, otherwise known as Bucca, make their very first appearance on TV. They'll be singing old favourites like 'Tom Bawcock's Eve' and playing some of their amazing collection of 40 instruments, including the bombarde.
This time next week, Christmas Day will be nearly over. If your cards are arriving thick and fast and there's nowhere left to put them, you might like to make a Christmas card hanger that doubles up as a very attractive last-minute decoration.