That’s the way it was. So when, in 1969, a baby elephant pissed and shat all over Blue Peter, the majority of viewers looked right through the class-war statement the animal was making.

Blue Peter, by contrast, was memorable only when things went wrong. Fortunately, that happened at a reasonably regular clip. There was the instantly legendary 1969 episode where baby elephant Lulu ...

Noakes appeared on Blue Peter with co-presenters including Christopher ... Noakes revelled in the merry chaos that erupted when a frightened baby elephant called Lulu misbehaved in the studio.

Lulu the baby elephant appeared on the show with her zookeeper Alec, but things quickly turned to chaos when Lulu decided to go to the toilet live on air! To play this video you need to enable ...

A former Blue Peter producer will be sharing tales ... climbing Nelson's Column and the amusing escapades of Lulu the baby ...

Former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes ... Column and jumping out of planes - and for his famous encounter with a baby elephant. A family statement said he had "endured and suffered from ...