Blue Peter the 50th anniversary) the opening arrangement of the tune was reworked to include elements of "Barnacle Bill" once again. The closing theme for 2008 is the same as opening signature tune. In September 2011, the series returned to using "Barnacle Bill" though with the opening bars and drum roll omitted (along with the "Sailor's Hornpipe") and the traditional closing signature tune not used. 1958–1989: The earliest episodes featured stock footage of a sailing ship under the opening credits. By the late 1960s, Blue Peter's opening sequence featured extracts of that edition's filmed inserts or an event in the studio where
The Wonderful Tune using the manuscript copy, and printed in "Irische Land- und Seemärchen" (1986). The protagonist appears as "Moritz Connor". A French translation entitled "L'air merveilleux" appeared in Loys Bruyere, "Contes populaires de la Grande-Bretagne" (1875). The Wonderful Tune The Wonderful Tune is an Irish fairy tale collected in Thomas Crofton Croker's "Fairy Tales and Traditions of the South of Ireland" (1825–28). Andrew Lang included it in "The Lilac Fairy Book", and Ruth Manning-Sanders included it as "The Magical Tune", in "A Book of Mermaids". Maurice Connor, a blind man, was the finest piper in Munster, and knew a tune that when