Blue Peter 2002, repeats of "Blue Peter" started being shown on CBBC on Choice's successor, the newly launched CBBC Channel, along with spin-off shows "Blue Peter Unleashed" and "Blue Peter Flies the World". From 2003 a new arrangement involved new material being shown daily, on both BBC One and the CBBC Channel. In 2017, "Blue Peter Bite", a five-minute programme which features challenges previously shown on the programme was introduced. The signature tune has always been a hornpipe, originally using variations of Barnacle Bill by Herbert Ashworth-Hope, and should not be confused with the American sailor song of the same title. The
Barnacle Bill (1941 film) appeared in the following seven films together: Barnacle Bill (1941 film) Barnacle Bill is a 1941 feature film starring Wallace Beery. The screen comedy was directed by Richard Thorpe. "Barnacle Bill" was the second of seven MGM films pairing Beery and character actress Marjorie Main. Lazy fisherman Bill Johansen (Wallace Beery) docks his small (and sinking) fishing boat in San Pedro harbor, aggravating ship chandler Pop Cavendish (Donald Meek) and Pop's spinster daughter Marge (Marjorie Main), who would like to marry Bill even though he has welched on paying his debts for years. Pop tries to have Bill's boat attached,