Go With Noakes was a BBC Television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...

 children's programme, broadcast between 28 March 1976 and 21 December 1980.

A documentary series, it was presented by John Noakes

John Noakes

John Noakes is a British television presenter and personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter in the 1960s and 1970s. He remains the show's longest-serving presenter, with a stint that lasted 12 years and 6 months...

 initially alongside, then following his departure from, Blue Peter

Blue Peter

Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...

in 1978. Broadly similar to the reports he made for that programme, each episode had an adventure-based outdoor theme in keeping with Noakes's reputation on Blue Peter as a man of action. Noakes was accompanied on each instalment by Shep

Shep (dog)

Shep was a famous Blue Peter dog, a border collie. Shep was bought by the BBC to replace Patch, one of Petra's puppies, born in 1965. He became the main Blue Peter dog when Petra died in 1977....

 the dog, who had also left Blue Peter at the same time.

It began on 28 March 1976, and ran for five series and 30 episodes, ending on 21 December 1980. A similar series entitled Duncan Dares hosted by one of Noakes's successors on Blue Peter, Peter Duncan

Peter Duncan (actor)

Peter Duncan is a British actor and television presenter, best known as a former presenter of Blue Peter and for his later family travel documentaries.-Education:...

, followed in 1986.

The theme-tune for the series was the popular Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at, a reference to Noakes's own Yorkshire heritage.