Go with Noakes - Episode Guide

John comes to grips with The Lakeland Games: "They told me the Cumberland and Westmorland style wrestling was due to finish at three o'clock. The Fell Race up and down Butter Crag was fixed for 3.25. So why not enter both?"

John puts his oar in The Oxford Bumps: "When I asked Balliol College if I could row in one of their Eights they warned me I was a bit underweight for an oarsman. But they said they'd see what they could do with me."

John flies high with The Red Arrows: "I used to be an engine-fitter with the RAF, so I guessed what I was in for. But I hadn't bargained on the Arrows giving me the full treatment, and 16 minutes of aerobatics proved a bit too much."

John has a spin with The Milk Race: "To take part in a marathon like the Round Britain Cycle Race you've got to be utterly fit - and I wasn't."

John takes to the pits with Formula 5000: "It wasn't until we got to Oulton Park that one of the other mechanics told me the unwritten law of motor-racing – ‘You can reckon that if nothing goes wrong, you're not trying'. "

John sails away to The Guernsey Handicap: ‘It was Bob Fisher who suggested we went to race in the Channel Islands." Great yachting there," he said - "fresh winds, strong tides, lots of nasty rocks and currents and after all it's your boat we're taking ".'

John joins the Austen Brothers' Circus to sample the travelling life of the Big Top.

John tackles a week of training with the Castleford Rugby League team, as they prepare for a season of success.

John enters the toughest canoe race in Ireland, over ten weirs on the swollen River Liffey.

John and his dog Shep stride out on the 250-mile Pennine Way.

John takes on Cumbria's toughest athletes at the annual Grasmere Sports.

John visits the Pitlochry Highland Games.

John joins the volunteer navvies on Britain's oldest narrow-gauge railway, in their two-year struggle to blast a new tunnel in the mountains of Wales.

John Noakes and Shep follow the ups and downs of the south-west coastal path.

John Noakes and Shep get taken for a ride along the lanes of south-west Ireland.

John and Shep hitch their way through the highlands and islands.

John Noakes and Rags, the Blue Peter pony, ride out on the trail to Beachy Head.

John and Shep take a bee-line across the lakes, dales and moors of Northern England.

John Noakes and Shep take to the water for an inland voyage of discovery.

The good ship Pleiades sails west, Shep meets 400 donkeys, John tries his first water-ski jump, and everyone makes for Helston in time for the Flora Dance.

The crew of Pleiades take shore leave in the land of song. John fishes from a coracle, scales a sheer rock face and discovers he's a baritone.

John explores the Millennium Way on the Isle of Man, and the Causeway coast in Co Antrim. Shep develops a taste for ice-cream and plays his first round of golf.

Pleiades navigates the Corryvreckan whirlpool and the Caledonian Canal. John goes in search of the White Stag on the Isle of Arran, and Shep keeps an eye open for the Loch Ness Monster.

John takes a stroll up the Forth Bridge, Shep takes a lesson in shepherding, and David Bellamy challenges them both to a marathon Pooh-stick race.

Pleiades revisits the yard where she was built, and Shep is introduced to Mr Punch. John plays croquet, goes banger-racing, and becomes an artist.

John gets 'Nellie' back on the road, takes a stroll beneath the Pennines, ties up some loose ends in Hawes, and goes for a spin at Harewood. Shep hears all about Ilkley Moor, and comes face-to-face with a church mouse.

John spins a pot at Alford, goes for gold with the Friskney Bow-men, sizes up Geoff Capes and takes on the US Air Force at football. Shep has a bracing day out at Skegness.

John punts down the Thames, puts a leg on a chair, and goes up, up and away. Percy Edwards chats to the animals at Whipsnade Zoo and Shep takes a close look at village life.

John races a 'cat' at Gosport, breaks a record with Roy Castle and thatches a roof at Milton Abbas; Shep drops in for tea with Lesley Judd and Brillo.

John dodges birds of prey, blows a glass vase, pulls some onions with Percy Thrower and climbs down a factory chimney. Shep enters the Dog Olympics.

John walks over hill and glides over dale. Shep goes fishing and finds a wallaby. They return to Halifax for the Piece Hall Carol Concert, and say farewell to Nellie with the Black Dyke Mills Band.