Long-serving Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter, who turned the children's show into a television institution, has died at the age of 92. Over more than two decades, she introduced generations of children to the pleasures of sticky-backed plastic, on-screen pets, presenters' adventures and charity appeals - a recipe that stood the test of time.

Joan Maureen “Biddy” Baxter, the pioneering television producer who steered the BBC ’s “ Blue Peter ” for more than two decades and turned it into a defining fixture of British childhood, has died at the age of 92, according to BBC News.

Biddy Baxter is dead, the editor of 'Blue Peter' was 92 and worked with John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton.