On 23 June 1986, Curry joined the children's television programme Blue Peter. During his time on the show, he did such things as being strapped to the sails of Outwood Windmill in Surrey and accidentally knocking the head off a man made of Lego. Mark spent three weeks in Malawi witnessing distressing scenes of people from surrounding villages suffering with blindness and chronic eye problems. He had an eye operation when he was two years old and has to wear spectacles due to only seeing clearly through one eye, so was very enthusiastic about raising money for the charity, SightSavers, which was the Blue Peter appeal for 1986. He travelled all over Russia for the 1987 summer expedition and was famous for his history features on the show, his cooking disasters and his performing. Due to Mark's successful children's history programme, "Treasure Houses", created by Dorothy Smith and the head of children's programmes, Edward Barnes, he was invited to replace Simon Groom without auditioning for the show.
His co hosts during his time with the programme were, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie. Mark was very emotional after the death of fellow presenter and good friend, Caron Keating, some years after Blue Peter. The team of, Mark, Caron and Yvette during the 80's, was extremely popular at the time and they became famous for their Christmas song and dance specials. Mark's trip to the Pleasure Beach funfair in Blackpool with Yvette Fielding is regarded as one of the most entertaining Blue Peter features ever, due to Yvette's screams and yelps on the different rides.
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