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Any one remember an rte series set in a Dublin school?

  • 01-02-2010 7:58pm
    #1
    wingnut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭


    Something jogged my memory recently about a short lived series on rte. It was like a musical set in a Dublin school. I remember the principals name was Mr. Mannix. I cannot find any reference to it anywhere, am I making it up or does anyone else recall it??


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  • #2
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,963 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Was it on in mid 90's by anychance?


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Yes - It was scrapped by RTE at the time (if its the right one I'm thinking of) because it showed a naked woman - I kid you not.
    (The woman was a model for a portrait being done.)

    The name of it I am trying to remember.


  • #4
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    any of the students called anto? Deco?


  • #5
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Was it Finbars Class?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296341/


  • #6
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The English class.......... legend of a show.


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  • #7
    Red_Marauder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Red_Marauder


    Finbar's class?
    I watched it when I was like seven.
    Scared the bejesus out of me that secondary schools everywhere might be like that.


  • #8
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Biggins,

    The Spike!

    Never saw it (was a delicate child) but I did see the famous moment that got it cancelled - the naked women model was only visible through a "mottled" plastic or glass panel. You could see nothing.


  • #9
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    if memory seves me right it was called The Spike.

    Bah !! Beaten to it !!!.


  • #10
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Yeah it was Finbars Class it was brilliant
    One student had a gambling problem and went to the bookies a lot


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
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    The Spike wasn't a musical.


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  • #12
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    mike65 wrote: »
    The Spike!

    Never saw it (was a delicate child) but I did see the famous moment that got it cancelled - the naked women model was only visible through a "mottled" plastic or glass panel. You could see nothing.


    Thats the one I was referring to. Thanks.
    One episode was shown then pulled. The writer was a secondary teacher from Drogheda, co Louth.

    Aye, ya saw bugger all but a certain bunch of nuts had enough power to have it took from air.


  • #13
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Should have been!


  • #14
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Deansgrange Hill?


  • #15
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,583 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Moved to Television.


  • #16
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Long before Glee there was Finbar's Class.


  • #17
    wingnut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭wingnut


    Would be nice to see an episode of it now. There is 0 information online about it.


  • #18
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    Deansgrange Hill?

    Deranged Hill, more like!


  • #19
    mandz
    Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭mandz


    Was your one that plays Carol in Fair City in this if I remember correctly? I think I vaguely remember this show.


  • #20
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    mandz wrote: »
    Was your one that plays Carol in Fair City in this if I remember correctly? I think I vaguely remember this show.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296341/

    Hilda Fay was also in it.


  • #21
    youngblood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,768 ✭✭✭youngblood


    Yea and a Pudgy Brian "Bryan" McFadden also featured


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  • #22
    baalthor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭baalthor


    Biggins wrote: »
    Thats the one I was referring to. Thanks.
    One episode was shown then pulled. The writer was a secondary teacher from Drogheda, co Louth.

    Aye, ya saw bugger all but a certain bunch of nuts had enough power to have it took from air.

    "The Spike" was the subject of a "Scannal" episode last year.

    Read and weep/laugh ...

    I think one of the unseen episodes featured a pupil who joined the IRA and ended up getting shot dead; they surmised in the documentary that this was an additional reason why the government were happy to see the series cancelled.


  • #23
    TarfHead
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TarfHead


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    The Spike wasn't a musical.

    +1

    and it was the 1980s, early 80s IIRC.

    2 things I remember about it - the nudie lady already mentioned, and someone in class peeing into an empty milk bottle.

    They didn't need Liveline to get it taken off.


  • #24
    ktc1
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭ktc1


    TarfHead wrote: »
    +1

    and it was the 1980s, early 80s IIRC.

    2 things I remember about it - the nudie lady already mentioned, and someone in class peeing into an empty milk bottle.

    They didn't need Liveline to get it taken off.


    I remember both those and one other scene. The headmaster (very grumpy) was in bed with the missus (very frumpy)

    Sez she quite coyly/amorously "what are you thinking about love"
    Sez he "whores!"

    I still recall cracking up at the way he said it and the look of horror on her face.


  • #25
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    People are talking about two different shows here and now I want to see both...

    So "The Spike" and "Fibar's Class"?
    RTÉ should do what 4oD do and put up classic episodes of old shows up on the player every so often... It'd be great to have a look back at a few episodes of Glenroe or Where In The World? - Sunday Night Entertainment at its best...


  • #26
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    CaptainNegative wrote: »
    People are talking about two different shows here and now I want to see both...

    So "The Spike" and "Fibar's Class"?
    RTÉ should do what 4oD do and put up classic episodes of old shows up on the player every so often... It'd be great to have a look back at a few episodes of Glenroe or Where In The World? - Sunday Night Entertainment at its best...

    The OP is talking about Finbar's Class from 1996. It had 2 season altogether. It was about a group of unruly students in an inner city secondary school. Every now and then they would start to sing and dance. It was kind of an after schools programme. I remember Friday night used to consist of The Ward, Finbar's Class and some OU/BBC after schools programme one of which was co-produced with RTÉ.


  • #27
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    bring back spike, show it now!


  • #28
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭Demonique


    Finbar's Class and it was shoite


  • #29
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Demonique wrote: »
    Finbar's Class and it was shoite

    I'd like to see it again. I remember thinking that the plots were good but the singing was a bit out of place.


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