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Why did RTE show so many Australian kids shows in the mid to late 90's???

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  • #52
    BlaasForRafa
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Anyone else remember the "moving wallpaper" from National Film Board of Canada ?

    or even the Eastern European stuff


    there was way worse than the stuff from Oz

    The eastern european cartoons were awful, like watching picasso paintings having an epileptic fit.

    The only canadian programmes I can remember offhand were The Littlest Hobo, Degrassi and the Beachcombers


  • #53
    Capt'n Midnight
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    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    The eastern european cartoons were awful, like watching picasso paintings having an epileptic fit.

    The only canadian programmes I can remember offhand were The Littlest Hobo, Degrassi and the Beachcombers
    The Littlest Hobo, and early Beachcombers were great.

    The other stuff was just filler - possibly this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Vignettes

    This logo look familiar ?
    220px-National_Film_Board_of_Canada_logo.svg.png


  • #54
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Because they were cheap and they were good.

    If you could get good from USA/UK but could get good and cheap from Oz and you were commissioning programmes in RTE in 1980s/1990s Ireland you'd probably go for the cheapest option.

    A whole generation of Irish people have been raised watching Home and Away.

    Round the Twist was great    . :D

    I can even hear the theme song playing in my head. good program. I think i loved the fact it was so off the wall


  • #55
    darkdubh
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The Littlest Hobo, and early Beachcombers were great.

    The other stuff was just filler - possibly this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Vignettes

    This logo look familiar ?
    220px-National_Film_Board_of_Canada_logo.svg.png


    The Film Board Of Canada animated shorts were great,filler they might have been but I have fond memories of them.


  • #56
    darkdubh
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Don't think hedgehogs are native to Australia?

    Its a couple of years since I posted that comment I think.I've found out since that it was a British series.


  • #57
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    The Tribe was so good. :)

    There was also a show in the early 00's called Foreign Exchange. Robert Sheehan was in it.


  • #58
    branie2
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    Kangaroo Creek Gang - every morning when I was getting ready for the day in college.


  • #59
    Professey Chin
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Halfway across the galaxy and turn left

    YES!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08L_UWapXwE


  • #60
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Mid 90s for this one I think.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UU8JghT3lI


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHEptdIZLg


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  • #61
    Dark Phoenix
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    freddiek wrote: »
    anyone remember the name of the australian show set in a school from the early 90s? was a few years before heartbreak high, that was mid-to late 90s . i think there were mostly working class kids and had a tougher edge to it than other shows

    and no, im not mixing it up with neighbours/home & away

    The hendersons maybe? I vaguely remember that show - something about kids having to fend for themselves?


  • #62
    Dark Phoenix
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    Just found this - gave me a laugh!

    "Every rack off from heartbreak high"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgIFeq72oM


  • #63
    irishgeo
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    Was seaQuest dsv from auz?

    Beyond 2000 was auz produced and I loved that show. Flying cars and all that stuff. Not sure if any of the stuff ever made it.


  • #64
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭George White


    No, Seaquest was US, Spielberg-produced, hence Roy Scheider.


  • #65
    briany
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    I was really into Spellbinder back in the day. Come to think of it, it was probably the first serial type TV show that I actively followed and would wait for the next episode of.


  • #66
    barneysplash
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    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    The eastern european cartoons were awful, like watching
    picasso paintings having an epileptic fit.

    I remember them too, reminds me of this parody from The Simpsons when Krusty is not allowed to
    show Itchy and Scratchy cartoons anymore. He resorts to putting on "Worker and Parasite" from
    the eastern bloc:




    On the subject of Australian kids TV here is the world record show "Just for the Record" I think
    this was on UTV



    You might remember the closing credits more, with presenter Gary Who giving it loads:




    Here is a link to a previous discussion we had on the subject of Australian mini-series
    from the 1980s:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=84022706


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  • #67
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    barneysplash wrote: »
    I remember them too, reminds me of this parody from The Simpsons when Krusty is not allowed to
    show Itchy and Scratchy cartoons anymore. He resorts to putting on "Worker and Parasite" from
    the eastern bloc:


    My housemates only showed me some of the eastern bloc cartoons they grew up with a few weeks ago.
    There was one kinda tom and jerry thing about a wolf and a rabbit and another thing that reminded me of morph or something :/
    Both very very weird


  • #68
    Run and Jump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Run and Jump


    One I remember, mostly for the catchy theme tune, was called 'Saturdee'.

    Every episode was almost the same: kids in 1920s Australia, all looking forward to escaping school and their strict teachers for the weekend so they can go swimming and climbing trees, but come Saturday one of them has to do chores or put on their best clothes to visit some stuffy old aunt. ("Aw, mum! But it's Saturdee!") I'm sure there are lots of future soap stars in it.

    Stuck in work during the week and dreaming of the weekend, this theme tune often pops into my head!

    http://youtu.be/VHUFFfCK7mc


  • #69
    mzungu
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    Never knew they showed eastern European cartoons here.

    A lot of the kids TV from Australia was really decent. The best by far is The Girl from Tomorrow, followed by Halfway Across the Galaxy.


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