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Mailbag

  • 05-08-2006 12:56am
    #1
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭


    Any remember this on RTE? Arthur Murphy used to host it, probably RIP by now. Good show though. Now there a place you could send in your letter and complain about ANYTHING you wanted without the fear of being sued. Bring it back I say! :)


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  • #2
    Ray777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭Ray777


    Arthur Murphy is still alive and kicking, and hasn't aged a bit. He appeared on The Blizzard of Odd last year, in a spoof of Mailbag. If I remember correctly, there was a Mailbag-style programme on RTÉ1 a few years ago, presented by John Creedon.


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Bloody hell, thought he was long gone! The old biddies have no outlet for their complaints now. :(


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Yep I saw the Blizzard moment, I thought I was dreaming.

    I had a letter read out once - can't recall what I was moaning about though :)

    Mike.


  • #5
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    Great show.

    I emailed RTE asking were they considering releasing season box sets of Mailbag on DVD but they never responded.:confused:


  • #6
    Ruu_Old
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    Time to march on Donnybrook me thinks. :)


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  • #7
    FatherTed
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    Brian Capture wrote:
    Great show.

    I emailed RTE asking were they considering releasing season box sets of Mailbag on DVD but they never responded.:confused:


    You're kidding us, right?


  • #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    It is a great show! I'd buy the DVD! :)


  • #9
    hiscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    well they brought out bosco and wanderly wagon why not mailbag:D


  • #10
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Ah, Mailbag! Every Saturday evening when you'd be sitting down to your tea of fish fingers or sausages.


  • #11
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    Dudess wrote:
    Ah, Mailbag! Every Saturday evening when you'd be sitting down to your tea of fish fingers or sausages.

    with beans and chips.


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  • #12
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    FatherTed wrote:
    You're kidding us, right?

    No,

    Season box sets are the only way to go for Mailbag.

    A compilation of the best episodes will be unacceptable.


  • #13
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Brian Capture wrote:
    with beans and chips.

    Birdseye Potato Waffles - now they a classy tea did make!


  • #14
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    Dudess wrote:
    Birdseye Potato Waffles - now they a classy tea did make!

    They're waffly versatile.


  • #15
    DéiseGirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭DéiseGirl


    Dudess wrote:
    Ah, Mailbag! Every Saturday evening when you'd be sitting down to your tea of fish fingers or sausages.

    We had rashers, sausages and chips :D

    I got "Letter of the Week" one week...I was giving out to Arthur for wearing silly hats (Sorry Arthur!) and then it showed him wearing a dunce cap. I got £30 for the letter, which was a lot for a 12 year old back then :)


  • #16
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    D&#233 wrote: »
    We had rashers, sausages and chips :D

    I got "Letter of the Week" one week...I was giving out to Arthur for wearing silly hats (Sorry Arthur!) and then it showed him wearing a dunce cap. I got £30 for the letter, which was a lot for a 12 year old back then :)

    Oh nice £30 of teh old moneh was alot. :)


  • #17
    FatherTed
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    Speaking of old RTE shows, I usta love "Nighthawks". Anyone else?


  • #18
    mike65
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    DéiseGirl I think I remember that!:eek:

    Mike.


  • #19
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    FatherTed wrote:
    Speaking of old RTE shows, I usta love "Nighthawks". Anyone else?

    Saw a clip from it recently. Good God, we were easily impressed back then.


  • #20
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Mailbag was gas, never failedto miss it ofa saturday evening with my nan having waffles, beans, chips and HP sauce!

    Loved nighthawks and shay Healy!


  • #21
    steve 0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭steve 0


    Seen this mentioned elsewhere this morning and in case you didn't know, its back. All be it on the radio but its with the main man Arthur!
    Thursday's around 10:40am on Ray D'Arcy-Today FM.
    A bobble head Ray is the prize this time round for your correspondence.
    http://www.todayfm.com/Article.asp?id=381630


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  • #22
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    He was on Podge and Rodge last season also


  • #23
    cazzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    Arthur was on podge and rodge last year
    He s not that old !!!!!!!
    He was a bit confused bout being axed by RTE if I rememeber him on P&R

    Arthurs mailbox was great - all the ole ones giving out bout $ex on glenroe (ie Miley and Fildelma in the hay)


  • #24
    robo
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    We should star a Bring back Mailbag campaign!!!


  • #25
    cazzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    robo wrote: »
    We should star a Bring back Mailbag campaign!!!

    Definitely put my name to that


  • #26
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    cazzy wrote: »
    He was a bit confused bout being axed by RTE if I rememeber him on P&R

    I thought he was a little bit bitter rather than confused. It's a pity his show got axed. It was cheap television of a Saturday evening and it was great fun listening to people getting upset over things like the Cadbury's chocolate ad (woman in ad hadn't got a wedding ring - was she living in sin with the man who came home to her at the end of the ad?) and nudity in those boring European films RTE2 used to show back in the 80s.


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