When I come home from school..

Ruu_Old

My Mam would have on Live at 3 *cringe* then it was quickly changed over to the Den and other various cartoons on the English channels. Probably the majority watched the Den. What did ye have on?

Nightwish

My granny would always watch Live at 3, or Sons and Daughters. After our homework, myself and my sister used to watch the DJ Kat Show on Sky 1.

constitutionus

Nightwish wrote:

My granny would always watch Live at 3, or Sons and Daughters. After our homework, myself and my sister used to watch the DJ Kat Show on Sky 1.

linda de mol *sigh*

bizmark

DJ Kat Show the den and star trek its all i ever needed

what happened to the dj kat show? it was really good from what i remember.

Endasaurus

Ray Darcy with Zig and Zag!!

trilo

Zig and Zag most definately (we only had the irish stations anyway). Especially for Fraggle Rock whihc started just before we got of the school bus.
BUT.... i remember i think it was in my last year of primary school rushing home to see the Ballroom dancing on, open house.. i think it was called that then.

Madge

Ruu wrote:

My Mam would have on Live at 3 *cringe* then it was quickly changed over to the Den and other various cartoons on the English channels. Probably the majority watched the Den. What did ye have on?

Yeah, same as you, Live at 3 with Thelma Mansfield and Derek Davis.. I remember the theme music

Zapp Brannigan

Madge wrote:

Yeah, same as you, Live at 3 with Thelma Mansfield and Derek Davis.. I remember the theme music

Oh god, I think repressed memories are coming back to the surface of my mind!

But the best thing I remember watching after school was Animaniacs!

trout

isn't it well for ye all that ye could watch telly when ye came home!

my folks were real hardass about schoolwork ... so i generally had to 'do me ecker' before watching the magical tube

on a good day, i would catch the tail end of zig & zag ... great days, great days ... i think dustin was funnier back then ... more earthy and dubb-a-lin

brown*eyed*girl

Mostly I'd just throw my school bag in the hall and went out to play but sometimes I'd watch Inspector Gadget and Ulysses. I was always out playing when I was young.

Ruu_Old

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

Mostly I'd just throw my school bag in the hall and went out to play but sometimes I'd watch Inspector Gadget and Ulysses. I was always out playing when I was young.

Top quality series right there!

GAA widow

watched all those too i remember "Knot's Landing" running for a few seasons as well.

Femelade

A country Practice..everyday

uncle ernie

the den, and vague memories of a show called the high road, some scottish soap

Ruu_Old

Yep Take the High Road, the name was changed to just High Road later on. I don't remember much of it myself.

The Bollox

my folks made sure I did my homework before any TV, but after the work is done it's The Den: Turtles, James Bond Jr, Animaniacs. Or UTV for FUN HOUSE! on a friday

smashey

What is all this TV crack? I seem to recall coming home from school at this time of year and making for one of the many orchards nearby. Stomach cramps were a regular occurence. From early October, we usually spent all our time cutting branches of trees for the Halloween bonfire. (We were young and foolish and all this ozone lark was unheard off).

brown*eyed*girl

Ruu wrote:

Top quality series right there!

I know I loved it. The theme tune was great too, really catchy! Also did they ever make their way back home. I remember every week hoping they would. My memory is vague as it was so long ago but think I remember one episode where they did.

sceptre

Let's see. RTE1 started around 4pm when I was a kid, RTE2 started around half six. I probably ran around the garden in some game to which only I truly knew the rules for about two hours and then watched Bosco as it was the only gig in town. Later, Thelma Mansfield arrived with her "Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield" show. Push on a few years and The Den arrived. It wasn't a terrible lot of fun for the first while with no Zig & Zag. After they arrived and learned English over a few weeks it was a bit more palatable.

Kojak

Endasaurus wrote:

Ray Darcy with Zig and Zag!!

Same here. My gran used to want to watch live at three, but eventually even she got tired of it (Thank God)

Abdiel

sceptre wrote:

Let's see. RTE1 started around 4pm when I was a kid, RTE2 started around half six. I probably ran around the garden in some game to which only I truly knew the rules for about two hours and then watched Bosco as it was the only gig in town. Later, Thelma Mansfield arrived with her "Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield" show. Push on a few years and The Den arrived. It wasn't a terrible lot of fun for the first while with no Zig & Zag. After they arrived and learned English over a few weeks it was a bit more palatable.

What about the Forty Coats era?

Lots of things I remember watching - Press Gang, Dangermouse, Chocky, Knightmare, Duckula were probably my favorites, but generally watched anything that was on really.

brown*eyed*girl

Abdiel wrote:

What about the Forty Coats era?

Lots of things I remember watching - Press Gang, Dangermouse, Chocky, Knightmare, Duckula were probably my favorites, but generally watched anything that was on really.

I used to love Press Gang - I had the biggest crush on Dextor Fletcher (think that's his name). He wasn't really good looking but just soo sexy.

constitutionus

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

I know I loved it. The theme tune was great too, really catchy! Also did they ever make their way back home. I remember every week hoping they would. My memory is vague as it was so long ago but think I remember one episode where they did.

i seem to remember em making it home too but i might be confusing it with the episode where they ended up in a parallel earth where there were two ulysses. nice touch was that this was meant to be based on the roman Odyssey so everyone thought he was Odysseus not ulysses. main thrust of the story seemed to be about getting his wife's hand in marraige like in the recent simpsons episode slagging it off.

good series but i really hated that little robot, fecking "nono" :mad:

Tha Gopher

Until we were 7 we used to get out of school at 2pm. It was Neighbours at that time, then an arguement about The Den Vs Derek Davis

I swear to god and sh1t you not, when i was about 6 we saw Derek Davis at a hotel once and....

Mam "Look, its Derek Davis off the telly"
Me (in that loud voice kids always seem to have when theyre about to say the worst thing posssible)"jaysus mammy hes massive!"

He turned around and smiled

I vaguely recall the episode where the rabbits started riding each other

sceptre

Abdiel wrote:

What about the Forty Coats era?

Half-five on Fridays.

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

I used to love Press Gang - I had the biggest crush on Dextor Fletcher (think that's his name). He wasn't really good looking but just soo sexy.

Funny, I used to have nice warm thoughts about Julia Sawalha. Thing is, that show was actually good. Cheap enough on DVD too. Dexter Fletcher's popped up in Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and a few other things since. Julia Sawalha's not done much apart from AbFab.

constitutionus wrote:

good series but i really hated that little robot, fecking "nono" :mad:

You can blame R2D2 for that. At a certain point, every vaguely-sci-fi-related series had a silly robot. Fun and all as it might be to blame the likes of Silent Running (a movie I've always held some affection for) or The Black Hole (about which I can't say the same), it was that beeping garbage can that gave birth to all the bad robot sidekicks that followed it.

Ruu_Old

sceptre wrote:

Half-five on Fridays.


Funny, I used to have nice warm thoughts about Julia Sawalha. Thing is, that show was actually good. Cheap enough on DVD too. Dexter Fletcher's popped up in Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and a few other things since. Julia Sawalha's not done much apart from AbFab.


You can blame R2D2 for that. At a certain point, every vaguely-sci-fi-related series had a silly robot.

Press Gang was good. Remember he played Pinky in the Doom film too.

constitutionus

i'll admit julia caught my attention too. always thought it was a bad move going the dowdy route in abfab when its bloody obvious shes a ride. still remember press gang fondly, had a real "moonlighting" like feel to it, which is fecking weird considering its based in someones garage

as to the whole R2D2 thing, tell me about it. remember the fecking annoying lump in Gforce? fecker was only there to cover up the kiddie unfriendly violence the PC brigade thought we couldnt handle.

sceptre

Ruu wrote:

Press Gang was good. Remember he played Pinky in the Doom film too.

Oh yeah, the Doom film. I made absolutely sure to make time in my half-empty summer to put on socks and get out of the house to pay to see that.

Can we talk about conkers now?

Ruu_Old

Of course, good times with conkers, tossing up a plank into the tree and hoping that you would be lucky to knock one down. Try and beat the chap below though.:eek:

Heisenberg.

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