Reeling in the Years - RTE

Pal

I'm old enough to remember a lot of what they show. (ahem ! more than 40)
Seriously nostalgic.
Absolutely love this programme.

Well done RTE !

mickd

Timely reminder of how much better Ireland is now

jos28

Brilliant programme. Very well edited and put together. Pity you can't buy it on dvd.

purplegeko

I have no idea why...but i love this show. Very clever editing and music. They could do with updating it.
Does the series still end in 1999?

Jesus Wept

really enjoyable program.

Davedubh

Sometimes the musical juxtopositions are a bit comical.Setting images of Jack Lynch in black and white to funky motown tunes seems wrong.

arac

everyone I know who has watched this loves it...very good, they haven't done the noughties yet have they?

Snickers Man

Great programme.

The format is a total rip off from a BBC series called The Rock & Roll years which began in 1955 (or 1956-whenever R&R is deemed to have started) and only progressed as far as 1979. For some reason they never updated it beyond then.

Maybe they decided Thatcher coming to power was the end of Rock & Roll as we knew it.

Deflector

It's amazing that so much time has passed in making new decades and showing repeats that we're only two years away from the noughties! No doubt it will be comissioned.

It never fails to impress just how consistent the editing of this series has been over four decades of material - partly due to the eagle eye of producer John O'Regan. The series always manages to incite emotion, humour, anger and incredulity, largely due to the most simple of edits and meticulous approach to detail.

One of the best series RTÉ has ever made, and confirms the cliche that the simplest ideas are often the best. My favourite decade is definitely the 1980s

Ruu_Old

It is an excellent show, saw the 82 one a while ago. Very simple idea for a show as mentioned and works very well. Pity we'll never see it on DVD (or very unlikely).

aequinoctium

best show ever

is_that_so

The reason why we won't see a DVD. Such a pity, never tire of watching it.

ZorbaTehZ

If it's after 1980 then I always watch it - definitely a great show

Dave!

Yeah, such a great show. Love it.

Mr Magnolia

Great show alright. I must set it on auto-record, I'm usually on the way home when it's on.

brayblue24

Love this programme. Watching it over and over since the start.. to the extent that I am convinced I remember the JFK assassination - despite the fact that I was not born till 1967!!

UrbanFox

Totally engaging TV.

This evening showed Cosgrave/Taoiseach saying that blow-ins should blow out or blow up never mind the fact that some of them are not even Irish !

Topical at the time without doubt. You couldn't dare say that now without being leapt on from a height by every PC twit and agency in the State. Shows how times have changed.

Toto Wolfcastle

Love this show, especially when my Grandad pops up in 1974 with his crazy hair.....

mental07

Yeah I love this show too. Roll on 2010, when we get to see the noughties!

Pigman II

I have them all on VHS and am toying with the idea of mpeg'ing them putting them up on Youtube some day. Would it really be worth the bother tho? Is anyone interested in watching them and more importantly would RTE just pull them down if I put them up?

mikemac

Well just about every poster here would be grateful if you put them on youtube.
Good karma for you.
And before someone says it's illegal bla bla, well noone is losing money as RTE won't be losing any DVD sales

But you're right-if RTE found out they'd be pulled out of the site.

Maybe try one episode and see how it goes

BrianD3

Snickers Man wrote:

Great programme.

The format is a total rip off from a BBC series called The Rock & Roll years which began in 1955 (or 1956-whenever R&R is deemed to have started) and only progressed as far as 1979. For some reason they never updated it beyond then.

Maybe they decided Thatcher coming to power was the end of Rock & Roll as we knew it.

I think The Rock & Roll Years progressed to 1989 not 79. I have some of the eighties years on tape.

Mr Magnolia

Where does the tune 'Reeling in the Years' come from?

Exit

Pigman II wrote:

I have them all on VHS and am toying with the idea of mpeg'ing them putting them up on Youtube some day. Would it really be worth the bother tho? Is anyone interested in watching them and more importantly would RTE just pull them down if I put them up?

MODEDIT: Not a wise thing to discuss on thread... post removed.

sceptre

Mr Magnolia wrote:

Where does the tune 'Reeling in the Years' come from?

It's a tune by Steely Dan from 1972. The guitar solo is done by Elliott Randall

Mr Magnolia

sceptre wrote:

It's a tune by Steely Dan from 1972. The guitar solo is done by Elliott Randall

Thanks Sceptre. Should nearly have known that.

tampopo

But why oh why don't they subtitle it with aertel??????

jb91

tampopo wrote:

But why oh why don't they subtitle it with aertel??????

Probably because coloured subtitles on a black background would block out the captions and placing them above the captions would block most of the picture.

Pal

Thanks for all the replies.
I was worried that somehow I was the only person in Ireland who thought that this was the best show on TV ever.

I say it again.

WELL DONE RTE

_Kaiser_

Exit wrote:

Maybe you could stick them on DVD+R and some people here might buy some off you. I'd consider it anyway.

+1

byte

Sorry, but no discussion of illegal video sharing, regardless of format used.