Rimini Riddle- Anyone remember this??

youngblood · 24-09-2008 8:16pm #1

Does anyone remember this show on RTE on Saturday mornings. It was a puppet show about 3 children (1 called Leo) who went to live with their Aunt Vera.
The youngest child had a stuffed animal who would come alive when the others werent looking called Otto. He was evil but I think he became good.
Cant really remember what the Riddle was, but remember that there were a lot of story arcs for a kiddies show.
There was a picture in their living room/kitchen with 2 girls beside the sea. Sometimes the picture would come alive- 1 of the girls was Nicola from Fair City- and I think this had something to do with the Riddle.

The story was excellent, would love to get it on DVD and see what its like again.

Anyone else remember this show or did I imagine it all!!!

Roar · 24-09-2008 11:37pm

yeah i remember this. scared the piss out of me IIRC. it was in the same vein as pajoe and the salty frog. that was in space. it was still fcuking awful.

AlmightyCushion · 24-09-2008 11:52pm

Well thank be to fúck. I thought I was the only one. Everyone I've mentioned it to thinks I'm nuts. Can't remember the words to the song but I remember the tune. It was a catchy song.

c - 13 · 25-09-2008 8:23am

Do a search on the All things retro board there. Theres a fair bit of discussion going on on it there.

One of the people involved with the show posted and linked to a site where you can see some (very small) pics of the show on it. Might help jog the memory.

lee_arama · 25-09-2008 8:57am

The blonde from Fairly Chitty was in it, Claudia Carroll?

And some creepy puppets alright.

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 25-09-2008 9:26am

I remember this well. Disturbing viewing indeed.
Leo was the young lad and his brother was rory who's favorite band were The Fat catastrophes!:p Aunt Vera aswell, cant remember the sisters name. i remember they cut off Otto's head at one point and put him in the wash?! He had flipped out in the kitchen and started firing knives at Leo using telepathy.:eek:

jebuz · 25-09-2008 9:30am

Jesus christ I do remember it!! Aunt Vera! ...memories

RubyXI · 25-09-2008 9:39am

I've been wondering about this for a long time. Me, my brother and sister all have vague memories of it. But none of us quite remember it properly. Did it ever actually end? I mean did we ever actually find out what the hell was going on, I dont remember details about it but i think it started out fairly normal and kept getting weirder and weirder until it finally dissappeared and we never found out what the riddle was or anything.

lucylu · 25-09-2008 12:47pm

are those puppets now used in the Dolmio ads?

youngblood · 25-09-2008 7:12pm

Thank god someone else remembered this, I'm not insane, this ran for 2 seasons I think, the second season was surreal, would love to see it again thou. Yea Otto used to make the boy do things, made the others think that the little boy was crazy, weird stuff on a Saturday morning!!

Elmo · 26-09-2008 11:08am

Early 1990's, Kind of took over from Padjo who had a similar saturday morning show. Not Padjo's Junkbox which was the mid 1980s but after that and after his other show call the Whole Shebang.

Padjo was on a boat with friends. Strange show.

Where these all produced by RTÉ Cork?

N.H. · 08-11-2008 1:51pm

I remember this programme well but most of what I remember is from the first series. The aunt owned a guesthouse called the Rimini Guesthouse and the three children lived with her. There was a painting in the guesthouse of some relatives of the children. Everyone in the painting had died by drowning. The children could enter the scene on the painting. In the first series, the aunt met a man who wanted to marry her so that he could take all her money (can't remember his name, he was really scary). The characters in the picture tried to help when they saw what was going on and they ended up foiling his plans and sending him somewhere (I think maybe he was trapped in the picture). He appeared briefly in the second series when Aunt Vera got sucked into Leo's computer. Very weird stuff! It was a deadly programme.

colosus · 30-01-2009 6:21pm

Jeffery Jeffery, his name was Jeffery!!!

Mikosyko · 31-01-2009 2:43am

Look what I found....:D

Plus something not Rimini Riddle related:

Those puppets look really freaky!:eek:

N.H. · 31-01-2009 3:18pm

Ah cool! I'd love to see it again.

coconut5 · 01-02-2009 5:32pm

I loved this! No one I know remembers it either. Those puppets are freaky looking. The music in it was excellent and a bit ****ed up. It seemed very Twin Peaks inspired. At the end, it had a list of questions that were left unanswered from that episode. It was cool.

ratmouse · 03-02-2009 3:46pm

Actually loved this show when it was on. Did Aunt Vera not have a male frine called Quentin P? Maybe I imagined that. I think the sister's name was Ellen-she had black hair. We never actually saw him, but the oldest brother, Rory, was always going on about his friend Jimmy Doran. Anyone else remember these details?

RubyXI · 03-02-2009 8:15pm

ratmouse wrote: »

Actually loved this show when it was on. Did Aunt Vera not have a male frine called Quentin P? Maybe I imagined that. I think the sister's name was Ellen-she had black hair. We never actually saw him, but the oldest brother, Rory, was always going on about his friend Jimmy Doran. Anyone else remember these details?

The very strange thing about this programme is that no-one remembers many details!

Leaderbored · 03-02-2009 8:18pm

I remember not liking it at all, thinking that the puppets looked like they were made by some kind of remedial group, and changing the channel whenever it came on, if that helps...

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 03-02-2009 9:47pm

Elmo wrote: »

Early 1990's, Kind of took over from Padjo who had a similar saturday morning show. Not Padjo's Junkbox which was the mid 1980s but after that and after his other show call the Whole Shebang.

Padjo was on a boat with friends. Strange show.

Where these all produced by RTÉ Cork?

Padjo and the Salty Frog i think, then after that it was Padjo in Space

on the ship as well.

I think Aunt Vera's love interest was called Mr Comisky or something. Can't be sure. Only other thing i can remember about him was he wore a snakeskin belt:pac:

Those photos are disturbing :eek: they all have shrunken heads and wizzened faces

That picture on the bottom unrelated to Rimini Riddle was RTE Cork's answer to the Den called The Swamp i think. It was shown in the summer time - nobody watched.

Dolbert · 04-02-2009 8:52pm

I watched this! Whenever I bring it up people never know what I'm talking about... I remember Jeffrey's face appearing in Leo's computer, that was actually a bit disturbing! I've been trying to find out the name of this show for years, thanks OP!

colosus · 07-03-2009 4:52pm

Whoever sent me the links with the pictures of the rimini riddle cast, thank you! They really were scary when ya look back, brilliant stuff!

youngblood · 07-03-2009 5:07pm

Any chance you could post it my direction? would love to see em

colosus · 08-03-2009 5:30pm

vinnieq · 13-05-2009 9:26pm

Rory's band: The Fat Catastrophies!!

Brilliant link. How does something like a petition get going to get it on DVD?!

Thargor · 13-05-2009 10:52pm

OMG I cant believe how this all came flowing back the minute I read this thread, I was just scrolling down to ask what the phrase Fat Catastrophes meant because I remember it was a question in a table quiz we did on the last day before Summer holidays in Primary school years ago, this is bizarre.

Thargor · 13-05-2009 10:55pm

http://homepage.eircom.net/~evalundin/index3.htm

Down the bottom you can see Septic from The End

missingtime · 13-05-2009 11:11pm

Mikosyko wrote: »

He looks stoned

youngblood · 19-06-2009 10:57pm

Those puppets didnt seem so freaky when I was a kid.
What must I've been on as a kid?????
I thought they were awesome

2fivers · 20-06-2009 2:46am

Leaderbored wrote: »

I remember(...) thinking that the puppets looked like they were made by some kind of remedial group..

You and me both.

Awful muck.

RubyXI · 20-06-2009 8:53am

youngblood wrote: »

Those puppets didnt seem so freaky when I was a kid.
What must I've been on as a kid?????
I thought they were awesome

I thought they looked normal too. We must have had way lower standards back then!:D

Ostrom · 21-06-2009 8:06pm

I have an episode of this on a video somewhere at home.

ebay?

Elmo · 21-06-2009 8:21pm

efla wrote: »

I have an episode of this on a video somewhere at home.

ebay?

YouTube! don't think you would get a buyer for the tape.

nouveau_4.0 · 05-11-2009 5:31pm

Even scarier than the rimini riddle puppets:

Giles and Dunphy puppets

Has anyone found a vid of Rimini Riddle by the way

mumpsy · 09-04-2010 9:54pm

It was Quintin P. Komisky!! Anyone who I've mentioned this show to thinks I'm crazy too!

bluevelvet · 04-05-2010 12:19am

I was looking for this for ages I could'nt think of the name. You have no idea how much this show scared me as a kid. Even looking at those pictures creeps me out, somthing about the ugly life-like the puppets had but most of all those fish creatures , the Mommons or whatever they were called...:eek:

bluevelvet · 04-05-2010 12:21am

I was looking for this for ages I could'nt think of the name. You have no idea how much this show scared me as a kid. Even looking at those pictures creeps me out, somthing about the ugly life-like the puppets had but most of all those fish creatures , the Mommons or whatever they were called...:eek:

Kmurtimurboy · 21-08-2010 3:00pm

A lot of people think that these were puppets. Not true! Talented actors ruined by drink and drugs! Don't put drugs in your drink!

Elmo · 21-08-2010 5:29pm

Kmurtimurboy wrote: »

A lot of people think that these were puppets. Not true! Talented actors ruined by drink and drugs! Don't put drugs in your drink!

I think the writers might have been.

JONJO THE MISER · 21-08-2010 10:38pm

Can we not email rte and get them to put it on late at night, it could soon have a cult following.

yrrab30 · 09-12-2010 1:40pm

Does anybody have this on video cassette would love to see it again

yrrab30 · 09-12-2010 1:41pm

Hi elfa

Was wondering do you have any episodes of Rimini Riddle on video or DVD

Elmo · 09-12-2010 1:46pm

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=182674470295

Someone on facebook might know.

Yillan · 27-02-2011 6:20pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj83EfAuAos

Badgermonkey · 27-02-2011 11:39pm

Rimini Riddle, even the name is sh1t.

syklops · 03-03-2011 11:24am

Take that back, that show was brilliant! About the best thing RTE ever did in my opinion.

Like many here, anytime I mention it to someone they dont remember it. Otto was really creepy. I dont remember anything about the aunt or Mr Komiskey, I only remember the boy and the girl in what looked like the attic, with otto. And there was a maritime feel to it, and there was a boat called the Salty Frog too???

It was weird. really weird, but weird in a good way, not weird in a stupid way like that australian show "Round the twist" which did my head in.

I'd love to watch it again. Alas, like a lot of the Den, I dont think RTE recorded it.

Elmo · 03-03-2011 11:42am

syklops wrote: »

Take that back, that show was brilliant! About the best thing RTE ever did in my opinion.

Like many here, anytime I mention it to someone they dont remember it. Otto was really creepy. I dont remember anything about the aunt or Mr Komiskey, I only remember the boy and the girl in what looked like the attic, with otto. And there was a maritime feel to it, and there was a boat called the Salty Frog too???

It was weird. really weird, but weird in a good way, not weird in a stupid way like that australian show "Round the twist" which did my head in.

I'd love to watch it again. Alas, like a lot of the Den, I dont think RTE recorded it.

The first and original series of Round the Twist was brilliant but the new cast weren't as good.

The Saltyfrog is from a previous series with Pajo.

Rimmin Riddle was part of The Swamp not The Den.

syklops · 03-03-2011 12:31pm

Elmo wrote: »

The Saltyfrog is from a previous series with Pajo.

Are you sure there was not some connection between the salty frog and Rimini Riddle. They go together in my head. Considering up until now I was beginning to think my brain had concocted rimini riddle as no-one I ever spoke to knew of its existence, and thought I was nuts when I started to describe it, maybe I am wrong.

Was the Swamp on Saturdays?

Elmo · 03-03-2011 2:29pm

syklops wrote: »

Was the Swamp on Saturdays?

Yeah, The Swamp took over from Pajo's Wholeshabang (AKA Pajo's Junkbox) and Scratch Saturday but it was more like The Den, as it introduced programmes. RTÉ Cork seemed to be given the weekend children's programming during the 1990s. Pajo AFAIK had 2 adventurer series after the Wholeshabang one featuring the Saltyfrog and the other before it but I don't remember much about it. I think then Rimmin Riddle appeared, but there might have been crossover shows.

The Swamp also took over from The Den one summer.

upncmnhistori · 28-04-2012 8:51pm

Mikosyko wrote: »

Look what I found....:D

Plus something not Rimini Riddle related:

Those puppets look really freaky!:eek:

That green puppet was called a troll I have forgot the name and I forgot the name of the presenter can't remember her name nor can anyone of us see her but I think this was the first day these two appeared on Saturday morning tv show. I know that is off track from Rimini Riddle.

Benny Cake · 29-04-2012 11:02am

Holy sh1t! This brings back memories, I actually remembering going to a live "panto" type showing in the Cork Opera house... Twas a great show...

Rimini Riddle- Anyone remember this??

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