Fillers on Irish TV in the 80'ies

Svetti Arss

I remember coming home from school in the 80’ies and switching on the TV. Ten minutes later when the ****en thing had warmed up invariably there was some ****e documentary about logging in Canada. Can anyone one remember these? or why the these were even broadcast? Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time get them for nothing?

hondasam

I have no idea what you are talking about sorry.

KeithM89_old

Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.

bonerm

Svetti Arss wrote: »

I remember coming home from school in the 80’ies and switching on the TV. Ten minutes later when the ****en thing had warmed up invariably there was some ****e documentary about logging in Canada. Can anyone one remember these? or why the these were even broadcast? Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time get them for nothing?

Don't remember "warming up" the tv or docs about logging but I do remember RTE using crappy eastern european animations as filler in order to get the time schedules back in line before the News started.

bonerm

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.

Just don't get the German dvd's about logging. Totally different subject matter.

Svetti Arss

bonerm wrote: »

Just don't get the German dvd's about logging. Totally different subject matter.

where these broadcast on Rte 1 or 2?

Ghandee

Can I have some of your weed?

bonerm

Svetti Arss wrote: »

where these broadcast on Rte 1 or 2?

#2 of course.

Superbus

Eightyies.

Svetti Arss

Ghandee wrote: »

Can I have some of your weed?

No.

Stained Class

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

Svetti Arss

Or the ads that only showed a static picture with a voiceover.

Svetti Arss

Stained Class wrote: »

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

Yes. I think I may have go the decade wrong..

spurious

bonerm wrote: »

Don't remember "warming up" the tv or docs about logging but I do remember RTE using crappy eastern european animations as filler in order to get the time schedules back in line before the News started.

Lolek and Bolek often featured if I remember correctly.

OP - I have a vague recollection of logs floating down rivers, now that you mention it.

ascanbe

These jobs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0

who the fug

beachcombers

Stained Class

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Yes. I think I may have go the decade wrong..

There ya go.

It wasn't a documentry.

It was a bit like the 'Glenroe' of Canada for many years..

Kevin Duffy

Superbus wrote: »

Eightyies.

Perhaps you mean eighties.

Svetti Arss

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Svetti Arss

ascanbe wrote: »

These jobs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0

Ahh. back when Beaver was plentiful...

who the fug

Stained Class wrote: »

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

same here

El_Dangeroso

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Dang I was hoping to be the first with the name. I knew instantly it was Beechcombers.

Zig and Zag used to flash up the subtitle 'CULT TV HIT' when it came on. Damn, even though the programs were rubbish, this generation is all the poorer for not growing up with that level of sophisticated humour. I remember my Mom laughing at Zig and Zag jokes that I didn't get.

mike65

Beachcombers rocked! Just about the only decent thing on of an afternoon in the late 70s.

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

As for little fillers there were lots of obscure Film Board of Canada shorts (yes FBoC is not just a band) and Czech cartoons that did the job.

The King of Moo

Summer filler was the worst. The 70s English kids' films they always used to show were so boring!
I'd groan when the production company logo of the pigeons fluttering in Trafalgar Square, with the bell bonging would come on.
Children's Film Foundation, I think made them.

who the fug

what was the check cartoon series (it was ****)

and your starter for ten

I hate mices to

ascanbe

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Ah right, Beachcombers. Remember it well (kinda).
Bit of that and Grizzly Adams and you were sorted.

bonerm

spurious wrote: »

Lolek and Bolek often featured if I remember correctly.

Don't remember that. The show I was thinking of was all purple backgrounds and looked like it was drawn by a 2 year old.

beaver111

bit like mannix on a sunday evening:D

Dangerous Man

I live in Canada and I know a logger. It's not as glamorous as the tele makes it out to be.

Stained Class

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I live in Canada and I know a logger. It's not as glamorous as the tele makes it out to be.

Don't think Beachcomers was about logging per sae.

Think they just used to pick up stray logs that floated downstream from logging operations & sold them on.

They were scavangers really.

mikom

Here's your RTE filler from the 80's ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vcO5Agst0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sn1UqbbbqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZnYhnEGO_4

The weed was great back then.

Saila

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.

my one was only tree disks

KeithM89_old

Saila wrote: »

my one was only tree disks

Oh dear...

who the fug

spurious wrote: »

Lolek and Bolek often featured if I remember correctly.
t.

thank you pure crap they were

vampire of kilmainham

noggin the nog who rembers him?

vampire of kilmainham

who the fug wrote: »

beachcombers

it was a load of crap tooooo:eek:

WindSock

bonerm wrote: »

Don't remember that. The show I was thinking of was all purple backgrounds and looked like it was drawn by a 2 year old.

I am still with you on your quest for that show! It was pink too, the back ground? Wonder if any AHers might know...

vampire of kilmainham

beaver111 wrote: »

bit like mannix on a sunday evening:D

yea mannix was good joe mannix played by mike conners never heard much about him when the series ended.. Anyone know what happened to him?

K-9

The Green Cross Code, though it was more an ad.

I do remember a documentary about logging in Canada. Definitely wasn't the Beachcombers, a documentary type thing they showed a few times.

bonzodog2

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

noggin the nog who rembers him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pyOJgNnvYo

grenache

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time

I dont know what special satellite dish you had, but we had only RTE 1 and Network 2 in our house in the 80s. There were no other domestic Irish tv stations.

Nhead

WindSock wrote: »

I am still with you on your quest for that show! It was pink too, the back ground? Wonder if any AHers might know...

I remember the cartoon but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. Windsock, it was pink also. Somebody has to know! Beachcombers was on in the 80s as well

cml387

Nhead wrote: »

I remember the cartoon but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. Windsock, it was pink also. Somebody has to know! Beachcombers was on in the 80s as well

Where are you going with your purples and pinks?It was shades of grey for us.

padd b1975

Svetti Arss wrote: »

I remember coming home from school in the 80’ies and switching on the TV. Ten minutes later when the ****en thing had warmed up invariably there was some ****e documentary about logging in Canada. Can anyone one remember these? or why the these were even broadcast? Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time get them for nothing?

i remember posting here on a forum called all things retro, why don't you do the same?

Caoimhín

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations

Eh, what country are we talking about? I can only remember Radio Telefis Eireann 1 & 2 in the 80's.

who the fug

Caoimhín wrote: »

Eh, what country are we talking about? I can only remember Radio Telefis Eireann 1 & 2 in the 80's.

Posh barsteward

We only had Radio Telefis Eireann 1

housetypeb

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

yea mannix was good joe mannix played by mike conners never heard much about him when the series ended.. Anyone know what happened to him?

I seem to recall that he got knocked unconscious in practically every episode,did he ever get off with peggy,his hot black assistant?
wasn't the rockford files and ironsides on in that decade too?

bonerm

WindSock wrote: »

I am still with you on your quest for that show! It was pink too, the back ground? Wonder if any AHers might know...

It's the holy grail of retro questions. The more I think about it the more I suspect it was never actually on tv per se and instead was some sort of state sponsored experiment to see could subliminal images be implanted in children of the day. Clearly it worked.

Dyr

I vaguely remember the logging thing. And the little green space fella running for like 2 hours to jean michael jarre or something

The Brigadier

I remember all sorts of cheap crap on RTE in the 80s.

I remember eastern european cartoons kids used to hate. I remember the logging programme that nobody wanted to watch.

I think RTE was great for family life. When even watching paint dry is more entertaining it is only natural families will talk more.

Agricola

All I remember is 5 minutes of Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry cartoons whenever the schedule was out of whack. You never see that now, RTE being such a well oiled machine an' all!