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Fillers on Irish TV in the 80'ies

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  • 18-05-2011 11:04pm
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    Svetti Arss
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    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?


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    hondasam
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    I have no idea what you are talking about sorry.


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    KeithM89_old
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    Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.


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    bonerm
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    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.


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    bonerm
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    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.


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    Svetti Arss
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭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?


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    Ghandee
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    Can I have some of your weed?


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    bonerm
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    Svetti Arss wrote: »
    where these broadcast on Rte 1 or 2?

    #2 of course.


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    Superbus
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    Eightyies.


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    Svetti Arss
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    Ghandee wrote: »
    Can I have some of your weed?

    No.


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

    I remember this in the '70s.


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


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    Svetti Arss
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭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..


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    spurious
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    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.


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    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    These jobs?

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




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    who the fug
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    beachcombers


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    Stained Class
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    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..


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    Kevin Duffy
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    Superbus wrote: »
    Eightyies.

    Perhaps you mean eighties.


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    Svetti Arss
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭Svetti Arss


    Found it..

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


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    Svetti Arss
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    ascanbe wrote: »
    These jobs?

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


    Ahh. back when Beaver was plentiful...


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    who the fug
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    Stained Class wrote: »
    Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

    I remember this in the '70s.

    same here


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    El_Dangeroso
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    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.


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    mike65
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    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.


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    The King of Moo
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    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.


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

    and your starter for ten

    I hate mices to


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    ascanbe
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    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.


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    bonerm
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    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.


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    beaver111
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    bit like mannix on a sunday evening:D


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


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    Stained Class
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    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.


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    mikom
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    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.


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