Rte weekend show for teens?

Underdraft

I'm trying to remember the name of a show that RTE uses to have on Saturday mornings/early afternoon. It was the standard Saturday morning format, ie in a studio with a couple of presenters doing segments and a young audience standing around in the background pretending to be interested. I can't remember anything specific about it but IIRC it was aimed at teens I seem to remember it was trying very hard to be cool and 'with it'. As such the look of the studio was a probably a bit darker than your Anything Goes or Going Live for instance.

I'd couldn't tell you the exact range years it was on but it would definitely have been on in 1989 at least because I remember them giving away an Amiga computer one week with the game of the Batman movie. Those sort of things leave a lasting impression on a fella like myself. :pac:

Skid

It might have been 'Action Station Saturday', maybe.

I think it was around that time. Barry Lang, ex 2FM, was one of the Presenters.

Rainbow_brite

Could have been Scratch Saturday with Mary Kingston nearly sure that was on in the late 80's.

the purple tin

Echo Island?
Dara O'Briain and Blathnaid niChofaigh presented it along with a white cockatoo.

Underdraft

Rainbow_brite wrote: »

Could have been Scratch Saturday with Mary Kingston nearly sure that was on in the late 80's.

I'm not 100% but I think you might have got it with this one. Certainly the name is familiar and from the video it has the look I remember anyway. Echo island was later iirc and I don't think I've ever heard the name Action Station Saturday before.

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

That clip just reminded me that more than ten years later I saw that kid standing alone in a corner of a pub called Bruxelles drinking by himself. I guess fame can be cruel and fleeting!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Didn't Mary Kingston host a show called The Disney Club at some stage in the 90s..

Niles

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Didn't Mary Kingston host a show called The Disney Club at some stage in the 90s..

Yeah I remember the 'Disney Club'... (was it definitely RTÉ and not a UK channel? ) it was definitely on Sunday mornings when I was little (early 90s), I think it was eventually on Sat mornings as well. I may be mixing this up with something else but didn't they have games were people soaked each other in some sort of dye?

As for Echo Island, I think that was later 90s, but from what I remember it was more a weekday afternoon program than a weekend one.

Rainbow_brite

Yes Mary Kingston was on the Irish Disney Club that was in the 90's after Scratch Saturday finished up, there was a UK Disney club as well think that was on ITV. I'm nearly sure Echo Island was on weekdays as well, not on Saturdays!

icdg

Rainbow_brite wrote: »

Yes Mary Kingston was on the Irish Disney Club that was in the 90's after Scratch Saturday finished up, there was a UK Disney club as well think that was on ITV. I'm nearly sure Echo Island was on weekdays as well, not on Saturdays!

The Irish one is still running (as ClubDisney, at about 9:00am on Sunday mornings) though I'm not sure it has any live presentation these days.

The UK one was a long staple of ITV and then GMTV during the 1990s, and indeed Walt Disney Co. continued to hold a stake in GMTV up until 2009.

darkdubh

I know the programme you mean,i can't think what it was called .I remember once they did a feature on racism in Ireland which would have been an unusual enough topic in 89,90.They had interviews with non white people about their experiences of racism(being called chocolate face was a favourite insult it seemed) and there was a dramatised bit with a POV shot of a presumebly ethnic minority person walking down the street only to be confronted by a mullet haired thug saying something like "where dy'a think you're going Blacky?".

kingtut

the purple tin wrote: »

Echo Island?

I was on that show once :pac:

Run and Jump

Underdraft wrote: »

I'm trying to remember the name of a show that RTE uses to have on Saturday mornings/early afternoon. It was the standard Saturday morning format, ie in a studio with a couple of presenters doing segments and a young audience standing around in the background pretending to be interested. I can't remember anything specific about it but IIRC it was aimed at teens I seem to remember it was trying very hard to be cool and 'with it'. As such the look of the studio was a probably a bit darker than your Anything Goes or Going Live for instance.

I'd couldn't tell you the exact range years it was on but it would definitely have been on in 1989 at least because I remember them giving away an Amiga computer one week with the game of the Batman movie. Those sort of things leave a lasting impression on a fella like myself. :pac:

It might have been called Borderline, which used to be on after Pajo's Junkbox and was for teenagers.

gobnaitolunacy

Anything Goes?

The one with Aengus McAnally (I'm sure the spelling is wrong) the lad that wore multi coloured shoes and socks?

darkdubh

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Anything Goes?

The one with Aengus McAnally (I'm sure the spelling is wrong) the lad that wore multi coloured shoes and socks?

That would have been a lot earlier than the show in question.AG was shown up to the first half of the eighties the show the OP is talking about would have been late 80s to early 90s.

Grandeeod

And while we're at it, lets not forget Youngline.

branie

I think you might be referring to X-Cert, which was part of Scratch Saturday, but the presenters of that segment advised younger viewers to switch off the TV when they were on

Ralf and Florian

branie wrote: »

I think you might be referring to X-Cert, which was part of Scratch Saturday, but the presenters of that segment advised younger viewers to switch off the TV when they were on

And the younger viewers did just that...like feck they did,unless Mammy made them.