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Reeling in the years

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    #122
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Charlie Haughey was always in a car it seems. Always getting out of Dodge, maybe the window cracked a little bit. Big Mr.Burns/Harry Redknapp scheming headon him.

    Kerb crawler-looking, if you asked me...

    "How much fer a ride, deeear"?


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    #123
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I read up on that a few weeks ago because I never heard of it. I don't use the word tragic, but that story was.

    1993 was the year homosexuality was legalised here, I was kinda surprised it didn't get a mention.

    Watched an episode (1996) for the first time in ages tonight. They featured Ireland's first *attempted" gay TV kiss on Fair City (I remember it) and the captions referenced the decriminalisation 3 years earlier.

    I had thought this show only appealed as nostalgia to those that could actually remember the years but it's interesting to see so many young posters here really enjoying the show even though they'd have no recollection of the events. My favourite series was the 1980s as that was my "coming of age" era. Plus the music of that era is still my favourite ...soundtrack of my youth!!


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    #124
    PucaMama
    Registered Users Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    Does anyone know the name of the song that starts at 12:08

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkqLRWRKmPA


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    #125
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    PucaMama wrote: »
    Does anyone know the name of the song that starts at 12:08

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkqLRWRKmPA
    Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)


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    #126
    PucaMama
    Registered Users Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

    :D


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    #127
    Keen2win
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    So would I be missing much from the original shows on the DVD's? Are they worth getting?


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    #128
    nlgbbbblth
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    Keen2win wrote: »
    So would I be missing much from the original shows on the DVD's? Are they worth getting?

    The original episodes are 24 / 25 minutes. About 50% of this material appears on the various DVDs. They're worth buying if you see them for a tenner or less. Otherwise just record the originals onto a DVD recorder as they're broadcast. That's what I did over a few years and have a full set from 1962 - 2009.


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    #129
    marialouise
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    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    The original episodes are 24 / 25 minutes. About 50% of this material appears on the various DVDs. They're worth buying if you see them for a tenner or less. Otherwise just record the originals onto a DVD recorder as they're broadcast. That's what I did over a few years and have a full set from 1962 - 2009.

    I'll give you a tenner for a copy!


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    #130
    JonSnuuu
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭JonSnuuu


    Got the box set for christmas. The mother initially bought it as a stocking filler. I however praised it like the bible. Have watched it through about 10 times since I'd say. So addicting


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    #131
    daithi1970
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    super_furry wrote: »
    They're like a big gang of angry Mr Benn Bean impersonators.

    fyp:pac:


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    #132
    Kolido
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    How far back does it go? I can see 1967 on YT, does it go back further?


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    #133
    OU812
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    1962. That was the year RTE started broadcasting. It was also Larry Gogan's 30th year as a DJ


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    #134
    mike65
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    Dump! Jasus U2 in 1978 just on - appalling, you'd have to give them some credit for improving a bit.

    Also why the feck doesn't RTE show 4:3 ratio material in the correct ratio?


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    #135
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users Posts: 17,026 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    mike65 wrote: »
    Also why the feck doesn't RTE show 4:3 ratio material in the correct ratio?

    It might be your set up that is forcing it to widescreen?


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    #136
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Caonima wrote: »
    Kerb crawler-looking, if you asked me...

    "How much fer a ride, deeear"?

    More likely, How much will you give me for a ride dear?


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    #137
    mike65
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    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    It might be your set up that is forcing it to widescreen?

    Nope, it should be 4:3 with the black bars either side, I shouldn't need to adjust the picture myself - any competent broadcaster would play it out correctly like ITV 3 and 4 do with their old programmes.


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    A Dub in Glasgo
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Nope, it should be 4:3 with the black bars either side, I shouldn't need to adjust the picture myself - any competent broadcaster would play it out correctly like ITV 3 and 4 do with their old programmes.

    You do if you force your TV to display the incoming signal as 16:9. A different story if it is on 'Automatic'


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    #139
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    The hair and dresses in the 1978 episode tonight were atrocious, a combination of bad hair days and mu mu's:D Was that Bono sticking his head in front of the camera in the march support of pirate radio/for independent radio? It was very quick and I was too lazy to rewind to check.


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    #140
    bodhrandude
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Possibly the only exceptional piece of TV RTE have ever managed to produce.

    That and Come West Along the Road when it showed the good stuff.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    cml387
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    The hair and dresses in the 1978 episode tonight were atrocious, a combination of bad hair days and mu mu's:D Was that Bono sticking his head in front of the camera in the march support of pirate radio/for independent radio? It was very quick and I was too lazy to rewind to check.



    All we had in those days was woad and axle grease.(young people today mutter mutter)


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    #142
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    That and Come West Along the Road when it showed the good stuff.

    Spot on. Hands was very good as well I thought.


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    #143
    The_Kew_Tour
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    1990 is always my favourite.
    Italia WC Cup and Cork winning the Double highlights make it alone.


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    #144
    [Deleted User]
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    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    You do if you force your TV to display the incoming signal as 16:9. A different story if it is on 'Automatic'

    Mike is correct. The HD feeds don't pillarbox 4:3 content, they stretch it to a 16:9 frame. The Simpsons on RTE Two is the same. SD on Sky and UPC still outputs correctly.

    I'd expect a better technical standard from a PSB.


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    #145
    newbie11
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭newbie11


    Excellent show, late 80s the best for me with all the changes in eastern Europe and the troubles in the north reaching a peak


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    #146
    topper75
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    Karsini wrote: »
    Mike is correct. The HD feeds don't pillarbox 4:3 content, they stretch it to a 16:9 frame. The Simpsons on RTE Two is the same. SD on Sky and UPC still outputs correctly.

    I'd expect a better technical standard from a PSB.

    I always blamed myself or my TV for that. Thanks.


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    #147
    recyclops
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭recyclops


    having been watching the dvds i have decided my favourite aspect of the show is that the always show the all ireland football and hurling finals :p


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    #148
    Dave!
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    That's the part that I have to suffer through in each episode! :D Small price to pay to see the rest of it!


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    #149
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,130 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    recyclops wrote: »
    having been watching the dvds i have decided my favourite aspect of the show is that the always show the all ireland football and hurling finals :p

    I've a slight issue with that. Some of those finals were dreadful and contested by bad teams or hopelessly one sided and therefore a non event but I suppose the producers felt duty bound to include the footage no matter what, for fear of being slated by people from those counties.


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    #150
    Hotfail.com
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    Strazdas wrote: »
    I've a slight issue with that. Some of those finals were dreadful and contested by bad teams or hopelessly one sided and therefore a non event but I suppose the producers felt duty bound to include the footage no matter what, for fear of being slated by people from those counties.

    Don't see what's wrong with it tbh, it's probably the biggest sporting event Ireland has every year.


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    #151
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,130 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    Don't see what's wrong with it tbh, it's probably the biggest sporting event Ireland has every year.

    Yes, but they're really only showing it as such ie. as a big "event" in the calendar year. You could have the most atrocious final between two bad teams or a one sided final and it will still get an automatic showing on the programme : every other sporting clip is there on it's merits....Ireland winning the Tripe Crown or appearing at the football World Cup, Sonia O'Sullivan, Barry McGuigan, Padraig Harrington etc


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