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Old RTE programming that was good

  • 11-03-2017 12:15am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Now and again RTE gets a bashing on here. I remember watching Hands. My dad loved it and made sure i watched it too so I could see how things were made completely by hand before machines and conveyor belts and assembly lines took over. Another show i loved was Thou Shalt Not Kill. I think it was on every Thursday night after 10. Hearing about old murder cases from Ireland and Cathal O Shannon's presenting was amazing. He really had a way of conveying the story. What was yours?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    No Disco.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭Passenger


    Reeling in the Years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Scannal and Dave Fanning on a Sunday morning (2TV?).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭da gamer


    Used to love the top 40 music show every week during the 90's. It had all the videos for each song. Also the seria a football show on a Monday night.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Now and again RTE gets a bashing on here. I remember watching Hands. My dad loved it and made sure i watched it too so I could see how things were made completely by hand before machines and conveyor belts and assembly lines took over. Another show i loved was Thou Shalt Not Kill. I think it was on every Thursday night after 10. Hearing about old murder cases from Ireland and Cathal O Shannon's presenting was amazing. He really had a way of conveying the story. What was yours?
    At 9:30 after the news IIRC.

    As for my picks (assuming you mean just homegrown shows), I thought Mailbag was great. Nighthawks with Shay Healy was another one. There are probably loads more but I can't think of any at present.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Hands was a bit before my time but I've seen re-runs of it and it was excellent. Shows a vanishining Ireland.

    RTÉ have aired some pretty decent dramas - such as Proof, The Clinic and Raw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭case885


    Podge and Rodge show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Hands is one of the finest documentary series ever made. You can get it on DVD in most libraries.

    States of Fear was harrowing stuff, but really lifted a lid on what happened in industrial schools.

    It's not old, but Nationwide is a wonderful TV show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There was a 'late' show that Sean Moncrieff used to do back in the day that was quite good. I think it was the first show to smash through the fuck-off-to-bed-Ireland 'Prayer at Bedtime' thing they used to insult the nation with.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭RainMakerToo


    The End - the Barry Murphy one on Friday nights


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    There was a 'late' show that Sean Moncrieff used to do back in the day that was quite good. I think it was the first show to smash through the 'fuck off to bed Ireland' Prayer at Bedtime thing they used to insult the nation with.

    The End. It was Barry Murphy on a Friday and Sean Moncrieff on a Saturday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I meant complete programmes that RTE made that were home grown. Top 30 Hits was another one. I know it was only a bit of the music video but there was info either about the artist or song attached to it. No Disco is a good one too. The Den, Bosco and then Podge and Rodge were great too. The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne at the helm was the best it's ever been. Dave Fanning doing the simulcast on 2fm and RTE 2 called 2tv. Wasn't there one called​ Beatbox years ago too?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    The End - the Barry Murphy one on Friday nights
    The End. It was Barry Murphy on a Friday and Sean Moncrieff on a Saturday.
    Aye, it was great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    RTE should launch a channel that airs old programmes like Reeling in the Years, Hands, Gay Byrne era Late Late Shows, MT USA... It'd be great! It'd probably pull in more viewers than RTE1. There used to be great Irish comedy on a Monday night years ago. Stuff like The Panel, Don't Feed the Gondolas, Blizzard of Odd. I'd watch reruns of those.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Last Picture Show - movies introduced by Brian Reddin on Friday nights


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    The Den


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Matlock every Friday night at 8pm. Loads of others like Macgyver Simon & Simon, The A Team, Top Of The Pops, MT USA.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Loved nighthawks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭ceegee


    da gamer wrote: »
    Used to love the top 40 music show every week during the 90's. It had all the videos for each song. Also the seria a football show on a Monday night.

    Top 30 hits had freak on a leash by korn as its theme tune


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,764 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Now and again RTE gets a bashing on here. I remember watching Hands. My dad loved it and made sure i watched it too so I could see how things were made completely by hand before machines and conveyor belts and assembly lines took over. Another show i loved was Thou Shalt Not Kill. I think it was on every Thursday night after 10. Hearing about old murder cases from Ireland and Cathal O Shannon's presenting was amazing. He really had a way of conveying the story. What was yours?

    I watched the whole series of Hands last summer, great series, they have them at the local libraries on DVD, a real different time where people in Ireland worked to put food on the table, a much simpler time.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    KKkitty wrote: »
    I meant complete programmes that RTE made that were home grown. Top 30 Hits was another one. I know it was only a bit of the music video but there was info either about the artist or song attached to it. No Disco is a good one too. The Den, Bosco and then Podge and Rodge were great too. The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne at the helm was the best it's ever been. Dave Fanning doing the simulcast on 2fm and RTE 2 called 2tv. Wasn't there one called​ Beatbox years ago too?
    Yea, pretty sure it was Beatbox before being renamed as 2tv. It had Ronan Collins and somebody else... I think Ian Dempsey?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Was only watching a bit of 'Hands' earlier.

    I don't know if RTE ever saved them, but Doireann Ni Bhriain (the 'an chead stad eile' lady on the LUAS) was involved in a show a million years ago (probably early 80s, maybe even late 70s) that featured just ordinary women talking to camera about their lives. It was really good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭da gamer


    ceegee wrote: »
    Top 30 hits had freak on a leash by korn as its theme tune

    Maybe it was top 30 actually


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    byte wrote: »
    Yea, pretty sure it was Beatbox before being renamed as 2tv. It had Ronan Collins and somebody else... I think Ian Dempsey?

    Remember Ian Dempsey hosting it. Anyone​ remember when a new Boyzone song A Different Beat was playing and Dave Fanning left his mic on by mistake. He said something like Louis Walsh was making a new Irish boyband (Westlife) and said he wasn't taking on any passengers this time. More or less saying some of Boyzone couldn't sing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Remember Ian Dempsey hosting it. Anyone remember when a new Boyzone song A Different Beat was playing and Dave Fanning left his mic on by mistake. He said something like Louis Walsh was making a new Irish boyband (Westlife) and said he wasn't taking on any passengers this time. More or less saying some of Boyzone couldn't sing.
    Dave Fanning used to do that a lot. I don't remember that one but I do remember him making a comment about The Corrs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    On Home Ground, GAA drama from 2001


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    spurious wrote: »
    Doireann Ni Bhriain (the 'an chead stad eile' lady on the LUAS)

    I did not know that that was Doireann Ni Bhriain. AH really is an education sometimes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭ceegee


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Remember Ian Dempsey hosting it. Anyone​ remember when a new Boyzone song A Different Beat was playing and Dave Fanning left his mic on by mistake. He said something like Louis Walsh was making a new Irish boyband (Westlife) and said he wasn't taking on any passengers this time. More or less saying some of Boyzone couldn't sing.
    Pretty sure it was Dave and the corrs taking the piss and not realising it was a live mike


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭ceegee


    More importantly does anyone know where velcro girl ended up?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Only ever program that i loved was Reeling in the Years. History going along with a lovely soundtrack. It stands out from all others in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    Nighthawks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭hesker


    Another vote for The Last Picture Show.

    And when I was a kid I loved Eamon de Buitlear's Amuigh Faoin Speir and the beautiful drawings by Gerrit Van Gelderan. A great combination


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I liked that programme treasure island when it was on around 2001/02 and breaking ball, a gaa programme on around 2003 - it's theme tune was some trance music song from around that time whose name escapes me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Paths to Freedom was epic. I think it first aired in 2000. It was so fresh and new at the time, brilliantly written, a proper 'smart comedy'. The only great comedy RTE ever produced. (actually no, that's a lie, Bachelors Walk was also very good)

    I still love Rats and his mam the late Pat Leavy.

    Spin the Bottle was a great film made off the series.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Paths to Freedom was epic. I think it first aired in 2000. It was so fresh and new at the time, brilliantly written, a proper 'smart comedy'. The only great comedy RTE ever produced. (actually no, that's a lie, Bachelors Walk was also very good)

    I still love Rats and his mam the late Pat Leavy.

    Spin the Bottle was a great film made off the series.

    Roose Bolton's origin story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Paths To Freedom was excellent - the episode with Gerry Ryan was brilliant. Why doesn't RTE show it again?
    I used to love the comedy bits on Nighthawks - remember the 60s-era continuity girl Blaithin? - but it would probably look hopelessly dated now...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    They used to do decent quiz shows. Murphys Micro QuizM , Where in the World , Know Your Sport, even Quicksilver. Or maybe because we had only one and then two channels growing up we had no standards to rate things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    Roose Bolton's origin story.


    It's mad watching him in that and then GOT, such wildly contrasting roles.


  • Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,917 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    byte wrote: »
    Yea, pretty sure it was Beatbox before being renamed as 2tv. It had Ronan Collins and somebody else... I think Ian Dempsey?

    Didn't Barry Lang do it for a while? Then Simon Young and Peter Collins cohosted. And then I think Ian Dempsey did it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    It was Barry Lang in the late 80s, my brother had video tapes full of videos from the Beatbox. They did a simulcast too with 2fm, so if you had a radio on in the same room as the TV you could enjoy glorious surround sound!! Another vote here for Bachelor's Walk and The End...I was a regular correspondent to Sean Moncrieff's Readers' Letters!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Problem is you can't seem to watch any of these old shows. They have the "RTE Archives", but what's the point in making them so inaccessible. We're already forced to pay a tv license for watching the sh1te they currently have on RTE, so why not make these old shows available to us as a means of actually getting something for our money...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    The Panel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    ceegee wrote: »
    More importantly does anyone know where velcro girl ended up?

    She's married to dave from the dermot and dave radio show on today fm...

    A lucky lucky man


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,425 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    When I saw the title of the thread, "Hands" was the first thing I thought of. Love it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Halls Pictorial Weekly.
    The only glimpse of political satire in this country at the time.
    Brave television, till Dev(Fianna Fail) had it pulled


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    The movie slot after The Late Late Show on Friday nights, always used to show a decent film. This morphed into The Last Picture Show slot in the mid 90's where they showed cult films and there was an introduction by Brian Reddin. Nowadays any decent films on RTE are buried at 3 AM.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    To The Waters And The Wild with the late Gerrit Van Geldren. I remember those speeded up drawings he'd do of birds etc and he'd add this little cartoon carricature of himself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    Jo Maxi?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    One from left field.

    RTE basically pioneered News for the Deaf.
    It's one of the rare original ideas it's ever had and was praised globally for.

    In fairness, it is difficult for it to be original, given how close and influenced we are by BBC.

    Honourable mentions to Strumpet City, Wanderly Wagon and Bracken.

    To those calling for old programmes to be repeated.
    The simple fact is that RTE had a daft policy of taping over old programmes to save money.
    I would be amazed if many Nighthawks episodes remained for example.


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