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branie2 · 05-09-2017 2:15pm #1

Anyone here ever watch this Irish "comedy" tv series about inner city Dubliners who won the lotto and settled in posh Belevdere Mansions on the south side?

ArtyC · 05-09-2017 2:43pm

I remember that alright

osarusan · 05-09-2017 3:07pm

RTE's take on Keeping Up Appearances.

Awful stuff, awful.

branie2 · 05-09-2017 3:08pm

2 of the stars from Fair City were in it.

blade1 · 05-09-2017 3:10pm

branie2 wrote: »

2 of the stars from Fair City were in it.

Can you narrow it down a small bit?:pac:

branie2 · 05-09-2017 3:12pm

One of them was Enda Oates, AKA Pete and the other, whose name escapes me, was the actress who played Dr Judith Dillon

blade1 · 05-09-2017 3:15pm

branie2 wrote: »

One of them was Enda Oates, AKA Pete and the other, whose name escapes me, was the actress who play Dr Judith Dillon

Of course,I feel a bit stupid having asked now!

Ipso · 05-09-2017 5:09pm

Irish comedy is no laughing matter.

kylith · 05-09-2017 5:10pm

Why did you have to bring that up? I'll be having nightmares for weeks now.

Barry Badrinath · 05-09-2017 5:13pm

Wasnt there 2 little ginger twin fcukers in it?

Awful show...

...because of the ginger twins...

...so ginger...

...eeewww.

05-09-2017 5:15pm

So it's goodbye to good old Arthur J
And bonjour to fine Chablis
I am leaving my heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
Now it's Belvedere for me...

Desperate desperate desperate...

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 05-09-2017 5:15pm

Dear Old Inner City Dublin
The Town I love so dear
But we're after winning two million quid
So it's off to Belvedere

So it's Goodbye to good old Arthur J
And it's Bonjour to fine Chablis
I am leaving me heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
Now it's Belvedere for me

branie2 · 05-09-2017 5:18pm

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Wasnt there 2 little ginger twin fcukers in it?

Awful show...

...because of the ginger twins...

...so ginger...

...eeewww.

Their names were Curt and Derek; and they always had water pistols in their mouths.

maudgonner · 05-09-2017 5:24pm

Did a quick youtube search and lo and behold...

https://www.youtube.com/user/Upmob

So to all those people who thought the internet was useless - now, that makes it worthwhile, doesn't it?

(No, no it doesn't btw)

freshpopcorn · 05-09-2017 5:52pm

Vague memories of it!

briany · 05-09-2017 5:52pm

People here acting like they didn't watch Upwardly Mobile.

You did watch it. You're not proud of it, maybe, but you have to look at it in the context of the time. Not all of us could get the UK channels then and these were also the days when SKY still seemed like a proper extravagance.

I found this watchable enough fare at the time, given the above circumstances.

freshpopcorn · 05-09-2017 5:55pm

colm_mcm · 05-09-2017 6:01pm

Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted

previous user · 05-09-2017 10:18pm

I think the fat one od'd on coke in the late 90's

Your Face · 06-09-2017 1:29am

I remember it.
It wasn't great but not as bad as the self-loathers would have you believe.

Mena Mitty · 06-09-2017 4:21am

I loved it at the time. Just watched the episode posted above which I couldn't remember seeing before and really enjoyed it, thanks for posting it.

06-09-2017 7:28am

Wasn't the guy who played the main characters brother murdered in a gangland style attack?

stimpson · 06-09-2017 7:40am

colm_mcm wrote: »

Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted

Nope he was Todd Unctious, the fake priest who tried to steal the Golden Cleric. Henry Sellers was the alcoholic Terry Wogan.

Henry:

latest?cb=20170402095152

Todd:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/warrant-for-arrest-of-fr-ted-actor-gerard-mcsorley-1.2719180

Son0vagun · 06-09-2017 8:21am

Think it just shows how much of a classic it was when we are still talking about it 20 years later.

_Roz_ · 06-09-2017 9:48am

I loved it when I was a child, and particularly loved the opening song and artwork.

Ciaran_B · 06-09-2017 10:04am

Deleted User wrote: »

So it's goodbye to good old Arthur J
And bonjour to fine Chablis
I am leaving my heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
Now it's Belvedere for me...

Desperate desperate desperate...

Unless my memory fails me the original lyric was 'goodbye to J Arthur' and not 'Arthur J'. A subversive w4nking joke slipped into the credits. They had to change it.

MilesMorales1 · 06-09-2017 10:05am

The belvedere hillbillies?

osarusan · 06-09-2017 10:08am

Your Face wrote: »

It wasn't great but not as bad as the self-loathers would have you believe.

More of this shyte.

You thought an Irish comedy was rubbish? You're a self-loather.

Another term that gets slung about at anything and everything.

blade1 · 06-09-2017 10:09am

colm_mcm wrote: »

Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted

stimpson wrote: »

Todd:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/warrant-for-arrest-of-fr-ted-actor-gerard-mcsorley-1.2719180

He was John Gilligan in Veronica Guerin.

Birneybau · 06-09-2017 10:26am

blade1 wrote: »

He was John Gilligan in Veronica Guerin.

And Taffin's mate in 'Taffin'

darkdubh · 06-09-2017 11:21am

The guy who played the male half of the Northside couple lives in my hometown now. My dad met him a few times and said he's a right gob****e.

darkdubh · 06-09-2017 11:27am

Deleted User wrote: »

Wasn't the guy who played the main characters brother murdered in a gangland style attack?

The fat guy? I seem to remember there was some fracas outside a nightclub with a baseball bat. It turned out after that he was in the Real IRA.

joeguevara · 06-09-2017 11:32am

darkdubh wrote: »

The fat guy? I seem to remember there was some fracas outside a nightclub with a baseball bat. It turned out after that he was in the Real IRA.

He died of a heart attack after taking cocaine and trying to beat up someone in a minicab office. He was a member of the Real IRA. But to answer the original question, no he did not did in a gangland hit. Poor fella still lived with his ma in the box room.

Badly Drunk Boy · 06-09-2017 11:36am

Anyone who remembers it is trying to forget it...

branie2 · 06-09-2017 12:02pm

The singer of the theme tune was Ronan Johnston, who sounded a lot like Paddy Reilly

Grayson · 06-09-2017 12:07pm

It has a 3.2 on IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297664/

From a total of 12 votes

stimpson · 06-09-2017 12:17pm

Birneybau wrote: »

And Taffin's mate in 'Taffin'

Any excuse to post this

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

branie2 · 06-09-2017 8:01pm

David Kelly was great as the barman

branie2 · 06-09-2017 9:30pm

branie2 wrote: »

One of them was Enda Oates, AKA Pete and the other, whose name escapes me, was the actress who played Dr Judith Dillon

Catherine Byrne was the actress

Your Face · 07-09-2017 3:15am

osarusan wrote: »

More of this shyte.

You thought an Irish comedy was rubbish? You're a self-loather.

Another term that gets slung about at anything and everything.

Touched a nerve hun? :rolleyes:

Marshes · 07-09-2017 3:46am

branie2 wrote: »

Anyone here ever watch this Irish "comedy" tv series about inner city Dubliners who won the lotto and settled in posh Belevdere Mansions on the south side?

Remember it well, "Aaaaaaaaand we are off to Belvedeeere" lol. Shyte series though.

Sgt Hartman · 07-09-2017 6:57am

I quite fondly remember this travesty. Enda Oates' character was named Barreler and he was like a watered down version of The Fonz from Happy Days.

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