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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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    #1112
    branie2
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    Remember the Harp Lager ads with the Vikings?


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    #1113
    The Crowman
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Remember the Harp Lager ads with the Vikings?

    "Ve haff come because ve heard of ze Harp!"

    I'm sure there was a longer version of this. I seem to remember a bit with a shepherd type guy pointing out to sea and saying the Vikings are coming and peasants running away in terror.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37JxqBNXRg


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    #1114
    NasserShammaz
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    you could fry an egg on the rocks ..if you only had a rock


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    #1115
    Purple Mountain
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    Dessert trollies.

    To thine own self be true



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    #1116
    Electric Sheep
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    Talent shows in the CYMS hall, where half the village showed up in the audience because there was nothing else to do. Parish Socials in the same CYMS hall.


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    #1117
    Ash.J.Williams
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KigNbUxx6X8


    fleetwood mac still selling bucket loads in fairness!


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    #1118
    Ash.J.Williams
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    80's game care of "anything goes"!!


    eat a jam doughnut without licking your lips!


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    #1119
    MonkieSocks
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    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #1120
    Filmer Paradise
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    MonkieSocks wrote: »

    Funny thing is, back in those days nobody knew who 'sally' was.

    As far as I recall, it took weeks or months to discover who sally really was.

    I think a Sunday World exclusive told us that she was an English actress called Vicky Michelle.

    It was a revelation at the time!:eek:

    Nowadays a quick google would bypass all that excitement.


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    #1121
    branie2
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    2 great shows with Lee Majors:

    The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy.


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    #1122
    Ash.J.Williams
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    do you prefer netflix or having to wait a week to watch the next episode??


    love hate was mental having to wait a whole week for the next one!!

    i prefer it though


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    #1123
    Atlantic Dawn
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    branie2 wrote: »
    2 great shows with Lee Majors:

    The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy.


    Loved The Fall Guy, it's never repeated, anyone know any sources showing it?

    Jaysus, 113 episodes according to Wikipedia, I'd say I've not seen 30.


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    #1124
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Loved The Fall Guy, it's never repeated, anyone know any sources showing it?

    Jaysus, 113 episodes according to Wikipedia, I'd say I've not seen 30.

    it was fully repeated during the day a few years back


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    #1125
    sparksfly
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    I remember rushing home from school to catch this kids drama in 1977. The theme tune stuck in my head for years till I eventually got to buy the series on amazon last year.


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    #1126
    sparksfly
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    Another kids drama which was scary as hell. Kept me and my pals awake at night terrified.


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    #1127
    Sultan_of_Ping
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    Back then the Daleks were proper scary.......


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    #1128
    Caipin Cach
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    It was rather like living in a ****hole county these days like Cork or Mayo. That I am in a graveyard with lights feeling.


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    #1129
    The Crowman
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    sparksfly wrote: »
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    Another kids drama which was scary as hell. Kept me and my pals awake at night terrified.

    The opening theme music was really creepy .Some proper children's shows in the 70s and 80's.


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    #1130
    NewbridgeIR
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    sparksfly wrote: »
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    I remember rushing home from school to catch this kids drama in 1977. The theme tune stuck in my head for years till I eventually got to buy the series on amazon last year.


    Great series, Ronald Fraser was excellent.


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    #1131
    NewbridgeIR
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    sparksfly wrote: »
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    Another kids drama which was scary as hell. Kept me and my pals awake at night terrified.


    Brilliant.
    Saw it on HTV (we got that in Wexford).
    ITV children's dramas of 1970s are excellent - aside from the two above, Sky, Escape Into Night, The Jensen Code, Golden Hill, Tightrope, The Doombolt Chase - all released by Network.


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    #1132
    Joe_ Public
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    Remember going to cinemas in the 70s, big old grand theatres with balconies and double seats up the back. Star Wars, Bond, Bruce Lee, A Bridge Too Far.

    Blake’s 7 on the tv.


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    #1133
    Joe_ Public
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    Also the top 20/30 countdown. The anticipation before totp every Thursday. Larry on the Sunday. 1979/1980 the best years ever for pop music, when it really mattered who was No.1 that week. That strange time when Gloria was top of the Irish charts for what seemed like 500 weeks in a row.


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    #1134
    Big Nasty
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    The Becahcombers


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    #1135
    Filmer Paradise
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    Big Nasty wrote: »
    The Becahcombers

    Ah yes! Nick, Relic & all the lads.

    Catchy theme tune too.


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    #1136
    Kat1170
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    Big Ed loves Mona


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    #1137
    NewbridgeIR
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    Kat1170 wrote: »
    Big Ed loves Mona


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1ehU5qpww


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    #1138
    Kat1170
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    ^^^^^
    Went on for a few weeks with the whole country trying to figure out who Ed & Mona were.


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    #1139
    Trigger Happy
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    Kat1170 wrote: »
    ^^^^^
    Went on for a few weeks with the whole country trying to figure out who Ed & Mona were.

    Big hopes of a romantic story or something exciting.
    But no, a yogurt. Disappointing.


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    #1140
    fryup
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    archer22 wrote: »
    Catholic church was still huge and held massive sway and almost everybody went to mass. Atheists were as rare as Chickens teeth.(my own family being the only ones I knew of in the entire area).

    not at all, half the country was atheist and still is...half the people only go to mass for show


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    #1141
    bodhrandude
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    I remember this episode freaking me out as a kid, the concept of a chair that could kill you, I remember peeking through the kitchen door looking at that episode and staying away from the sofa for a long time. :o Dated 1971 apparently and the Doctor Who episode or season called Terror of the Autons.

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



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