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Time fillers on RTE in the 80's
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The Crowman wrote: »Anyone remember this? It was a bit long to be used as filler between programmes but I remember RTE showing it.
It was renamed Jeremy on RTE. (And according to here Barnaby on the BBC, but I don't remember that.)
Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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The Crowman wrote: »Anyone remember this? It was a bit long to be used as filler between programmes but I remember RTE showing it.
YES!
Plus the Canadian equivalent Jeremy The Bear
EDIT: Hotblack - just saw your post.0 -
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NewbridgeIR wrote: »The Crowman wrote: »Anyone remember this? It was a bit long to be used as filler between programmes but I remember RTE showing it.
YES!
Plus the Canadian equivalent Jeremy The Bear
EDIT: Hotblack - just saw your post.
Wow - that brings back some really lovely and very early childhood memories - Jeremy The Bear! 😊0 -
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Duckworth_Luas wrote: »Not a time filler, as it's over an hour long, but the Halas and Batchelor version of Animal Farm from the early 1950s used to be regularly aired by RTE in the 1980s.
Interestingly the film was funded by the CIA as an anti-Stalin/anti-Communist propaganda piece.
In the book, I thought Napoleon was supposed to be Stalin and Snowball was Trotsky.
It’s obviously a nod to the Russian revolution but applies to all totalitarian regimes.0 -
Anyone remember the Children's Film Foundation films RTE used to show in the 80s.
There was one set in Ireland, called something like "The Johnstown Monster".
Here's a clip from one called "The Boy Who Turned Yellow".
I'd no clue what it was about back then, even less now.
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The CFF films were pretty good. The BFI have released a number of volumes on DVD which are worth buying.
My favourite is Terry On The Fence, from 1985 - which RTE aired at least twice.
It was one of the last ones the CFF made.
Seriously gritty and an undercurrent of bleak menace. The location filming really helps - London's decaying dockland areas around Shad Thames, Southwark and Greenwhich - all redeveloped now so it's great to see what they were like before regeneration. The BBC series, The Chinese Detective also was shot in the same area and is a wonderful snapshot of a long-gone part of the city.
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I seem to remember them using something with ELP's version of Fanfare for the Common Man as a filler. Not this actual video but featuring the music. It was possibly a video of skiing.
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NewbridgeIR wrote: »The CFF films were pretty good. The BFI have released a number of volumes on DVD which are worth buying.
My favourite is Terry On The Fence, from 1985 - which RTE aired at least twice.
It was one of the last ones the CFF made.
Seriously gritty and an undercurrent of bleak menace. The location filming really helps - London's decaying dockland areas around Shad Thames, Southwark and Greenwhich - all redeveloped now so it's great to see what they were like before regeneration. The BBC series, The Chinese Detective also was shot in the same area and is a wonderful snapshot of a long-gone part of the city.
I remember that, he was forced by this gang of older rough boys to break into his school and steal radios. Don't know what a primary school was doing with a load of radios.0 -
kunst nugget wrote: »
That is mental. I’ve been listening to Kraftwerk for years, is it because I saw this when I was a kid. Mental.they/them/theirs
And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek
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I used to love this and have been trying to find it online with no success. It was an animation to a famous opera song. I was thinking it might be “ the drinking song” but I’m not 100% sure on that. There was the tenor with the pigs head on a platter , a fat soprano and a thin one, as she hit the high note I think she grew taller and I’m pretty sure I recall glass shattering! I loved this filler.....often on before the news!
Ha, remembering other bits of this now. The fat woman had a little man under her skirt who was pumping a bellows or something to keep her singing. The very end had this young kid who had a mop top Beatles haircut (firmly dating the cartoon) and he was belting out a screeching tuneless song. All the other opera singing characters who had featured in it beforehand were showing reacting in horror. I think the thin woman with the long neck withdrew her head like a tortise to escape the noise.0 -
The late 70's and early 80's were the golden age of safety adverts on RTE. Where's Grandad? John Did Ya Put The Cat Out? Bonzo Wants To Go Out Dear and many more that terrified and amused in equal measure. I've included the 90's as there were still a few decent ones knocking about then like the TV license ones with "Dave" being scolded by his telly.
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Not sure if RTE used to show this but I came across it recently on YT and I remember it from somewhere.
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I remember it being shown on RTE on a Sunday afternoon.The Crowman wrote: »Not sure if RTE used to show this but I came across it recently on YT and I remember it from somewhere.0 -
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Duckworth_Luas wrote: »Anyone remember the Children's Film Foundation films RTE used to show in the 80s.
removed
There was one set in Ireland, called something like "The Johnstown Monster".
Here's a clip from one called "The Boy Who Turned Yellow".
removed
I'd no clue what it was about back then, even less now.
I loved these back in the 80's but I can only remember the name of one and it was probably crap - Sammy's Super T-Shirt.
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The Crowman wrote: »The late 70's and early 80's were the golden age of safety adverts on RTE. Where's Grandad? John Did Ya Put The Cat Out? Bonzo Wants To Go Out Dear and many more that terrified and amused in equal measure. I've included the 90's as there were still a few decent ones knocking about then like the TV license ones with "Dave" being scolded by his telly.
What about the one for the German measles I think it was,where the nun was roaring Bah repeatedly into the child’s ear to see were they deaf (presumably after a bout of the German measles)....feckin hilarious and so far removed from what you’d see today!0 -
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Another episode, it was also shown on BBC mid to late 80's.
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