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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

its_steve116 · 2019-01-01 23:05:42

I'll start with FurTV which aired on Comedy Central about 10 years ago. It started three puppets (Lapeno, Fat Ed and Mervin) as flatmates. I love the episode where they form a heavy metal band and then at the end of the episode, they are turned into a pop band and Fat Ed isn't happy about it. A lot of sh*t being flung…

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#962 30-01-2019 8:33pm
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I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

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#963 30-01-2019 9:16pm
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branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

That makes me think of "Oh Brother" and"All Gas and Gaiters" but nothing with nuns? Both with Dereck nnnnnnNimmo

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#964 30-01-2019 9:21pm
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The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

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#965 30-01-2019 9:57pm
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Arthur Daley wrote: »

That one was on ITV4 a few years back. Laughable special effects though, so you needed to be very young to find it any way believable.

Back on the 70’s at 8 or 9 years old everything on tv seemed real.

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#966 30-01-2019 10:04pm
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branie2 wrote: »

The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.

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#967 30-01-2019 10:10pm
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Boys from the Blackstuff.

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#968 30-01-2019 10:13pm
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my3cents wrote: »

Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.

It was an English comedy

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#969 30-01-2019 10:20pm
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Play the game! I love charades and it was a good entertaining Rte show, something that doesn't exist anymore. Derek Davis rip

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#970 30-01-2019 10:23pm
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Paradise (renamed Guns of Paradise for the third series) a late 80s / early 90s western.

The Young Riders, another western around the early 90s. The title always gave me a laugh.

I liked Duckman but it never seemed to get much recognition here.

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#971 30-01-2019 10:27pm
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branie2 wrote: »

It was an English comedy

See if you can remember enough to key it out here.

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#972 30-01-2019 10:30pm
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A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

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It's probably been mentioned already, The Larry Sanders Show. I used to watch it late on BBC2 in the 90s, usually on a double bill with Seinfeld, and BBC used to always shunt them around in the schedule, so they could be on at any time really. I remember just loving these shows: i was the only person I knew who watched them and they felt like they were made just for me. Garry Shandling(RIP)/Rip Torn/Jeffrey Tambor, and all the Seinfeld guys were amazing comedy actors, and the writing was perfection itself. Smart, edgy, hip but most importantly incredibly funny comedy...what happened to good comedy? Jesus, i despair when i turn on tv now. Peep show was the last great comedy show. Alan Partridge has a new show coming soon, but i am not hopeful: his last series (mid morning matters 2) was not funny at all, and i love Partridge so it breaks my heart to say that.

I listened to many podcast interviews with Garry Shandling over the past few years before he died and he was just such a witty, smart guy. A real comedy legend. Comedian Norm MacDonald was doing a podcast once, and he mentioned Garry coming up to him when Norm was new in town and in his whiny voice asking "Norm, have you heard about this female g-spot thing? Jesus Christ. I couldn't find a guys balls"

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branie2 wrote: »

A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:

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#975 30-01-2019 11:02pm
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Cheers and Frasier

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#976 30-01-2019 11:06pm
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branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

branie2 wrote: »

The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

branie2 wrote: »

It was an English comedy

branie2 wrote: »

A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

my3cents wrote: »

OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055692262

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#977 30-01-2019 11:19pm
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branie2 wrote: »

Cheers and Frasier

Ah now... Anyone watching tv in those decades knows about them!

"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)

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branie2 wrote: »

I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

Father Charlie

ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.

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#979 30-01-2019 11:32pm
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Defenders of the Earth

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#980 30-01-2019 11:36pm
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Dream On

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#981 30-01-2019 11:39pm
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NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Father Charlie

ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.

Thats it with Lionel Jeffries I was thinking of someone who looked a bit like Alec Guinness in the lead and he sort of fits. Only 6 episodes that really was a short run.

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#982 30-01-2019 11:47pm
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I remember one episode, when a nun, could have been the mother superior, accidentally overheard a conversation between the priest and his doctor, and mistakenly thought that Father Charlie was dying

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#983 31-01-2019 12:37am
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Nighthawks, on RTE 2, or Network 2, or whatever they called it at the time. Shay Healy, and I think Flo McSweeney.

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Oliver Twist, a mini-series from 1985, based on the Dickens' novel

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Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

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#986 31-01-2019 11:08am
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Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

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#987 31-01-2019 11:59am
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branie2 wrote: »

Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

I recently got the boxset from the library. They were brilliant.

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#988 01-02-2019 12:09pm
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Sorry about that wrote: »

Boys from the Blackstuff.

I remember this, Yosser Hughes, "gissa job"
The scene where Snowy White falls out the window horrified me as a child.

Billy Liar was a sitcom based in a funeral home run by Mr Shadrach. Billy was a Walter Mitty type character, it was quite funny

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#989 01-02-2019 12:11pm
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The Princess Bride wrote: »

Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

For some reason the TV show Animal Magic comes to mind, though not sure....
Edit to add Animal Magic was originally a BBC show, can't remember if it was shown on RTE?

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#990 01-02-2019 12:37pm
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The Princess Bride wrote: »

Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
I just remembered it there now.
Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

I have a vague memory of the Goodies Funky Gibbon being used in a clip of monkeys at Dublin Zoo being shown on RTE, this would be a lot earlier though, late 70's.

Another pretty gruesome memory I have is of RTE showing cows heads being fed to lions, again I think it was Dublin zoo, though I'm certain it was a different programme.

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#991 01-02-2019 1:42pm
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The Crow road; really great '96 mini-series based on the excellent book by Iain Banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_Road_(TV_series)

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