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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Mike Reid did Superstore. Noel Edmonds was Swap Shop. I have no recollection of a red headed bloke with glasses? Other than Andy Ruane on Scratch Saturday.

    No recollection of Saturday Starship which is odd as I recall the first episode of number 73.
    Love Sandy Toksig

    So, now I go to google- sorry, red hair no, red glasses- yes :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Did she wear roller skates in number 73 then? 2 very different roles.....

    Ah yeah, sorry you're right

    Dawn was on roller skates on No 73


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    rubadub wrote: »
    yep, the kids OF degrassi street in case you are searching


    was on sky one, they had loads of old american sitcoms,
    threes company,
    the ropers
    I dream of jeannie,
    bewitched
    eight is enough
    The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
    Gidget
    I love Lucy
    Mork & Mindy

    Bit of showing off, mark and mindy was a spin off of happy days.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,394 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Saturday superstore followed Swap Shop which of course was BBC, when it ended if memory serves- (trying not to look at google for a definitive here but feel free)- that red headed bloke with the red glasses headed it up- again, only from memory, which is what i like about this thread.

    Mark Curry? He presented Blue Peter later on.

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  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    salmocab wrote: »
    Bit of showing off, mark and mindy was a spin off of happy days.

    I remember Mork and Mindy when first aired, way before Sky 1 :o

    Nannoo Nannoo :D


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  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zaph wrote: »
    Mark Curry? He presented Blue Peter later on.

    Blue_Peter_Autographs_-_Caron_Keating_Mark_Curry_Janet_Ellis.jpg

    Ah bleeding hell, he did have red hair- I KNEW I wasn't imagining it. :D

    Thank you sir ! :P:cool:

    Edit- so now, did he present Superstore or did Mike Reid present it?

    I'm confused now.


  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I went to google to answer my own question- Mike Reid of course presented Superstore.

    And here's me thinking all these years the guy with red hair- Mark Curry, did. Isn't the memory a funny thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Ah bleeding hell, he did have red hair- I KNEW I wasn't imagining it. :D

    Thank you sir ! :P:cool:

    Edit- so now, did he present Superstore or did Mike Reid present it?

    I'm confused now.


    I think Mark Curry presented a Summer filler show called The Saturday Morning Picture Show, as well as Blue Peter and a few other things.

    Don't remember him on Superstore, that was definitely Mike Reid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,459 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    They are like a clone of each other to be fair


  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Skid X wrote: »
    I think Mark Curry presented a Summer filler show called The Saturday Morning Picture Show, as well as Blue Peter and a few other things.

    Don't remember him on Superstore, that was definitely Mike Reid
    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    They are like a clone of each other to be fair

    Thanks guys, and Zaph- I kind of lost interest to be fair after Swap-Shop ended in terms of Saturday morning TV. But yes, I totally remember Mark on Blue Peter and probably remember him doing "something" on Saturday mornings- but I really felt sad the day Swap-Shop ended- it was such a cool programme :(


    and just think, it started about what, 8.45am or something? And live. I mean RTE only started doing that in the 80's sometime, with "anything goes"- with Aongus McAnally and Dave Heffernan and Ruth Buchanan (all from memory)- which was very "babyish" for a teenager except for Dave's music slot.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,319 ✭✭✭amacca


    This is vague but Anyone remember a programme that used to be on at weekend around mid to late eighties I think

    Used to be on after kids programming on on Irish tv (some of the rtes) round midday to two ish

    I'm not exactly sure what the he'll it was about but there was a guy used to wander round in shorts and pretty much nothing else ... think he had a boat and every week himself and scantily clad women went on some sort of trip and did things like spear fishing, maybe hunting or conservation, camping etc

    I remember it because of the bikini ladies predictably....i thought I'd grow up and be surrounded by ladies in bikinis ..... it was a brief but happy time

    I think his name was something like Alby

    And I thought it was called "adventure bound" but think that's a film or something

    Anyone .... or have I finally lost it, gone stark raving mental and had a full blown episode here!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Thanks guys, and Zaph- I kind of lost interest to be fair after Swap-Shop ended in terms of Saturday morning TV. But yes, I totally remember Mark on Blue Peter and probably remember him doing "something" on Saturday mornings- but I really felt sad the day Swap-Shop ended- it was such a cool programme :(


    and just think, it started about what, 8.45am or something? And live. I mean RTE only started doing that in the 80's sometime, with "anything goes"- with Aongus McAnally and Dave Heffernan and Ruth Buchanan (all from memory)- which was very "babyish" for a teenager except for Dave's music slot.

    I do remember the first few years of Anything Goes until I grew older and lost interest in it. I looked it up to confirm my memory and the presenters were Aonghus McAnally, Dave Heffernan, Mary Fitzgerald and Kathy Parke. Ruth Buchanan was not a presenter of this series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Any of ye remember THE Water Margin Friday evening

    or Monkey


  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I do remember the first few years of Anything Goes until I grew older and lost interest in it. I looked it up to confirm my memory and the presenters were Aonghus McAnally, Dave Heffernan, Mary Fitzgerald and Kathy Parke. Ruth Buchanan was not a presenter of this series.

    Thanks! :)

    I knew I wasn't totally correct with Ruth- just couldn't remember- while google would have given it to me, I prefer to be corrected - I think just sharing your "memories", regardless of how wrong they are, has a "quaintness" to this thread, if that makes any sense at all? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Zaph wrote: »
    Mark Curry? He presented Blue Peter later on.

    Blue_Peter_Autographs_-_Caron_Keating_Mark_Curry_Janet_Ellis.jpg
    That is Janet Ellis on the right, mother of singer Sophie Ellis Baxtor. I always remember Janet on an episode of "celebrity come dine with me", with mr cool dude, hardman UK rapper Goldie.

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    Goldie says to her something like "oh yeah, I grew up watching you on blue peter" and she (10 years older and probably pissed off with him inferring she is way older) says something along the lines of "oh right, well I joined it in 1983, so you would have been 18 or over when watching that", STUNG ROTTEN!!

    Here is another Mandela one, but a film -James Bond film moonraker this is Jaw's girlfriend Dolly, spot anything unusual in the first picture? this one really freaked me out

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Degrassi was a kids show about being a teenager and all the ups and downs in school.
    Wonder Years was more about family life and had a narrator.

    Wonder Years had a young guy called Kevin in it if it is what I am thinking of? Set around the Vietnam war era, that got mentions? This Kevin was also the narrator and was an older man looking back on the adventures of his teenage years.

    I still cannot remember/place Degrassi.

    Another more recent variant on this type of thing was Everyone Hates Chris.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    No doesn't ring a bell- what time of day was it on and what was it about?

    I think it was on about half eight in the morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    rubadub wrote: »
    That is Janet Ellis on the right, mother of singer Sophie Ellis Baxtor. I always remember Janet on an episode of "celebrity come dine with me", with mr cool dude, hardman UK rapper Goldie.

    Goldie_2003_crop.jpg

    Goldie says to her something like "oh yeah, I grew up watching you on blue peter" and she (10 years older and probably pissed off with him inferring she is way older) says something along the lines of "oh right, well I joined it in 1983, so you would have been 18 or over when watching that", STUNG ROTTEN!!

    Here is another Mandela one, but a film -James Bond film moonraker this is Jaw's girlfriend Dolly, spot anything unusual in the first picture? this one really freaked me out

    Dte1N1aWwAAGs1g.jpg

    5d0289ef2500004e12e5b445.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale

    Her teeth?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Can I mention minder please. Absolute cracking show. Terry Arthur Dave etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sharky and George


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Can I mention minder please. Absolute cracking show. Terry Arthur Dave etc.

    Can't remember which of the repeat channels but Dennis Waterman and George Cole were back on recently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Can I mention minder please. Absolute cracking show. Terry Arthur Dave etc.

    Great show, especially the early ones with Dennis Waterman. But I assume this is a very wellknown one? The Sweeney was another great one from slightly before with DW too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Speaking of cop shows, The Bill


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    my3cents wrote: »
    Can't remember which of the repeat channels but Dennis Waterman and George Cole were back on recently.

    It has never been off television

    One of the most popular programmes in UK History

    "Old TV Programmes you liked but no one else remembers"? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    I do remember the first few years of Anything Goes until I grew older and lost interest in it. I looked it up to confirm my memory and the presenters were Aonghus McAnally, Dave Heffernan, Mary Fitzgerald and Kathy Parke. Ruth Buchanan was not a presenter of this series.

    I believe Mary Fitzgerald presented "How Do You Do" as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    She did


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,342 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Flintstone Kids.

    It was also my introduction to the Flintstones


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭turbbo


    This life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Wonder Years had a young guy called Kevin in it if it is what I am thinking of? Set around the Vietnam war era, that got mentions? This Kevin was also the narrator and was an older man looking back on the adventures of his teenage years.

    Yep, that was The Wonder Years. Fun fact - the voice of the narrator, the older Kevin looking back as you say, was Daniel Stern, best known as the tall (i.e. not Joe Pesci) criminal in Home Alone...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    branie2 wrote: »
    Speaking of cop shows, The Bill

    That was yesterday...


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