Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

DJIMI TRARORE

Has the Tianamen square incident get a mention yet, surreal moment

cj maxx

These have probably been mentioned but what I've seen is
Tommy Cooper dying on stage
Kurt Cobain shouting the Courtney Love was the best fúck in the world on C4's The Word I think it was.
In the US , NJ governor McGreevy coming out as gay on TV

KaneToad

MadYaker wrote: »

I think this lad had a family member working in production in RTE.

Montage of Feck

"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts' and in living color, you are going to see another first—an attempted suicide."
- Christine Chubbuck

fergus1001

that time some guy in a max headroom mask took over a tv broadcast in America

youtheman

I know its supposed to be TV, but this classic radio gaffe by 'Pat the Plank' surely deserves honourable mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xFxaVucmE

cj maxx

Hillsborough was another one .
What I've always remembered was when it finally cut to ads , one for for a Peugeot 406 ,I think, which featured the Berlin song 'Take my breath away '.

Itssoeasy

The 1989 loma prieta earthquake been caught live on tv during the start of game 3 of the World Series between the As and giants is memorable. Al Michaels declaring that they were having an earthquake is still amazing to hear.

I remember watching the verdict of the Louis Woodward baby shacking trial in my parents house with one of the builders doing work on the new kitchen that was being built.

There was the OJ Simpson chase through LA which is seen by some as the start of reality TV which is funny because one of OJs best friends was the father of the kardashians.

Did you smash it

I’d say there were a few weird things from the Radioton days. The Irish version of comic relief.

It was weird one year- Jean Claude Van Damme (who was a major star at the time) was interviewed in a nightclub in Ireland somewhere with a load of female company. He was probably on a bit of a bender. It was peculiar this major star was reluctantly part of some dumb charity shindig, would like to hear how that came to pass.

Also on a chart show in the early days of TV3, meatloaf forcibly kissed the female host Sarah O’Flaherty completely out of the blue during the course of the show. It wasn’t live but it was kept in the broadcast.

Itssoeasy

cj maxx wrote: »

Hillsborough was another one .
What I've always remembered was when it finally cut to ads , one for for a Peugeot 406 ,I think, which featured the Berlin song ’Take my breath away’

Talk about poor timing.

Rothko

KaneToad wrote: »

I think this lad had a family member working in production in RTE.

Yeah, I think it was his daughter.

punisher5112

The guy talking about the runaway lanes for trucks that the brakes fail on..... Then a truck goes straight into it right behind them....

The faces

franglan

I often think about the circumstances around political grunge group Pop Will Eat Itself getting booked on the Late Late in the mid 90's. Sellotape, dry humping, wrecking the stage... a lot going on really...
https://youtu.be/qBYqNj7Rrh4

candycock

franglan wrote: »

I often think about the circumstances around political grunge group Pop Will Eat Itself getting booked on the Late Late in the mid 90's. Sellotape, dry humping, wrecking the stage... a lot going on really...
https://youtu.be/qBYqNj7Rrh4

Wat did I just watch lol

StupidLikeAFox

I also remembered a top of the pops episode where Damon Alabarn was off his noodle. Started off grand but after about 30 seconds he had the microphone up over his head, giving it loads to the crowd etc and curiously the music lyrics were still perfectly in time. I learned about miming that day

Atlantic Dawn

Grenfell fire was mad, it was only afterwards when the enquiries opened you knew people were actually rescued 7 hours after it started and from what you were seeing on tv you would think nobody could have been alive once it took hold.

Jaded Walker

Bowe vs Holyfield fight 1993, middle of the fight, it was about 4am over here and the next thing the ref stops the fight and down from the skies arrives James Miller. Absolutely surreal.

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

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

This was quite shocking when it interrupted Brookside with the breaking news.

What's this? It's blocked where I am.

Skid X

That time the sound on PrimeTime was replaced by some russian lad saying "Ireland Ukranian Not Russians" over and over again

It sounded like the Russians had invaded. Or possibly the Ukranians.


https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-26419603

AndrewJRenko

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Tom Brennand storming off Kenny Live (and slinking back on again) when being grilled about his badly received book on Eamon Andrews by a young Miriam O Callaghan.

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

I'd bet a fiver that interviewer Miriam wouldn't let an interviewee come out with similar stuff today.

Kia_Kaha

The Ayrton Senna crash - watching the whole thing unfold was awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNIKNNsZ8s&ab_channel=DejanJeraj

mistersifter

another one from Dunphy during the 2014 World Cup .

When he doesn't realise they are on air and is cursin away with the lads - he tells Bill "Neymar was ****in dreadin that penno!"

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

Riddle101

Speaking of Eamon Dunphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqjQSk1PQ4o

BorneTobyWilde

Cable ties ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jb6Zef2NUE

wetlandsboy

This has lost none of its power to shock. The murder of British undercover police at an IRA funeral.

https://youtu.be/fhfgQOLSrTQ

Treppen

Zig and zag called Bosco a wanker

punisher5112

Vaccine given to a manikin

Thargor

This thread needs more Pat Kenny...

Pat has some make-up tips for this young lad who wants to be a dancer, pure Alan Partridge:

aaronjennings

Fabrice Muamba having a heart attack during a Tottenham vs Bolton match

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

Yurt2

The leader of the Japanese Socialist Party gets assassinated with a samurai sword by a radical university student. NSFW I suppose, but not terribly gory. Blink and you'll miss it.