The Old Days on RTE

HeidiHeidi

Superstars!

All those chin-ups and jumping jacks and frog jumps (or whatever they were called)!!

Harry Palmr

Aonghas McAnally was over RTE like rash in the 80s. Then....?

siblers

iseegirls wrote: »

Premier League been shown on a Saturday, but delayed by 30minutes. It was a case of staying away from Aertel/Ceefax for any latest scores.

Highlights of Serie A on Monday nights. I had a better knowledge of Italian football than the Premier league as a child

siblers

I remember watching Thou Shalt Not Kill by Cathal O Shannon when was I 10 or 11. Superb show

bobbyss

Itssoeasy wrote:

So he ate on air and sounded like he’d a bad head cold and had one area of knowledge ?

I always thought O'Reilly lazy and i feel the same way about Cahill.

Hangdogroad

Anne Doyle when she had straight jet black hair. I can just about remember the news intro and jingle here, think it was changed not long afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGiQKfT85s

Ash.J.Williams

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Anyone remember a programme about learning Irish from the early 80s called Anois Is Aris? It had a lot of what could be termed comedy sketches, Frank Kelly was in most of these.

Anyway one in particular sticks in my memory. It was a guy hanging in chains in a cell and a torturer (kelly I think) would show him pictures of various politicians and celebrities and ask "anseo?" to which yer man gave the right answers except for the end where he gave the wrong answer for JR from Dallas and the torturer fella starts flogging him with a whip and yer man roaring his head off. My mother was mortified at this and turned it off.

Mind blown , that was buried at the back of my mind

Ash.J.Williams

xieann wrote: »

Murphy's micro quiz em

Format of show

3 competing families
2 families would win a dragon 32 later upgraded to zx spectrum 48k rubber keyboard
1 family gets a shot at winning car
The final 5 questions to win the car could be quite hard.

A lovely Ford Orion

StevenToast

No Ryan Tubridy

Ash.J.Williams

StevenToast wrote: »

No Ryan Tubridy

He did appear as a child now and again

StevenToast

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

He did appear as a child now and again

Ya...but he wasnt stealing 500k a year from the public then....

Ash.J.Williams

StevenToast wrote: »

Ya...but he wasnt stealing 500k a year from the public then....

That’s so depressing

BrenMar

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Radio closedown at 1am. Or was it 2?


Two rounds of O'Donnell Abú when they started up again in the morning - and not the tinny elevator version they have now


Michael Murphy (he who was roundly abused for doing a dreams segment on some programme recently in his new capacity as psychotherapist) being voted newsreader of the year by the deaf community - despite having a full beard and moustache!

I used to love hearing O'Donnell Abu when I'd be up early enough as a kid, memories of having breakfast in the kitchen with my dad who believed the early morning was the best part of the day.

Hangdogroad

Azatadine wrote: »

That clip was on something recently would you believe!

I'd love to see that again, what was it on?

Another bizarre sketch from it I remember had Frank Kelly and another guy in a tent, both wearing scouting uniforms. For some reason the other fella smashes a load of eggs over Frank's head.

MfMan

bobbyss wrote: »

I always thought O'Reilly lazy and i feel the same way about Cahill.

Ya, he had a very laid-back presenting approach. Used do the sports program later on Sunday nights, Sports Scene, featuring among everything else grimy LOI coverage from far-flung places like Terryland Park and Ballybofey.

mgbgt1978

Amuigh faoin speir.

HeidiHeidi

BrenMar wrote: »

I used to love hearing O'Donnell Abu when I'd be up early enough as a kid, memories of having breakfast in the kitchen with my dad who believed the early morning was the best part of the day.

Given the time you posted that, he clearly left a lasting impression on you

[Deleted User]

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Don Coburn reading the news ( too young to remember Charles Mitchell )

Brian Farell presenting Today Tonight


cross channel soccer results taking about a half hour to read out on saturday evening as they devoted as much time to the scottish third division as the english first division

Pats chat , pat ingelsby sitting amongst children listening to them say whatever they wished , eccentric men with unconventional dress sense would be unlikely to front a show like that today

It was actually Don Cockburn :cool:

barney shamrock

bobbyss wrote: »

I always thought O'Reilly lazy and i feel the same way about Cahill.

Des Cahill sounds like he's permanently stoned!

[Deleted User]

Many posts made through rose tinted lenses on this thread.
Don't forget when RTE was offered the Father Ted tv series before channel 4 and others all RTE could say was " yeah nice work, now jog on"


Poor auld Snotzer.

Reputation shredded. No offer of any rehab. In the days before social media.

Bob Harris

Mad_maxx wrote: »

cross channel soccer results taking about a half hour to read out on saturday evening as they devoted as much time to the scottish third division as the english first division

And you knew from the tone of voice reading the home team's score if it was a home win, draw or away win before the full scoreline was read out!

AllForIt

This popped up on my youtube feed the other day. Great head of hair! Whatever became of her?

HeidiHeidi

Back to radio....

Seen Óg Ó Ceallacháin reading out the results on a Sunday night - that was up there with the shipping forecast for hypnotic quality!

subpar

Not So Green

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Comedy half hour lunch time onn Sundays , way ahead of its time.

and Michael Dillon on Mart and Market knicknamed Cowjack.

birdwatcher

There was a documentary called HANDS on in the evenings in the 70s...probably just after the news...used to hate it as a child....Love to see it now..All about old craftsmen (usually down the west) making things like musical instruments and weaving stuff.

Ha! remember Thelma alright....brilliant.
She's still around...for anyone who's interested... and still looking HOT!
http://www.thelmamansfield.ie/thelma/

HeidiHeidi

birdwatcher wrote: »

There was a documentary called HANDS on in the evenings in the 70s...probably just after the news...used to hate it as a child....Love to see it now..All about old craftsmen (usually down the west) making things like musical instruments and weaving stuff.

Ha! remember Thelma alright....brilliant.
She's still around...for anyone who's interested... and still looking HOT!
http://www.thelmamansfield.ie/thelma/

Those shows are all on YouTube, and are a fascinating and utterly brilliant watch - highly recommended!

Hangdogroad

xieann wrote: »

Many posts made through rose tinted lenses on this thread.
Don't forget when RTE was offered the Father Ted tv series before channel 4 and others all RTE could say was " yeah nice work, now jog on"


Poor auld Snotzer.

Reputation shredded. No offer of any rehab. In the days before social media.

RTE was never offered Fr Ted. That's an urban myth that's been denied by Matthew's and Lenihan but it still continues to get trotted out.

head82

AllForIt wrote: »

This popped up on my youtube feed the other day. Great head of hair! Whatever became of her?

She quit RTE to run a pub in Dingle. I was in it once. Nice pub, very friendly.

[Deleted User]

Mary Fitzgerald.

Make and do show "how do you do"

The original, quintessential and best RTE milf.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0127/500373-how-do-you-do/

[Deleted User]

I remember having a mad crush on Kate Smith when she read the news on RTE,then she went on to UTV!

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2122/074.html