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Old RTE programming that was good

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  • #62
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    joeguevara wrote: »
    I loved pure mule. Drama set in the midlands.

    Loved that show!

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #63
    Big Bag of Chips
    Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,358 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    Cornelius Crow wrote: »
    Deadly! What was he making?

    Ship in a bottle.


  • #64
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Bosco

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #65
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Wanderlust

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #66
    Filmer Paradise
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    Soupy Norman.


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  • #67
    Barry Badrinath
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    Dont feed the Gondolas and Bachelors Walk


  • #68
    Username exists
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    Hands as mentioned before, jaysus I'm starving


    https://youtu.be/MZlPN8i8wX8


  • #69
    MisterAnarchy
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    Fortycoats was a good show for kids but it was a bit crazy as well.

    Anything Goes with Aonghus McAnally and the lovely Mary Fitzgerald was a good show too.


  • #70
    KKkitty
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    What was the music quiz show where they had pianos and had to sing the lyrics? Play The Game was good too. Echo island, and the kids quiz show with Mary Kingston and iotas.


  • #71
    sligojoek
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    Zaph wrote: »
    I did not know that that was Doireann Ni Bhriain. AH really is an education sometimes.

    Last I heard she was some kind of pronunciation guru with RTE.


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  • #72
    Zaph
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    What was the music quiz show where they had pianos and had to sing the lyrics?

    The Lyrics Board. They made a fortune from the format as it was sold to loads of countries. Particularly huge in Finland, I think it was.


  • #73
    One eyed Jack
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    What was the music quiz show where they had pianos and had to sing the lyrics? Play The Game was good too. Echo island, and the kids quiz show with Mary Kingston and iotas.


    The Lyrics Board... :D

    I remember the kids quiz show with Mary Kingston, can't remember the name of it though.

    Live at Three used to be good, certainly better than the awful shìte they have now with Maura Deranne and Daithi O Se...


  • #74
    Hotei
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    I remember watching Hands. My dad loved it and made sure i watched it too so I could see how things were made completely by hand before machines and conveyor belts and assembly lines took over.
    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    Hands is one of the finest documentary series ever made. You can get it on DVD in most libraries.

    HANDS was a brilliant documentary series. I was in the National Museum on Kildare street several years ago, and while looking at some of the artefacts excavated at Knowth and Newgrange, I struck up a conversation with a man standing beside me who seemed just as mesmerised by the objects as I was. We were both perplexed how something as intricate and beautiful as the Knowth flint macehead could have been made with simple stone tools. It transpired the man in question was David Shaw-Smith, the maker of the series HANDS. He was an absolute gentleman.


  • #75
    KKkitty
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    Zaph wrote: »
    The Lyrics Board. They made a fortune from the format as it was sold to loads of countries. Particularly huge in Finland, I think it was.

    They should bring that and other shows back.


  • #76
    Neames
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    Murphy's Micro Quizm

    Super high tech stuff


  • #77
    KKkitty
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    Blackboard Jungle was another good one. If you don't believe me you can confer with someone :D


  • #78
    bodhrandude
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    Always liked the wistful traditional music academic Nicholas O'Carolan in this, the series appeared to have stopped over the last few years, but perhaps they are waiting a few years for some of the more current stuff to build up.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #79
    Jimbob1977
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    'Reeling in the Years' is the best annual review compilation I have ever seen on TV.

    Kudos to the production team.


  • #80
    Atoms for Peace
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    branie2 wrote: »
    The Last Picture Show - movies introduced by Brian Reddin on Friday nights

    Used to love that, was probably way too young to be up that late but it did introduce me to some classic cinema before todays blockbusters reduced my brain to mush.:pac:
    And similarly No Disco was class, introduced me to bands that most people have ever heard of such as At the drive-in. With media becoming so fragmented I think a return to more curated approach would be no bad idea.


  • #81
    bodhrandude
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    'Reeling in the Years' is the best annual review compilation I have ever seen on TV.

    Kudos to the production team.

    Yeah I like Reeling in the years too, but the idea was nicked from the BBC's Rock N'Roll years.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #82
    Conor Bourke
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    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Soupy Norman.

    Hands down best RTE comedy ever :D


  • #83
    Filmer Paradise
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    Neames wrote: »
    Murphy's Micro Quizm

    Super high tech stuff

    A neighbour of mine lost out on winning a brand new Ford Sierra by one easy question.

    He still talks about it to this day.:D


  • #84
    topmanamillion
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    Loved Podge & Rodge a scare at bedtime.
    The chat show thing they did after was a load of sh1te but they used to pack an awful lot into 5 minutes with a scare at bedtime.

    Also the Blizzard of Odd used to have me in stitches.


  • #85
    KKkitty
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    The Panel and Don't Feed The Gondolas were hilarious. Why on earth can RTE not do shows like that anymore?


  • #86
    byte
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    byte


    No Disco wasn't too bad as an alternative music show. I remember Uaneen Fitzsimons presenting it before she died suddenly. Donal... somebody hosted it too.


  • #87
    Dr Crayfish
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    There was a 'late' show that Sean Moncrieff used to do back in the day that was quite good. I think it was the first show to smash through the fuck-off-to-bed-Ireland 'Prayer at Bedtime' thing they used to insult the nation with.

    They still insult us with the angelus, c*nts. I do my very best not to go anywhere near the Irish channels when channel surfing, unless there's a specific news item I want to see. They're just awful.


  • #88
    FunLover18
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    Quizone - contact made, game on!!

    The Panel was excellent, whole family used to sit down on Mondays to watch it


  • #89
    cantdecide
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    I remember Waterways being very enjoyable.


  • #90
    KKkitty
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    cantdecide wrote: »
    I remember Waterways being very enjoyable.

    Dick Warner presented it didn't he?


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  • #91
    Dr Crayfish
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    The Panel and Don't Feed The Gondolas were hilarious. Why on earth can RTE not do shows like that anymore?

    I can't believe you posted this. They were both like really bad versions of British panel shows which are already awful. Some of the "comedians" on the panel were annoying beyond belief.


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