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  • 05-09-2017 03:15PM
    #1
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone here ever watch this Irish "comedy" tv series about inner city Dubliners who won the lotto and settled in posh Belevdere Mansions on the south side?


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    ArtyC
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    I remember that alright


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    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    RTE's take on Keeping Up Appearances.

    Awful stuff, awful.


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    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    2 of the stars from Fair City were in it.


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    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    branie2 wrote: »
    2 of the stars from Fair City were in it.

    Can you narrow it down a small bit?:pac:


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    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    One of them was Enda Oates, AKA Pete and the other, whose name escapes me, was the actress who played Dr Judith Dillon


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    blade1
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    branie2 wrote: »
    One of them was Enda Oates, AKA Pete and the other, whose name escapes me, was the actress who play Dr Judith Dillon

    Of course,I feel a bit stupid having asked now!


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    Ipso
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    Irish comedy is no laughing matter.


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    kylith
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    Why did you have to bring that up? I'll be having nightmares for weeks now.


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    Barry Badrinath
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    Wasnt there 2 little ginger twin fcukers in it?

    Awful show...

    ...because of the ginger twins...

    ...so ginger...

    ...eeewww.


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    [Deleted User]
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    So it's goodbye to good old Arthur J
    And bonjour to fine Chablis
    I am leaving my heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
    Now it's Belvedere for me...

    Desperate desperate desperate...


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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Dear Old Inner City Dublin
    The Town I love so dear
    But we're after winning two million quid
    So it's off to Belvedere

    So it's Goodbye to good old Arthur J
    And it's Bonjour to fine Chablis
    I am leaving me heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
    Now it's Belvedere for me


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    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Wasnt there 2 little ginger twin fcukers in it?

    Awful show...

    ...because of the ginger twins...

    ...so ginger...

    ...eeewww.

    Their names were Curt and Derek; and they always had water pistols in their mouths.


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    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Did a quick youtube search and lo and behold...

    https://www.youtube.com/user/Upmob


    So to all those people who thought the internet was useless - now, that makes it worthwhile, doesn't it?



    (No, no it doesn't btw)


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    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,303 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Vague memories of it!


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    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭briany


    People here acting like they didn't watch Upwardly Mobile.

    You did watch it. You're not proud of it, maybe, but you have to look at it in the context of the time. Not all of us could get the UK channels then and these were also the days when SKY still seemed like a proper extravagance.

    I found this watchable enough fare at the time, given the above circumstances.


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    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,303 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn




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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted


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    previous user
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    I think the fat one od'd on coke in the late 90's


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I remember it.
    It wasn't great but not as bad as the self-loathers would have you believe.


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    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    I loved it at the time. Just watched the episode posted above which I couldn't remember seeing before and really enjoyed it, thanks for posting it.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Wasn't the guy who played the main characters brother murdered in a gangland style attack?


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    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭stimpson


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted

    Nope he was Todd Unctious, the fake priest who tried to steal the Golden Cleric. Henry Sellers was the alcoholic Terry Wogan.

    Henry:

    latest?cb=20170402095152

    Todd:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/warrant-for-arrest-of-fr-ted-actor-gerard-mcsorley-1.2719180


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    Son0vagun
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    Think it just shows how much of a classic it was when we are still talking about it 20 years later.


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    _Roz_
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    I loved it when I was a child, and particularly loved the opening song and artwork.


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    Ciaran_B
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    So it's goodbye to good old Arthur J
    And bonjour to fine Chablis
    I am leaving my heart at the Ha'penny Bridge
    Now it's Belvedere for me...

    Desperate desperate desperate...

    Unless my memory fails me the original lyric was 'goodbye to J Arthur' and not 'Arthur J'. A subversive w4nking joke slipped into the credits. They had to change it.


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    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    The belvedere hillbillies?


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    osarusan
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    Your Face wrote: »
    It wasn't great but not as bad as the self-loathers would have you believe.
    More of this shyte.

    You thought an Irish comedy was rubbish? You're a self-loather.

    Another term that gets slung about at anything and everything.


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    blade1
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yer man was Henry Sellers in Father Ted
    stimpson wrote: »

    Todd:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/warrant-for-arrest-of-fr-ted-actor-gerard-mcsorley-1.2719180

    He was John Gilligan in Veronica Guerin.


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    Birneybau
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    blade1 wrote: »
    He was John Gilligan in Veronica Guerin.

    And Taffin's mate in 'Taffin'


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    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    The guy who played the male half of the Northside couple lives in my hometown now. My dad met him a few times and said he's a right gob****e.


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