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Old RTE programming that was good

  • 12-05-2018 12:48PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭


    Frank Hall presented a documentary like Nationwide in early 1990s. I did not recognise him from Halls Pictorial Weekly at first. He was on Raiders of the Lost Archives in 1995 on rate


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Hands.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Vladimir Poontang




    I found this to be informative and entertaining


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    The Den was hilarious with Dustin. Theres no way a kids show would get away with the things he said nowadays. All the SJW's would be calling for heads on twitter if it was on now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    I'm not sure how good it actually was as I like very RTÉ has done Drama wise but there a short series based in Drogheda called Love is the Drug. Some of it was filmed in a college friends house and a guy we knew had a small part.

    I recall it been well written and really funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The moral decline started when A Prayer at Bedtime followed by the national anthem was dropped


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


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    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    No Disco
    Under Ether
    Bull Island (sketch show)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    NightHawks


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    The chart show every Wednesday night.
    Bull Island (sketch show)

    Bull Island was great!


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  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Hands.

    Super series- great watching it today as well.
    NightHawks

    plus 1 for that too


    Today, Tonight with Brian Farrell was excellent at current affairs (although looking back now, there was an awful lot of sh1te that they missed out on.

    Murphy's Micro Quiz-m was embarrassing even back then and you could see they made the questions really difficult for the Ford Orion car they gave away- I think it was probably 1 car per series max (when the questions just became very easy)

    Anything Goes Saturday show was popular with kids under 12 in the 80s' but it did nothing for teenagers which it tried to aim for also, which made it a bit embarrassing also.


    I saw some old Radharc programmes on the RTE website and they're actually quality documentaries - never watched them at the time but worth searching them out now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,757 ✭✭✭s8n


    Extra Extra


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Monday nights in the late 90s were great. Father Ted, Podge and Rodge, and don't feed the gondillas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    The chart show every Wednesday night.



    Bull Island was great!

    It sure was :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭ronnie085


    Sports stadium, first division match (the now premium league) live every Saturday, live horse racing, rugby internationals, or any other big sporting event, back before sky got their dirty mitts on most big events and priced normal fans out of the market.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 5red


    The Panel when Daire O'Briain presented it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    ronnie085 wrote: »
    Sports stadium, first division match (the now premium league) live every Saturday
    ...at half three :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭ronnie085


    ronnie085 wrote: »
    Sports stadium, first division match (the now premium league) live every Saturday
    ...at half three :D
    Ah that kicked in when the premier league started, live 3 o clock games for the old first division, showing my age now 😉


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Blackboard Jungle and Bosco.

    Also really enjoyed The Clinic. RTE could do with a good drama.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,052 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Where in the World, Theresa Lowe who presented it still looks well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,546 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I liked Batchelors Walk and Trivia (not particularly old) as well as the already mentioned Hands and No Disco.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,052 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Glenroe


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    The Den was hilarious with Dustin. Theres no way a kids show would get away with the things he said nowadays. All the SJW's would be calling for heads on twitter if it was on now

    No they wouldn't.


  • Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Trivia was v good. Think there were only two series though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    ‘To the vaters and ze vild’ with Gerrit van Geldren was innovative with his drawings , a simple idea well executed , RTE is dying for a talented producer .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    ronnie085 wrote: »
    Sports stadium, first division match (the now premium league) live every Saturday, live horse racing, rugby internationals, or any other big sporting event, back before sky got their dirty mitts on most big events and priced normal fans out of the market.
    And with Fred Cogley commentating on the Rugby without the hysterics of the current batch on radio and television.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Where in the World, Theresa Lowe who presented it still looks well.

    Think she's a barrister now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    MT USA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Who remembers this being shown on RTE in the 80's when they had a few spare minutes to fill between programmes??




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭cml387


    In the late 1970's RTE had a drama series called The Burke Enigma.

    It was a story about corruption in high places and the shadowy connections between an organised crime gang and high up politicians.
    Very high production values, shot on film,starring John Kavanagh and Ray McAnally as detectives investigating the sordid details,directed by Michael Feeney Callan.

    Never repeated, for some reason.


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