Time fillers on RTE in the 80's

whomitconcerns · 16-09-2018 6:08pm #1

So the 80s thread got me thinking about this. Various animated nonsense rte used to fill gaps between programs sometimes in the mid 80s. Psychedelic animated music videos and stuff from Canada and eastern europe.

Does anyone remember one in particular which was about 6/7 mins long and was some green "alien" moving through space to some 70s style music and multicoloured planets etc..

And sure any others for the craic!

branie2 · 16-09-2018 6:08pm

Autobahn

Larbre34 · 16-09-2018 6:13pm

Still made more compelling viewing than 98% of digital channels today.

branie2 · 16-09-2018 6:14pm

One of my favourites from those fillers was Hamilton, the musical elephant.

sunbeam · 16-09-2018 6:15pm

I have vague memories of one animation involving a traffic jam that got so bad that eventually everyone decided to live in their cars.

whiskeyman · 16-09-2018 6:23pm

This was by far my favorite.
Used afterwards in a hula hoop ad years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM

Fr Tod Umptious · 16-09-2018 6:27pm

Yep, the five words that Irish TV watching children feared in the 70s and 80s was "National film board of Canada"

It meant that you had to watch some nature crap for 10 mins before the program you wanted to watch started.

branie2 · 16-09-2018 6:29pm

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Yep, the five words that Irish TV watching children feared in the 70s and 80s was "National film board of Canada"

It meant that you had to watch some nature crap for 10 mins before the program you wanted to watch started.

I liked them

padd b1975 · 16-09-2018 6:39pm

I remember lots of Jacques Cousteau stuff.

Mookie Blaylock · 16-09-2018 6:41pm

branie2 wrote: »

Autobahn

Music by Kraftwerk ..

Mrcaramelchoc · 16-09-2018 6:42pm

whiskeyman wrote: »

This was by far my favorite.
Used afterwards in a hula hoop ad years later.

What year was this roughly?or when was it used?

branie2 · 16-09-2018 6:43pm

For a little while, broadcasts from Sky News and CBS news were fillers in 1989.

mariaalice · 16-09-2018 6:55pm

The Czechoslovakia cartoons were the weirdest.

Atoms for Peace · 16-09-2018 6:58pm

Can't remember the last time I've seen either a loony tunes or Tom and Jerry cartoon on the telly.

gifted · 16-09-2018 6:58pm

Glenroe.....that killed an hour between programmes every Sunday evening...

Jellybaby1 · 16-09-2018 7:00pm

mariaalice wrote: »

The Czechoslovakia cartoons were the weirdest.

Funny you should mention that. I remember further back in the 70's when I was a teenager, very late one night I was reading one of my Jackie magazines,

the TV was on and I saw a cartoon, I thought 'stupid putting on kids cartoons so late at night'. Oh dear, it was almost cartoon porn! :eek: It scarred me for life! Might have been Czech.

mariaalice · 16-09-2018 7:08pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Funny you should mention that. I remember further back in the 70's when I was a teenager, very late one night I was reading one of my Jackie magazines, the TV was on and I saw a cartoon, I thought 'stupid putting on kids cartoons so late at night'. Oh dear, it was almost cartoon porn! :eek: It scarred me for life! Might have been Czech.

Watching the Czech cartoons left me with the impression that the Czechs were a dour weird people.

eviltwin · 16-09-2018 7:13pm

There was one with some animated chap playing a lute and singing that was on just before the news.

Mookie Blaylock · 16-09-2018 7:36pm

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

Sardonicat · 16-09-2018 8:37pm

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Mookie Blaylock · 16-09-2018 8:40pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Just watching an episode of the Simpsons.
Flanders " Homer hit me"
Homer "No"
Flanders "I'm insisting on a fisting"!
Smithers "what's this about a fisting"?!?

Popeye didn't have a patch on this

Roanmore · 16-09-2018 8:44pm

Professor Plinkity Plonk (?) on Sunday evenings.

Guy would come out and play a piano (cartoon of course) which was a prelude to some adventure he imagined.

Sardonicat · 16-09-2018 8:47pm

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Just watching an episode of the Simpsons.
Flanders " Homer hit me"
Homer "No"
Flanders "I'm insisting on a fisting"!
Smithers "what's this about a fisting"?!?

Popeye didn't have a patch on this

Yeah, but the Sampsons isn't intended as children's entertainment though. Popeye was. And every single episode featured Olive Oil screeching "Popeye! Popeye!" as evil Brutus carried her off. Then good ole Popeye downed a can of spinach and beat the crap out of Brutus. When you think about it, it was truly bizarre stuff for a kids show.

Mookie Blaylock · 16-09-2018 8:49pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yeah, but the Sampsons isn't intended as children's entertainment though. Popeye was. And every single episode featured Olive Oil screeching "Popeye! Popeye!" as evil Brutus carried her off. Then good ole Popeye downed a can of spinach and beat the crap out of Brutus. When you think about it, it was truly bizarre stuff for a kids show.

The Simpsons is most definitely aimed at children,

16-09-2018 8:52pm

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

RTE played Popeye ad-nauseum early evenings around late 70's early 80s- must have been very cheap TV for them.

Graces7 · 17-09-2018 1:51am

The "beeb" in the UK in the 50s had what were called "interludes". One was watching a potters wheel in action and was so soothing, with music

Oh LOOK! I found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzGF401vLc

Ah I DID enjoy that! Thank you OP!

JupiterKid · 17-09-2018 1:53am

Autobahn was released back in 1974 - waaay ahead of its time. Song opens with a voice fed through a synthesizer - unreal for the mid 70s.

JupiterKid · 17-09-2018 1:57am

Not 80s, but 1990s cartoon Ren and Stimpy when viewed under the influence of cannabis was very funny indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W8gADOplmY

KevRossi · 17-09-2018 7:35am

Bod was one of those Czechoslovakian cartoons. I loved him. Met loads of Czechs over the years, but nobody knew him.

There were loads of good short UK programmes as well... Bagpuss, The Moomins, Postman Pat, Ivor the Engine...

Happy memories

Badly Drunk Boy · 17-09-2018 10:38am

KevRossi wrote: »

Bod was one of those Czechoslovakian cartoons. I loved him. Met loads of Czechs over the years, but nobody knew him.

I'm fairly sure Bod was an English programme. It was written by an English couple. (I used to like the way each character had their own theme tune when the appeared.

)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyrEGgk2NU

eviltimeban · 17-09-2018 10:43am

There goes Farmer Barleymow.

Here comes... BOD! Do do do do do dodo, do do do do do do

That's all I remember about Bod.

Time fillers on RTE in the 80's

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