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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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  • #1292
    NasserShammaz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Benwell bangers. They were rubbish. Snap bangers were all we were "allowed" but we managed to get the other ones.

    Yes, played the apple on a string game, plus the apple in the basin of water. Which was kind of gross when you reflect on it, especially after a few people goes!

    killer when it bounced off your front teeth


  • #1293
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

    Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.
    I guess that proves that ignorant jerks existed long before the year 2000.


  • #1294
    Sardonicat
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Star Trekkin, across the universe!
    On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk
    Slowly going forward
    Cos we can't find reverse.

    Where are the Klingons now?


  • #1295
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Slowly going forward
    Cos we can't find reverse.

    Where are the Klingons now?


    F**kers, both of you. I have that song stuck in my head now.


  • #1296
    tringle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tringle


    branie2 wrote: »
    Star Trekkin, across the universe!
    On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

    There's Klingons on the starboard bow, the starboard bow, the starboard bow...
    There's Klingons on the Starboard bow the starboard bow now Jim.

    It's life Jim but not as we know it
    Not as we know it
    Not as.we know it Jim


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  • #1297
    tringle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tringle


    Knock knock
    Open wide
    See what's on the other side

    Knock knock
    Any more
    Come with me
    Through the magic door...


  • #1298
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,355 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    tringle wrote: »
    Knock knock
    Open wide
    See what's on the other side

    Knock knock
    Any more
    Come with me
    Through the magic door...

    Tidy up!
    Goodbye! Goodbye!


  • #1299
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,355 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.


  • #1300
    MonkieSocks
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    branie2 wrote: »
    one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.




    Remember that one, it was very good with Robert Powell as Jesus.


    Great cast, Larry Oliver ect
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IiF1rTTGQ



    Around the same time there was another mini-series about Moses, Burt Lancaster played the lead.


    I'll remember one scene when he is preaching to a crowd of onlookers.


    He said" My Name is..........................Moses" then just flashed thosed teeth as he smiled at all around him

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #1301
    bodhrandude
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    Remember the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man as well, Falconetti the baddie was like another Jack Palance or Lee Van Cleeth and the Jordache brothers, one played by a young Nick Nolte. Also Roots (also a miniseries) , who could ever forget the story of Roots.

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



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  • #1302
    Ipso
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    North and South, starring Patrick Swayze.


  • #1303
    Heroditas
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    branie2 wrote: »
    one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

    They used to like showing that around Easter, along with other "holy" films.
    I found the series on YouTube, quite the stellar cast! Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine...


  • #1304
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Shogun with Richard Chamberlain, Cain And Abel. Then the Aussie mini series the Dirtwater Dynasty. TV mini series of this type were very popular in the 70's and 80's.


  • #1305
    Kat1170
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    I remember being sent to bed when a show called 'Pennies from Heaven' would be on. I've never watched it but I'd hazard a guess it's fairly tame by today's standards :)


  • #1306
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser Hughes, "gis a job".


  • #1307
    JupiterKid
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    Anyone remember the TV mini series Sins with Joan Collins which aired in the late 80s? Quite good.

    Of course La Collins was more famous as the uberbitch Alexis in Dynasty. The catfights between her and Krystle (Linda Evans) were the stuff of legend lol! :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0mK81UTG8


  • #1308
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 40,372 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    nearest thing you'd ever get to hot oil wresting on RTE, maybe I should have watched it!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #1309
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Rubberlegs wrote: »
    Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser Hughes, "gis a job".

    Auf wiesersehen pet


  • #1310
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DQ7lWOw9I


  • #1311
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 40,372 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


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


    The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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  • #1312
    [Deleted User]
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    Ipso wrote: »
    North and South, starring Patrick Swayze.


    and David Carradine as Justin LaMotte - legend of a character.


  • #1313
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQqUhsNsGQ


    The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

    I've just realised that I'm.now a couple of years older than Dan Sullivan was when WW2 started. I thought he was ancient when I was a kid. :(


  • #1314
    [Deleted User]
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQqUhsNsGQ


    The series lasted a lot longer than the war!


    The timeline covered by the series spanned 1939-1948.
    In Australia it ran from 1976-1983.
    They generally showed four or five episodes a week.
    In Ireland, it ran for one episode a week and if there was showjumping or snooker, it got bumped.

    RTE started showing it in 1978. They still hadn't finished the run by the mid 1990s.

    They are 1,114 episodes. 23 volumes on DVD. Bought them all from Eaton Films (UK distributor for Crawfords) ande-watched the lot between 2011-2017.


  • #1315
    branie2
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    Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

    Ooh, Betty!


  • #1316
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKRROzmuaI


    I'm a biker, and this episode is very silly indeed but also very funny!

    Edit: the physical comedy. press Stop at 16 minutes, the rest is just awful, I don't know how I hung on for the bad gags 40 years ago.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #1317
    Calibos
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    Homemade bangers made by getting a roll of caps and running a needle through every cap concertina style, remove the needle carefully and wrap the homemade banger with a match for a fuse in sellotape.


  • #1318
    Heroditas
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKRROzmuaI


    I'm a biker, and this episode is very silly indeed but also very funny!

    Edit: the physical comedy. press Stop at 16 minutes, the rest is just awful, I don't know how I hung on for the bad gags 40 years ago.

    Ah Frank Spencer was brilliant.

    Anyone remember the TV series of Heidi? I'm currently reading the book to my 6yo daughter and some of the episodes are on YouTube.
    It seemed to be on forever!


  • #1319
    WildWater
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    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Six children in the back seat of a fiesta
    Adults didn’t wear seatbelts
    Hanging off the back of tractors for a lift
    Dodging tree branches on top of trailers full of hay

    Ah health and safety, nobody gave a damn :)

    I think the families of the 628 road fatalities in 1978 probably did gave a damn. Road fatalities throughout the 70s were 500+ with the 80s little better. Truly shocking especially when you factor in the number of vehicles on the road then in comparison to now.


  • #1320
    The Crowman
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQqUhsNsGQ


    The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

    I have that opening sequence and the title music burned into my memory. It would be on RTE 1 before the 6 O clock news for what seemed like a lifetime.


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  • #1321
    [Deleted User]
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    I have that opening sequence and the title music burned into my memory. It would be on RTE 1 before the 6 O clock news for what seemed like a lifetime.


    See my post above for the reason why.


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