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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #962
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent


  • #963
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    branie2 wrote: »
    I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

    That makes me think of "Oh Brother" and"All Gas and Gaiters" but nothing with nuns? Both with Dereck nnnnnnNimmo ;)


  • #964
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s


  • #965
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Arthur Daley wrote: »
    That one was on ITV4 a few years back. Laughable special effects though, so you needed to be very young to find it any way believable.

    Back on the 70’s at 8 or 9 years old everything on tv seemed real.


  • #966
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    branie2 wrote: »
    The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s

    Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.


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  • #967
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Boys from the Blackstuff.


  • #968
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    my3cents wrote: »
    Not "The Flying Nun"? Its a bit early though 67-70.

    It was an English comedy


  • #969
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    Play the game! I love charades and it was a good entertaining Rte show, something that doesn't exist anymore. Derek Davis rip :(


  • #970
    el_gaucho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭el_gaucho


    Paradise (renamed Guns of Paradise for the third series) a late 80s / early 90s western.

    The Young Riders, another western around the early 90s. The title always gave me a laugh.

    I liked Duckman but it never seemed to get much recognition here.


  • #971
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    branie2 wrote: »
    It was an English comedy

    See if you can remember enough to key it out here.


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  • #972
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A priest was living in the convent with the nuns


  • #973
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    It's probably been mentioned already, The Larry Sanders Show. I used to watch it late on BBC2 in the 90s, usually on a double bill with Seinfeld, and BBC used to always shunt them around in the schedule, so they could be on at any time really. I remember just loving these shows: i was the only person I knew who watched them and they felt like they were made just for me. Garry Shandling(RIP)/Rip Torn/Jeffrey Tambor, and all the Seinfeld guys were amazing comedy actors, and the writing was perfection itself. Smart, edgy, hip but most importantly incredibly funny comedy...what happened to good comedy? Jesus, i despair when i turn on tv now. Peep show was the last great comedy show. Alan Partridge has a new show coming soon, but i am not hopeful: his last series (mid morning matters 2) was not funny at all, and i love Partridge so it breaks my heart to say that.

    I listened to many podcast interviews with Garry Shandling over the past few years before he died and he was just such a witty, smart guy. A real comedy legend. Comedian Norm MacDonald was doing a podcast once, and he mentioned Garry coming up to him when Norm was new in town and in his whiny voice asking "Norm, have you heard about this female g-spot thing? Jesus Christ. I couldn't find a guys balls" :)


  • #974
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    branie2 wrote: »
    A priest was living in the convent with the nuns

    OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:


  • #975
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Cheers and Frasier


  • #976
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    branie2 wrote: »
    I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent
    branie2 wrote: »
    The comedy I mentioned was set in the 80s
    branie2 wrote: »
    It was an English comedy
    branie2 wrote: »
    A priest was living in the convent with the nuns
    my3cents wrote: »
    OMG I can remember something similar but still can't put a name to it - so annoying :mad:

    ;)

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055692262


  • #977
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,417 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    branie2 wrote: »
    Cheers and Frasier

    Ah now... Anyone watching tv in those decades knows about them!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #978
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    branie2 wrote: »
    I can't remember the name, but it was an English comedy set in a convent

    Father Charlie

    ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.


  • #979
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Defenders of the Earth


  • #980
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,317 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Dream On


  • #981
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Father Charlie

    ITV, 1982. Just one series IIRC.

    Thats it with Lionel Jeffries I was thinking of someone who looked a bit like Alec Guinness in the lead and he sort of fits. Only 6 episodes that really was a short run.


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  • #982
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I remember one episode, when a nun, could have been the mother superior, accidentally overheard a conversation between the priest and his doctor, and mistakenly thought that Father Charlie was dying


  • #983
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Nighthawks, on RTE 2, or Network 2, or whatever they called it at the time. Shay Healy, and I think Flo McSweeney.


  • #984
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Oliver Twist, a mini-series from 1985, based on the Dickens' novel


  • #985
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,676 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
    I just remembered it there now.
    Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.


  • #986
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry


  • #987
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    branie2 wrote: »
    Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

    I recently got the boxset from the library. They were brilliant.


  • #988
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Sorry about that wrote: »
    Boys from the Blackstuff.

    I remember this, Yosser Hughes, "gissa job"
    The scene where Snowy White falls out the window horrified me as a child.

    Billy Liar was a sitcom based in a funeral home run by Mr Shadrach. Billy was a Walter Mitty type character, it was quite funny
    :)


  • #989
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
    I just remembered it there now.
    Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

    For some reason the TV show Animal Magic comes to mind, though not sure....
    Edit to add Animal Magic was originally a BBC show, can't remember if it was shown on RTE?


  • #990
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a programme about animals on RTÉ, which featured The Goodies song- The Funky Gibbon? Mid 80s probably.
    I just remembered it there now.
    Had to be RTÉ, as we only had 1/2 stations back then.

    I have a vague memory of the Goodies Funky Gibbon being used in a clip of monkeys at Dublin Zoo being shown on RTE, this would be a lot earlier though, late 70's.

    Another pretty gruesome memory I have is of RTE showing cows heads being fed to lions, again I think it was Dublin zoo, though I'm certain it was a different programme.


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  • #991
    sweetie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    The Crow road; really great '96 mini-series based on the excellent book by Iain Banks
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_Road_(TV_series)


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