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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #1532
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Foo Foo cartoons


  • #1533
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    B.J. And The Bear, about a truckdriver with a chimp for a buddy. RTE also reran Me And The Chimp which was an earlier show about a guy with a chimp co star. I had the two mixed up in my head for years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRjFvX_n0o



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjCAV0atUA


  • #1534
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Screen Test. RTE variety talent show that ran circa 1985/86. Presented by Mike Murphy. One of the acts on it were the Stargazers with a young John Spillane.


  • #1535
    The Late Late Show
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭The Late Late Show


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    RTE Guide piece on the Burke enigma, November 78. Would I be right in guessing that the Burkes were based on the Dunnes (Of Larry Dunne etc infamy)?

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    1970s Love/Hate?


  • #1536
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    An awful programme called Play The Game. It was based on charades.


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  • #1537
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    madmaggie wrote: »
    An awful programme called Play The Game. It was based on charades.

    It was hugely popular and must have ran for over a decade. Surprised to find that all there is of it online is one short clip of under a minute, and that just seems to be because some obscure comedian who was on it put it up (not David Kelly, the guy who comes on at the end).They had an awful lot of panto/variety types for guests, I remember not having a clue who half of them were.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y9QDcn_kEc


  • #1538
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭smilerf


    The Lyrics Board
    Cringe fest


  • #1539
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,467 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Play the game was cheap broadcasting. It came on due to the success of the UK version with Lionel Blair and the UK version of unknown 'celebs'.

    Give is a clue I think it was called


  • #1540
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    madmaggie wrote: »
    An awful programme called Play The Game. It was based on charades.

    Ripped off 'Give us a Clue' from British TV, because we were incapable of coming up with anything ourselves.


  • #1541
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Talkabout wasn't original either


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  • #1542
    Andrea B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,018 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Not sure if it has been mentioned already but does anyone remember The Spike, a late 1970s RTE produced series set in an Irish secondary school. It was taken off the air after half its run due to protests about its content and has never been rebroadcast since.

    Yes. There was a nude scene through frosted glass...i think. Holy war broke out.


  • #1543
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    branie2 wrote: »
    Talkabout wasn't original either

    They had an even more less impressive pool of contestants that Play The Game. The people who appeared on it were not random punters from what I recall but dull as dishwater small town business people, local "pillar of the community" folk and minor regional showbiz types. At least Play The Game had Derek Davis and the occasional entertaining guest.


  • #1544
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

    late 80's me thinks


  • #1545
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    fryup wrote: »
    what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

    late 80's me thinks

    Video Gaga?


  • #1546
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Video Gaga?

    Was that not The Beat Box?


  • #1547
    allimac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭allimac


    This is one of my favourite TV memories as a child, what I wasn't going to draw with my magic pencil! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUIQt6jSws
    Also I rememember another eastern European cartoon that RTE showed regularly called Lolek and Bolek.


  • #1548
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Video Gaga?

    no, you're thinking of TV gaga
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Was that not The Beat Box?

    no that was sunday mornings.....the programme i'm thinking of was broadcast on rte2 midweek late at night


  • #1549
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    fryup wrote: »
    no, you're thinking of TV gaga



    no that was sunday mornings.....the programme i'm thinking of was broadcast on rte2 midweek late at night

    Electric Orange


  • #1550
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    branie2 wrote: »
    Electric Orange


    Doesn't ring a bell. Googling draws a blank other than a German band of the same name. Who presented it?


  • #1551
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Foxtrotter wrote: »
    Little before my time, but I really like some of the old episodes of What's My Line. some really funny ones on Youtube.
    the US one has some good celebs, people you would not expect to be on like salvador dali



    Sean Connery puts on a voice to stop being recognized



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  • #1552
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    fryup wrote: »
    what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

    late 80's me thinks

    I don't recall any night time music video shows on the 80s in Irish TV. Could it have been on one of the UK channels?

    I remember a show called No Disco in the 90s. Presented by Donal Dineen, it featured 'alt' acts. That was late night.


  • #1553
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    fryup wrote: »
    what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

    late 80's me thinks
    could be listed on wiki

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmes_broadcast_by_RT%C3%89_2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT-USA

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0219/505138-mt-usa-irelands-first-music-video-programme/


  • #1554
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Defenders of the Earth - Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake and Lothar taking on Ming the Merciless with their children.


  • #1555
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,352 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The old Blondie films that RTE showed over 20 years ago as a season.


  • #1556
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    branie2 wrote: »
    The old Blondie films that RTE showed over 20 years ago as a season.

    I was obsessed with these.


  • #1557
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    fryup wrote: »
    no, you're thinking of TV gaga



    no that was sunday mornings.....the programme i'm thinking of was broadcast on rte2 midweek late at night

    Was that the show presented by the late Vincent Hanley?


  • #1558
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,467 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Was that the show presented by the late Vincent Hanley?

    That was on MT USA which was on a weekend afternoon as far as I recall.


  • #1559
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,849 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    The Irish rm.
    Does anyone remember that.
    Neil toibin was in it.


  • #1560
    thereitisgone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭thereitisgone


    Fame, think it was Saturday evenings


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  • #1561
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Worzel Gummidge (1979-1981) -- I remember loving this on days off from school.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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