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The Old Days on RTE

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    #92
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember they used to constantly show these as filler between programmes?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW9OYsMn4ds



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFfW0DCoGBg

    Wow flash back overload :)


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    #93
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,169 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    I'm presuming that was the inspiration for Worker and Parasite

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI


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    #94
    Harry Palmr
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    Which reminds me of how the schedule was a good 10-15 out of whack by the end of the last programme of the evening. Time keeping really was optional back in the 70s and 80s. But then the VCR became ubiquitous so they had to keep to the published timings!


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    #95
    Hangdogroad
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    I'm presuming that was the inspiration for Worker and Parasite

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI

    Lol, I can remember RTE showing stuff not a million miles off that. Bizarre one off animations from Czechoslovakia and whatnot.


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    #96
    Amirani
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    iffandonlyif wrote: »
    John's Bowman's Questions and Answers is also much missed. A controversial opinion, perhaps, but Vincent Browne's equivalent was a dreary mess.

    I loved Questions and Answers. Watched it just before it finished as a young teenager and it really spurred a lot my interest in politics.


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    #97
    Harry Palmr
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    National Film Board of Canada.


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    #98
    Hangdogroad
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    National Film Board of Canada.
    Loved them.


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    #99
    Glaceon
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    If you said this image represented Irish television, you wouldn’t be too wrong!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTF4u693Uo


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    #100
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    Remember listing to John Kenny on a Sunday for new music a man who promoted his share of gigs and Irish bands on his show and seemed genuinely passionate, and Dave Fanning during the weekday evenings but I'd classify him as an arsehole now :D

    Are they still on radio or do RTE still cater for rock/indie/metal/ insert genre here in the evenings? Been a long time since I listened to radio in the evenings.


    On the TV side there was one thing I used to rush home from school to see, some weird stop motion animated show about Fionn mac Cumhaill they showed on the Den in the early/mid 90's. Can't find any info about it online.


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    #101
    HeidiHeidi
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    John Kenny has been doing a Classic Rock show 10-11pm on weekdays instead of The Late Debate, covid/lockdown seems to have put paid to that.
    It's good listening!


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    #102
    adaminho
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    #103
    whisky_galore
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    do RTE still cater for rock/indie/metal/ insert genre here in the evenings? .

    They used show TOTP and things like No Disco and have bands on Anything Goes, now it's wall to wall Cuntry n Irish now between TnaG and RTE, and every second Late Late has a C n I special.
    Musically it has degenerated into a monoculture.


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    #104
    Fr Tod Umptious
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    adaminho wrote: »

    Good one
    Used to be on in the afternoon in the early '80s.

    Anyone remember the significance of August 1978 to October 1978 for kids programming ?

    It was the period between the death of Pope Paul and the election of Pope John Paul II, with the election and death of Pope John Paul I in the middle.

    In one channel TV land it meant that there was very limited children's shows in the afternoon because there was so much coverage of papal deaths and elections.


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    #105
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Didn't they used to show Star Trek on Saturday evenings in the early nineties.

    Original Star Trek used to be on after school in the 80s I recall eating my findus crispy pancakes watching it :)


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    #106
    Five Eighth
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    More blasts from the past:

    The Avengers with Steed and Mrs. Peel.

    Get Smart.

    Alias Smith and Jones.

    Irish drama - Southside. The Spike.


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    #107
    breezy1985
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Remember listing to John Kenny on a Sunday for new music a man who promoted his share of gigs and Irish bands on his show and seemed genuinely passionate, and Dave Fanning during the weekday evenings but I'd classify him as an arsehole now :D

    Are they still on radio or do RTE still cater for rock/indie/metal/ insert genre here in the evenings? Been a long time since I listened to radio in the evenings.


    On the TV side there was one thing I used to rush home from school to see, some weird stop motion animated show about Fionn mac Cumhaill they showed on the Den in the early/mid 90's. Can't find any info about it online.


    John Creedon plays really good tunes. First radio show in ages that I have listened to



    https://www.rte.ie/radio1/john-creedon/


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    #108
    MfMan
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    Five Eighth wrote: »
    More blasts from the past:

    The Avengers with Steed and Mrs. Peel.

    Get Smart.

    Alias Smith and Jones.

    Irish drama - Southside. The Spike.

    The New Avengers were cooler, everyone wanted to do karate kicks like Purdy. Return Of The Saint with Ian Ogilvy.


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    #109
    bobbyss
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    Batman
    Was it in black and white?


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    #110
    Ash.J.Williams
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    Batman
    Was it in black and white?

    That was “the Batman”


    Rte during the anything goes early 80s era showed the 1967 colour version which I still love :)


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    #111
    Comhrá
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    This still gives me goose pimples.

    The National Anthem at closedown. 1961.



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    #112
    adaminho
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    My American Mother in law couldn't believe that I was raised watching Rowan and Martins Laugh in as a kid as it was her favourite growing up!



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    #113
    Hangdogroad
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    Saturday mornings in the early 80s was mostly shows that at that stage were ten yeats old or more but it didn't matter, they were still great.

    The Bearcats.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX_bDkaNE0o


    The Monkees.

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


    Alias Smith And Jones.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nmxLeNd0ck


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    #114
    NewbridgeIR
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    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Richard Kimble played by David Janssen!

    Also in Harry O, great US private eye series


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    #115
    NewbridgeIR
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    Blue Boy!
    Ironside in a wheelchair.
    Barnaby Jones used drink glass of milk.
    Switch? Robert Wagner Stephanie Powers.
    Mike Connors was in something. Mannix!!

    I watch Mannix every Saturday & Barnaby Jones every Sunday. Up to final season of both


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    #116
    NewbridgeIR
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    Sports Stadium with handwritten racing results on a card. Always began at 1:40pm after Daktari, Wonderful World Of Disney, The Invisible Man, Hardy Boys etc.

    Jeremy The Bear

    Lug - a weird looking yoke that lived in The Burren. Three minute programme. Early 80s.

    Peter Murphy’s Cross-Country Quiz


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    #117
    Hermy
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    Anyone remember the Birthday Roller? Think it was on on Saturday mornings before Anything Goes.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #118
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Anyone remember the Birthday Roller? Think it was on on Saturday mornings before Anything Goes.

    During Anything Goes I think - early enough in programme

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoAbkNSV04


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    #119
    adaminho
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Anyone remember the Birthday Roller? Think it was on on Saturday mornings before Anything Goes.
    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    During Anything Goes I think - early enough in programme

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoAbkNSV04



    Think this was the song they played!


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    #120
    trashcan
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    They used show TOTP and things like No Disco and have bands on Anything Goes, now it's wall to wall Cuntry n Irish now between TnaG and RTE, and every second Late Late has a C n I special.
    Musically it has degenerated into a monoculture.

    No disco was a superb show. If for nothing else, it was there that I first heard the mighty Trashcan Sinatras when Donal Dinesen played Obscurity Knocks.


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    #121
    breezy1985
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    adaminho wrote: »


    Think this was the song they played!


    I think that was the music for the birthday roll on The Den


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