The Old Days on RTE

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Yeah, the ones that consisted of a still image and voiceover. Typically theyd be shown in a block towards the end of the commercial break after the regular full length ads. They seemed to phase them out circa 89/90.

Some good examples here, the droll voiceovers are hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YIDsOedxw

Effective advertising! 37 years later and as a result of watching that I've just paid £5.12 for a copy of that book, and increase of 17p on what it would have cost me back then!

Deleted User wrote: »

I was in the very first road safety advert which was filmed by my uncle. Featured a very young Mike Murphy, my mother as his wife, me as his daughter, my father as the driver Mike nearly crashed his car into as he was late setting h out to work onscreen. "Turn of the Wheel" was the title. Would love that to be resurrected from 1962. There was a second film shot along the same lines as a follow-on in the little series featuring family. My aunt very cleverly made the props. Was quite a cool production last I saw it from a reel I had access to in the 1980s.

Find it

Ahhhh look

jpfahy wrote: »

The kid in Gentle Ben was Ron Howard's brother

I did not know that , had a great career too

bobbyss wrote: »

It was brilliant. Peter Gilmore and Anne Stallybrass. I think they were the names. It's strange how credits remain with you. Don Adams in Get Smart. I was only reading about that programme recently. The chief died tragically it seems. Agent 86 Barbara Feldon.

Mary Tyler Moore was another great programme. She was gorgeous and Ted Baxter was fantastic. Superb writing that leaves many of today's programmes in the shade.

And it's spin-off Rhoda. She and Mary were the ultimate girls-next-door. Always remind me of my maiden(at the time) aunts.

Anyone mention Youngline? Was Conor McAnally a brother of Aonghus?

MfMan wrote: »

And it's spin-off Rhoda. She and Mary were the ultimate girls-next-door. Always remind me of my maiden(at the time) aunts.

Anyone mention Youngline? Was Conor McAnally a brother of Aonghus?

Mary Tyler Moore and its spinoff Rhoda were great. There were a few other spinoffs such as Lou Grant.

Conor McAnally is (because he still is!) indeed a brother of Aonghus. He also was the producer of MTUSA, and occasionally appeared in it. Its production company, Green Apple Productions, was owned by Conor and presenter Vincent Hanley.

Remember Outlook? A thought for the day before you went to bed, and before the national anthem!

Remember Wanderly Wagon with O'Brien (Eugene Lambert), Judge the dog (Eugene's puppet), Godmother, Mr. Crow, Rory, Forty Coats and Doctor Astro (voiced by Frank Kelly) and many other characters.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Wanderly and forty coats were seriously trippy shows , lots of 70s lsd takers took up tv jobs back then

I'm still not totally sure what the central premise was with Fortycoats & Co. There was some vague time travel aspect. Theres almost nothing in the way of clips or info online.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

It was f**ed up

From memory.
40 coats had a flying sweet/trick shop
He had two school children sidekicks in their mid 40s. Slightly bonkers and so far so good ?

There was a witch villain who had a puppet cat

All the backdrops were hand drawn

It had a pickarooney who used to say “I’m the pickarooney”
It was f**ed up

Wernt Slightly and Sofar trapped in some kind of dimension and that's why they were stuck with Fortycoats? I vaguely remember something about Slightly trying to get home.

Another thing about a lot of RTE childrens shows from the 70s and 80s is it's never entirely clear when they finished production. The year they started no problem but things get murky about when they actually stopped screening new episodes. The Wiki entry there says it was cancelled in the early 90s but it was probably repeats at that stage. (I'm guessing it finished proper circa 87-88)

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

It was f**ed up

From memory.
40 coats had a flying sweet/trick shop
He had two school children sidekicks in their mid 40s. Slightly bonkers and so far so good ?

There was a witch villain who had a puppet cat

All the backdrops were hand drawn

It had a pickarooney who used to say “I’m the pickarooney”
It was f**ed up

That picture is like something from when TV shows try to depict acid trips or a David Lynch dream sequence

They should repeat it on Friday nights at 3 am

I know it's been mentioned earlier in this thread but Hall's Pictorial Weekly was a seminal satirical comedy show. There was nothing like it on RTE before. It was presented by Frank Hall and included the likes of Frank Kelly and Eamon Morrissey. The cast did some great impressions of well-known people at the time as well as some stereotype characters.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

They should repeat it on Friday nights at 3 am

And make us miss Dr. Phil and Nationwide? Not a chance!

But seriously, though, what the hell is the story with late night TV programming on RTE????

Firstly, the demographic of people who are watching TV at 3AM and for some reason choose RTE must be incredibly small. It can't be drunk people after a heavy night out who find the perfect end to the evening is watching a repeat of Casualty. I don't think that's ever happened. Elderly folks down the country with only a rusty aerial to pick up TV, well they're all probably asleep. It cannot be anyone with access to the Internet or satellite TV. It's not even stuff that shift workers might have missed in the evening like Fair City.

Back in the old days, they actually used to show something a bit interesting at least sometimes on the graveyard slot. If anyone remembers The End with Sean Moncrieff, they used to show Taxi, The Critic, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Night Stand with Dick Dietrick.