The Old Days on RTE

Ash.J.Williams · 19-04-2021 05:58PM

Deleted User wrote: »

# Prime Example: Quite a good many of the betterWanderly Wagon episodes.

So short sighted after all the effort gone into making it

19-04-2021 06:39PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

So short sighted after all the effort gone into making it

Or internal Politics?

Hangdogroad · 19-04-2021 07:03PM

It was commonplace up to about the late 70s for tapes to be wiped. The BBC did it too, loads of episodes of Dr Who, early Dads Army and other stuff now considered classic was wiped as tapes were very expensive and at the time there wasnt seen to be any long term value in keeping them.

Galwayguy35 · 19-04-2021 07:04PM

Gabriel Byrne as a farmer in Bracken.
The Live Mike.
Themla Mansfield and Derek Davis presenting Live at Three.
Rapid Roulette.
Mini series about the IRA called The Price.
Where in the World.
Debates between Charlie and Garrett on Today Tonight.
Sports Stadium.
Know your Sport.

19-04-2021 07:20PM

Youngline

Like "$hit, we better produce a series for the teen audience"

19-04-2021 07:26PM

The Price is on DVD. Only because it was a Channel 4 co-production.

Declan A Walsh · 19-04-2021 09:18PM

Various programs presented by Aine O'Connor such as Last House, First House and Summer House, the latter with Vincent Hanley.

Megamix presented by Flo McSweeney and Kevin Sharkey.

briany · 19-04-2021 11:18PM

Before Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC, RTE had its own music quiz panel show called Number One, featuring Ian Dempsey as host, plus Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot from Def Leppard as team captains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmY3jexdEc

Ash.J.Williams · 19-04-2021 11:22PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_lLgQmR_A

Hangdogroad · 20-04-2021 04:49AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_lLgQmR_A

Gerry Ryan used to do that greeting thing with his hands every single time he was on this, found it really annoying.

Hamsterchops · 20-04-2021 06:04AM

furiousox wrote: »

Some of the ads were a photograph of a shop/premises with a voice telling you where it is rather than actual video.

If you wanted "proper adverts" you had to switch channel to either UTV or HTV (if you were lucky enough to have either of them), we must be talking early-mid 70s here.

Plasandrunt · 20-04-2021 07:34AM

furiousox wrote: »

Some of the ads were a photograph of a shop/premises with a voice telling you where it is rather than actual video.

The Apres Match lads absolutely nailed this a few years ago.

Tombo2001 · 20-04-2021 07:40AM

Does anyone know why Nighthawks was cancelled?

I was reading Shay Healy's obituary and was struck that it only ran for 4 years. The show I'd compare it to now is possibly the Tommy Tiernan show in that it appeared to be nothing much, but actually it was completely groundbreaking and was compelling viewing.

And yet only lasted a few years, compared the 10 or 15 years we had of Pat Kenny hosting the Late Late.

Hangdogroad · 20-04-2021 09:19AM

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Does anyone know why Nighthawks was cancelled?

I was reading Shay Healy's obituary and was struck that it only ran for 4 years. The show I'd compare it to now is possibly the Tommy Tiernan show in that it appeared to be nothing much, but actually it was completely groundbreaking and was compelling viewing.

And yet only lasted a few years, compared the 10 or 15 years we had of Pat Kenny hosting the Late Late.

It may or may not have been due to the controversial interview with Sean Gallagher in January 92, it was cancelled in April of that year. The 1993 end date given here is incorrect.

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

20-04-2021 10:09AM

The Sullivans : Start of programs on RTE 2 at 5.30pm

cml387 · 20-04-2021 10:53AM

Lest we be all carried away with nostalgia, it is interesting how much religion was on RTE in the sixties and early seventies:

This is the schedule for Good Friday 1967:

15:00 The Stations Of The Cross
15:30 The Story Of The Holy Shroud
16:00 Combined Protestant Service
16:30 News and Closedown

That's it.

Declan A Walsh · 20-04-2021 10:56AM

cml387 wrote: »

Lest we be all carried away with nostalgia, it is interesting how much religion was on RTE in the sixties and early seventies:

This is the schedule for Good Friday 1967:

15:00 The Stations Of The Cross
15:30 The Story Of The Holy Shroud
16:00 Combined Protestant Service
16:30 News and Closedown

That's it.

Love that idea!

Tombo2001 · 20-04-2021 10:58AM

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Love that idea!

Well to be fair there would be multiple denominations.....

Tombo2001 · 20-04-2021 11:00AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

It may or may not have been due to the controversial interview with Sean Gallagher in January 92, it was cancelled in April of that year. The 1993 end date given here is incorrect.

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

Incidentally - regarding what is one of the most seminal moments of Irish broadasting history, isnt it amazing that RTE release a video of the interview - nearly 30 years later - but without the relevant quote (on how Charlie Haughey was aware of the wire tap).

Seriously.....

Ash.J.Williams · 20-04-2021 11:27AM

briany wrote: »

Before Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC, RTE had its own music quiz panel show called Number One, featuring Ian Dempsey as host, plus Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot from Def Leppard as team captains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmY3jexdEc

Joe Elliot looked like he was going murder Dave fanning in that

briany · 20-04-2021 12:23PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Joe Elliot looked like he was going murder Dave fanning in that

I can't believe they got Joe to do the show. I know he's lived in Ireland for a long time, but Leppard were still pretty current when this show first aired and you'd think he'd have took one look at the rinky-dink set and that the audience was apparently made up of 12 years olds, and gone, 'Actually....nah."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g07HcVl6uQ

Here's another one. Brendan O' Carrol's Hot Milk & Pepper. I can't believe I may have actually looked forward to watching this at one point.

20-04-2021 02:09PM

Telethon with Gay Byrne. starting about 1990.

At the climax of the show, Gay auctioned a cool full spec motorbike. The auction kind of went bad though, because Gay tried to get the final 2 bidders to bid more. And then it gave things a bad taste

briany · 20-04-2021 02:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Telethon with Gay Byrne. starting about 1990.

At the climax of the show, Gay auctioned a cool full spec motorbike. The auction kind of went bad though, because Gay tried to get the final 2 bidders to bid more. And then it gave things a bad taste

I remember those telethons. One year they were going to have this cool 3D segment, and the glasses were available in supermarkets. I got a pair, but they never worked. :mad:

Galwayguy35 · 20-04-2021 07:01PM

Live Aid 1985

Freddie Mercury was the man of the moment that day.

bobbyss · 20-04-2021 07:06PM

Declan A Walsh wrote:

Various programs presented by Aine O'Connor such as Last House, First House and Summer House, the latter with Vincent Hanley.

Summerhouse. Wasn't that preented by Aine O'Connor and Tom McGurk? I remember McGurk being kept waiting a while for a late Rod Stewart and Tom reminding Rod how long he had been kept waiting.

Hangdogroad · 20-04-2021 07:49PM

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

Just a few more memories about Fortycoats that popped into into my head. As well as the Whirlygig Witch and the Pickarooney there were one off villains, though calling them villains is a bit of a stretch as by the end of the episode theyd see the error of their ways and join in a sing song. Can only really remember two, one was a Boadicia type woman who at the end of a sentence would sing her dialogue like an opera singer causing those around her to cover their ears.

The other was a giant who would eat cars. This was conveyed by showing a cardboard mockup of a street with toy dinky cars outside houses and a hand reaching down grabbing them. (No expense was spared on special effects) if I remember correctly he tries to eat the flying tuckshop.

20-04-2021 07:52PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The other was a giant who would eat cars. This was conveyed by showing a cardboard mockup of a street with toy dinky cars outside houses and a hand reaching down grabbing them. (No expense was spared on special effects)

The "Fortycoats" "solution" was that if the cars had reg plates saying "for reg" then the giant could eat them. (In these days, you could drive about for a few weeks while your registration plate proper was issued, in the meantime your new car would have a cardboard "for reg" as substitute.

A segment of the show was this giant singing some stupid song, too. cheap filler.

Mad_maxx · 20-04-2021 07:56PM

briany wrote: »

Before Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC, RTE had its own music quiz panel show called Number One, featuring Ian Dempsey as host, plus Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot from Def Leppard as team captains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmY3jexdEc

Makes you wonder why Joe elliot would bother ? , Def Lepard were as big as U2 in the late eighties?

Hangdogroad · 20-04-2021 08:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The "Fortycoats" "solution" was that if the cars had reg plates saying "for reg" then the giant could eat them. (In these days, you could drive about for a few weeks while your registration plate proper was issued, in the meantime your new car would have a cardboard "for reg" as substitute.

A segment of the show was this giant singing some stupid song, too. cheap filler.

Lol, that's right. The giant, when seen in full was a big fat guy in a loincloth.

briany · 20-04-2021 08:08PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Makes you wonder why Joe elliot would bother ? , Def Lepard were as big as U2 in the late eighties?

Yeah, that's what I thought as well. If I had to guess - I've heard he's friends with Dave Fanning, he lives near enough to Donnybrook and was off tour, and maybe they promised him free drink afterward.

Also, they can cut these a series of this type of show in not much time at all, and Elliott may have only done one series, because Gerry Ryan replaced him. It's hard to find much info on this show.

Edit: After more research, it appears he replaced Gerry Ryan.

The Old Days on RTE

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