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The Old Days on RTE

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    " hair metal " was a derogotary term but at the end of the day metal was a bit of a joke in the late eighties , Def Lepard were less pop orientated when they started out in the early eighties

    rock of ages isnt a bad tune , i do have a soft spot for them , id go see them quicker than bon jovi ( if i got a ticket for free ) , sometimes you can accept that a band is sh1t while still sort of like their tunes

    Metal was joke in 80s? That’s hilarious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    There was a programme I think on Sunday night about students at an American law school. John Houseman was the professor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,516 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    bobbyss wrote: »
    There was a programme I think on Sunday night about students at an American law school. John Houseman was the professor.

    The Paper Chase? Very earnest stuff.

    I remember it being repeated midweek maybe early 90s.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams




  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Very little info online about but it this article briefly refers to it and confirms it was an English wrestler called Tina Starr who was involved.

    https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2008/08/13/top-wrestlers-book-october-date-in-ratoath/
    The bould Tina is here in the pink leotard, quite a tall athletic lass but yeah Derek was a big guy which is one of the reasons I had my doubts about it being real. I dont remember him fighting back or physically trying to disengage with her. She clearly had a good deal of strength as she sent the male stage hand flying through the air, he wasnt a stuntman either as I remembered previously seeing him on the show directing something involving the audience.


    Ah lads this is brilliant :D

    I love this thread:)


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  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    adaminho wrote: »

    That was a staple on the RTE schedule for many years back in the 70's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Gold

    “We was mimin anywoy”



  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Early-mid 80s kids TV- this will bring a few of ya back in time- of course, brought to you by?????






    ....the Children's Television Workshop :D






  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I saw this on tv live and even as a kid I figured out Gary Moore litterally raised the roof , just look at the audience after :)



  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    And Saturday mornings slightly into Saturday afternoon - Salvage 1 with Andy Griffith - great opening theme.



  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So, REALLY interested to see who remembers this.

    When RTE2 first came on the scene, this was one of it's first soaps it showed- I think it was actually the first programme on most evenings (around 6.30pm ) for about a year - Ryan's Hope

    Any takers?

    I remember one storyline played out over about a week or two, where Richard Thomas, who played John Boy in the Waltons, kidnapped some nurse or doctor he was infatuated with



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    So, REALLY interested to see who remembers this.

    When RTE2 first came on the scene, this was one of it's first soaps it showed- I think it was actually the first programme on most evenings (around 6.30pm ) for about a year - Ryan's Hope

    Any takers?

    I remember one storyline played out over about a week or two, where Richard Thomas, who played John Boy in the Waltons, kidnapped some nurse or doctor he was infatuated with

    That vaguely rings a bell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho


    Early-mid 80s kids TV- this will bring a few of ya back in time- of course, brought to you by?????






    ....the Children's Television Workshop :D





    I see you and raise you the best intro's ever!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Ulysses and cities of gold wow!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho


    Ulysses and cities of gold wow!

    See also


    Can't remember if this was shown in Ireland but remember it being on for every Spanish holiday I went on in the 80's


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  • Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    An incomplete List of American tv series imports CHiPs

    Dallas
    Star Trek TNG
    The Six million dollar man
    The Fall Guy
    Scarecrow and Mrs King
    JAG
    Cagney & Lacey
    Green Acres
    Dr Strange Island


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,804 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    adaminho wrote: »

    Jody was fine.

    I was a bit too young to realise it when I was watching first time round :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho


    Jody was fine.

    I was a bit too young to realise it when I was watching first time round :D

    Can anyone remember those scratch transfer sets you used to get back in the 80's? I had one for this show!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    An incomplete List of American tv series imports CHiPs

    Dallas
    Star Trek TNG
    The Six million dollar man
    The Fall Guy
    Scarecrow and Mrs King
    JAG
    Cagney & Lacey
    Green Acres
    Dr Strange Island
    You may have solved a life long mystery for me :) I’ll confirm later


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭adaminho


    An incomplete List of American tv series imports CHiPs

    I loved ChiPs as a kid and Erik Estrada was was my favourite. One of my Grandmothers best friends was a set dresser in Hollywood and managed to get me an autograph back in the day!


  • Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You may have solved a life long mystery for me :) I’ll confirm later

    Great. Trivial Things that make me (oh, wait that's another thread)


  • Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    may favourite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,879 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Great. Trivial Things that make me (oh, wait that's another thread)

    Ok you were incorrect with dr strange but a quick Google turned up “mystery island “ which left a huge impression in my imagination since I was a kid and rte on anything goes burnt the tapes on air on the lawn :)

    Any as a 5 year old these native creatures freaked me out :)


  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    adaminho wrote: »
    I see you and raise you the best intro's ever!

    Rubbish! :P

    I see your lame effort and raise you 3 Intro versions of ....The Paper Chase :D



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  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Def Leppard are a rock band from Sheffield who initially did better in the US than the UK. They hit the big time in the mid to late 1980s with their album Hysteria - a number of tracks from it were hit singles this side of the world.

    Hysteria is the Thriller of hard rock. Released late summer 1987; the hits continued into 1989.

    Their previous albums are great too. There was an excellent Early Years box released recently


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