The Old Days on RTE

adaminho · 21-04-2021 08:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Rubbish! :P

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbdb8Hb0CvM

Beat this ;D

21-04-2021 08:45PM

More US imports

Matt Houston
Petrocelli
TJ Hooker
Dusty’s Trail
When Things Were Rotten

breezy1985 · 21-04-2021 10:56PM

adaminho wrote: »

Beat this ;D

As soon as people started posting theme songs I thought of MASK

Duckworth_Luas · 21-04-2021 11:17PM

adaminho wrote: »

Sport Billy

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

I remember it being shown on RTE in the mid 1980s for sure.

He had some kind of magic bag from which he produced sports equipment to defeat villains, or some such nonsense.

I remember watching some highlights of the 1986 World Cup around Maradonna's death and Sport Billy appeared on the advertising hoarding.

Duckworth_Luas · 21-04-2021 11:25PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

3-2-1 Contact

That was a children's science show from the US or Canada.

I remember one episode was dedicated to explaining the Sun, including it's eventual death.

They explained how the Sun would expand and eventually swallow up the Earth.

Scared the living crap out of a four year old me, even though they added it wouldn't happen for billions of years.

A billion years was the same as six weeks to me at the time.

21-04-2021 11:33PM

adaminho wrote: »

Beat this ;D

Sorry now but if you’re going to be a sore loser, then you deserve Ryan on Scratch Saturday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4uPpPA8DHE

21-04-2021 11:45PM

The Electric Company was also good fun.

RTE would sometimes broadcast US kids dramas which had amended titles.
One from the ABC Weekend Specials range was shown here as Camp Whackadoo. Over in the US it was Little Lulu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDt5NtLn4cM

22-04-2021 01:54AM

The kids of Degrassi Junior High was another one.

Mad_maxx · 22-04-2021 10:46AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkDUeW3wmA

The theme tune was good but can't remember anything about the show itself?

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 10:52AM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

The theme tune was good but can't remember anything about the show itself?

From memory wasn’t she s housewife and he some kind of agent and she used to save him every week or visa versa

afro man · 22-04-2021 10:59AM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

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

Newbridge I think you getting carried away with Def leppard … Decent band with some good songs.

AC/DC Back in Black was the thriller of Hard rock 2nd best selling album ever I Think only thriller ahead of them and they still going strong today.

head82 · 22-04-2021 11:02AM

adaminho wrote: »

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

Weird you should mention these transfer sets. I just found a sealed, unused one for Dempsey & Makepeace yesterday.

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 11:21AM

head82 wrote: »

Weird you should mention these transfer sets. I just found a sealed, unused one for Dempsey & Makepeace yesterday.

she’s a beautiful woman

Hangdogroad · 22-04-2021 11:23AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

From memory wasn’t she s housewife and he some kind of agent and she used to save him every week or visa versa

I assumed at the time they were husband and wife but looking it up yeah that's right she was a divorced housewife . Storylines always about espionage though played a lot for laughs from what I remember. Enjoyable enough series.

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 11:27AM

afro man wrote: »

Newbridge I think you getting carried away with Def leppard … Decent band with some good songs.

AC/DC Back in Black was the thriller of Hard rock 2nd best selling album ever I Think only thriller ahead of them and they still going strong today.

They were massive in the states up to 87 whilst playing smaller gigs in Europe then they hooked up with mutt Lange and hysteria absolutely exploded and that’s when they were biggest on the planet, after that run the mainstream turned away from Rock of that kind

Mad_maxx · 22-04-2021 11:28AM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

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

they were better than their reputation , that kind of " pop metal " became so unfashionable overnight at the beginning of the nineties that Def Lepard got lumped in with all the other LA strip peroxide blonde hair joke outfits

not saying Def Lepard were Led Zeplin or even Metalical but they werent as sh1te as many claim , i do however think if ( too cool for school ) Dave Fanning had not become friends and lived near Joe Eilliot , he would hold them in contempt , he hated that kind of "corporate rock" as he saw it

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 11:29AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I assumed at the time they were husband and wife but looking it up yeah that's right she was a divorced housewife . Storylines always about espionage though played a lot for laughs from what I remember. Enjoyable enough series.

Getting kids ready for school and escaping kidnappers if I recall

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 11:32AM

I loved Barry Langs “the beatbox” that Was my mtv:)

The odd interview with international acts in absolute heaps from playing a gig the night before etc

The last half hour I recall got a bit wild and you might find a megadeth tune or two

Ash.J.Williams · 22-04-2021 11:35AM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

they were better than their reputation , that kind of " pop metal " became so unfashionable overnight at the beginning of the nineties that Def Lepard got lumped in with all the other LA strip peroxide blonde hair joke outfits

not saying Def Lepard were Led Zeplin or even Metalical but they werent as sh1te as many claim , i do however think if ( too cool for school ) Dave Fanning had not become friends and lived near Joe Eilliot , he would hold them in contempt , he hated that kind of "corporate rock" as he saw it

I was 11 and went from to bon jovi to def leppard and thought I was great then heard kill em all and that was the end of rock for me

apart from gnr

icdg · 22-04-2021 11:49AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I assumed at the time they were husband and wife but looking it up yeah that's right she was a divorced housewife . Storylines always about espionage though played a lot for laughs from what I remember. Enjoyable enough series.

Repeated by RTE not too many years ago (late 2000s/early 2010s). Many will remember Bruce Boxleitner from his later role on Babylon 5 or the Tron films.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I loved Barry Langs “the beatbox” that Was my mtv:)

The odd interview with international acts in absolute heaps from playing a gig the night before etc

The last half hour I recall got a bit wild and you might find a megadeth tune or two

Later revamped as 2TV with mostly the same format but Dave Fanning as presenter. The odd thing about it was that it was broadcast on the radio too, in the days before digital delay you were suppose to mute your TV and listen in stereo on 2fm. The even odder thing was that the 2fm news bulletins went out during the show, from a small continuity studio with a set that looked nothing like anything else from RTE News at the time.

Mad_maxx · 22-04-2021 11:50AM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Jody was fine.

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

Kind of show " Smokey and the bandit " fans would dig

Hangdogroad · 22-04-2021 02:03PM

Two shows that I had mixed up in my head for years that RTE showed in the early 80s. CJ & The Bear and Me And The Chimp. The latter was a rerun of an early 70s show. Both comedies about fellas with chimp companions.

22-04-2021 02:28PM

afro man wrote: »

Newbridge I think you getting carried away with Def leppard … Decent band with some good songs.

AC/DC Back in Black was the thriller of Hard rock 2nd best selling album ever I Think only thriller ahead of them and they still going strong today.

The Thriller comparison refers to the number of singles released off it. All of side 1 (Women was US only) and the title track on side 2

ErnestBorgnine · 22-04-2021 03:30PM

Dep Leppard were God-awful lads

Montage of Feck · 22-04-2021 03:38PM

Children's tv on rte is horrendous at the moment, it is quantity over quality. They seem be showing US sitcoms and soaps now at a time that once was primetime Den.

Aglomerado · 22-04-2021 04:00PM

icdg wrote: »

Repeated by RTE not too many years ago (late 2000s/early 2010s). Many will remember Bruce Boxleitner from his later role on Babylon 5 or the Tron films.

Later revamped as 2TV with mostly the same format but Dave Fanning as presenter. The odd thing about it was that it was broadcast on the radio too, in the days before digital delay you were suppose to mute your TV and listen in stereo on 2fm. The even odder thing was that the 2fm news bulletins went out during the show, from a small continuity studio with a set that looked nothing like anything else from RTE News at the time.

I remember Anthony Murnane reading the news wearing a stripey jumper on that. I still see his name as editor at the end of RTE news broadcasts sometimes.

afro man · 22-04-2021 04:23PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

They were massive in the states up to 87 whilst playing smaller gigs in Europe then they hooked up with mutt Lange and hysteria absolutely exploded and that’s when they were biggest on the planet, after that run the mainstream turned away from Rock of that kind

Ash.J.Williams

Don't think I can remember a Time Def Leppard were the biggest in England / Europe never mind the Planet

Led Zeppelin only band I could think that came close to that claim
Black sabbath / Iron Maiden /Motorhead/ Deep purple / Judas Priest / Saxon all streets ahead of Leppard

US Bands
Guns n roses /Metallica / Dio

Add AC/DC - Rose tattoo from Down under

God who said Earlier 80s metal music was terrible

icdg · 22-04-2021 06:13PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

I remember Anthony Murnane reading the news wearing a stripey jumper on that. I still see his name as editor at the end of RTE news broadcasts sometimes.

He is an editor on Six One now. Haven’t seen him on-air in a long time but he did a long stint on the unfortunately now defunct late news on RTE Two.

Beechwoodspark · 22-04-2021 06:51PM

afro man wrote: »

Ash.J.Williams

Don't think I can remember a Time Def Leppard were the biggest in England / Europe never mind the Planet

Led Zeppelin only band I could think that came close to that claim
Black sabbath / Iron Maiden /Motorhead/ Deep purple / Judas Priest / Saxon all streets ahead of Leppard

US Bands
Guns n roses /Metallica / Dio

Add AC/DC - Rose tattoo from Down under

God who said Earlier 80s metal music was terrible

And the stones bigger than the lot of them

Declan A Walsh · 22-04-2021 06:58PM

The Lyrics Board - Irish game show around music - from 1992 - 2012. First presenter Aonghus McaNally, then Linda Martin and, finally, a revamped one presented by Pop Idol winner Brian Ormonde. When I saw it all the panels were on the music or entertainment business. I saw a few in the 1990s and that was enough for me - I could only imagine what the later one was like!

The Old Days on RTE

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