The Old Days on RTE

Just after reading through the whole thread - some great memories in there.

Pajos Junkbox/ Pajo and the Salty Frog - I think it started on Scratch Saturday along with the nutty professor and then got its own show. Pajo was a punk rocker puppet with a leather jacket and pink streaks in his hair.

That kid at the time Kevo (Kevin O Connell) who was on everything - he was on something called The Grip which I feel was maybe part of some other show but he was supposed to be this hip/cool inner-city kid and would give a quick run down on some topic.



Echo Island - Dara O Briain in the early days and a few other ones who did the rounds on Irish tv at the time like Derek Mooney, Carrie Crowley, Mary Kingston and Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh.

The Works - Michael Sheridan and Mary Kingston, it was a science show during the week where they would do experiments and show things about chemistry and physics and biology.

There was a show called Finbars Class in the 90's which also had Michal Sheridan in it. Our neighbour was a boom operator on a lot of RTE shows and said they were looking for extras that were secondary school age. I ended up doing it, got paid a few quid and basically did nothing all day and then had to either sit in a classroom for a bit or be in the yard playing football when the main cast was doing their scenes. Brian McFadden and Danny O Donoghue (Westlife and The Script) were in it at the time before they became famous in their other careers.

On the topic of quizzes..
Blackboard Jungle - Ray Darcy schools quiz.
Where In The World - Theresa Lowe
Rapid Roulette - Maxi
Play the Game - charades thing with Derek Davis, Twink and Ronan Collins.
Know Your Sport - with the sports encyclopedia that was Jimmy Magee.
Challenging Times

My father was on both Where In The World and Rapid Roulette. I remember going up to RTE for the recording of Where In The World and thinking it was going to be amazing and being severely unimpressed then. :pac:

Dempseys Den - the OG Den before Ray Darcy
Jo Maxi - It was supposed to be a hip and cool show aimed at teens about music and pop culture.

While Wanderly Wagon was trippy the worst one I remember was a show called Rimini Riddle with these freaky looking puppets with squashed up faces and it was this ongoing mystery story or something. Think I got scared off by the weirdness pretty quickly.



I don't think I saw Glenroe getting mentioned anywhere - Sunday night staple was Where In The World followed by Glenroe and then your mother saying go to bed and you saying you still had homework left to do and your parents going mental.



Greenfingers with Gerry Daly - gardening show, he used to do a lost on Live At Three sometimes too.
Today Tonight - current affairs show, too young at the time to be interested in politics so if I walked in and this was on was usually a 180 and leave again.


All the US TV shows, the majority of the big ones have been mentioned. Anything that wasn't on RTE was on ITV/UTV which most people had anyways because you just needed to stick an old aerial up on the roof. There was so many of them back in the day that were staple viewing on a Saturday.

Some others that come to mind

The OG Battlestar Galactia was always on a Sunday, think it aired after the BeatBox. It had Dirk Benedict in it as Starbuck who was Faceman in the A-Team.
Baywatch
The Cosby Show - back when Bill wasn't in trouble
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Get Smart - loved this as a kid used to be on a Saturday with Batman I think.
The Wonder Years
Mork and Mindy - Mork calling Orson, come in Orson
ALF
Mission Impossible - the 80s version


There was the tv shows your parents watched and told you to go to bed when they were on :pac:
Dallas
Dynasty
Falcon Crest

Someone mentioned the Sullivans, I remember it vaguely and there was another Aussie import called A Country Practice which was another soap opera type show. When I was a kid at one stage we emigrated to Australia and one of the cast 'Cookie' who was this crazy chef character on it was a special guest at the school BBQ..my mind was blown at the time meeting such a big tv personality

I could list cartoons and kids tv shows for days - love all the old retro cartoons but there was another Aussie import that was on RTE back in the school days called The Girl From Tomorrow - a time-travelling caper with a girl from the year 3000 stuck in the 90s and this criminal that comes back with her called Silverthorn.

Aglomerado wrote: »

He was like Alan Partridge! Maxi was great.
Whatever happened to Michael Sheridan? Didn't he do a motoring programme at one stage too? Sorry, I can't remember the name. He was everywhere for a while, seemed a nice guy.

Yeah, he presented Drive! and he was the editor for RTE Motor for a while too. When he was in Finbars class I remember him showing up in a sweet little MX5 so he was doing alright for himself then.