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Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

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    #212
    El Tarangu
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    ShyMets wrote: »
    And lets not forget Ardal O'Hanlon in the BBC sitcom, My Hero. Absolute scutter.

    This ran for - if you can credit it - six seasons.


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    #213
    odyssey06
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Anyone remember "Perfect Scoundrels" with David Murray and Peter Bowles?

    I assume you mean Bryan Murray but yeah shame it never got a DVD releaese.

    Pilot was very clever with Irish angle
    https://youtu.be/PgiBK7fRoQs

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



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    #214
    skooterblue2
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I assume you mean Bryan Murray but yeah shame it never got a DVD releaese.

    Pilot was very clever with Irish angle
    https://youtu.be/PgiBK7fRoQs

    How did it NOT get a DVD release? It was a great, and coming off the back to the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. Didnt we all enjoy the TV series Hustle?


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    #215
    George White
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    How did it NOT get a DVD release? It was a great, and coming off the back to the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. Didnt we all enjoy the TV series Hustle?


    It's a TVS production.
    There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.


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    #216
    skooterblue2
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    George White wrote: »
    It's a TVS production.
    There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.

    Explains everything.


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    #217
    sheepondrugs
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    Good call on 'The End'.
    This made me think of Sean Moncrieff and 'Don't feed the Gondolas' (sorry if it was already mentioned) - a late 90's panels show featuring a chubby Brendan O Connor and Dara O Brian. Like most RTE comedy it was kind of all over the place.


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    #218
    skooterblue2
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    George White wrote: »
    It's a TVS production.
    There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.

    Found it on Amazon on VHS. So it was released at some point.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Scoundrels-VHS-Peter-Bowles/dp/B00004CQF2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Perfect+Scoundrels+VHS&qid=1605486788&sr=8-1


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    #219
    RandomViewer
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    El Tarangu wrote: »
    This ran for - if you can credit it - six seasons.

    He left a few seasons in, was replaced by the guy from Gimme,Gimme,Gimme


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    #220
    Hangdogroad
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    Rhythmics wrote: »
    Fergus's Wedding
    Roose Bolton and his fiancee preparing for their wedding with the local priest, while trying to hide the fact that they're swingers.

    Episode 1 and 2 are have been uploaded on YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3NX8I8D4U


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    #221
    AndrewJRenko
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    sheepondrugs wrote: »
    This made me think of Sean Moncrieff and 'Don't feed the Gondolas' (sorry if it was already mentioned) - a late 90's panels show featuring a chubby Brendan O Connor and Dara O Brian. Like most RTE comedy it was kind of all over the place.

    Best thing about it was the back story to the title.


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    #222
    skooterblue2
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Episode 1 and 2 are have been uploaded on YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3NX8I8D4U

    I got the DVD on ebay last Christmas. Expensive but well worth the money. Soup!


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    #223
    Samsonsmasher
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    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Does anyone here remember Stew from approximately 16 years ago on RTE2? It was a comedy sketch show as opposed to a sitcom. It featured Pat "Eoin McLove" McDonnell.
    Some of the sketches were really hit and miss such as the farmer woman who thought her cows were leering at her and the posh guy reminiscing about pleasant past events whenever he stumbled upon vomit or dog turds on the pavement.
    I think it lasted about 2 seasons before the plug was pulled on it.

    Also there was Your Bad Self from approx 2010, another comedy sketch show with Michael McElhatton and Domhnaill Gleeson. I remember the South African Lady sketches which made very little sense.

    There was a good sketch where Gleeson is on a road trip with BOD's wife and their D4 friends when he decides for a laugh to go to the toilet in a bottle after they dare him to. Except he takes a sh*t in it.


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    #224
    Hangdogroad
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    Did anyone see Dermot Morgan series "Getting Morganised" when it was broadcast in 1985? Opening credits and short snippets shown in an RTE doc about him. I say series but apparently RTE wernt happy with it and cut it down to one longish episode and it was just shown once.


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    #225
    fryup
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    leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

    extra extra extra - jaw droppingly bad


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    #226
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Samsonsmasher wrote: »
    There was a good sketch where Gleeson is on a road trip with BOD's wife and their D4 friends when he decides for a laugh to go to the toilet in a bottle after they dare him to. Except he takes a sh*t in it.

    Sounds like something the denizens of the After Hours “scat” thread would “appreciate”.


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    #227
    Hangdogroad
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    fryup wrote: »
    leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

    extra extra extra - jaw droppingly bad

    Extra Extra was in a whole league of it's own. Definitely a strong contender for worst thing RTE have ever produced and its had some strong competition in the nearly thirty years since it was shown.


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    #228
    ShyMets
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Extra Extra was in a whole league of it's own. Definitely a strong contender for worst thing RTE have ever produced and its had some strong competition in the nearly thirty years since it was shown.

    I didn't watch it at the time but I remember the reviews being scathing. I've tried to find some clips on the internet but there doesn't seem to be any.

    Looks like RTE have tried erase all trace of it


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    #229
    Hangdogroad
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    Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

    the-fitz.jpg


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    #230
    ShyMets
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

    the-fitz.jpg

    Fair play for digging that one out. I've absolutely no recollection of it


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    #231
    RandomViewer
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

    the-fitz.jpg

    Is that the BBC thing with the old man from Fair City?


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    #232
    Hangdogroad
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    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Is that the BBC thing with the old man from Fair City?

    Eamon Morrissey? Yeah he was in it. Great comic actor. He was wasted in this rubbish, and Fair City for that matter.


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    #233
    saabsaab
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    A few sixties RTE comedy programmes (I don't remember them either and I don't think any have been preserved)






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    #234
    Sgt Hartman
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    Has Val Falvey TD been mentioned yet? It starred Ardal O'Hanlon as a rural TD with a caravan for a constituency office and Owen Roe as his PR adviser. I think it lasted just the one season before it was canned.


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    #235
    Hangdogroad
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    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Has Val Falvey TD been mentioned yet? It starred Ardal O'Hanlon as a rural TD with a caravan for a constituency office and Owen Roe as his PR adviser. I think it lasted just the one season before it was canned.

    Was mentioned early on. It was very poor despite writer and cast.


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    #236
    fryup
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    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Upwardly Mobile

    it should remain forgotten
    El Tarangu wrote: »
    When the actor playing the little chubby fellow died, he was given a full paramilitary funeral - it turns out he was a member of the Real IRA.

    and iirc, he died in bizarre circumstances....he got into a heated argument at a taxi rank, he went away to get a sword from his flat and when he returned to the taxi rank to confront the person he had a heart attack and died instantly...what a way to go!


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    #237
    Hangdogroad
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    BBC's Safe And Sound from 1996 set in NI. Never saw this one but it sounds terrible despite the cast.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-terrible-sitcom-is-born-1.75823


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    #238
    Capt'n Midnight
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    fryup wrote: »
    leave it to mr's o'brien - bad
    It was exported to Nigeria IIRC


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    #239
    2lazytogetup
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    was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"


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    #240
    The Mulk
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    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"

    It sounds like Upwardly Mobile, but they moved Northside to Southside, D4 or somewhere similar


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    #241
    julyjane
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    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"

    Dear old inner city Du-ub-lin, the town i loved so dear, but we're after winning 2 million quid now we're off to Belvedere


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