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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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  • #2282
    PGE1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭PGE1970


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123137946#Comment_123137946

    It's shown every day now (twice!) on U&Drama channel if you can get UK Freeview.



  • #2283
    black & white
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭black & white


    Roughnecks, based on an oil rig off Aberdeen. Think Liam Cunningham was in it as well Ricky Tomlinson



  • #2284
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,064 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123139745#Comment_123139745

    Theres a Bergerac remake coming on that channel at end of the month... in case you stumble on it!

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



  • #2285
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    VR Troopers is another. The theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHMWX_vu_U



  • #2286
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122912274#Comment_122912274

    The episode where they are guarding Toytown at night and somebody keeps killing the residents is hilarious.



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  • #2287
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭George White


    RTE showed the first series of Rod Serling's Night Gallery in 1971, and the second in 1974. Seems they actually showed the proper one hour versions, which ITV never did, which either showed US syndication versions or their own cuts, showing the ten minute segments separately.

    Seems UTV never aired it.



  • #2288
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,938 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123705741#Comment_123705741

    I think Night Gallery was a very underrated show. Not as good as TTZ but still well worth watching.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2289
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭George White


    I prefer it to TZ.

    Even though they did an ep that thinks Kinsale is called Kingsdale.



  • #2290
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,938 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123708746#Comment_123708746

    I recall watching a show [can't remember the name of it - likely 1990s to 2000s] and a character played by Jason Alexander [who traveled back in time to the Lusitania among other places], and he said Kinsale like 'Kin-sally'.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2291
    Rosahane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭Rosahane


    Am I the only person that can remember watching

    Mackenzies Rangers on RTE back in the early Sixties?5



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  • #2292
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,938 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123710642#Comment_123710642

    Is this it? https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/14284-mackenzie-s-raiders

    I've not heard of it before.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2293
    Rosahane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭Rosahane


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123710663#Comment_123710663

    That's it. Was on about 8 o'clock some night during the week in old one channel land.

    Back then RTE TV opened at 5 in the afternoon with Daithi Locha which was a cartoon in Irish about a duck which nobody could understand because we all hated Irish.

    Rin Tin Tin on the other hand was hugely popular.



  • #2294
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,492 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057942167/old-tv-programmes-you-liked-but-no-one-else-remembers

    Fur tv was absolutely excellent 😀😀



  • #2295
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,938 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123710642#Comment_123710642

    https://archive.org/details/mackenzies-raiders

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2296
    brokenbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,109 ✭✭✭brokenbad


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    Loved watching this show back in the 1980's



  • #2297
    Charlo30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭Charlo30


    I stumbled across this one on Gold. I didn't know you cared. BBC sitcom from the mid/late 70's set in a working class Yorkshire household. A young Stephen Rea stared in the first 2 series.



  • #2298
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭George White


    Once met Rea in the IFI (man he looks AMAZING for a man in his late 70s, to the point I was like 'is that him?') and told him he was a fan. He was dumbstruck but spoke fondly of the series.



  • #2299
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in'.

    It was on RTE late nights back in the 1960s or 70s. Quite daring for RTE in that era.

    Goldie Hawn started her movie career from appearing in it.



  • #2300
    pinkfloyd34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭pinkfloyd34


    Return to Eden. It was an Australian series, it may have been shown on RTE in the 80s



  • #2301
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,064 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123718707#Comment_123718707

    I remember a scene with a crocodile… I thought it was on RTE too, most of those Aussie miniseries were. Looking at the wiki page for it, it lists ITV as an international broadcaster but not RTE. Might be a miss on wiki.

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



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  • #2302
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,080 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Not sure about the original Return To Eden mini series but the weekly spin off series was shown on RTE.

    I remember someone tried to murder the main female character by releasing a crocodile into a swimming pool that she's about to go for a swim in. She's saved by the hunky hero who ventilates it with a .38 revolver.



  • #2303
    jem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭jem


    I used to love Blakes 7

    Anything goes on a Saturday morning

    Cartoons in early evening when came home from school Oh Ho Chongo its danger Island being one that for some reason sticks in my mind from the early mid 70's- cant believe that is heading for 50 years ago.



  • #2304
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,955 ✭✭✭cml387


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123718687#Comment_123718687

    Painfully unfunny, even at the time, but similarly SNL has non American audiences baffled that it is considered comic.



  • #2305
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Hooked


    Langerland TV. It was bloody hilarious!



  • #2306
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123719252#Comment_123719252

    Well I enjoyed 'Laugh-in' and looked forward to watching it every week in the late 60s early 70s.



  • #2307
    Bogey Lowenstein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123718687#Comment_123718687

    I started watching it on Youtube a couple of years ago. The joke wall segment is my favourite part, especially Don Rickles. He may have been an old square in a tux but he could make mincemeat of the hip young comedians.

    I didn't think RTE would have shown it, were they not very straight-laced back then?



  • #2308
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123719902#Comment_123719902

    Not as 'straight laced' as people think. It was shown late night around 10.30 or 11pm as I remember.



  • #2309
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,955 ✭✭✭cml387


    I remember the painted "Go_Go" girls.



  • #2310
    fran38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭fran38


    Ok, this is such a long shot it may be considered impossible. I'm trying to see if anyone remembers this;

    Christmas Eve night 1976/77 around 7pm or 8pm. There's this black & white programme on RTE1 possibly pre 1950's. I'd say it some sort of fantasy programme where there's these kind of miniature creatures that looks like those mythical creatures you'd find in a Ray Harryhausen movie. Miniature in that they're a few inches high. I remember one had a club & was hitting the others with it. After this show, the theatre version of Evita Peron came on.

    Extreme long shot I know. Does it rejig any memories?



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  • #2311
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭George White


    1977 maybe. Santa Claus vs the Martians doesn't have stop motion IIRC, Frosty's Winter Wonderland and Twas the Night Before Christmas are stop motion but they don't feature live action.

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    This is 1976.

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