Old RTE listings

The titles are intriguing…

Songs for Dreaming: Music for Rebels.

Surrounded by Water No.2 A Life in the Ocean Wave

That A BBC TV production or A Border Production thing was something you'd get in the Radio Times and TV times, for independent companies (ie a Paul Jackson production for BBC North) or non-British broadcasters (ie RTE shows on BBC, CBC shows, RAI, TF1, etc). And it's always weird cos sometimes you would get American productions get billed that way.

E.g. Roots and other David Wolper shows were billed as a 'David Wolper Production', Titus Productions' Pueblo (ABC, 1973) and Holocaust (NBC 1978) were billed as Titus Production, and I often wonder was it a contractual thing.

Occassionally, you'd get CBS or NBC documentaries billed as an NBC production.

Laugh-In was always billed in Radio Times as an NBC production.

US independent companies

ABC

The Flintstones (1960s, billed as 'a Hanna Barbera production' in reruns)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1968 - 'A Dan Curtis/CBC co-production')

F Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles (1975 - 'for Titus Productions')

The Miss Piggy Show (1983, 'a Henson production')

The Christmas Toy (1983 - 'A HENSON ASSOCIATES production')

Pueblo (1973 - 'for Titus productions')

Roots (1977-1979 - 'A David Wolper Production')

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1968 - 'Wolper Productions')

The World About Us - Following the Wolf (1975 - 'A Peace River Films production')

David Bowie - Glass Spider (1988 - 'A Tall Pony Production')

NBC (drama/animation)

Laugh-In (1968-1972 - 'A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC')

Pinter People (1969 - 'Potterton Productions Inc')

The Wonderful World of Disney (1970s - 'A Walt Disney Production')

The Roman Holidays (1970s, 'A Hanna-Barbera production')

The New Fred and Barney Show (1970s, 'A Hanna-Barbera production')

The Special London Bridge Special (1973) was billed as 'a Winters/Rosen production', and not billed as a film.

Holocaust (1978 - a Titus production)

The Martian Chronicles (1980 - 'A Charles Fries production' - a genuine BBC copro)

Moviola (1980 - A David Wolper/Stan Margulies Production)

The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980 - a Roger Gimbel production)

The World About US: Wild America - The Predators (1977 - 'a Stouffer films production' - Attenborough dubbing Robert Redford)

The Second Bill Cosby Special (1969 - A Campbell-Singer-Cosby production)

Barbara Mandrell (1979-1982) - 'A Krofft production'

CBS

The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977 - 'A Roger Gimbel production for EMI Television Programs')

Tarzan - Lord of the Jungle (1978 - 'A Filmation cartoon')

Joey and Redhawk (1978, 'A Daniel Wilson production')

Kenny and Dolly -a Christmas to Remember ( 1984- 'an RP production', partly set in the UK)

A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1988, 'A Wil Vinton Production')

Meet the Raisins (1989, 'A Wil Vinton Production')

Superman's 50th Anniversary (1988, A Guber-Peters Production)

Perry Como's Spring in San Francisco (1983 - 'A Roncom production', like all the other Como shows)

Kenny and Dolly -a Christmas to Remember ( 1984- an RP production, partly set in the UK)

The World About Us: National Geographic - Dr Leakey and the Dawn of Man (1968 - Wolper Productions)/The Hidden World (1968)/Grizzly (1968 - Wolper Productions)/Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (1968 - Wolper Productions)/Monkeys, Apes and Man (1971 - Wolper Productions)/Man of the Masai (1972 - Wolper Productions)/Strange Creatures of the Night (1972 - Wolper Productions)

The American West of John Ford (1972 - A Bob Banner Associates Production)

@George White I think there was a law in the states up until recently that Broadcasters couldn't produce their own content and that movie production company could not own TV stations.

This is why many movie studios have a TV production arm.

Sadly this changed in the mid-2010 and often when I see An ABC/NBC/CBS Production at the beginning of a show I know its going to be a dud.

Is this what you mean?

I think it was an Irish version

Treated as A very solemn day alright - I remember in the 80s I bought a pair of jeans in the morning time but shops then closed around lunchtime on Good Friday

Yeah coz we only got the 'BBC aerial' in the mid 80s. I wonder was it an RTE effort? Anyway, don't want to derail this thread anymore. Cheers.

Could it be this?

In the 1970s, RTÉ commonly aired Rankin/Bass stop-motion "Animagic" specials on Christmas Eve, with 

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970)

 being a prominent feature in that era. These classic animated specials, which also included 

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

, were staples of Irish festive television. 

It was definitely Evita. I think the death scene as she sings 'Dont cry for me Argentina'. I think she was in her death bed?

In terms of the stop motion memory, it was b&w (we had a colour tv) there was these miniature creatures hopping around with hand held weapons battling each other. Very vague I know. An 8 years old memory 49 years later 😀

Search - BBC Programme Index

Another BBC crediting the production company credit - for (even rarer) a theatrical film no less, the Canadian documentary The Man who Skied Down Everest.

Search - BBC Programme Index

The CBS documentary Monsters - mysteries or Myth - billed as a A WOLPER TELEVISION/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION co-production

RE:weird billings, though RTE didn't bill an ____ production' for US shows, they would bill some shows as an 'NBC Special' even though they weren't aired as that under that banner in America when NBC aired them, often as part of other series.

"nbc special" - Search - Newspapers.com™

For example Circus was actually an episode of the Dupont Show of the Week, the Beauty of Woman was also a Dupont show, the Living End an ep of World Wide 60, and Faces of Spain an NBC News special.

Almost makes RTE appear to be an affiliate of NBC.

From a Munster Tribune - 'Circus -

This is another NBC Special and these presentations rarely disappoint even the most blase watcher.'

Discovered that while the UK turned them down, RTE did show the ABC Profile specials The Woman I Love (1972, Richard Chamberlain as Edward VIII) and the Raymond Burr ABC Popesploitaiton special Profile: A Man Whose Name was John , primo RTE tat.