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Old RTE listings

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  • #242
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124520163#Comment_124520163

    I believe a number of the people involved in developing things like schools and farming TV for RTE in the 60s left for various reasons - going to BBC2, or just UK TV in general, going to Australia as their TV got more money, or in one case going in to politics, and the talent wasn't replaced.

    Even Gay Byrne went to Granada for a bit.

    TÉ/RTÉ had memories of how heavily criticised Raidió Éireann had been and wanted to have a higher quality product than that to start with. Pity that desire went away!

    I think Irish kids got exposed to lots of UK schools TV due to offset holidays - we'd be off for midterms when they weren't, and also the 2 to 6 weeks in Summer,



  • #243
    Hangdogroad
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    Never heard of Justice At Large, another one for the list of forgotten RTE comedies. No laughter track unusually.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_at_Large#:~:text=Justice%20at%20Large%20is%20an,barrister%20and%20actor%20Rex%20Mackey.


  • #244
    George White
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    And actors who were more UK based. Declan Mullholland, the original Jabba the Hutt



  • #245
    cml387
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    Week beginning 12th May 1969.

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  • #246
    cml387
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    Week beginning 19th May 1969.

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  • #247
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124520405#Comment_124520405

    Would have been very impractical in the pre-VCR era for schools to rejig their timetable to work around TE's schedule. I'd say a huge number of them just never bothered with it

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #248
    cml387
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    Week beginning 26th May 1969.

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  • #249
    Hangdogroad
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    Brogeen Follows The Magic Tune, a Eugene Lambert production, was wiped entirely by RTE but the full series is preserved in the archives of NRK as it was shown in Norway. Its dubbed into Norwegian.

    https://youtu.be/j5gNjqR04so?is=y-xYmlMVmbw-T64N


  • #250
    Hotblack Desiato
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    If only they'd done sci-fi, they could have rivalled Gerry Anderson!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #251
    cml387
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    Week beginning 2nd June 1969.

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  • #252
    cml387
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    Week beginning 9th June 1969.

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  • #253
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭George White


    The Outcasts, an interesting series because it was the first TV western to have a black lead (Otis Young, Jack Nicholson's sailor pal in the Last Detail) although first billing still went to Don Murray, who made several films here - Shake Hands with the Devil and Viking Queen.

    About an ex-slave ex-Union officer and an ex-Confederate working together (you can guess which one's which).



  • #254
    cml387
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    Week beginning 16th June 1969.

    A general election was held on Wednesday 18th June and the results programme takes up most of Thursday night.

    Despite a belief that the Labour Party would make a breakthrough, Fianna Fail achieved a comfortable overall victory, mainly attributed to Jack Lynch's poularity. Two prominent RTE personalities, Justin Keating and David Thornley, left RTE to join the Labour Party and were elected TD's.

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  • #255
    L1011
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    Brian Farrell and Ted Nealon doing the punditry on an election result could be any election until 2011!

    Buffy Sainte Marie before she got caught as a fake on the 20th there.



  • #256
    cml387
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124535743#Comment_124535743

    It would be 33 years before another government won successive elections.

    Buffy Sainte Marie was in the same mould for me as Julie Felix, who had a regular BBC series being shown on RTE at this time.



  • #257
    Hotblack Desiato
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    I saw the Sylvia Beach talk on the player a few years ago - worth watching. It might have been part of the 60th anniversary of TV when they put a good bit of old stuff up (or was it 100 years of Ulysses which was around the same time?)

    TV was simpler then, find someone with something interesting to say and just let them talk… very obvious this was before audience attention spans became measured in seconds

    Excerpt here https://www.rte.ie/archives/2022/0303/374553-sylvia-beach-on-publishing-ulysses/

    I didn't know she died 3 days after the broadcast!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #258
    cml387
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124535916#Comment_124535916

    Yes, but talking heads on TV was also extremely cheap, and RTE had a lot of talking heads in those days.



  • #259
    cml387
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    Week beginning 23rd June 1969.

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  • #260
    cml387
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    Week beginning 30th June 1969.

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  • #261
    cml387
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    Week beginning 7th July 1969.

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  • #262
    cml387
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    Week beginning 14th July 1969.

    Coverage of the Apollo 11 mission on RTE was presented by Kevin O'Kelly, as I remember.

    Being young I thought we'd see the touchdown live with pictures, the famous 13 minutes from undocking from the command module to landing. But of course there were no live pictures until later in the night. I didn't stay up.

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  • #263
    Hangdogroad
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    I'm guessing little or nothing exists in the RTE archives of their coverage?



  • #264
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124547890#Comment_124547890

    Some news inserts (sometimes without sound), some documentaries and little else from the early days. These would have been done on film.

    Video tape was astonishingly expensive and a lot of content went out live.



  • #265
    cml387
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124548025#Comment_124548025

    There is a story, probably apocryphal, that at one stage in the Apollo 11 moonwalk coverage, RTE wished to talk to some expert on the phone in Wicklow. Unfortunately, contact with Wicklow could not be made, and Kevin O'Kelly apologised saying they couldn't contact Wicklow and were returning to live pictures from the moon.



  • #266
    cml387
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    Week beginning 14th July 1969.

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  • #267
    cml387
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    Week beginning 21st July 1969.

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  • #268
    cml387
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    Week beginning 28th July 1969.

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  • #269
    cml387
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    Week beginning 4th August 1969.

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  • #270
    cml387
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    Week beginning 11th August 1969.

    On the 13th August Jack Lynch makes his famous televsion address in which he says " the Irish government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse", after serious rioting in Derry and Belfast

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  • #271
    cml387
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    Week beginning 18th August 1969.

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