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Old RTE listings

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    At Last....was along with its contemporary "Do Not Adjust Your Set" very much a proto-Python show, with Cleese and Chapman joined by Tim Brooke Taylor, Marty Feldman and Ami McDonald.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 25th August 1969.

    "The Other Man's Grass" was a documentary series about Irish emigrants in London, and featured the work of a certain Fr. Eamonn Casey with the charity Shelter. We would hear more about him later.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Yet RTE never showed Monty Python's Flying Circus.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Is the oft used clip of him singing in a maternity ward taken from that?

    Edit: was getting Casey mixed up with Michael Cleary.

    Post edited by Hangdogroad on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    I haven't seen the clip, it sounds very likely.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Ooops, my mistake. I was mixing him up with Michael Cleary, the singing priest. There's a clip of him from circa late 60s that gets used a lot, including in Reeling In The Years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭George White


    RRe:Shows in the RTE Guide being billed as a ____ production, notice RTE's airing of the all star TVM Riel, about Metis activist Louis Riel was billed as a CBC/Green River production. Stars Shatner, Plummer, Nelson...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 1st September 1969.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    This seems to be the Frank O'Connor adaptation. No further info about it out there that I can find.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6630156/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭George White


    Part of a failed pre RTE attempt to create an anthology for international syndication imilar to what Douglas Fairbanks Jr was doing in England, followed by Errol Flynn and Lilli Palmer.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    IMDB gives the year 1959 which pte dates RTE, could be incorrect.

    Post edited by Hangdogroad on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭George White


    No, it is correct. IIRC it was aimed at US sales.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 8th September 1969.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 15th September 1969.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    By coincidence I am just reading a book on the origins of Monty Python.

    "At Last The 1948 Show" was only seen on Rediffusion London for the first series, and was fairly badly treated by the regions thereafter, often showing programmes in the wrong sequence thereby spoiling some running gags.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 22nd September 1969.

    First week of the autumn schedule.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    The new season introduced a new look for RTE. Out went :

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    and in came:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Can remember that new one still being used as an onscreen ident right up to about 1979/80. I used to refer to it as "the gate" as somehow it looked like a gate to me as a kid. RTE still continued to use it on physical print media such as books and cassettes well into the 80s.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 29th September 1969.

    Here's one for George White: RTE started showing "Mr Piper", a children's programme from CBC.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭George White


    The Anatolian Smile is actually Elia Kazan's America America.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,987 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It also says produced by "Irish Television Theatre", not RTE. No other entries for them in their database

    Surprised RTE would have the word "Oedipus" in the RTV Guide

    Surprised they were showing the BBC's Man Alive as well, I'd say they left a few episodes out e.g. the then very controversial even in the UK homosexuality one

    Or maybe it was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Alive_%28Canadian_TV_program%29

    Man Alive is a Canadian television program exploring faith and spirituality.

    Yet more religious programming!?! Although…

    The program covered a wide range of subjects including … sexual abuse … the Vatican Bank scandal

    They may have decided the BBC one was the safer bet!

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,987 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Who could forget such classics as "Non Stop Pop"

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    and Barry Devlin's "Breaking Star Codes" which had the most cringeworthy ad ever. He also appeared to be suffering from a very wobbly head.

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    There was an RTE TV show with the entire album performed through the medium of interpretive dance. I do remember the ad but thankfully was spared watching that

    From irishrock.org:

    In 1983 Barry issued a solo album called "Breaking Star Codes". This was a concept album or song cycle with 12 songs, each loosely based on the 12 signs of the zodiac. Among the musicians featured on the album is Jim Lockhart (who'd become an RTE producer since Horslips split)

    Always handy to have a good mate in RTE…

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭A Pop Fans Dream


    Breaking Star Codes finally got a CD release when it was included in the recent massive Horslips box set



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,428 ✭✭✭cml387


    Week beginning 6th October 1969.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭George White


    The sexual abuse eps were much later, the whole Mount Carmel thing in Newfoundland, where a whole cadre of priests were 'bewitched with wonderment by the children',



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