RTE tv schedules in the 80s and 90s

imitation · 06-02-2010 08:54PM

Ah lads your bringing back memorys here, on one hand of absolute boredom when tat like live at 3 and play the game was on. On the other hand there was absolute joy when something came along like a desert in the oasis, usualy it was something like star trek.

pinkfloyd34 · 06-02-2010 09:19PM

HydeRoad wrote: »

It's easy, all you need is an upturned biscuit tin and two spoons...

I remember Saturday mornings particularly, Anything Goes with Aengus McNally, Mary Fitzgerald and Ultan Guilfoyle, The Little Rascals, Mr. Ed, followed later on by Daktari (Clarence the Cross Eyed Lion). Then Saturday Grandstand, and I abandoned the tv at that point...

yea anything goes was deadly on a sat morning, aengus with the guitar and all, was the hardy boys on at one point, then get smart was in between anything goes and sports stadium and there was a show called green acres too, the theme tune was that song, 'if i buy a new combine harvester and you give me the key' something like that any way, i also abandoned the tv when the sports stadium came on, went out on the bikes or something, no play stations in them days, i think dempsey and makepeace was on saturday evening aswell and game for a laugh but these might not have been on rte, taxi was another american import on late on sat night on netwrk 2
nearly forgot monkey magic and the beechcombers but that is going way back, could be the 70's, just barely remember them

Elmo · 06-02-2010 09:36PM

pinkfloyd34 wrote: »

green acres too, the theme tune was that song, 'if i buy a new combine harvester and you give me the key'

your thinking of

I have a brand new combine harverster and I will give you the key

clip from anything goes

Magnum · 06-02-2010 11:00PM

lookinbusy wrote: »

I remember the early 80s there was 'The Man from Atlantis' on saturday mornings (starring Bobby Ewing if memory serves me) and then a some comedy called 'crazy like a fox' in the eveings and during the week we had the greatest american hero, great days! Now we just have x factor in various different incarnations.

Ah yes, I remember Patrick Duffy as The Man From Atlantis on Saturday Mornings.....

madmaggie · 27-02-2010 11:57PM

I remember Twin Peaks, it was definately on in late 1990, early 91. I think it was on Monday nights after the 9 o'clock news. I loved it, I thought it was so funny, even if the humour was quite dark. They really lost the run of themselves at the end.

madmaggie · 28-02-2010 12:01AM

A Country Practice, God that takes me back. In the door from work, dinner on the table.

filthymcnasty · 28-02-2010 04:48AM

some i can recall in no particular order.
from the 80's can remember murphys micro quiz-m which was then replaced by where in the world with thelma mansfield (?)
play the game with the god awful twink
live at 3 .. much loved by my granny (rip)

from the early nineties:
my so called life ( american teen angst with a young jared leto)
the excellent serie a italian league.. loved the opening music to it.
a bizarre cartoon called ulysees ( i think) set in the future.
an utterly atrocious childrens program called ' ship to shore' set in the shetland islands or somewhere!!
holy **** where did rte get this stuff

BlaasForRafa · 03-03-2010 09:35AM

The Beachcombers was practically the only thing on on a sunday morning....aside from the live bloody mass that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FteZimbz59I

Tea 1000 · 03-03-2010 10:09AM

The Fall Guy was on Tuesday evenings, and then there was some program called Cover Up, had Bonnie Tylor's I need a Hero as the theme tune, I remember my sister loved that.
Twin Peaks was on very late on a Saturday night, 11 or 11:30 I think. Don't remember the intro tune to Garda Patrol, just remember the blue light that used be on the top of cop cars back then was used.
Where in the World was great, Sundays with Theresa Lowe. "Pass, Africa 12..."
Then Know Your Sport, where the contestants would be expected to know questions like "In the 1936 Olympic Games Jesse Owens won the 100m sprint, but who came third?" or "in the 1972 cup final Best scored the winning goal, but who was substituted in the 32nd minute with a hamstring injury?"
After getting impossible questions like that right for the show all the winner got was a feckin Know Your Sport chequebook and pen!! What a balls!
Murphy's Micro Quizm where they used give away a blue or red Ford Sierra, which later changed to the Orion. And the last 5 questions was when they moved the contestant to the "hot seat", but if he got 4 right for the final one they made him stand beside the car, probably in an effort to put him off so they wouldn't have to get another new one for next week!

moviefone · 06-09-2010 07:15PM

yabadabado wrote: »

McGyver and The A-Team were both shown saturdays.matlock and jake and the fat man were on during the week.was there a music show on sunday mornings?

does any1 remember a programme on netwok 2 about movie reviews? it was on late at night and had a man with a beard sitting in an empty cinema talking about not so famous films. the reason i ask is i can remember the title music and it haunts me. would love to hear it again. i think it was called the last picture show.

moviefone · 06-09-2010 07:36PM

moviefone wrote: »

does any1 remember a programme on netwok 2 about movie reviews? it was on late at night and had a man with a beard sitting in an empty cinema talking about not so famous films. the reason i ask is i can remember the title music and it haunts me. would love to hear it again. i think it was called the last picture show or the last movie show?

JONJO THE MISER · 06-09-2010 09:14PM

It was called the last movie show and it was RTE 1 on a Friday night, the guy who presented it was on RTE news a few days ago i think it said he is head lecturer in some college at the moment.

Shane10 · 08-09-2010 11:51AM

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

Also Italian Serie A football on a Monday night always impressed the young Reg, mainly cos Maradona was playing..

aww man i used to love this, loved it :P

Elmo · 08-09-2010 12:00PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

It was called the last movie show and it was RTE 1 on a Friday night, the guy who presented it was on RTE news a few days ago i think it said he is head lecturer in some college at the moment.

No it was The Last Picture Show (as in the movie) with Brian Reddin or the other Brian from Scratch Saturday. He did a Hitchcock season just remember seeing Psycho for the first time and being shocked by the shower scene I couldn't believe they could do that in the 1960 (still shocking, give the money back, get out of there now, Norman is a freak).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7saOOfUp9mc

Not the main presenter but the guy standing beside the guy who used to present the Fanta Roadshow at the end of the clip (Andy Ruane)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu809aB1KxQ

Haha saturday morning kids TV

Barglancy · 28-05-2011 01:47PM

Looking for the name of a show which aired on rte in the mid to late 80s. It was a kind of documdrama following a wilderness explorer. I think he was Australian and maybe called Abbi.

padd b1975 · 28-05-2011 03:15PM

Barglancy wrote: »

Looking for the name of a show which aired on rte in the mid to late 80s. It was a kind of documdrama following a wilderness explorer. I think he was Australian and maybe called Abbi.

Bring em back alive?

Minstrel27 · 28-05-2011 07:09PM

I used to enjoy Beyond 2000 every Saturday afternoon on RTÉ Two

brian_t · 28-05-2011 09:36PM

Barglancy wrote: »

Looking for the name of a show which aired on rte in the mid to late 80s. It was a kind of documdrama following a wilderness explorer. I think he was Australian and maybe called Abbi.

I used to enjoy these programmes. RTE used to show them at different times on a Saturday morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alby_Mangels

Albertus Zwier "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November 1948) is a Dutch-born Australian adventurer and documentary film-maker widely remembered for his "World Safari" adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Safari III).

DebDynamite · 28-05-2011 10:29PM

I used to love Thursday evenings around 1992. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Eastenders followed by Baywatch. Thursday was my favourite day for TV back then

Kevin joyce · 28-05-2011 10:32PM

DebDynamite wrote: »

I used to love Thursday evenings around 1992. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Eastenders followed by Baywatch. Thursday was my favourite day for TV back then

Eastenders was not on RTE back then.

Minstrel27 · 28-05-2011 10:41PM

Kevin joyce wrote: »

Eastenders was not on RTE back then.

They might have had BBC. I presume this as they are on about their entire Thursday nights viewing.

Barglancy · 29-05-2011 02:01AM

brian_t wrote: »

I used to enjoy these programmes. RTE used to show them at different times on a Saturday morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alby_Mangels

Albertus Zwier "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November 1948) is a Dutch-born Australian adventurer and documentary film-maker widely remembered for his "World Safari" adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Safari III).

Brian_t you beauty - that's what I was looking for! Cheers.

Kojak · 29-05-2011 02:08AM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

I used to enjoy Beyond 2000 every Saturday afternoon on RTÉ Two

Same here - it always had very interesting ideas or inventions that we would all be using in the new millenium (never really happened though)

used to despise Glenroe on a Sunday night. :mad:

120_Minutes · 29-05-2011 11:11AM

Murphy Brown, mondays, net2 9pm.

Elmo · 29-05-2011 11:38AM

DebDynamite wrote: »

I used to love Thursday evenings around 1992. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Eastenders followed by Baywatch. Thursday was my favourite day for TV back then

Fresh Prince was shown on The Den for many years until its final few seasons as RTÉ felt that it was becoming too adult for children's TV.

Niles · 29-05-2011 08:17PM

Elmo wrote: »

Fresh Prince was shown on The Den for many years until its final few seasons as RTÉ felt that it was becoming too adult for children's TV.

I seem to remember Sabrina getting a similar treatment - the early seasons where shown in the Den slot but the later (college years) ones used to shown, I think, around 7pm on a Monday evening. Not sure why that was, though probably aimed an older audience but I don't recall it ever getting particularly "adult" as such.

Elmo · 29-05-2011 08:46PM

Niles wrote: »

I seem to remember Sabrina getting a similar treatment - the early seasons where shown in the Den slot but the later (college years) ones used to shown, I think, around 7pm on a Monday evening. Not sure why that was, though probably aimed an older audience but I don't recall it ever getting particularly "adult" as such.

Sabrina may have aired during later seasons at 7pm during the college years alright but I don't think that had anything do to with adult themes as it now repeats on TRTÉ.

Sabrina did ditch her Aunts in the last season, and was heading towards becoming more of a twentysomething TV series. And was picked up by The WB when ABC cancelled the show in 2000.

Though in saying this RTÉ did put it on Two Tube before Neighbours perhaps they thought it was for an older Teen towards the last number of seasons.

Niles · 29-05-2011 08:54PM

Elmo wrote: »

Sabrina may have aired during later seasons at 7pm during the college years alright but I don't think that had anything do to with adult themes as it now repeats on TRTÉ.

Sabrina did ditch her Aunts in the last season, and was heading towards becoming more of a twentysomething TV series. And was picked up by The WB when ABC cancelled the show in 2000.

Though in saying this RTÉ did put it on Two Tube before Neighbours perhaps they thought it was for an older Teen towards the last number of seasons.

Yeah I always got the impression RTÉ viewed the later seasons as older teen - twentysomething material. Maybe to some extent it grew with part of its original audience. I don't recall any particularly "adult" themes, well not really, there was an episode where Sabrina enhances her, eh, "assets" to see if she gets more attention or something.

Batigol309 · 30-05-2011 08:47AM

Memories coming to mind from 90s:

Coach 7 pm on tuesday
Perfect Strangers - 7pm midweek
Quantum Leap/A-Team/Baywatch Saturdays
Blackboard Jungle -
and anyone remember Water Rats...Ozzie coast guard about 12 o clock...was a clear sign I had day off school next day...used to just stay up for the theme tune..QUALITY!!

Elmo · 30-05-2011 09:20AM

Batigol309 wrote: »

and anyone remember Water Rats...Ozzie coast guard about 12 o clock...was a clear sign I had day off school next day...used to just stay up for the theme tune..QUALITY!!

Perfect reason to post a youtube video of Waterrats theme tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYIte5KM5Mk

Much better than Murder One which ran on Tuesday Nights at 9pm (I didn't think water rats was no a school night, maybe Monday though).

RTE tv schedules in the 80s and 90s

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