Fillers on Irish TV in the 80'ies

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:04PM #1

I remember coming home from school in the 80’ies and switching on the TV. Ten minutes later when the ****en thing had warmed up invariably there was some ****e documentary about logging in Canada. Can anyone one remember these? or why the these were even broadcast? Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time get them for nothing?

hondasam · 18-05-2011 11:06PM

I have no idea what you are talking about sorry.

KeithM89_old · 18-05-2011 11:07PM

Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.

bonerm · 18-05-2011 11:07PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

I remember coming home from school in the 80’ies and switching on the TV. Ten minutes later when the ****en thing had warmed up invariably there was some ****e documentary about logging in Canada. Can anyone one remember these? or why the these were even broadcast? Did one of the 4 ,5 or 6 TV native stations at the time get them for nothing?

Don't remember "warming up" the tv or docs about logging but I do remember RTE using crappy eastern european animations as filler in order to get the time schedules back in line before the News started.

bonerm · 18-05-2011 11:08PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love a good documentary on Canadian logging? I bought a 14 disc boxset on logging. Very interesting.

Just don't get the German dvd's about logging. Totally different subject matter.

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:09PM

bonerm wrote: »

Just don't get the German dvd's about logging. Totally different subject matter.

where these broadcast on Rte 1 or 2?

Ghandee · 18-05-2011 11:09PM

Can I have some of your weed?

bonerm · 18-05-2011 11:10PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

where these broadcast on Rte 1 or 2?

#2 of course.

Superbus · 18-05-2011 11:11PM

Eightyies.

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:12PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Can I have some of your weed?

No.

Stained Class · 18-05-2011 11:13PM

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:13PM

Or the ads that only showed a static picture with a voiceover.

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:14PM

Stained Class wrote: »

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

Yes. I think I may have go the decade wrong..

spurious · 18-05-2011 11:14PM

bonerm wrote: »

Don't remember "warming up" the tv or docs about logging but I do remember RTE using crappy eastern european animations as filler in order to get the time schedules back in line before the News started.

Lolek and Bolek often featured if I remember correctly.

OP - I have a vague recollection of logs floating down rivers, now that you mention it.

ascanbe · 18-05-2011 11:16PM

These jobs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0

who the fug · 18-05-2011 11:16PM

beachcombers

Stained Class · 18-05-2011 11:17PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Yes. I think I may have go the decade wrong..

There ya go.

It wasn't a documentry.

It was a bit like the 'Glenroe' of Canada for many years..

Kevin Duffy · 18-05-2011 11:18PM

Superbus wrote: »

Eightyies.

Perhaps you mean eighties.

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:18PM

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Svetti Arss · 18-05-2011 11:19PM

ascanbe wrote: »

These jobs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0

Ahh. back when Beaver was plentiful...

who the fug · 18-05-2011 11:22PM

Stained Class wrote: »

Was this Beachcomers with Nick, Relic & all the rest?

I remember this in the '70s.

same here

El_Dangeroso · 18-05-2011 11:24PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Dang I was hoping to be the first with the name. I knew instantly it was Beechcombers.

Zig and Zag used to flash up the subtitle 'CULT TV HIT' when it came on. Damn, even though the programs were rubbish, this generation is all the poorer for not growing up with that level of sophisticated humour. I remember my Mom laughing at Zig and Zag jokes that I didn't get.

mike65 · 18-05-2011 11:26PM

Beachcombers rocked! Just about the only decent thing on of an afternoon in the late 70s.

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

As for little fillers there were lots of obscure Film Board of Canada shorts (yes FBoC is not just a band) and Czech cartoons that did the job.

The King of Moo · 18-05-2011 11:30PM

Summer filler was the worst. The 70s English kids' films they always used to show were so boring!
I'd groan when the production company logo of the pigeons fluttering in Trafalgar Square, with the bell bonging would come on.
Children's Film Foundation, I think made them.

who the fug · 18-05-2011 11:32PM

what was the check cartoon series (it was ****)

and your starter for ten

I hate mices to

ascanbe · 18-05-2011 11:42PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Found it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e8pEqBQBQ&playnext=1&list=PLCB1192F5EA0566DC

Ah right, Beachcombers. Remember it well (kinda).
Bit of that and Grizzly Adams and you were sorted.

bonerm · 18-05-2011 11:46PM

spurious wrote: »

Lolek and Bolek often featured if I remember correctly.

Don't remember that. The show I was thinking of was all purple backgrounds and looked like it was drawn by a 2 year old.

beaver111 · 18-05-2011 11:57PM

bit like mannix on a sunday evening:D

Dangerous Man · 19-05-2011 12:06AM

I live in Canada and I know a logger. It's not as glamorous as the tele makes it out to be.

Stained Class · 19-05-2011 12:16AM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I live in Canada and I know a logger. It's not as glamorous as the tele makes it out to be.

Don't think Beachcomers was about logging per sae.

Think they just used to pick up stray logs that floated downstream from logging operations & sold them on.

They were scavangers really.