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Your Fave Irish TV Shows of All-Time

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    #32
    mdwexford
    Registered Users Posts: 11,275 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    wprathead wrote: »
    How can people hate Chris?! Agree that Moone Boy is a great show

    Might seem bit left field, but I though Mórbeag's was a great childrens' TV Show

    Like this.

    I hate him, he's an unfunny tool.


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    #33
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    mdwexford wrote: »
    Like this.

    I hate him, he's an unfunny tool.

    Tend to agree with this, from what I've seen he was brutal.


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    #34
    Bellerstring
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Bellerstring


    Let's not forget this gem..!
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055159003
    :)


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    #35
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    No mention of Strumpet City?!
    An absolutely brilliant adaptation of the novel.

    Pure Mule wasn't too bad either.


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    #36
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Most recently I would have to say the savage eye


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    #37
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    BRYAN Is Ainm Dom wrote: »
    Father ted is irish!!!! Anyone who thinks otherwise can fook off. It is our show, ok!!!!

    Channel 4 would disagree with you!
    Someone else mentioned the Blizzard of Odd, great call. There was some great scathing criticism in it.
    The first season of Bachelors Walk was great but the others were very meh.


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    #38
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    As a biffo I might be biased, but Pure Mule was a good show and in 30 years time it will be a good history lesson for what went on in rural Ireland during and after the boom.


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    #39
    Looper007
    Registered Users Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    Bachelor's Walk is so underrated and undervalued by RTE, They've only released season 1 on DVD and that was a few years back, when was the last time they showed it on TV?. I still think Season 1 was the high point of the show (especially as I had a crush on the young girlfriend that Barry was dating:P, sadly she was never seen again), it was only the three guys and a few other characters. It was heartfelt, funny and is a great snapshot of Dublin during the Celtic Tiger period. Season 2 and 3 never quite lived up to season 1.

    Paths to Freedom, while Father Ted is classic, it was made by a British Station. So I go with this, I know the stuff with Rats (Michael McElharton) gets a ton of credit but the stuff that makes me laugh more is the stuff with Brendan Coyle and Deidre o' Kane is even better, watching Coyle character lose his sanity is so bloody funny. This was premiered the same day as Bachelor's Walk too back in 2001, I think on a Monday. Best Tv programming RTE did in the 00's.


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    #40
    Looper007
    Registered Users Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    CaptainNegative wrote: »
    The Panel: Up until Dara O'Briain left anyway, it kinda lost the run of itself after that.

    What a great show that was during it's time, I agree once O'Briain left it took a massive dip. If Colin Murphy Ed Bryne and John Bishop were on at the same time with O' Briain, you knew you get a classic show.

    Blizzard of Odd- damn what a funny show this was, half 10 on a Monday night, I always tuned in. Some clips are up on youtube but RTE need to show these again.


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    #41
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Wanderly Wagon


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    #42
    celtic tiger 2011
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭celtic tiger 2011


    Trojan Donkey or Naked Camera . Its better than any the other ****e ye mentioned.


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    #43
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    CaptainNegative wrote: »

    The Panel: Up until Dara O'Briain left anyway, it kinda lost the run of itself after that.

    A great show for the most part, the exception being anytime Fiona looney spoke.


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    #44
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Nothing To It



    http://wheresgrandad.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/nothing-to-it/


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    #45
    thesaurus2
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭thesaurus2


    Have to say I have never enjoyed a programme on RTE as much as The Savage Eye. Watching the repeats and still laughing is something that rarely happens with 'satirical' shows. Hardy Bucks (series 2) was superb too, shame they made such a balls of the first series though.


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    #46
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    About 12 or 13 minutes in a load of old biddys have written in complaining about a sanitary towels advert, that's good television


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    #47
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »
    Trojan Donkey or Naked Camera . Its better than any the other ****e ye mentioned.

    OK, now you're just being silly. :o:o:o


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    #48
    Maragenie
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Maragenie


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Glenroe
    wanderly wagon
    bosco
    know your sport
    rapid roulette
    where in the world


    Posted like a Boss!


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    #49
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Father Ted isn't actually Irish but if we are including Irish shows that are made by foreign companies mine would be,
    London Irish, Give my head peace, Father Ted and Killinaskully, it reminds me alot of my own village, very humorous


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    #50
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Forgot completely about Play The Game and Mailbag.


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    #51
    Skid X
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    Most of my favourites have been mentioned.

    The Late Late Show in Gay Byrne's era was usually class. It was the programme which set the agenda for the whole country, if you missed it you felt like you were out of the loop.

    And The Den (with Zig and Zag and Dustin in their prime) was brilliant. It was a terrific comedy show masquerading as a Childrens TV Presentation. They wouldn't get away with half of their antics these days, it was subversive brilliance.

    Two programmes there which were well ahead of their counterparts on BBC/ITV at the time.


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    #52
    celtic tiger 2011
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭celtic tiger 2011


    Skid X wrote: »
    Most of my favourites have been mentioned.

    The Late Late Show in Gay Byrne's era was usually class. It was the programme which set the agenda for the whole country, if you missed it you felt like you were out of the loop.

    And The Den (with Zig and Zag and Dustin in their prime) was brilliant. It was a terrific comedy show masquerading as a Childrens TV Presentation. They wouldn't get away with half of their antics these days, it was subversive brilliance.

    Two programmes there which were well ahead of their counterparts on BBC/ITV at the time.

    The Late Late Show was always ****e and Grandpa Gaybo was always an insufferable bore.


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    #53
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Love/Hate
    Bachelors Walk
    The Sunday Game
    Know Your Sport
    Sports Stadium


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    #54
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    No one remember NightHawks with Shay Healy then? Now that was explosive, compulsive viewing back in the day...Irish TDs lining up to stab themselves in the back on live TV inbetween live music and strange stand up comedians and skits.

    Waterways with Dick Warney on his canal barge was also beautifully shot and editied.

    No Disco was also very good while it lasted.

    To the Waters and the Wild must get a mention for its craft too.

    Paths To Freedom is my choice for best comedy RTE ever made and probably ever will make...


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    #55
    Dice75
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Dice75


    Roddy Doyle's mini-series "Family" was pretty good for the time. Got it on Dvd recently.
    "Chips shouldn't bounce"


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    #56
    topcatcbr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭topcatcbr


    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0313842/

    Fergus wedding.

    I remember thinking it was fairly outrageous at the time for RTE.


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    #57
    electric applause
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭electric applause


    Let's not forget Hector san Astrail...TG4 gold right there


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    #58
    Diabhal Beag
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    A Scare at Bedtime and Blizzard of Odd were my two personal favourites.

    Broke my heart when Podge and Rodge did their chat show where guest's publicists pretty much wrote the questions. Just shocking all round. Gave Lucy Kennedy her medium break too which annoys a lot of Boardsies.

    Colin Murphy was perfect on Blizzard of Odd. ****e little clips from "Leprechaun in the Hood" quality films that he could tear apart. I was probably about 10 too at the time when both these shows were on the air.


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    #59
    daredevil360
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    The Savage Eye ,great laugh ,the garda scenes were my fav :-)


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    #60
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Tomohawk wrote: »
    No one remember NightHawks with Shay Healy then? Now that was explosive, compulsive viewing back in the day...Irish TDs lining up to stab themselves in the back on live TV inbetween live music and strange stand up comedians and skits.

    Ah I remember it well.
    Also, other clips such as Dunphy and Gilesy singing on it absolutely blotto the night that Ireland qualified for Italia 90.
    There was a programme on RTE1 on New Years Day or the 2nd last year that looked back at a lot of the stuff on Nighthwks.

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/tv50nighthawksrehashed.html

    The phone tapping bit was huge at the time!
    Tomohawk wrote: »
    Waterways with Dick Warney on his canal barge was also beautifully shot and editied.

    An extremely underrated programme, as is most of his stuff.


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    #61
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭s8n


    Hands and the hands revisited show from last year (might not be the actual title).


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