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Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

Adamantium

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. I was obsessed with this as a kid. I think it was the first movie I was "aware" of. Wore the tape out. Yet I completely forgot about for years until tonight, that it even existed.

This scene was eerie and creepy and I didn't understand what was going on truly, but I was awestruck by it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9SJi8a_yeM

Funny as hell, even now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvcTO7EMT0

The animation is just...jesus christ it's gorgeous. When she looks into the reflection in the water, the ripples, putting the bucket and it flows like liquid gold, splashing it on the painting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85_BH9huvE

I can't remember any further back than that!

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Shakespeare's Sister

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Some Australian thing, a bit like a cross between Skippy and A Country Practice, on in the evening. There was this footbridge, well more of a plank, across a marshy type pond and a young lad was walking across. All of a sudden this monster thing, a bit like Animal from the Muppets,bursts up from the muddy water and strikes up a conversation with the kid. About being lonely I think. Scared the crap out of me.

I've been trying for the last twenty years to find out what that show was, starting to think I dreamt it.

Diane Selwyn wrote: »

If it wasn't the Alexander Bunyip Show it might have been The Nargun and the Stars?

I think The Nargun and the Stars too. Had a bit with a rock talking to the young lad - whispering his name very eerily. Scared me too!

Anyone remember the following cartoon shown as filler on RTE in the early 80s? A guy gets up for work, goes outside and gets into a rocket instead of a car and goes to space for the day... and then wakes up - it was just a dream, and he gets up and heads off to work in his car as normal. Extremely low-cost, amateur animation - some of it comprised of just cut-outs from magazines and that.

rolliepoley

Carole Hersee.

Irish Guitarist

Time In A Bottle performed on The Muppet Show. I still love that song, although now I prefer the original by Jim Croce.

The Domonator

This scared the crap out of me as a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF4nASfZGO4

Lapin

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Getting up at the crack of dawn for Anything Goes and watching Aonghus McAnally with his odd socks. Never warmed to that Mary wan, she came across as an auld bossy biddy.

Who were the other two presenters?

There was a girl who always wore a tracksuit (maybe she started the trend ?), and a bloke who used to interwiew up and coming shíte bands as though the nation depended on what they had to say. He made them all appear very important.

Pumpkinseeds

Bosco
Wanderly wagon
Anything goes (saturday mornings)
The A team
The Monkees

Lots of crap really

Vito Corleone

Ruu

This was on ITV, think the cast changed once or twice. At least 70% of the stuff I watched came from Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk25uguK-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_fDf6yRMQ

Galwayguy35

One of the presenters on Bosco has popped up on various shows over the years, the big guy with the tache, can't think of his name.

FunLover18

Had a load of these on VHS, there's one in particular where Tigger loses his stripes which still haunts me. I also knew Tigger's song off by heart and I still vaguely remember most of it.

My earliest memory of going to the cinema was George Of The Jungle, I was 7 and my parents took me and my sisters out of school and we had a day out.

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the soaps corrie emmerdale ee fc

The Backwards Man

Diane Selwyn wrote: »

If it wasn't the Alexander Bunyip Show it might have been The Nargun and the Stars?

Magaggie wrote: »

I think The Nargun and the Stars too. Had a bit with a rock talking to the young lad - whispering his name very eerily. Scared me too!

Anyone remember the following cartoon shown as filler on RTE in the early 80s? A guy gets up for work, goes outside and gets into a rocket instead of a car and goes to space for the day... and then wakes up - it was just a dream, and he gets up and heads off to work in his car as normal. Extremely low-cost, amateur animation - some of it comprised of just cut-outs from magazines and that.

Holy suffering Jesus Christ that's the one all right! A thousand thank yous to both of you, that's been playing on my mind for fooking years. If either are ever up this way I'll buy you a pint, take you for dinner, give you a rodgering, whatever you want!:pac: That's why I love this forum!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHGgzV35lE

Ruu

Yeah the cartoons about the human body, life, space etc were Once Upon a Time..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time..._Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1PuS2NVOw

McChubbin

Jaysus, Ruubot! That's a blast from the past! Haven't seen that in YEARS.
My earliest memory of a summer blockbuster was when I was left in playschool while my mother brought my 10 year old brother to see Jurassic Park in the cinema. I still haven't forgiven her for that...

dirtyden

Watching James bond on a Friday night seems to be the earliest movie memory I can recall.

TV programmes Id have to make an educated guess at bosco and then he-man and thundercats when I get over so slightly older.

I know I also watched Wanderly Wagon but I cant really remember anything about it apart from the theme music.

murphydublin

Button moon - just after we dropped my sister to school it would be on.

my first film was Santa Claus the movie, announced it to be wonderful later despite snoring my way through after the walk into town!

JoeA3

Going to see Superman in the cinema with my Dad. It must have been Superman 3 given the timeline. I remember being in absolute awe as the curtains opened wider after the ads and the film started. Amazing when you were used to RTE1 only on a crappy telly at home!

I also remember watching this at home and being terrified that Santa was a gonner when he did that stunt flying the reindeer under the bridge. I also thought it was filmed in Dublin as there's a scene outside MacDonalds and in my naive youth I associated MacDonalds with Dublin and only Dublin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHwKCMbKe5w

As for TV, I have memories of the A-team, the fall guy, etc, and being told to close my eyes whenever JR Ewing was about to do something "dirty"

Geomy

I remember watching "The island of the great yellow ox" on anythinggoes years ago.

It was a 3 part series about the great kid's story by Walter Macken.

Id love to see it again, I think it could be turned into an Irish version of the Goonies :-)

orangesoda

Winny the pooh may actually be my earliest, I remember my mother got me a VHS from the bloke who had a mobile shop, he used to drive about in a lorry full of grocereies, mid 1990s again.

Or it could well be the chipmunks, my older brother had a VHS from the 80s of a few episodes, one was the one with Michael Jackson in it and the other was the one with Seamus the leprechaun.

Ace Attorney

Spacejam with the looney toons and michael Jordan i think? And that fooking song i believe i can fly was playing everywhere!

deseil

My first visit to the pictures was to see ET. I have never experienced the emotion or amazement that I felt while watching that movie.
I was obsessed for years after and still rate it as the best family movie of all time

aaaaaaaahhhhhh

Dappledown Farm back in the late 80's

DJ Kat in the early 90's onwards.

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First movie I ever saw in the cinema was Jurassic Park, aged 6 or 7. I've never forgotten it, I was absolutely transported into another world, and when it was over I was desperate to watch it over and over again. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. It was like a sort of magic.

All I played with for a long time afterwards were toy dinosaurs. I remember collecting magazines that featured a different dinosaur every month, with appropriate poster that I wasn't allowed put on my wall and I became a dino-know-it-all. Even now, when I watch it I still feel a bit of that magic.

LETHAL LADY

Was Dragons Dens Gavin Duffy a presenter on Bosco?

zcorpian88

Watching Terminator 2 with my dad on VHS in around 1992. Odd because I was not even 4 at the time. became obsessed with the movie, got this awesome large figurine with a minigun for Christmas that year, it's in the attic still, must root it out, I'd love to have it again.

Also All Dogs Go To Heaven and Fern Gully The Last Rainforest.

All Dogs Go To Heaven should not ever be shown to children, such a sad kids movie!

THall04

Calibos wrote: »

All I could remember of the movie was I saw it in the little cinema next door though unlikely in the year of release which places it about '78 with myself aged 4 and that it had a scene with a guy getting the top of his head sliced off by helicopter blades.

I google helicopter decapitation movie and after 3 Vic Morrow Twilight Zone results (real life movie decapitation) BINGO.

Google and IMDB tag team gives me 'Holocaust 2000' !!

Honestly though, who brings a 4 year old to a movie like that!! Dad?? Grandad?? Aunty??

Next movie I remember is the chestburster scene in Alien on first release VHS in 1980. I was 6.

I don't think I saw the rest of Alien till 1990

The scene where Vic Morrow and the two child actors died wasn't in the final film (although some footage was shown in news reports during the manslaughter trial).

You could have been watching the 1978 version of Invasion Of The body snatchers

anto9

A US TV show around 1962 called ''Harbor Command ''.It still sticks in my mind .Another show that stands out is the Virginian .

http://youtu.be/EWf9BwJz1k4

The Virginian had a great theme tune ,
http://youtu.be/S423KrdanTM

jellyjaws

A few tv shows stick out in my mind but the earliest ones would be TJ Hooker, A-Team and Kinghtrider.

The first movie I remember was the Gremlins, the first 30-40 min of that film was great but as soon as the cute fury things turned green I bolted out dragging my mother and aunt with me. I still have nightmares .