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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #1862
    the purple tin
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    I missed it at the time it came out and only saw it recently but The Shield is great. Very gritty series though.

    So many familiar faces in it too that you recognise from other shows.


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    #1863
    KaneToad
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    I remember watching "A place in France". It was a Ch4 production, about 20 years ago. It was a reality show- back when reality was good.

    It followed Nigel (Farrell) & Nippy (Singh) and their endeavours to buy a property in France and open an Indian restaurant.

    I loved it. No one else seems to have even heard of it.



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    #1864
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Vaguely remember a travel show shown on (I think) RTE circa mid to late 90s. I only caught it when it was coming to an end. An Irish and a Welsh girl in their late teens or early twenties who were travelling through either Chile or Argentina or possibly both. The Welsh girl was a bit hippy ish. The Irish girl came across as really arrogant and full of herself.


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    #1865
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Anyone remember the big Bow Wow?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401913/


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    #1866
    Andrea B.
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    Mart and Market


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    #1867
    Hangdogroad
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Anyone remember the big Bow Wow?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401913/

    Yes. One of the worst things RTE have ever put out and that's saying something.


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    #1868
    NewbridgeIR
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    Andrea B. wrote: »
    Mart and Market

    Fond memories of Cowjack


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    #1869
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Yes. One of the worst things RTE have ever put out and that's saying something.

    I just came across that page by accident, I can vaguely remember it, must have been so.


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    #1870
    Hangdogroad
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    Molloy, , RTE sitcom from 88 or 89 starring Jim Norton. Wasnt very good. One piece of dialogue that sticks in my mind was "get off me you smelly sex maniac!" about the only laugh in the whole thing.


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    #1871
    paleoperson
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    I think Due South would be fairly mainstream, I'm sure it's still on the satellite channels occasionally.


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    #1872
    Subbuteo
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    I think Due South would be fairly mainstream, I'm sure it's still on the satellite channels occasionally.

    Yep it was a good show!

    Anyone remember ‘Telly Cat’ from late 80s the Children’s Channel? Not easy to find anything online.

    It was a surreal show featuring a news reading cat and an ostrich with cleavage. I recall it being a bizarrely uncomfortable watch, which was rare for kids tv back then...


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    #1873
    Hangdogroad
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    Subbuteo wrote: »
    Yep it was a good show!

    Anyone remember ‘Telly Cat’ from late 80s the Children’s Channel? Not easy to find anything online.

    It was a surreal show featuring a news reading cat and an ostrich with cleavage. I recall it being a bizarrely uncomfortable watch, which was rare for kids tv back then...

    Tele-chat? It's all on YouTube, albeit in French. It was originally shown in France in the 80s. The makers were also behind a very messed up puppet movie about the Marquis De Sade which I stumbled upon late on night in the early 90s on one of the German satellite channels.


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    #1874
    Subbuteo
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Tele-chat? It's all on YouTube, albeit in French. It was originally shown in France in the 80s.

    Thats it! The version I remember was an english dub with re-recorded titles. Every bit as odd as I recall


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    #1875
    davekim
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    I really missing my childhood days because in that days, I watched my favorite cartoon series Thunder Cats.


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    #1876
    smilerf
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    Not that old but I loved Becker
    Never hear anyone mentioning it


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    #1877
    Worztron
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    davekim wrote: »
    I really missing my childhood days because in that days, I watched my favorite cartoon series Thunder Cats.

    The intro was amazing.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #1878
    odyssey06
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    I have a memory of Thunder Cats airing on a thursday at teatime and eating Findus crispy pancakes...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1879
    the purple tin
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    smilerf wrote: »
    Not that old but I loved Becker
    Never hear anyone mentioning it
    Great sitcom. Ted Danson as an ill-tempered doctor who has a pathological hatred of midgets. :D
    They couldn't do it nowadays.


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    #1880
    Hangdogroad
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    Trying to remember a BBC Northern Ireland series from the late 90s, Sort of drama/black comedy set in Belfast. Two guys running some sort of scam that involved getting a loan of a million pounds for some arts project (I think). One of them was a fat Mark Addy lookalike who used to pop up in a lot of NI set films and tv round the turn of the Millenium.


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    #1881
    Hangdogroad
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Trying to remember a BBC Northern Ireland series from the late 90s, Sort of drama/black comedy set in Belfast. Two guys running some sort of scam that involved getting a loan of a million pounds for some arts project (I think). One of them was a fat Mark Addy lookalike who used to pop up in a lot of NI set films and tv round the turn of the Millenium.

    Found it, it was Eureka Street.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213344/


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    #1882
    Hangdogroad
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    Anyone remember this load of rubbish? Greatest Heroes Of The Bible. RTE showed it circa 1985. Looked cheap as chips, battle scenes with about ten combatants and wonky sets plus filled with fading 1950's stars who obviously needed the money.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077018/


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    #1883
    the purple tin
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    The State Of Us.
    An excellent parody. It was Risteard Cooper playing famous RTE celebrities and politicians of the day (mid 00s about).
    Pat Kenny was the main character, his Marianne Finnuchane impression was hilarious. Riiight, riiight :D


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    #1884
    Hangdogroad
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    Remember that drama-doc thing RTE did around mid 00's about the consequences of a meltdown at Sellafield? About the closest they've come to a Threads type dystopian drama. The most effective part was the fake news report, I dunno was it with Anne Doyle?, it was a real newsreader anyway.


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    #1885
    Skid X
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember that drama-doc thing RTE did around mid 00's about the consequences of a meltdown at Sellafield? About the closest they've come to a Threads type dystopian drama. The most effective part was the fake news report, I dunno was it with Anne Doyle?, it was a real newsreader anyway.

    Yeah, I think that was 'Fallout'

    The news reports were done well. A few viewers were spooked and thought it was real.

    I don't think the full show is online anywhere, there are a few clips








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    #1886
    AndrewJRenko
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that was 'Fallout'

    The news reports were done well. A few viewers were spooked and thought it was real.

    I don't think the full show is online anywhere, there are a few clips
    It was quite realistic indeed, and didn't include all the usual same oul RTE faces iirc.


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    #1887
    the purple tin
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    Does anyone remember this guy who would come on to one of the Irish Saturday morning kids shows.

    Children would ring in and give him some details about themselves and then he would go off on an angry rant shouting and slagging them off for a minute or two.
    I don't know who on earth thought it would be a good idea for kids tv, sometimes he seemed to really lose the run of himself. One time he called a girl 'Little Miss Pissy Knickers'!
    Some time in the 80s I think maybe the 90s.


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    #1888
    Hangdogroad
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Does anyone remember this guy who would come on to one of the Irish Saturday morning kids shows.

    Children would ring in and give him some details about themselves and then he would go off on an angry rant shouting and slagging them off for a minute or two.
    I don't know who on earth thought it would be a good idea for kids tv, sometimes he seemed to really lose the run of himself. One time he called a girl 'Little Miss Pissy Knickers'!
    Some time in the 80s I think maybe the 90s.

    Lol, I'm wracking my brain but that doesn't ring a bell. Was he doing it "in character"? Was he young or old?


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    #1889
    the purple tin
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Lol, I'm wracking my brain but that doesn't ring a bell. Was he doing it "in character"? Was he young or old?
    He was youngish, maybe 30s. Dark hair, he might have been a failed or wannabe stand-up or something like that.
    He was in character yes, he would come on the show just to do this every week. Maybe called Mr ...something, Mr Angry or something silly like that.

    For some reason I keep thinking of Baz Ashwamy I'll have to check him out.

    Edit- Not Baz anyway he is too young.


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    #1890
    Hangdogroad
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    He was youngish, maybe 30s. Dark hair, he might have been a failed or wannabe stand-up or something like that.
    He was in character yes, he would come on the show just to do this every week. Maybe called Mr ...something, Mr Angry or something silly like that.

    For some reason I keep thinking of Baz Ashwamy I'll have to check him out.

    Edit- Not Baz anyway he is too young.

    Might it be Paul Tylak or Joe Rooney? They used to a lot of sketches together on the RTE Saturday morning youth shows in the early 90s.


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    #1891
    the purple tin
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Might it be Paul Tylak or Joe Rooney? They used to a lot of sketches together on the RTE Saturday morning youth shows in the early 90s.
    That Tylak guy looks very familiar, you know I think you have got it H. Well done :)

    There's also a small chance it was Rooney thinking about it but quite sure it was one of the two.


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