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Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

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    #1592
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Mattie, Pat Shortts followup to Killinaskully. I think Pat himself would rather forget that one. Even the crowd who lapped up Killanaskully didn't take to it. It was then retconned as Sgt Mattie and managed to be even worse.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1880641/

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



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    #1593
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    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    The Irish rm.
    Does anyone remember that.
    Neil toibin was in it.

    I recorded this on TG4 which are showing it at the moment- i thought i'd be in for a treat having watched it as a kid but totally forgot what the acting/dialogue was like.

    OMG, painful is not the word- a real "Oirish" programme- embarrassing is not the word- needless to say, it's well deleted from my playlist.


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    #1594
    George White
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    "Elephant Boy follows shortly" anyone remember that?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcSSETB3JI

    A German-Australian-Scottish-Sri Lankan coproduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjm0iDf_J1M


    Anyone remember its even more obscure ITV stablemate, Ski-Boy...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23lnt0Sgg5o


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    #1595
    flos1964
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    "Elephant Boy follows shortly" anyone remember that?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcSSETB3JI

    Fantastic theme music....god that brings me back to my childhood...watched it many a time.


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    #1596
    Hangdogroad
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    Mr T animated series. Always at the end there would be a live action bit where he'd have a "message" for kids. The only one I can remember was "don't be a fool, go to school!"


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    #1597
    Hangdogroad
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    Does anyone remember this old RTE music show, TX? I can't anything online about it, other than there was an RTE show in the late 90's with the same title.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn3f_HdvyE


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    #1598
    NewbridgeIR
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    My neighbour (born mid 60s) used to watch TX
    It pre-dated Anything Goes which started in September 1980 and also had Dave Heffernan doing a rock show.


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    #1599
    Pawwed Rig
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    Does anyone remember Trans world sport? It used to show really obscure sports from around the world.

    It would probably describe something else if that name was used today ;)


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    #1600
    Doctors room ghost
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Does anyone remember Trans world sport? It used to show really obscure sports from around the world.

    I do.was on the cable link on a Saturday morning.skying and other weird sports on it and the division 3 soccer league from Botswana.
    I liked that show


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    #1601
    Jimbob1977
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    Spellbinder - parallel universe accessed by a schoolkid through the Australian bush.

    Under the Mountain - creepy New Zealand programme about twins trying to stop shape-shifting monsters from conquering the Earth. Probably too scary for today's children's television.

    Moondial

    Children of the Stones - really unsettling

    Earthfasts - time travelling and magic in the Yorkshire Dales

    Eerie, Indiana


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    #1602
    smilerf
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    Used to love transworld sport.


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    #1603
    rubadub
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Does anyone remember Trans world sport?

    still on the go
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsMiwFQdEP5t_5a7CpGN7tQ

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_World_Sport


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    #1604
    Cork Boy 53
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Spellbinder - parallel universe accessed by a schoolkid through the Australian bush.

    Under the Mountain - creepy New Zealand programme about twins trying to stop shape-shifting monsters from conquering the Earth. Probably too scary for today's children's television.

    Moondial

    Children of the Stones - really unsettling

    Earthfasts - time travelling and magic in the Yorkshire Dales

    Eerie, Indiana

    I do remember watching Children of the Stones in the 1970s. I don`t remember the others you mentioned.


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    #1605
    Hangdogroad
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    Island Of The Great Yellow Ox. Had forgotten about this till someone mentioned it in a thread on AH. I know I saw it but memory of it is very hazy.


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    #1606
    donegal_man
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Island Of The Great Yellow Ox. Had forgotten about this till someone mentioned it in a thread on AH. I know I saw it but memory of it is very hazy.

    I remember reading the book along with Macken's "Flight of the Doves" as a child, didn't know there had been a tv adaptation.


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    #1607
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Island Of The Great Yellow Ox. Had forgotten about this till someone mentioned it in a thread on AH. I know I saw it but memory of it is very hazy.


    Did you see it in 1971 or 1981?
    Anything Goes repeated it over three Saturdays for the latter.
    Great production.


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    #1608
    Hangdogroad
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Did you see it in 1971 or 1981?
    Anything Goes repeated it over three Saturdays for the latter.
    Great production.

    Would have been 81.


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    #1609
    Hangdogroad
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    Has Black Forest Clinic been mentioned? German medical soap which RTE showed late 80s. Appaling dubbing.


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    #1610
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Has Black Forest Clinic been mentioned? German medical soap which RTE showed late 80s. Appaling dubbing.


    RTE2 midweek filler mid 80s
    Some laugh


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    #1611
    Hangdogroad
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    Remember a very shorted lived music talent show Gerry Ryan hosted circa 1998? It was filmed in Belfast (City Hall i think)so presumably RTE/UTV Co production. There was this trio of black female singers who did something between the acts. Not singing entire songs just going "ooooooh" or something linking the acts. They seemed to be there for no good reason other than black people were still considered exotic on Irish tv at the time.


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    #1612
    Skid X
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember a very shorted lived music talent show Gerry Ryan hosted circa 1998? It was filmed in Belfast (City Hall i think)so presumably RTE/UTV Co production. There was this trio of black female singers who did something between the acts. Not singing entire songs just going "ooooooh" or something linking the acts. They seemed to be there for no good reason other than black people were still considered exotic on Irish tv at the time.


    For some reason I remember Gerry Ryan boasting on the radio after that show that he had used the gym in the hotel in Belfast every day, and lecturing everyone that there was no excuse not to keep fit no matter how busy you might be. What an inspiration he was if you ignore the Class A Drugs.


    Samantha Mumba was a contestant on it, this isn't her




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    #1613
    corks finest
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I recorded this on TG4 which are showing it at the moment- i thought i'd be in for a treat having watched it as a kid but totally forgot what the acting/dialogue was like.

    OMG, painful is not the word- a real "Oirish" programme- embarrassing is not the word- needless to say, it's well deleted from my playlist.

    Liked it


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    #1614
    Hangdogroad
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    fryup wrote: »
    what was that pop video show on rte that replaced mt usa?...it featured vox pops from the public before each video?

    late 80's me thinks

    Think I know what it was now. Finding Fax Future. There's a clip on YouTube but can't link as on phone.


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    #1615
    Hangdogroad
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    The Truth About Claire, a drama_documentary shown on RTE in 1990 about a woman going to England for an abortion.


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    #1616
    George White
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember a very shorted lived music talent show Gerry Ryan hosted circa 1998? It was filmed in Belfast (City Hall i think)so presumably RTE/UTV Co production. There was this trio of black female singers who did something between the acts. Not singing entire songs just going "ooooooh" or something linking the acts. They seemed to be there for no good reason other than black people were still considered exotic on Irish tv at the time.



    You're A Star had a similar trio of female singers too.
    Who'd just go, "Oooh-whooo-oooh-whooo, ooh-whooo-hooo, you're a star!" every time before an act.


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    #1617
    beauf
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    Edge of Darkness BBC drama

    https://youtu.be/2bfPS7p6Z1k


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    #1618
    beauf
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    Hardcastle and McCormick

    https://youtu.be/_oHpWw7L3d4


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    #1619
    beauf
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    Sledge Hammer

    https://youtu.be/-WKM9GDuX0Y


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    #1620
    Hangdogroad
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    beauf wrote: »
    Edge of Darkness BBC drama

    https://youtu.be/2bfPS7p6Z1k

    A teacher of mine at the time gave out about that because it featured "firing shotguns into fellows faces" as he put it.


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    #1621
    Worztron
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    beauf wrote: »
    Sledge Hammer

    https://youtu.be/-WKM9GDuX0Y

    Ah, I loved that show. :-)

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



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