Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

EmmetSpiceland · 05-05-2021 4:24pm

julyjane wrote: »

Dear old inner city Du-ub-lin, the town i loved so dear, but we're after winning 2 million quid now we're off to Belvedere

That’s it, ‘Belvedere Downs’ was the place. Hillary Fannin was class.

fryup · 05-05-2021 5:24pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Eamon Morrissey? Yeah he was in it. Great comic actor.

yes he was/is a great comedy actor, loved his stint on Fr Ted, and of course Hall's Pictorial Weekly

RandomViewer · 05-05-2021 6:12pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

BBC's Safe And Sound from 1996 set in NI. Never saw this one but it sounds terrible despite the cast.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-terrible-sitcom-is-born-1.75823

No memory of it whatsoever, there was a terrible one around the same time with Warren Mitchell as a Jewish factory owner in Belfast,
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0101201/

fryup · 05-05-2021 10:26pm

fryup wrote: »

leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It was exported to Nigeria IIRC

well then we should send a letter of apology to Nigeria for any suffering caused

05-05-2021 11:00pm

El Tarangu wrote: »

When the actor playing the little chubby fellow [from Upwardly Mobile] died, he was given a full paramilitary funeral - it turns out he was a member of the Real IRA.

Absolutely unsurprised to hear this.

Was the main guy, the dad, "The Hutch"?

I'm now convinced the whole storyline was based on Gerry Hutch. Lottery win, my eye.

RandomViewer · 07-05-2021 4:44pm

fryup wrote: »

well then we should send a letter of apology to Nigeria for any suffering caused

Think we may have breached the Geneva convention, cruel and unusual punishment?

Hangdogroad · 11-05-2021 11:40pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

There was Bull Island before that too.

Pretty average at best from what I remember.

Average isint the word. This looks like an outtake from Wanderly Wagon as written by Jim Davidson.

KillianM2 TV Archive &#55357;&#56570; (@KillianM2) Tweeted:
2001
#BullIsland https://t.co/IytaZ9hFGH https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1392056418858065920?s=20

El Tarangu · 15-05-2021 12:35am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Average isint the word. This looks like an outtake from Wanderly Wagon as written by Jim Davidson.

Yiiiiiiikes.....

2 fast · 15-05-2021 9:08am

the purple tin wrote: »

I've never seen it before. Christ that is bad. Peepshow wannabe.

I got w minute in, wtf are the opening credits about and the voice over ! Just bad ....

Sgt Hartman · 15-05-2021 12:37pm

Only a new sitcom but I caught two episodes of Frank of Ireland on the All 4 app and I'm not impressed so far. It stars Brendan Gleeson's two sons Brian and Domhnall, and Pat Shortt makes an appearance also.

Hangdogroad · 15-05-2021 4:56pm

saabsaab wrote: »

A few sixties RTE comedy programmes (I don't remember them either and I don't think any have been preserved)

t's Too Late – We're On!

Justice at Large

Me and My Friend

O'Dea's Your Man

Some of O Deas Your Man survives, not sure as entire episodes but I've seen clips pop up on RTE.

Archeron · 15-05-2021 5:49pm

The centre. I think it was fairly hated but I thought it was very funny,
Pulled off air because it was offensive to pretty much everybody.
The bang of dole off ya,

15-05-2021 5:54pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Only a new sitcom but I caught two episodes of Frank of Ireland on the All 4 app and I'm not impressed so far. It stars Brendan Gleeson's two sons Brian and Domhnall, and Pat Shortt makes an appearance also.

That's a v decisive one........Mrs Mc Carthy thought it was great craic, committed to the entire series, ....I'm in the same camp as you.....thought it was overrated self indulgent nonsense

RandomViewer · 15-05-2021 6:04pm

Barney Bunion P.I,

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4396094/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Hangdogroad · 15-05-2021 6:55pm

Archeron wrote: »

The centre. I think it was fairly hated but I thought it was very funny,
Pulled off air because it was offensive to pretty much everybody.
The bang of dole off ya,

Never saw that but I cant stand Jennifer Zamperelli so doubt I'd get through it.

RandomViewer · 15-05-2021 8:30pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Never saw that but I cant stand Jennifer Zamperelli so doubt I'd get through it.

She's covered up ,pretending to be a Muslim, Katherine what's its face is playing a traveller and one of the bucks from Apre Match is having gender change, I'm assuming there were other characters to offend

15-05-2021 8:34pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Never saw that but I cant stand Jennifer Zamperelli so doubt I'd get through it.

I regularly ask myself who is the more annoying and talentless overpaid & overindulged 'presenter' on the radio....Jennifer zamperilli OR lottie Ryan??????????
The answer varies from day-to-day

Wiggywiggle · 02-06-2021 7:30pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I regularly ask myself who is the more annoying and talentless overpaid & overindulged 'presenter' on the radio....Jennifer zamperilli OR lottie Ryan??????????
The answer varies from day-to-day

Did you ever settle who was more talentless?

02-06-2021 7:49pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Average isint the word. This looks like an outtake from Wanderly Wagon as written by Jim Davidson.

KillianM2 TV Archive �� (@KillianM2) Tweeted:
2001
#BullIsland https://t.co/IytaZ9hFGH https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1392056418858065920?s=20

Bull Island was sometimes very funny.

It would have been funnier if the arabic subtitles actually said something, like "Gerry Ryan, always off his head on coke". It just says gibberish, though.

Bull Island was a good series, always just on the verge of being brilliant.

We need some good political satire now.

02-06-2021 7:55pm

Sorry if this has been posted already, but they have whole episodes of Upwardly Mobile online. Still kinda fancy that posh neighbour, married to the guy who looks like Ivan Yates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSppO51Scc

EmmetSpiceland · 02-06-2021 7:57pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Sorry if this has been posted already, but they have whole episodes of Upwardly Mobile online. Still kinda fancy that posh neighbour, married to the guy who looks like Ivan Yates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSppO51Scc

Hilary Fannin. Definitely would.

EmmetSpiceland · 02-06-2021 7:59pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

…married to the guy who looks like Ivan Yates

He made the BBC!

02-06-2021 8:02pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

He made the BBC!

That's who he is!! I'm still convinced he's Ivan though.

flazio · 02-06-2021 8:02pm

I'm On Setanta Sports, Mario Rosenstock voicing Spitting Image puppets of Jose Mourhino, Wayne Rooney and Sven Goran Ericsson. It moved to BBC 3 for a while but I forget its name there.

Sgt Hartman · 02-06-2021 8:03pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That's who he is!! I'm still convinced he's Ivan though.

Niall Buggy is his name, and he does indeed look like Ivan

Beechwoodspark · 02-06-2021 8:13pm

A Lamb Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Bull Island was sometimes very funny.

It would have been funnier if the arabic subtitles actually said something, like "Gerry Ryan, always off his head on coke". It just says gibberish, though.

Bull Island was a good series, always just on the verge of being brilliant.

We need some good political satire now.

Callans kicks is decent. Radio show as opposed to tv

Hangdogroad · 03-06-2021 4:41pm

This article lists a rogues gallery of bad RTE comedies including "the Lads" which is described as mirthless 70s sitcom remembered by few. Anyone here see it or remember who was in it?

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/entertainment/tv-radio/rte-finally-gives-us-something-to-smile-about-28961797.html

Hangdogroad · 03-06-2021 6:05pm

Bit more digging unearths some more info on the Lads. Have a sneaking suspicion this has been wiped. Bella from Fair City and Glenroes Dick Byrne among the cast. James Caffrey was John in John did ya put the cat out?

Is that the same David Byrne who went on to be a presenter on Bosco?
https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2060/036.html

Ok, that was a one off tv play. The sitcom proper was loosely based on it and ran in 1975. No info on cast.

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2367/055.html

NewbridgeIR · 03-06-2021 7:02pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Bit more digging unearths some more info on the Lads. Have a sneaking suspicion this has been wiped. Bella from Fair City and Glenroes Dick Byrne among the cast. James Caffrey was John in John did ya put the cat out?

Is that the same David Byrne who went on to be a presenter on Bosco?
https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2060/036.html

Ok, that was a one off tv play. The sitcom proper was loosely based on it and ran in 1975. No info on cast.

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2367/055.html

That's the same David Byrne who was in Bosco.

The Lads (1975) consists of six episodes.
Directed by Laurence Bourne who died in 2012.
Set in Dublin flat occupied for four young bachelors all into "birds and booze" - apparently it highlighted the chronic adolescence that prevailed in many Irish men. There was a female lead, a researcher named Winnie.

There's a few lines on it in Helena Sheehan's Irish Television Drama book.

Hangdogroad · 25-07-2021 8:45pm

Not quite a sitcom but it doesn't really fit in with the other forgotten stuff threads. The Unbelieveable Truth (not to be mixed up with BBC show of same name) was a sort of mockumentary, in which Colin Murphy took aim at Irish sacred cows, such as U2. It was very disappointing as it had a lot of promise and came soon after the Blizzard Of Odd, which I really enjoyed.

Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

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