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Wanderly wagon

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  • 04-10-2007 3:18pm
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    Degsy
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    Anybody remember this?Probably the best show ever connected with RTE.There was O'Brien the bumbling halfwit,Crow,Rory(i cat remember his function but he's a caretaker in Barrow St now),Grandmother,Fortycoats,Judge the dog and load others i cant remember.As a school day out we were brought to Lambert's puppet theatre to watch the various wanderly wagon puppets doing thier thang..great days!

    http://www.irish-tv.com/wander.asp


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    c - 13
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    ;)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=494


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    Degsy
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    c - 13 wrote:
    ;)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=494

    That forum has gone down like a turd in a punchbowl hasnt it?:D


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    Ger the man
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    Here comes the wagon! The wanderly, wanderly wagon! Ah yes I remember it well, went to Lamberts puppet theatre in Monkstown for a school tour about 25 yeards ago. I wonder is the rip-off sweet shop still there?


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    c - 13
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    Degsy wrote:
    That forum has gone down like a turd in a punchbowl hasnt it?:D

    Yep, its quiet there alright. Wanderly wagon was a bit before my time. I'm a man of the Bosco generation.


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    Degsy
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    c - 13 wrote:
    Yep, its quiet there alright. Wanderly wagon was a bit before my time. I'm a man of the Bosco generation.

    Did you know that Bosco was voiced by Paula Lambert who was Eugene Lambert(O'Brien's) daughter?


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    Dudess
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    Wanderly Wagon was discontinued in 1982 when I was only four, but I still remember it clearly.


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    hiscan
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    Degsy wrote:
    Anybody remember this?Probably the best show ever connected with RTE.There was O'Brien the bumbling halfwit,Crow,Rory(i cat remember his function but he's a caretaker in Barrow St now),Grandmother,Fortycoats,Judge the dog and load others i cant remember.As a school day out we were brought to Lambert's puppet theatre to watch the various wanderly wagon puppets doing thier thang..great days!

    http://www.irish-tv.com/wander.asp

    i thought fortycoats had his own show was it dr astro you were thinking of?


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    Firetrap
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    We had a Wanderly Wagon annual at home sometime in the early 80s. Then, a few years later in school, the lucky kids in infants got little Judge button badges because he was fronting the Safe Cross Code. We were deemed too old :(


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    sceptre
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    hiscan wrote:
    i thought fortycoats had his own show was it dr astro you were thinking of?
    Fortycoats was a spinoff from WW, he used to turn up in his flying trickshop (but only when Rory wasn't about) from time to time.


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    Degsy
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    sceptre wrote:
    Fortycoats was a spinoff from WW, he used to turn up in his flying trickshop (but only when Rory wasn't about) from time to time.

    Correct,he had two annoying sidekicks:
    Sofar Sogood,who used to wear gloves and a multicoloured school cap and Slightly Bonkers,a red-haired schoolgirl with aDublin accent.They spent thier time doing battle with the Whirlygig witch and a charcater called Pickarooney who lived in a dump.


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    Hangdogroad
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    I picked up the volume 2 dvd pre covid in a charity shop and have just gotten round to watching it. The first episode on it; the Hijacked Sweetshop from 1978 has a guy playing Fortycoats who isn't Fran Dempsey and I don't think he's Bill Goulding either. He's simply credited as "Fortycoats". There's a picture of him on the cover. Anyone know who he is?


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    Hangdogroad
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    This is a clip from the episode in question. He could possibly be Bill Golding but I thought he'd left by this stage?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-KnZVseNnY


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    branie2
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    O'Brien was a bumbler


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    Hangdogroad
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    1977 episode intro, Rory and Foxy were still in it . I very vaguely remember this version of the theme song before it was replaced by the more disco influenced instrumental.


    https://youtu.be/u6aREvX8Hmg




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    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113364200#Comment_113364200

    OK I've since come to the conclusion that it was Bill Golding playing him here.

    Is Bill retired from acting or what's he doing these days. Must be pushing on in years.



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