Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

RandomViewer · 15-11-2020 1:34pm

ShyMets wrote: »

Anyone remember Brian Murray in the sitcom Bread. Played the character of Cousin Shifty.

To be fair to Murray he wasn't bad but the character was a little on the Orish side at times

But everyone remembers him as Trevor Jordash in Brookside,

fluke · 15-11-2020 1:35pm

Quite enjoyed some of the sketches from Your Bad Self with Domhnall Gleeson as a clothes store assistant making X-Men sounds.

There was one on Network 2, about an evening class, think it was broadcast in the 00's which lasted one season I think. Only caught a bit of it but seemed sharp enough.

Also there's currently an animated thing on after 9pm on 2 - Fantasy Ireland. Pretty awful.

RandomViewer · 15-11-2020 1:41pm

There's some rubbish set in a newspaper, early 90s ,very vague recollection,

George White · 15-11-2020 4:27pm

Extra, Extra - Read All About It - dip**** Hot Metal/Drop the Dead Donkey with Norman Rodway

Capt'n Midnight · 15-11-2020 7:09pm

Soft Border Patrol. Forgotten about already.

Hangdogroad · 15-11-2020 8:26pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

There's some rubbish set in a newspaper, early 90s ,very vague recollection,

George White wrote: »

Extra, Extra - Read All About It - dip**** Hot Metal/Drop the Dead Donkey with Norman Rodway

Unbelievably bad in every possible way. The Roaring Twenties of the early 90s.

Hangdogroad · 15-11-2020 9:51pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

But everyone remembers him as Trevor Jordash in Brookside,

Or Flurrry Knox in The Irish RM depending on far back you go.

COVID · 15-11-2020 9:58pm

Not a sitcom I know, but Bryan Murray's performance as 'Fitz' in Strumpet City was probably his best ever.

skooterblue2 · 15-11-2020 9:59pm

El Tarangu wrote: »

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

hmmmmm, the poor fella got into an argument with someone as I recall and brought on an asthma attack. I think it was more of a "walter" than leader of an Active Service Unit. Terribly sad story.

skooterblue2 · 15-11-2020 10:01pm

Anyone remember "Perfect Scoundrels" with David Murray and Peter Bowles?

El Tarangu · 15-11-2020 10:30pm

ShyMets wrote: »

And lets not forget Ardal O'Hanlon in the BBC sitcom, My Hero. Absolute scutter.

This ran for - if you can credit it - six seasons.

odyssey06 · 15-11-2020 10:41pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Anyone remember "Perfect Scoundrels" with David Murray and Peter Bowles?

I assume you mean Bryan Murray but yeah shame it never got a DVD releaese.

Pilot was very clever with Irish angle
https://youtu.be/PgiBK7fRoQs

skooterblue2 · 15-11-2020 11:06pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

I assume you mean Bryan Murray but yeah shame it never got a DVD releaese.

Pilot was very clever with Irish angle
https://youtu.be/PgiBK7fRoQs

How did it NOT get a DVD release? It was a great, and coming off the back to the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. Didnt we all enjoy the TV series Hustle?

George White · 16-11-2020 12:32am

skooterblue2 wrote: »

How did it NOT get a DVD release? It was a great, and coming off the back to the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. Didnt we all enjoy the TV series Hustle?

It's a TVS production.
There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.

skooterblue2 · 16-11-2020 12:53am

George White wrote: »

It's a TVS production.
There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.

Explains everything.

sheepondrugs · 16-11-2020 1:02am

Good call on 'The End'.
This made me think of Sean Moncrieff and 'Don't feed the Gondolas' (sorry if it was already mentioned) - a late 90's panels show featuring a chubby Brendan O Connor and Dara O Brian. Like most RTE comedy it was kind of all over the place.

skooterblue2 · 16-11-2020 1:52am

George White wrote: »

It's a TVS production.
There's complex legal problems involving missing paperwork, the Disney corporation and possibly missing tapes too.

Found it on Amazon on VHS. So it was released at some point.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Scoundrels-VHS-Peter-Bowles/dp/B00004CQF2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Perfect+Scoundrels+VHS&qid=1605486788&sr=8-1

RandomViewer · 16-11-2020 8:21pm

El Tarangu wrote: »

This ran for - if you can credit it - six seasons.

He left a few seasons in, was replaced by the guy from Gimme,Gimme,Gimme

Hangdogroad · 29-11-2020 1:18pm

Rhythmics wrote: »

Fergus's Wedding
Roose Bolton and his fiancee preparing for their wedding with the local priest, while trying to hide the fact that they're swingers.

Episode 1 and 2 are have been uploaded on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3NX8I8D4U

AndrewJRenko · 29-11-2020 5:31pm

sheepondrugs wrote: »

This made me think of Sean Moncrieff and 'Don't feed the Gondolas' (sorry if it was already mentioned) - a late 90's panels show featuring a chubby Brendan O Connor and Dara O Brian. Like most RTE comedy it was kind of all over the place.

Best thing about it was the back story to the title.

skooterblue2 · 29-11-2020 6:10pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Episode 1 and 2 are have been uploaded on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3NX8I8D4U

I got the DVD on ebay last Christmas. Expensive but well worth the money. Soup!

Samsonsmasher · 29-11-2020 6:42pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Does anyone here remember Stew from approximately 16 years ago on RTE2? It was a comedy sketch show as opposed to a sitcom. It featured Pat "Eoin McLove" McDonnell.
Some of the sketches were really hit and miss such as the farmer woman who thought her cows were leering at her and the posh guy reminiscing about pleasant past events whenever he stumbled upon vomit or dog turds on the pavement.
I think it lasted about 2 seasons before the plug was pulled on it.

Also there was Your Bad Self from approx 2010, another comedy sketch show with Michael McElhatton and Domhnaill Gleeson. I remember the South African Lady sketches which made very little sense.

There was a good sketch where Gleeson is on a road trip with BOD's wife and their D4 friends when he decides for a laugh to go to the toilet in a bottle after they dare him to. Except he takes a sh*t in it.

Hangdogroad · 24-02-2021 7:38am

Did anyone see Dermot Morgan series "Getting Morganised" when it was broadcast in 1985? Opening credits and short snippets shown in an RTE doc about him. I say series but apparently RTE wernt happy with it and cut it down to one longish episode and it was just shown once.

fryup · 24-02-2021 10:22am

leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

extra extra extra - jaw droppingly bad

Rodney Bathgate · 24-02-2021 10:26am

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

There was a good sketch where Gleeson is on a road trip with BOD's wife and their D4 friends when he decides for a laugh to go to the toilet in a bottle after they dare him to. Except he takes a sh*t in it.

Sounds like something the denizens of the After Hours “scat” thread would “appreciate”.

Hangdogroad · 24-02-2021 10:30am

fryup wrote: »

leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

extra extra extra - jaw droppingly bad

Extra Extra was in a whole league of it's own. Definitely a strong contender for worst thing RTE have ever produced and its had some strong competition in the nearly thirty years since it was shown.

ShyMets · 24-02-2021 10:41am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Extra Extra was in a whole league of it's own. Definitely a strong contender for worst thing RTE have ever produced and its had some strong competition in the nearly thirty years since it was shown.

I didn't watch it at the time but I remember the reviews being scathing. I've tried to find some clips on the internet but there doesn't seem to be any.

Looks like RTE have tried erase all trace of it

Hangdogroad · 09-03-2021 3:08pm

Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

ShyMets · 09-03-2021 3:20pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

Fair play for digging that one out. I've absolutely no recollection of it

RandomViewer · 09-03-2021 6:56pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Pat Shortt and Eamon Owens in the Fitz. Couldn't find any visual references when posting about this originally but came across this since.

Is that the BBC thing with the old man from Fair City?

Hangdogroad · 09-03-2021 8:27pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Is that the BBC thing with the old man from Fair City?

Eamon Morrissey? Yeah he was in it. Great comic actor. He was wasted in this rubbish, and Fair City for that matter.

saabsaab · 10-03-2021 10:38pm

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

Sgt Hartman · 11-03-2021 7:58am

Has Val Falvey TD been mentioned yet? It starred Ardal O'Hanlon as a rural TD with a caravan for a constituency office and Owen Roe as his PR adviser. I think it lasted just the one season before it was canned.

Hangdogroad · 11-03-2021 8:35am

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Has Val Falvey TD been mentioned yet? It starred Ardal O'Hanlon as a rural TD with a caravan for a constituency office and Owen Roe as his PR adviser. I think it lasted just the one season before it was canned.

Was mentioned early on. It was very poor despite writer and cast.

fryup · 12-03-2021 6:50pm

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

Upwardly Mobile

it should remain forgotten

El Tarangu wrote: »

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

and iirc, he died in bizarre circumstances....he got into a heated argument at a taxi rank, he went away to get a sword from his flat and when he returned to the taxi rank to confront the person he had a heart attack and died instantly...what a way to go!

Hangdogroad · 05-05-2021 8:51am

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

Capt'n Midnight · 05-05-2021 2:24pm

fryup wrote: »

leave it to mr's o'brien - bad

It was exported to Nigeria IIRC

2lazytogetup · 05-05-2021 3:51pm

was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"

The Mulk · 05-05-2021 3:53pm

2lazytogetup wrote: »

was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"

It sounds like Upwardly Mobile, but they moved Northside to Southside, D4 or somewhere similar

julyjane · 05-05-2021 3:56pm

2lazytogetup wrote: »

was there an irish one about a family that one the lotto. song in my head about "blah blah won lotto, so we are off to Malahide"

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

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.

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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.

Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

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