Bosco Presenters

"ruff", said flaherty,
"caaw", said cornelius
"meoiw", said ....... whatever the cat was called.

Ringing any bells with anyone? I'll hum the theme tune to Flaherty's Garden if that helps!!!

I've checked the RTE archives, they have the footage of Bosco but not of the shorts like Flaherty's Garden, Gregory and Grainne, Times the Tide, etc. Seemingly RTE didn't do them themselves, and they have no record of where they came from. I also asked Marian and a couple of other ppl who used to work on the show and nobody remembers!

anyone rem the names of the characters in Times the Tide or Gregory and Grainne either?

There's an ex Bosco guy giving a laughable performance as a cult member on Fair ****ty these days!

aawwww, the memories! i looooooved bosco, and i was convinced that he loved me too, cos when he said, "hello everybody, hello boys and girls, hello (presenters)" i thought he was talking to me, cos i've the same name as one of em!!

.......kids can be really stupid........

im gonna go for

Knock knock any more (many more), come with me through the magic door.

Probably completely wrong though...

See attachement, aww come on she aint scary at all, the clown on the other hand might be your culprit. Yeah bosco is nothing more than a fading memory now, I think it used to be on at 2:45 before the den used to start....but that would mean the den would have had to start at 3:15 which is all wrong, it must have been half 2 but then I would have been home from school early enough to catch the start, yeah that's probably right :P Can someone confirm this? I've been looking for the original bosco theme tune for a while now, anyone got it please?

I do believe pickarooney is right - certainly rang a bell in my head

I used to enjoy the plonksters (or whatever they were called). Nothing compared to Pib and Pog though (lack of machine guns and acid made all the difference)

I remember the excitement when Bosco came to a local hotel I think it was for some pantomime or something like that.... I got a Bosco badge that day and I thought I was the business with it proudly pinned to my jumper (ah those were the days - when ya didn't worry about what other ppl thought!!!) I think I still have the badge at home somewhere, although it could well have been thrown out or given to some sale or something.

Also, my cousin was sitting on Bosco's box for some programme on tv I think they were singing or something, and they just happened to be filming in the studio that they filmed Bosco in.... she was dead surprised that bosco's box was so big it looked tiny when it was shown on the programme.

I used to love the tongue twister twins and would go into school the following day saying the tongue twister I had heard the previous day.. trying in vain to get them right whilst saying them five times faster than the time before.... "red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather" etc..... you get the idea!

Anyway, that's my Bosco reminiscing done for the day

AAAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH I have the Bosco theme tune playing in a loop in my head now!!!!!

Got this from www.evilgerald.com
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Saturday, 17.03.01 1.14pm

Hussein threatens world peace following theft of Magic Door Technology

World's psychopath mustachio Saddam Hussein is believed to have gained control of Bosco's Magic Door and intends to use it in his plan of world domination, says American military top brass.

The door's technology was brought to the attention of Saddam Hussein when the national TV station Allahababababad YWRX was showing episodes of Bosco, dubbed for the Iraqi market. Hussein, obviously amazed by RTE's technological ability to transport people to far away places, ordered his Elite Guard to seize the Magic Door from RTE's storage warehouse.

Fear and panic spread through the international community after hearing the shocking news and world supremo, US president George Double-yuh, immediately responded by bombing the **** out Baghdad. "With this technology," said RTE director general Bob Collins, "Saddam Hussein can launch a full scale attack anywhere he chooses, anywhere in the world - providing his Elite Translators have properly decoded the magic chant." However, top anarcho-linguist Baxter Baxter explained that the Magic Door rhyme is actually impossible to translate into Arabic "so it's unlikely they'll get to their bunkers yet alone Washington DC."

Black Republican, Colin Powell, echoed these concerns by issuing a state of national emergency, placing "a soldier on every corner - and that's pretty secure given the pride we Americans have for straight roads." No one is sure when or where Hussein will use the door but every country of the world is preparing for surprise attacks. "We don't know where this rat is going to strike first but it could even be your very own bathroom," warned Powell.

Dr. Patrick O'Lafferty, RTE Mad Scientist and inventor of the Magic Door, however, insists there is no cause for alarm. "We made the Magic Door some time ago and in those days, we could only make it respond to stupid rhymes so the users can't tell it where they want to go," explained Dr. O'Lafferty. "Technically, the only place Saddam can launch an attack is Dublin Zoo and that won't do him much good; I'd like to see him try firing a Scud out of the lemur pen."

my kids were talking in the back of the car today and i was shocked to hear them talking about.....dum dum dum..... bosco and how cute he was and how they loved him. Seemingly they have seen him in a local puppet show.....so it goes on and on and on
gonk

Originally posted by earwicker
Wasn't Bosco from the Lambert Puppet Theatre stable like Wanderly Wagon?

Yup