Bosco Presenters

Mossy Monk · 08-12-2003 4:51pm

i went to see that Bosco live show too. it was a load of ****e tbh but i saw the puppet in the flesh

probably a clone but my memories make me happy

i found this little gem on this page
RTÉ152 (MC) Bosco Golden Oldies
cassette only €3.80

ColinM · 08-12-2003 5:42pm

Originally posted by littleninja
Also, my cousin was sitting on Bosco's box ... she was dead surprised that bosco's box was so big it looked tiny when it was shown on the programme.

Yes, Bosco was indeed a girl.

catspring · 09-12-2003 10:37am

Originally posted by Fabritzo
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?

s'far as i remember it was on from 2:30 - 3:00 on network 2
coz i used to get outa school at 2:00 when in junior and senior infants and it was always great timing.

bloody hell, i really really did love bosco.
remember going to see him live!!!!!
in letterkenny years and years ago

Badly Drunk Boy · 10-12-2003 2:57am

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."

phoenix2181 · 13-12-2003 5:32pm

I heard a couple of years back that one of the Bosco presenters died of aids....
the bosco puppets were made in the IDA centre in strokestown & were a huge crimbo seller in 1984 I seems to remember

gonker · 15-12-2003 9:39pm

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

earwicker · 18-12-2003 9:02pm

Wasn't Bosco from the Lambert Puppet Theatre stable like Wanderly Wagon?

And speaking of Wanderly Wagon, Foxy was indubitably my favourite.

sceptre · 19-12-2003 4:14am

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

Yup

ColinM · 19-12-2003 5:16am

He was blatantly only asking the question so that so he could bang on about Wanderly Wagon.

Ant & Dec often make more cunning links.

earwicker · 20-12-2003 12:26am

Bear with me on this one (I promise not to cunningly get people to talk about WW).

I was thinking about Bosco, and I remembered a short-lived (I think) animated show that RTE made donkey's ago. The animators may have also been responsible for the orgasmic tongue-twisters (tenuous link, I'm aware). The programme seemed to take place on a sort of refuse-filled world, and there were two main characters (one may have been named something like "Stitch"). They may have been cobbled together from the debris around them. I know that's vague, but that's all I can remember of it. Anyone know anything about this?

earwicker · 23-12-2003 5:21am

I'm answering myself but I think it may have been something like CP and Quikstitch. Anyone? Put me out of my misery...

ColinM · 23-12-2003 5:43am

Dunno, that sounds vaguely familiar alright. Pity RTE taped over everything.
There was some Wanderly Wagon set stuff in a skip on the RTE campus a couple of years ago. I dunno if anyone rescued it.

I think they always knew everything they produced was embarrasingly bad so there was no sense in keeping it. Still, despite its kitch-ness, it's become a cult classic. Wanderly Wagon DVDs would sell well now, as many of the people who grew up watching it have kids of their own now. I'm sure they'd love for their kids to see it.

guliolopez · 18-06-2005 5:08pm

Found this: http://www.jonathanryan.com/ Interestingly he doesn't mention "Bosco" in his film and TV career history.

And Frank's CV (again no mention of Bosco): http://www.staffordm.com/full-resumes/twomeyf.html

Marian Richardson's IMDB entry: http://imdb.com/name/nm0724687/

which refers to the IMDB entry for Bosco: http://imdb.com/title/tt0303436/ (only creditting Marian and Frank)

And a comment on the AIDs story which suggests Philip (or whoever it was reputed to be) didn't die at all: http://www.esatclear.ie/~shoegirl/2005/02/blowing-out-bosco-aids-myth.html

Larianne · 18-06-2005 5:20pm

Worked with bairbre on a play. didn't know it was her until someone pointed it out to me. Nice lady.

Was it Philip that died of Aids? The tall blondy bloke?

nlgbbbblth · 18-06-2005 10:39pm

guliolopez wrote:

Found this: http://www.jonathanryan.com/ Interestingly he doesn't mention "Bosco" in his film and TV career history.

I've emailed him asking why

I don't expect a response.

Larianne · 18-06-2005 10:47pm

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I've emailed him asking why

I don't expect a response.

Don't remember that dude at all!!

Capt'n Midnight · 19-06-2005 12:15pm

earwicker wrote:

I'm answering myself but I think it may have been something like CP and Quikstitch. Anyone? Put me out of my misery...

yeah the name sounds right , animation like Dangermouse in style . I always thought it was imported. Become a sewing machine and see the universe.

Only online reference to it I can find.
http://livepublishing.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/915107294/m/144101755/p/4

One year during the summer holidays (possibly '85), there was an animation thing on after Why Don't You called, IIRC, 'C.P & Quickstitch' about two robots. I've not met *anyone* who can remember this.

SonicDoom2005 · 19-06-2005 12:21pm

I have the most treasured possesion of all.....for i have a tape with 5 classic episodes of bosco and a few of the really old cartoons at the end (captain planet, ghostbusters etc)

Larianne · 19-06-2005 8:40pm

SonicDoom2005 wrote:

I have the most treasured possesion of all.....for i have a tape with 5 classic episodes of bosco and a few of the really old cartoons at the end (captain planet, ghostbusters etc)

Awww... let me see!!!!! Please :rolleyes:

nlgbbbblth · 20-06-2005 12:20am

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I've emailed him asking why

I don't expect a response.

I stand corrected.

I must eat my words.

Thank you for your kind e-mail Paul.

I will rectify the situation and include the Bosco days!

You're right about RTE! ... As Bosco would no doubt say, it's úfásach!

Kevin_rc_ie · 20-06-2005 12:23am

hah

Kingsize · 20-06-2005 10:33am

I always thought that phillip (or phillup as it was pronounced)was they guy who died of aids?
Dont forget Miles who had a well publicised drug problem & (i think)had something to do with the obriens sandwich bar empire.
As far as i know the presenters of bosco were given a bum deal one off payment for doing the shows despite the fact that they were repeated constantly- there was no "performance royalties" paid

i just had a look at johnathan ryan's website & he makes a very convincing gerry adams!!(& a not very convincing idi amin

)

boscobosco · 16-08-2005 12:14pm

Was Suzy not the dentist/doctor?
I think Mary was on it more often, she was small with medium-length curly hair.
And was there a Marcus fella?

Rem the Tidy Up song they used to play at the end:
Tidy Up, da da de da
Thats all we have time for today
da de da, Goodbye Goodbye,
And remember now "You're The Tops!"

Apollonaire · 16-08-2005 10:47pm

He was a judge at Alternative Miss Cork this year also. Heard there were two gay presenters and about one of them being fond of cocaine but not about the lesbian, which one was it?

tk123 · 17-08-2005 8:01pm

Cian H wrote:

Did they ever get bosco back after he/she was kidknapped?

yeah they gave him back!! The people who took hin were friends of somebody i went to college with. The story goes that one of the Lamberts was doing some show in UCD and they nicked the trunk Bosco was in then they took him on holidays and faxed a photo of Bosco waving with the Golden Gate brige behind him to one of the papers...In the end they handed him in and said they had found the trunk in a ditch or somewhere like that! :rolleyes:

The David guy used to live on our road after his Bosco days - we used to sing the Bosco theme as he passed to piss him off!! tee-hee

Ah I want a bosco tshirt!!

CiDeRmAn · 18-08-2005 5:37pm

Dear God lads, you sure as hell have too much time on your hands, afraid I was a year or two too old for the whole Bosco thing, you could be pretty much ruined for life if they found out in class that you watched it, 3rd class could be a pretty life or death place!

iguana · 20-08-2005 6:38am

boscobosco wrote:

Rem the Tidy Up song they used to play at the end:
Tidy Up, da da de da
Thats all we have time for today
da de da, Goodbye Goodbye,
And remember now "You're The Tops!"

Those were 2 seperate songs.

You've got to tidy up - tidy up,
put everything away,
that's all for today,
there'll be more fun and games to play tomorrow

and

Time to go, goodbye, goodbye,
put everything back in it's box,
see you soon, godbye goodbye,
and remember now, your the tops!

melody · 10-09-2005 10:57pm

i LOVED bosco!!

myself and my two older sisters had bosco pj's!!and one night i got sick in my sleep (i'd say i was 5 at the time), and the acid from my stomach burnt a hole in the collar!! (didn't stop me wearing them for a few more years though!!)

aidan_dunne · 11-09-2005 7:57am

melody wrote:

.....the acid from my stomach burnt a hole in the collar!!

Holy Christ, what the hell did you eat that produced stomach acid strong enough to burn through your pyjamas? :eek:

melody · 11-09-2005 9:30pm

i don't know!!
but i woke up in the morning with sick all over my pj top and i t had a hole in the collar!

natter · 15-09-2005 5:45pm

Was there a presenter called Peter on Bosco? The reason I ask this is that I had an imaginary friend called Peter when I was about 2 or 3 with whom I would play with for hours and hours. And my mam has told me since when I asked about it (cos I have absolutely no recollection of this myself) that it was Peter off Bosco.

Now none of ye have mentioned a Peter... hmmm some enquiries must be made as to how I decided I had a friend called Peter.

arctic lemur · 20-09-2005 8:51pm

The creatures made of plasticine were called the plonskters, then there was Faherty's garden with cornelius the crow. The Mc Spudz were Síle and Seamus. does anyone remember Charlie Creann, sile seilide and gregory grainneog? Yes there was a Philip, a Susy & Frank (who is from my village at home). Does anyone remember the song 'someday i'll be big? or tidy up goodbye, goodbye? Went to see Bosco in Bandon for my friends birthday and it was one of my best childhood moments!

Mossy Monk · 16-11-2005 4:50am

anybody else see the ad for the Bosco DVD?

RTÉ are finally waking up to the fact that people will buy these for novelty/nostalgic reasons

Femelade · 16-11-2005 12:59pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

anybody else see the ad for the Bosco DVD?

RTÉ are finally waking up to the fact that people will buy these for novelty/nostalgic reasons

yeah i saw that last nite!
i'm going to buy it
not for my daughter
for me....

Steve_o · 16-11-2005 2:07pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

anybody else see the ad for the Bosco DVD?

RTÉ are finally waking up to the fact that people will buy these for novelty/nostalgic reasons

Yup that'll be bought for sure, mad me feel old though seein bosco again!!

nlgbbbblth · 16-11-2005 9:15pm

Bought it today.
It's laid out better than the Wanderly Wagon DVD which has the end credits shown separately.

Bosco has 7 episodes - 2 from 1980, 3 from 1985, 1 from 1986 and 1 from 1987.

The Christmas Special dates from 1983.

Some low sound quality in the second 1980 episode.

jamieh · 18-11-2005 10:50am

Hey all,

Look at what has been released.......

http://www.buy4now.ie/rte/productdetail.aspx?pid=1046&loc=P&catid=7.5

gonker · 18-11-2005 10:56am

You are joking jamiah did you not read the previous replies:D

Siogfinsceal · 18-11-2005 11:41am

FRANK AND MARIAN!!! ;-) they rocked

natter · 19-11-2005 11:37pm

My mam's getting me the dvd for christmas.. ah cant wait

KevIRL · 23-11-2005 6:37pm

2 bosco related questions for yis lads.

1) when did RTE stop making new episodes of the show?

2) When did RTE cease transmitting bosco (repeats included)?

Cheers

Kev.

aidan_dunne · 23-11-2005 9:51pm

Well, as for your first question KevIRL, I don't know. But I'd guess late 80's. Probably around 1987/1988 area, I'd say.

As for your second question, I'm fairly sure it was mid-90's. I remember reading an article in the paper about the cancellation of Bosco about, oh, must be ten years ago or so. So I'd say they stopped showing it around '95 or '96 roughly. I'm sure somebody else here will be able to come up with more accurate dates for you, though.

nlgbbbblth · 23-11-2005 11:22pm

KevIRL wrote:

1) when did RTE stop making new episodes of the show?

I thought it was 1985 but seeing as one the episodes on the DVD is dated 1987 I would say the latter.

KevIRL wrote:

2) When did RTE cease transmitting bosco (repeats included)?

1996

KevIRL · 24-11-2005 8:11pm

Thanks for the help folks.

damienom · 01-12-2005 6:45pm

Ran from 1980 to 1996 lads!

nlgbbbblth · 01-12-2005 7:45pm

damienom wrote:

Ran from 1980 to 1996 lads!

As far as I remember it started in the autumn of 1979.
No new episodes made after 1987.
Repeats continued till 1996.

Blisterman · 01-12-2005 8:15pm

Remember someone kidnapped him and threw him into the UCD pond?
It was on the front page of all the papers. So funny.

Voodoo2 · 05-12-2005 3:55am

Check out http://student.dcu.ie/~flynnr4/bosco/

And the Bosco dvd is in HMV in Cork!

http://student.dcu.ie/~flynnr4/bosco/gifs/boscotheme.mp3 the music!!!

Roar · 05-12-2005 2:07pm

who was the presenter on episode 7 on the dvd? the slightly insane looking fella with a moustache (i'm always suspicious of people with taches)..

he played three blind mice on a set of spoons before going on to make a drum out of a biscuit tin.. either that or i imagined it..

nlgbbbblth · 05-12-2005 8:57pm

Roar wrote:

who was the presenter on episode 7 on the dvd? the slightly insane looking fella with a moustache (i'm always suspicious of people with taches)..

he played three blind mice on a set of spoons before going on to make a drum out of a biscuit tin.. either that or i imagined it..

Not got that far yet
- Jonathan Ryan?

He was in Bracken.

Bosco Presenters

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