TV Programmes from the past...

[Sheridan]

Henry Kelly was a poor man's William G. Stewart IMO.

[Lev Yashin]

henry kelly was a poor man's william g. Stewart imo.

how very dare you!!!!:d

[HarpoJoyce]

Remember "Monkey" on Sky One??
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FFS I remember Monkey on BBC2:D

I always thought 'The Watermargin' was better. But I never knew what was going on. ".....These men are outlaws and everyone of them has a price on his head....."

BBC used the Buddist story of Monkey for their Beijing '08 'intro' (I think you're meant to call it ident. after identification.).


Henry Kelly was a poor man's William G. Stewart IMO.

Henry Kelly was Northern Editor for the Irish Times during the early seventies. He wrote the driest book I ever read on the North. 'Why Stormont Fell?', it was a rush job though.
I knew that while wathcing ITV 'Game for a Laugh' that started Matthew Kelly and Jeremy Beagle's TV careers aswell. Matthew Kelly presented a few shows with his leg in plaster, very out there.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Maybe there's a thread on this already...if so I apologise.However, just wanted to get a conversation going on old TV shows that don't seem to be repeated on any of the satellite channels these days:

I'll start with

Storybook international. Rem that?Childrens tv programme dubbed really badly?


Remember it? Tchih! I can play it on the guitar!

:-)

...spot the wanton cultural vandalism here. Rs3X90RLW3A

...In America I'm John? How many Johns wandered around America dressed as friggin Robin Hood?

[padjoe]

RTE need to bring back Know your sport....best quiz show ever. i loved watching it on a sunday night. i think it was on before where in the world.

as a kid my favourites were johnny bravo, biker mice from mars, gargoyles and earthworm jim. the best cartoons to ever exist.

i have a small spot now for The Fairly OddParents to satisfy the child in me.

McGyver needs to be remade immediately either as a spoof movie or tv series.

Dallas, dr. quinn medicine woman and stairway to heaven ...they were the days

chips, magnum PI, jake and the fatman, airwolf and the return of the wonder years would complete the 1980s in the naughties and ireland's return to complete depression but at least there was decent tv back then.

[gustavo]

RTE need to bring back Know your sport....best quiz show ever. i loved watching it on a sunday night. i think it was on before where in the world.

Think it was on Monday nights 7 or 8 pm :confused:

Great though

I remember thinking I'd have to go on it when I was older :mad:

[padjoe]

Think it was on Monday nights 7 or 8 pm :confused:

Great though

I remember thinking I'd have to go on it when I was older :mad:

actually think you were right. i was able to watch it before bedtime. school the next morning any way.

i was always awestruck by jimmy magee's solo run about various sports people i'd never heard of as a four year old.

anyone think they would have done well on the show?

[HarpoJoyce]

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Great though
I remember thinking I'd have to go on it when I was older :mad:


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i was always awestruck by jimmy magee's solo run about various sports people i'd never heard of as a four year old.

anyone think they would have done well on the show?

I dont think I would have been any good.
There's a well known LoI fan who's his own 'memory man'. He competed in the First round, he says he won the rehersal. In the recorded show he was leading going in to the quick fire round "fingers on the buzzers now" and ended up in second place. The chap who beat reached the semis (so he says). This LoI fan would be considered exceptional good at detail and specific information for the main sports bar GAA.

I grew to hate Memoryman Jimmy Magee. That 'year' question sycophantic George Hamilton gave was answered badly. Magee just had to take his time and give the GAA Football All-ireland winners and the Hurling winners and if it was an Olympic year give an mention to a great performance or if it was a World Cup year mention that. I felt short changed.

[padjoe]

If it was to come back who would host it? would it be george hamilton again or would it be darragh moloney, who is the go to guy for b rated events on tv. Or would you give to tony o donoghue? Or that smiley ****er, Shane O'Donoghue, who does/did beat the sports guy on 2fm on saturday?

Personally I would love to see a celebrity shoot out between Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Jimmy Magee on who knows more about sport.

[Ash]

Henry Kelly was a poor man's William G. Stewart IMO.

Useless fact #1543: Henry Kelly is from Athlone

[pete]

RTE used to have The Larry Sanders Show on late at night. An underappreciated show.

[stann]

Not by me at least it's not! :)
One of the top half dozen shows ever made.

[PaulB]

Petrocelli - how logn did it take him to build that house !
Minder - Classic
bagpuss
Crackerjack
Grange Hill
Swap shop
Mister Ben
Grandstand
Dickie davies on ITV
Frank Bough highlights on a wednesday
and listenign to live second half commentary on a battered old wirelss of liverpool vs borrusia semi final or european cup 1978

[Wangball]

Anyone else remember a Canadian kids television program called "You can't do that on Television" It was sort of set in a fictional school and for the most part the cast were all kids, if you said "I don't know" you got a bucket of slime dumped on you and they used to buy burgers off of a lad named Barf!...it was brilliant, its going back a long time though, it used to be on TCC (The Childrens Channel - for those who've only ever known Digiboxes!)

This was in my top 3, along with Pugwall (the reaon I got a guitar) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose.....Some top quality viewing there!

[John83]

I don't remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose at all, though a couple of the actors look familiar. Pugwall and You Can't Do That on Television were favourites though.

[Block G Raptor]

Cant Believe no ones mentioned MASK the ultimate 80's 25min commercial for a toy manufacturer

[John83]

Cant Believe no ones mentioned MASK the ultimate 80's 25min commercial for a toy manufacturer
Ultimate? Twenty minutes into the animated Transformers film, the entire cast is dead, and have been replaced by new toys for the kids to pester their folks to buy. It's one of the most cynical things I've ever seen.

[Wangball]

Starcom runs MASK & Transformers close, the toys were manufactured to try and create an interest in the space program amongst kids, when they didn't do so well the cartoon was made to sell the toys, fresh with some new badies and the nifty Magna Lock feature...terrible to watch & only marginally better to play with the toys!

[The Fly]

Transformers brings back a lot fond memories for me as a kid. I watched that every day countless times, lost count count of the amount of toys I had, loved Optimus Prime etc... My dad brought me to see the cartoon movie in the mid-80's at one of the cinemas on O'Connell street. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but when Optimus Prime died, I cried. :( I was devastated for weeks after that. It remains the only time I have cried watching a movie, though I may have blubbered a bit during the Watership Down film.
Just a wee bit of trivia with that cartoon movie - Orson Welles provided the voice of the planet devouring transformer.

Other cartoons I was into at that time were: He-Man, Thundercats, Mask (took it's cue from the transformers) or the Gobots (shameless Transformers rip-off). It's amazing how seeing or hearing something from your youth brings back so many memories - go to youtube and type in the theme tune for these cartoons. Happy days!

Saturday afternoon - Knight Rider, The A-Team and Air Wolf. I loved those shows. You have to hand it to the 80's in one regard - TV theme tunes, it definately had the best.

Incidentally, there was a cartoon my younger brothers were into in the early 90's called Captain Planet. One episode was based in Belfast - ****in' hilarious. Type it into Youtube. :D

[Neish]

Incidentally, there was a cartoon my younger brothers were into in the early 90's called Captain Planet. One episode was based in Belfast - ****in' hilarious. Type it into Youtube. :D

Remember seeing that year ago just looked it up again its class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9tg4NZbyhY

[Block G Raptor]

Dont know if its been mentioned before but I'd love to see Space: Above and Beyond re-aired

[John83]

Dont know if its been mentioned before but I'd love to see Space: Above and Beyond re-aired
I picked up the DVDs a while back (it's available in region 1 only, I think). It had a good pilot episode and a handful of other good ones, but overall it's not great. Shows with so few episodes (it has, what, 20?) are rarely syndicated.

[eamo1]

Anyone remeber Pingu?Im not ashamed to admit to buying it on dvd few years ago.They are for kids but they are still hillarious.

[shefellover93]

Anyone remeber Pingu?Im not ashamed to admit to buying it on dvd few years ago.They are for kids but they are still hillarious.
Oh bliss!!

The Wild Thornberry's was another programme I liked watching. From a younger generation but those programmes of the 90's. Endless endless re runs of Sabrina.

[ken foree]

don't think i saw these mentioned? Space 1999 with martin landau:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DF9nDJZrdA

Starfleet (the japanese puppet program with the X-bomber and evil commander makara):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMCJf9D8nY

and we can't forget G-force?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E1ecxwcWE


aww yeahh

[stann]

Starfleet (the japanese puppet program with the X-bomber and evil commander makara):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMCJf9D8nY

And the nifty soundtrack from Brian May and Friends. :D


and we can't forget G-force?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E1ecxwcWE


aww yeahh

Grew up on G Force. Battle of the Planets as it was in my day. :(
Loved the Fiery Phoenix.

[stann]

Anyway, mentioned a good few before (http://foot.ie/forums/showpost.php?p=1095930&postcount=15) that were criminally ignored in that post, and then cynically mentioned by others later :p, but I don't think these have come up yet, bar Brushstrokes which I think Ash mentioned but well deserves a linkie anyway:

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Hardcastle & McCormick

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Manimal - God this was terrible! But I did have a thing for Melody Anderson back in the day...

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Baa Baa Black Sheep - Oh man I absolutely adored this show!

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The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew - loved them both, like Revels you didn't know which one you were getting, but ahhh, Pamela Sue Martin... :)

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The Odd Couple - infinitely better than the film

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Brushstrokes - loved this too, Jacko was one of sitcomlands's most likeable characters

[strangeirish]

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[ken foree]

And the nifty soundtrack from Brian May and Friends. :D


ha! indeed. i had it on mute watching it at work :o

[pete]

Around the time of the X Files there was a darker series called Millennium. Featured Lance Henriksen as Frank Black who could see into the minds of serial killers. I borrowed the first series a while ago but not got around to watching again yet.

[The Betting Man]

Anyone remember Kung Fu? I'm watching season 2 at the moment. The writing's a little uneven, and it's very formulaic, but I like it a lot.

David Carradine found dead in Thailand


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Kung-Fu-And-Kill-Bill-Acting-Star-David-Carradine-Found-Hanged-In-A-Bangkok-Hotel-Room-Say-Reports/Article/200906115296063

[John83]

Just heard about that myself. RIP.

[pineapple stu]

Can't believe I never saw this thread!

Always enjoyed the quizzes - Going for Gold, Countdown, 15-to-1, Masterteam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JXuBpFcP0). The quiz show is a lost art these days bar University Challenge. Too much tension, not enough questions.
Surprised the Krypton Factor and the Crystal Maze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwxCJSXWCaA&feature=fvw) haven't come up. Always was worried at the start of a new game of Knightmare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11U20DApGA4) in case I'd get teleported onto the show. Classic cartoons like Dangermouse and Ghostbusters (maybe pushing "classic", but still). Had cousins in Luxembourg who sent over a video of a few episodes Once Upon a Time - Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVeZyxfKt9o). Was in French, but still a great show. Youtube's down at the moment; will put up a few links after.

[MysticMon]

Fawlty Towers!! :D