TV Programmes from the past...

[Den Perry]

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?

[Heliodorus]

Mart and Market! An RTE classic especially for us urban kids. Couldnt even find a clip of it on youtube! :mad:

[Den Perry]

yes....remember the baldy lad that used to present it? Dillon I think was his name.

Here's another one: Leave it to Mrs O'Brien....another s hite RTE comedy

[HarpoJoyce]

Hill Street Blues (1981 - Forever)

Opening Titles
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUiS9XfB7k

But there is another sequence with some cars coming out of a garage. Like so.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm568627712/tt0081873
I don't know which is the original.

Hill Street Blues is where I first learned of the first names Hector and Jésus.
Also linguine was a strange exotic dish the characters talked about.

[OwlsFan]

Tolka Row. It was sort of an Eastenders.

[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!
(A) I'm a storyteller (D) and my (E)story must be (A) told
(A) I have many stories (D) for (E) both the young and (A) old
On my (Bm) many travels I have (C#m)seen many faces,
(D) many tales have I (Bm)from many (E)places.


In (A)Russia I am Ivan, (D)in (E)England I am (A)John.
In (A)Germany I'm Johan, (D)In Sweden I am (F#m)Jan.

(Bm)Sometimes there are tears, (D6) sometimes there is (A)laughter
But (Bm) always a (D) happy (E) ever (A) after.

:-)

[red bellied]

Minder, the old one with Dennis Waterman.

[bennocelt]

Errie Indiana? loved that show

[Noelys Guitar]

Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (the original).

[Neish]

Got season 1 of roots a few months ago for cheap very good show

[Town Legend]

The Littlest Hobo
American Gothic
and i think another programme watched was called Night Caller

[Two Left Boots]

I loved MacGyver and The A-TEAM, Beauty and the Beast on after Family Fortunes I think with Rod Pearlman and Linda Hamilton.

[Two Left Boots]

I remember Eerie Indiana, great show. Loved the titles at de start and de music.

[Town Legend]

And what about Noel Edmonds House Party and Chips

[stann]

Went into some deep, dark, dank places to dig up these for those of us of a certain age. Now I don't want to talk about it any more...

(btw, if that 'embedding disabled' thing comes up on any of these below, a double tap when the hand shows will open the clip in a new window)

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Shoestring

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Shelley

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Van der Valk

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Benson (!)

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The Famous Five

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The Time Tunnel

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The Greatest American Hero

[Newryrep]

The World at War - groundbreaking documantry (24 parts)? by Granada narrated by Lawerence Olivier covering WW2 including the the road to war in the various countries - surperb - currently being repeated on BBC2 on Sat

[John83]

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.

[strangeirish]

The World at War - groundbreaking documantry (24 parts)? by Granada narrated by Lawerence Olivier covering WW2 including the the road to war in the various countries - surperb - currently being repeated on BBC2 on Sat
Remember watching that as a kid. I think it used to be shown on a Sunday. Excellent stuff.

[ollie]

Used love Earthworm Jim from a few years back

[Ash]

- Brush Strokes
- Bread
- Famous Five
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- The Irish R.M.
- Glenroe

[Lev Yashin]

Errie Indiana? loved that show

Loved that show

Remember A.L.F??
loved that too

Round the twist...more so for the theme tune..."have you ever, ever felt like this, have strange things happened are you going round the twist" brilliant!!:D

[Neish]

Round the twist...more so for the theme tune..."have you ever, ever felt like this, have strange things happened are you going round the twist" brilliant!!:D

God I hated that show it and Pugwall,

[SkStu]

Where in the World...

i would have ridden the hole off Theresa Lowe back in the day.

[Roadend]

Where in the World...

i would have ridden the hole off Theresa Lowe back in the day.

Remember when it first aired they had that band, Major to Minor I think they were called, who'd play some godawful song at half time

[geysir]

Time for a comeback for the "Minister of Hardship"

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[seand60]

Remember when it first aired they had that band, Major to Minor I think they were called, who'd play some godawful song at half time

Yeah really fancied that Maria Walsh the singer, until found out later she was a lesbian!

[Lev Yashin]

Yeah really fancied that Maria Walsh the singer, until found out later she was a lesbian!

Where you not up for the challenge??? ;) :D

[Burny89]

Land of the Giants
Around the Twist/Bend

[eamo1]

Remember "Monkey" on Sky One??
Quantum Leap was good.
Punky Brewster.
Pajo's Junkbox(Saturday mornings:)).
Island of Bears(i missed the last episodes,did he ever get home????).
Anyone remember Cities of Gold??It was a cartoon ahead of its time as reguards continuing story line and voice actors etc.
Ah Memories:)

[JerseyRed]

Remember "Monkey" on Sky One??
Quantum Leap was good.
Punky Brewster.
Pajo's Junkbox(Saturday mornings:)).
Island of Bears(i missed the last episodes,did he ever get home????).
Anyone remember Cities of Gold??It was a cartoon ahead of its time as reguards continuing story line and voice actors etc.
Ah Memories:)

FFS I remember Monkey on BBC2:D

[endabob1]

Remember A.L.F??
loved that too


ALF was a great Show
"Hey Willie!!" I tried to get it on DVD a couple of years ago nbut I think it was only available in the US & Canada

[bennocelt]

Land of the Giants
Around the Twist/Bend

man I loved this show - on rte early sunday morning, a little enjoyment before the boredom of mass that I had to go after:)

[Roadend]

Land of the Giants
Around the Twist/Bend


Found a few clips of it on youtube a while ago, all the pi55 take cartoons were there, Thunderpants, Wee man and the master of the looniverse, old age useless ninja tortoises, still got a laugh from one or two of them

[Pike B]

ALF was a great Show
"Hey Willie!!" I tried to get it on DVD a couple of years ago nbut I think it was only available in the US & Canada
Correct. I'll sell you the entire series if you want it..

[jebus]

Good memories in this thread, I'll add

Twin Peaks
Ulysses 31
Once Upon a Time In......(both History and the Human body series were great)
Going For Gold

[Neish]

Ulysses 31

Je*us I remember that, used to freak me out with the bodies floating in mid air. Class theme tune though

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[Burny89]

man I loved this show - on rte early sunday morning, a little enjoyment before the boredom of mass that I had to go after:)
Haha i think i used to watch it on channel 4, go be bored at mass then get back and settle into some italian football

[bennocelt]

Haha i think i used to watch it on channel 4, go be bored at mass then get back and settle into some italian football

actually your right - it was C4, rte never had anything decent on in the moning

[Lev Yashin]

Good memories in this thread, I'll add

Twin Peaks
Ulysses 31
Once Upon a Time In......(both History and the Human body series were great)
Going For Gold

henry kelly! legend!!! have memories of watching that with my mam when i was a young fella..great show...all international if i remember correctly

[paudie]

Laughing at the "Time Tunnel" intro on youtube.

Every so often have great pub conversations with my buddies about shows from our childhood such as:

Blakes 7
Matlock
Murder She Wrote
Ironside
Longstreet
Jake and the Fatman
The Fall Guy - (Heather Thomas:eek:)
Sierra
Different Strokes
wonder Woman
Man from Atlantis

etc etc

[Sheridan]

I have very happy memories of Going For Gold. The show was crap, but if I was watching it, it meant I'd successfully bunked off school.

[kingdom hoop]

Had never seen Going For Gold (only had some dodgy satellite box, which I admit had its uses pre-internet), so did a little YouTubing, and I can now understand why it's fondly remembered, and dare I say more educational than school Sheridan!

Presenter is class, format is good, strong geographic dimension, and it's a quiz! Perfect! Anyway, I post primarily to share a video of the final in 1992, a moment of TV Gold, containing one of those classic, inadvertently hilarious wrong answers. It comes at the very end of the video below. Worth watching through all the same though, watch out too for another hilarious moment at around 9.20 when the German qualifies but doesn't quite realise. :)


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[SkStu]

I have very happy memories of Going For Gold. The show was crap, but if I was watching it, it meant I'd successfully bunked off school.


going for gold was class. What am i? Play or Pass? genius! And the irish guy got to the final one year if i remember correctly...

speaking if which, there was a young irish fella (15/16 i think) who did deadly on countdown a good few years ago.... anyone remember if he won the whole season??

[soccerc]

Where in the World...

i would have ridden the hole off Theresa Lowe back in the day.

LOL

Blast from the past, I was on it but no I wouldn't have, even back then!

How about
Wanderly Wagon?
Ireland - A Televison History (Robert Kee)
The Spike (RTE)
Play for today (BBC)
Daithi Lacha
Amuigh faoin Speir
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Youngline

[Sheridan]

What was that ****ing woeful gameshow that was on RTE in the early nineties (sorry, I know that doesn't narrow it down much.) Presented by Alan something, I think. Called something-about? It was tacky beyond belief, that's all I remember. And involved contestants wearing headphones so as not to overhear something.

The Irish contestants on Going For Gold weren't always overachievers. I remember one Dublin woman being asked what river Dublin was built on, and answering "the Lee."

[stann]

Think it was called Talkabout. It was kind of poor alright.
Unlike Going For Gold which was class, and kept me entertained when I should have been in college. I see Henry putting that gob****e Ryan right in the Mirror today too.

[Newryrep]

LOL

Blast from the past, I was on it but no I wouldn't have, even back then!

How about
Wanderly Wagon?
Ireland - A Televison History (Robert Kee)The Spike (RTE)
Play for today (BBC)
Daithi Lacha
Amuigh faoin Speir
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Youngline

Think it was a joint RTE/BBC production - excellent programme and should be compulsory viewing particularly in the north given the the level of ignorance of history on both sides

[geysir]

The game show to top all game shows was Stop the Lights - "Quicksilver" with Bunny Carr and your man on the organ. No other comes close.
I'd say about 60% of our písstakes came from that show with most of the rest provided by Garda Patrol - which had that Brian O'Nolan surreal edge to it.

[Noelys Guitar]

The game show to top all game shows was Stop the Lights - "Quicksilver" with Bunny Carr and your man on the organ. No other comes close.
I'd say about 60% of our písstakes came from that show with most of the rest provided by Garda Patrol - which had that Brian O'Nolan surreal edge to it.

What was Hitler's first name? Heil!

Anyone remember this particular Play for Today(BBC) Abigail's Wedding. Superb
The Sweeney (ITV)
I Cladius (BBC2)
BBC2 Saturday night Foreign "Art" ie porno movies

[geysir]

Seriously, I could easily handle the return of Pat Barry (Gabriel Byrne) to Bracken.