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.
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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.
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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Originally Posted by Sheridan
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??
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
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
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."
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.
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 sidesQuote:
Originally Posted by soccerc
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
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
Seriously, I could easily handle the return of Pat Barry (Gabriel Byrne) to Bracken.
Henry Kelly was a poor man's William G. Stewart IMO.
how very dare you!!!!:dQuote:
Originally Posted by sheridan
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Originally Posted by eamo1
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....."Quote:
Originally Posted by JerseyRed
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 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
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.
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Originally Posted by Den Perry
...spot the wanton cultural vandalism here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
...In America I'm John? How many Johns wandered around America dressed as friggin Robin Hood?
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.
Think it was on Monday nights 7 or 8 pm :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by padjoe
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
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?
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Originally Posted by gustavo
I dont think I would have been any good.Quote:
Originally Posted by padjoe
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.
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.
Useless fact #1543: Henry Kelly is from AthloneQuote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
RTE used to have The Larry Sanders Show on late at night. An underappreciated show.
Not by me at least it's not! :)
One of the top half dozen shows ever made.
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
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!
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
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!
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
Remember seeing that year ago just looked it up again its classQuote:
Originally Posted by The Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9tg4NZbyhY
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
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!!Quote:
Originally Posted by eamo1
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.
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
And the nifty soundtrack from Brian May and Friends. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Grew up on G Force. Battle of the Planets as it was in my day. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Loved the Fiery Phoenix.
Anyway, mentioned a good few before 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:
Hardcastle & McCormick
Manimal - God this was terrible! But I did have a thing for Melody Anderson back in the day...
Baa Baa Black Sheep - Oh man I absolutely adored this show!
The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew - loved them both, like Revels you didn't know which one you were getting, but ahhh, Pamela Sue Martin... :)
The Odd Couple - infinitely better than the film
Brushstrokes - loved this too, Jacko was one of sitcomlands's most likeable characters
ha! indeed. i had it on mute watching it at work :oQuote:
Originally Posted by stann
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.