TV Programmes from the past...

**Sheridan** · 09/02/2009, 10:38 PM

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** · 09/02/2009, 11:39 PM

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.

**SkStu** · 10/02/2009, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 10/02/2009, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

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** · 10/02/2009, 1:06 AM

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** · 10/02/2009, 2:20 AM

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** · 10/02/2009, 7:59 AM

Originally Posted by soccerc

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** · 10/02/2009, 1:25 PM

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 p�sstakes 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** · 10/02/2009, 1:35 PM

Originally Posted by 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 p�sstakes 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** · 10/02/2009, 5:16 PM

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

**Sheridan** · 10/02/2009, 5:29 PM

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

**Lev Yashin** · 10/02/2009, 5:36 PM

Originally Posted by sheridan

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

how very dare you!!!!:d

**HarpoJoyce** · 11/02/2009, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by eamo1

Remember "Monkey" on Sky One??
.....

Originally Posted by JerseyRed

FFS I remember Monkey on BBC2

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.).

Originally Posted by Sheridan

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** · 22/02/2009, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by 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?

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

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

:-)

...spot the wanton cultural vandalism here.

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

**padjoe** · 02/03/2009, 11:16 PM

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** · 05/03/2009, 4:27 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

Think it was on Monday nights 7 or 8 pm

Great though

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

**padjoe** · 06/03/2009, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Think it was on Monday nights 7 or 8 pm

Great though

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

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** · 07/03/2009, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

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

Originally Posted by padjoe

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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** · 09/03/2009, 3:34 AM

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 M�che�l � Muircheartaigh and Jimmy Magee on who knows more about sport.