Obviously everyone remembers Glenroe and Where in the World, but there were a large number of Sixties repeats on at the time, where the Adam West Batman was likely to be followed by Get Smart and the Monkees. Then, whenever a 5 minute filler was needed, they'd stick on weird Polish cartoons with names like Dog and Cat that made no sense whatsoever - we must have been hosting lots of Eurovisions around that time.
I remember that one of the fillers - which were often the best thing on the box - was the video for Autobahn made by the English guy in the 70s - wait 'til I google it.
Roger Mainwood, in 1979. 'Twas on a couple of times I recall. This is it:
Thought of it now has me listening to Senor Cocnut's version!
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Originally Posted by Dodge
Bluebeard you are great, tx for posting that. I was actually thinking of this a few days ago, trying to figure out what the hell was I watching when I was a kid, something about a running man, couldnt exactly remember it but its imprinted in my subconscious. Jesus RTe was freaky back then
Sure was!
Anyone remember a cartoon (Canadian Film Board, I think) about a husband and wife who used drive each other mad with their bizarre habits - he used to saw at the arms of his chair at every opportunity, and her pupils used to sort of freeze within her glasses until she took them off to shake them loose?
That was quite odd. Unless I've just dreamt it up, in which case I've more to be troubling me...
Oh, and Lolek and Bolek, of course!
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Remember it well... especially the Adam West Batman reruns! Not to mention Tom and Jerry repeats...
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
No, I think I recall it. We got a lot of Canadian film board stuff, and some of the shorts were quite good, IIRC. This one sounds familiar, though it may have been another one where the wife and the husband were on the edge of bloodshed - I seem to recall a couple.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
I can recall a lot of former Czechoslovakian cartoons showing as fillers on RTE as a very young child in the late 70's. At 3 years of age I knew they were sh*te.
I remember RTE showing old stuff in the 80's such as the original Star Trek series, The Monkees, The Time Tunnel, Buck Rogers.
Garda Patrol was a current programme but seemed like it had been filmed in 1956.
Quoting years at random since 1975
A lucky couple of stabs in the dark turned it up, it's called The Big Snit.
Pretty poor to be honest, not worth the ten minutes IMO, but there you go.
About a couple that get so engrossed in their arguing that they don't notice the nuclear armageddon that kills everyone, including them.
Probably says something that all I remembered from that is the sawing and the eyeball shaking.
While I think of it, two more cheap imports off the top of my head, sorry can't link YT clips at work.
First is one I detested, really hope it only cost buttons anyway, also Canadian as it goes, The Beachcombers.
Second I remember with more fondness, Aussie wartime drama The Sullivans.
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bring back Mailbag. Genius TV. It was like a "Say Anything Whats On Your Mind" thread for the 1980's.
Ireland never had such a fall on Arthur Murphy's watch...
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Completely forgotten that particular filler. Between the Kraftwerk and that, I'd love to have had a music chat with the boys who put up the filler on RTE in the 80s, to thank them for some major musical influence!
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
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