Time fillers on RTE in the 80's

whomitconcerns

So the 80s thread got me thinking about this. Various animated nonsense rte used to fill gaps between programs sometimes in the mid 80s. Psychedelic animated music videos and stuff from Canada and eastern europe.

Does anyone remember one in particular which was about 6/7 mins long and was some green "alien" moving through space to some 70s style music and multicoloured planets etc..

And sure any others for the craic!

branie2

Autobahn

Larbre34

Still made more compelling viewing than 98% of digital channels today.

branie2

One of my favourites from those fillers was Hamilton, the musical elephant.

sunbeam

I have vague memories of one animation involving a traffic jam that got so bad that eventually everyone decided to live in their cars.

whiskeyman

This was by far my favorite.
Used afterwards in a hula hoop ad years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM

Fr Tod Umptious

Yep, the five words that Irish TV watching children feared in the 70s and 80s was "National film board of Canada"

It meant that you had to watch some nature crap for 10 mins before the program you wanted to watch started.

branie2

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Yep, the five words that Irish TV watching children feared in the 70s and 80s was "National film board of Canada"

It meant that you had to watch some nature crap for 10 mins before the program you wanted to watch started.

I liked them

padd b1975

I remember lots of Jacques Cousteau stuff.

Mookie Blaylock

branie2 wrote: »

Autobahn

Music by Kraftwerk ..

Mrcaramelchoc

whiskeyman wrote: »

This was by far my favorite.
Used afterwards in a hula hoop ad years later.

What year was this roughly?or when was it used?

branie2

For a little while, broadcasts from Sky News and CBS news were fillers in 1989.

mariaalice

The Czechoslovakia cartoons were the weirdest.

Atoms for Peace

Can't remember the last time I've seen either a loony tunes or Tom and Jerry cartoon on the telly.

gifted

Glenroe.....that killed an hour between programmes every Sunday evening...

Jellybaby1

mariaalice wrote: »

The Czechoslovakia cartoons were the weirdest.

Funny you should mention that. I remember further back in the 70's when I was a teenager, very late one night I was reading one of my Jackie magazines, the TV was on and I saw a cartoon, I thought 'stupid putting on kids cartoons so late at night'. Oh dear, it was almost cartoon porn! :eek: It scarred me for life! Might have been Czech.

mariaalice

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Funny you should mention that. I remember further back in the 70's when I was a teenager, very late one night I was reading one of my Jackie magazines, the TV was on and I saw a cartoon, I thought 'stupid putting on kids cartoons so late at night'. Oh dear, it was almost cartoon porn! :eek: It scarred me for life! Might have been Czech.

Watching the Czech cartoons left me with the impression that the Czechs were a dour weird people.

eviltwin

There was one with some animated chap playing a lute and singing that was on just before the news.

Mookie Blaylock

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

Sardonicat

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Mookie Blaylock

Sardonicat wrote: »

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Just watching an episode of the Simpsons.
Flanders " Homer hit me"
Homer "No"
Flanders "I'm insisting on a fisting"!
Smithers "what's this about a fisting"?!?

Popeye didn't have a patch on this

Roanmore

Professor Plinkity Plonk (?) on Sunday evenings.

Guy would come out and play a piano (cartoon of course) which was a prelude to some adventure he imagined.

Sardonicat

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

Probably considered inappropriate now. Probably is, when you think about it. Wasn't Brutus always trying to kidnap Olive ?

Just watching an episode of the Simpsons.
Flanders " Homer hit me"
Homer "No"
Flanders "I'm insisting on a fisting"!
Smithers "what's this about a fisting"?!?

Popeye didn't have a patch on this

Yeah, but the Sampsons isn't intended as children's entertainment though. Popeye was. And every single episode featured Olive Oil screeching "Popeye! Popeye!" as evil Brutus carried her off. Then good ole Popeye downed a can of spinach and beat the crap out of Brutus. When you think about it, it was truly bizarre stuff for a kids show.

Mookie Blaylock

Sardonicat wrote: »

Yeah, but the Sampsons isn't intended as children's entertainment though. Popeye was. And every single episode featured Olive Oil screeching "Popeye! Popeye!" as evil Brutus carried her off. Then good ole Popeye downed a can of spinach and beat the crap out of Brutus. When you think about it, it was truly bizarre stuff for a kids show.

The Simpsons is most definitely aimed at children,

Mookie Blaylock

Mookie Blaylock wrote: »

When was the last time someone saw Popeye on rte? I was trying to explain him to my 10yo daughter as he was in an episode of the Simpsons for 3 seconds and she didn't know who he was....20 years since he was on our screen's?

RTE played Popeye ad-nauseum early evenings around late 70's early 80s- must have been very cheap TV for them.

Graces7

The "beeb" in the UK in the 50s had what were called "interludes". One was watching a potters wheel in action and was so soothing, with music

Oh LOOK! I found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzGF401vLc

Ah I DID enjoy that! Thank you OP!

JupiterKid

Autobahn was released back in 1974 - waaay ahead of its time. Song opens with a voice fed through a synthesizer - unreal for the mid 70s.

JupiterKid

Not 80s, but 1990s cartoon Ren and Stimpy when viewed under the influence of cannabis was very funny indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W8gADOplmY

KevRossi

Bod was one of those Czechoslovakian cartoons. I loved him. Met loads of Czechs over the years, but nobody knew him.

There were loads of good short UK programmes as well... Bagpuss, The Moomins, Postman Pat, Ivor the Engine...

Happy memories

Badly Drunk Boy

KevRossi wrote: »

Bod was one of those Czechoslovakian cartoons. I loved him. Met loads of Czechs over the years, but nobody knew him.

I'm fairly sure Bod was an English programme. It was written by an English couple. (I used to like the way each character had their own theme tune when the appeared. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyrEGgk2NU

eviltimeban

There goes Farmer Barleymow.

Here comes... BOD! Do do do do do dodo, do do do do do do

That's all I remember about Bod.

indioblack

Graces7 wrote: »

The "beeb" in the UK in the 50s had what were called "interludes". One was watching a potters wheel in action and was so soothing, with music

Oh LOOK! I found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzGF401vLc

Ah I DID enjoy that! Thank you OP!

Did he ever get around to finish making the pot?
The music was familiar. Charles Williams "The Young Ballerina."

Loves_lorries

whomitconcerns wrote: »

So the 80s thread got me thinking about this. Various animated nonsense rte used to fill gaps between programs sometimes in the mid 80s. Psychedelic animated music videos and stuff from Canada and eastern europe.

Does anyone remember one in particular which was about 6/7 mins long and was some green "alien" moving through space to some 70s style music and multicoloured planets etc..


And sure any others for the craic!

Remember something like that which sort of reminded me of the Jackson five video for "can you feel it"

emo72

Czech animation. " I've got a great idea about 2 pieces of string falling in love with each other!"

Maybe it was some Communist mind control to subdue the proles. I'm grasping for meaning here lads.

Loves_lorries

mariaalice wrote: »

The Czechoslovakia cartoons were the weirdest.

Remember" frankensteins aunt "

Show from the late eighties from czechoslovakia, that was strange.

spurious

Bod was cool and worked on so many levels. 'Aunt Flo'...fnarr.

Lolek and Bolek were Polish.

Interestingly (or not), that bastion of intolerance and all-round nastiness, the Iona Institute, trade officially under the name Lolek Ltd.. Those cartoons had a lot to answer for.

Graces7

indioblack wrote: »

Did he ever get around to finish making the pot?
The music was familiar. Charles Williams "The Young Ballerina."

I thought it was she.. and just playing and practice which is what made it so soothing... constantly changing shape and design... wonderful..

whisky_galore

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Can't remember the last time I've seen either a loony tunes or Tom and Jerry cartoon on the telly.

T & J are probably racist now... "THOMAS!!!"...with Tom getting a swift boot up the h*le.

The wartime propaganda Popeye cartoons with 'Japs' would never pass the censor now.

Even the 1990s Looney Tunes were a bit saucy, the Animanics, with jokes only adults would get.

mariaalice

I love the joke in the three little pigs cartoon: In the three little pigs house, there are two photos on the wall one saying Mother and one saying Father and they are bacon in one photo and sausages in the other.

kunst nugget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnaQvXLLCw

The video the OP was talking about in the first post.

Ursus Horribilis

There was also Butterfly Ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNII5aLiOM

10000maniacs

They used to show a 10 minute video from this album, Barry Devlin Breaking Star Codes. The actual video clip is not available. But it was idiots in leotards dancing to Barrys progish music.

Duckworth_Luas

Remember this nightmare from the 1980s?

Foo Foo, Gogo and Mimi.

It used to make me wish for more socialist brainwashing from Czechoslovakia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFuE5YX6mQ

When RTE used to fill time with this crap I lived in fear that they were rearranging tables and chairs in some bunker where Charlie Haughey was practising his Nuclear War speech.

kunst nugget

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Remember this nightmare from the 1980s?

Foo Foo, Gogo and Mimi.

It used to make me wish for more socialist brainwashing from Czechoslovakia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFuE5YX6mQ

When RTE used to fill time with this crap I lived in fear that they were rearranging tables and chairs in some bunker where Charlie Haughey was practising his Nuclear War speech.

I couldn't for the life of me remember their names when I was searching for it earlier. I actually quite like the art style looking back on it now.

AlekSmart

mariaalice wrote: »

Watching the Czech cartoons left me with the impression that the Czechs were a dour weird people.

Lolek & Bolek....yer only men

draiochtanois

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whomitconcerns

kunst nugget wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnaQvXLLCw

The video the OP was talking about in the first post.

Oh god.....that's it.....Jesus.. horrid memories

The Crowman

sunbeam wrote: »

I have vague memories of one animation involving a traffic jam that got so bad that eventually everyone decided to live in their cars.

This is it, it was made by Halas & Batchelor who did the Autobahn green flying alien one as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ymlIN2slQ

The Crowman

Roanmore wrote: »

Professor Plinkity Plonk (?) on Sunday evenings.

Guy would come out and play a piano (cartoon of course) which was a prelude to some adventure he imagined.

I think I remember that. Is that the one where he'd enter the piano into other worlds?

The Crowman

eviltwin wrote: »

There was one with some animated chap playing a lute and singing that was on just before the news.

Sounds like Storybook International.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHJgZptH-w

The Crowman

This used to be shown as filler a lot too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDT3RtbYQw