Old TV programmes you liked but no one else remembers

George White

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122110240#Comment_122110240

Francis Durbridge as a franchise was massive in Germany, hence the 70s Paul Temple series being a German co-pro (and why most of the eps survive only in German dubs).

There was a whole series of German TV adaptations from the 60s to the early 90s, analoguous to the similar film adaptations of Edgar Wallace's mysteries (often with the same actors too). Germans love British mysteries or 'krimi', to the point that the only films found in the Fuhrerbunker were two Sherlock Holmes films, the 1937 German version of Hund von Baskerville and a comedy called The Man who was Sherlock Holmes, starring Heinz Ruhmann, who later in the early 60s appeared as Fr Brown in two German comedy-'krimis' shot here (one of which, featuring 'the Irish Television Service', before Telly Eireann had started airing!).

Apparently, Stanley Tucci recently played Temple in a private radio-style reading of one of the serials to some rich company after-dinner meeting. Cos he lives in England, he can do that thing now.

odyssey06

Paul Temple was mentioned recently on the thread.

I noticed this on Talking Pictures - can be streamed for a week or so in UK and Ireland, registration is free.

Send For Paul Temple (1946)

https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Send-For-Paul-Temple?id=3e280380-a6e9-4e28-a50f-15205558257d

cml387

RTE sometimes found it necessary to stick in filler programmes, often around sporting events.

A popular source seems to be the American ABC series "After School Special". These were dramas aimed at young adults, often with a pretty mature theme.

For example: "Francesca Baby", about a girl with an alcoholic mother, and "Dear Lovey, I am desperate" about a girl running an agony column in a school newspaper. These were shown in 1982

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392700#Comment_122392700

They both date from 1976.

In 2006, I bought this DVD set in Texas - those two stories were included.

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Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392700#Comment_122392700

Over the Summer of 1985 RTE showed a series of similar made for tv films which were all produced by the Learning Corporation Of America.

These were aimed at children but they could be pretty heavy going in terms of subject matter and overall vibe. Of the ones I remember watching the Boy Who Liked Deer is the one that stuck with me the most. Won't give away the ending but it was more disturbing than a lot of horror movies I've seen.

Hangdogroad

Who remembers the Peig shorts? They were shown as part of the End.

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1818748718512058563?t=RgBw7ji4kJ1WP7HBYDWASw&s=19

fluke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122455335#Comment_122455335

Ah The End. It had some great segments.