The Old Days on RTE

Bob Harris

Mad_maxx wrote: »

cross channel soccer results taking about a half hour to read out on saturday evening as they devoted as much time to the scottish third division as the english first division

And you knew from the tone of voice reading the home team's score if it was a home win, draw or away win before the full scoreline was read out!

AllForIt

This popped up on my youtube feed the other day. Great head of hair! Whatever became of her?

HeidiHeidi

Back to radio....

Seen Óg Ó Ceallacháin reading out the results on a Sunday night - that was up there with the shipping forecast for hypnotic quality!

subpar

Not So Green

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Comedy half hour lunch time onn Sundays , way ahead of its time.

and Michael Dillon on Mart and Market knicknamed Cowjack.

birdwatcher

There was a documentary called HANDS on in the evenings in the 70s...probably just after the news...used to hate it as a child....Love to see it now..All about old craftsmen (usually down the west) making things like musical instruments and weaving stuff.

Ha! remember Thelma alright....brilliant.
She's still around...for anyone who's interested... and still looking HOT!
http://www.thelmamansfield.ie/thelma/

HeidiHeidi

birdwatcher wrote: »

There was a documentary called HANDS on in the evenings in the 70s...probably just after the news...used to hate it as a child....Love to see it now..All about old craftsmen (usually down the west) making things like musical instruments and weaving stuff.

Ha! remember Thelma alright....brilliant.
She's still around...for anyone who's interested... and still looking HOT!
http://www.thelmamansfield.ie/thelma/

Those shows are all on YouTube, and are a fascinating and utterly brilliant watch - highly recommended!

Hangdogroad

Deleted User wrote: »

Many posts made through rose tinted lenses on this thread.
Don't forget when RTE was offered the Father Ted tv series before channel 4 and others all RTE could say was " yeah nice work, now jog on"


Poor auld Snotzer.

Reputation shredded. No offer of any rehab. In the days before social media.

RTE was never offered Fr Ted. That's an urban myth that's been denied by Matthew's and Lenihan but it still continues to get trotted out.

head82

AllForIt wrote: »

This popped up on my youtube feed the other day. Great head of hair! Whatever became of her?

She quit RTE to run a pub in Dingle. I was in it once. Nice pub, very friendly.

Mary Fitzgerald.

Make and do show "how do you do"

The original, quintessential and best RTE milf.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0127/500373-how-do-you-do/

I remember having a mad crush on Kate Smith when she read the news on RTE,then she went on to UTV!

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2122/074.html

BailMeOut

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Radio closedown at 1am. Or was it 2?

Think it was 12:50 am (or 1:50 am)

iamwhoiam

Daithí Lacha , a mad little duck called Daithí


Waiting for the teli to warm up to watch the moon landing

Buntas Cainte

iamwhoiam

Quicksilver the game show where you won bizzare prizes. Stop the lights !!!

HeidiHeidi

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Quicksilver the game show where you won bizzare prizes

Stop the lights!!

Bah, your ninja edit beat me to it!!

Roanmore

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Quicksilver the game show where you won bizzare prizes. Stop the lights !!!

A burnt match :pac::pac:

bobbyss

The Streets of San Francisco was on RTE 2 before it opened fully. SBB and Grainne somebody. What became of her?
Bat Masterson. Ahh! My first memory I think.

iamwhoiam

bobbyss wrote: »

The Streets of San Francisco was on RTE 2 before it opened fully. SBB and Grainne somebody. What became of her?
Bat Masterson. Ahh! My first memory I think.

His name was Bat , Bat Masterson

iamwhoiam

Have gun will travel

The man from U.N.C.L.E

Harry Worth

bobbyss

bobbyss wrote: »

The Streets of San Francisco was on RTE 2 before it opened fully. SBB and Grainne somebody. What became of her?
Bat Masterson. Ahh! My first memory I think.

#A Quinn Martin Production,this weeks special guest stars ......#

odyssey06

Myles Dungan Monday Night Football - American Football that is

Ash.J.Williams

Deleted User wrote: »

Many posts made through rose tinted lenses on this thread.
Don't forget when RTE was offered the Father Ted tv series before channel 4 and others all RTE could say was " yeah nice work, now jog on"


Poor auld Snotzer.

Reputation shredded. No offer of any rehab. In the days before social media.

Seriously schoolboy error , ted was hat trick productions a uk company

bobbyss

zorro2566 wrote:

#A Quinn Martin Production,this weeks special guest stars ......#

The Fugitive. The one armed man
David Kimble.
The Rockford Files.
Barnaby Jones.
Cannon.
Some cowboy on a horse detective?McCloud!!!

mgbgt1978

The Continuity Announcers on between each program to tell us what what coming on next.

iamwhoiam

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

The Continuity Announcers on between each program to tell us what what coming on next.

And the National anthem at closing down

whisky_galore

Cineclub. Some dirty foreign language movies shown on that with surprisingly little controversy.

Nitehawks.

Mailbag, always enjoyed that.

Harry Palmr

Forgotten now but the LLS was on Saturday until some point in the 80s. I can't remember if they filled the slot with Kenny Live immediately or not.

Say Your Number

Just saw this today, they gave Dunphy a shot at Saturday night.

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1383019775702536192

retalivity

I heard 'Uncle Pat' by Ash recently for the first time in yonks, remembered it was from some old beer ad and went to look for it and found these RTE ads from 1996:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqhzcObd7E8

EDIT: Actually, that guys videos are a goldmine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YIDsOedxw

Five Eighth

The High Chaparral with Big John and Manolito.

Also, Mannix, Banacek and Ironside.

adaminho

The Virginian with the late great James Drury, of Roscommon origin!

bobbyss

bobbyss wrote: »

The Fugitive. The one armed man
David Kimble.
The Rockford Files.
Barnaby Jones.
Cannon.
Some cowboy on a horse detective?McCloud!!!

Richard Kimble played by David Janssen!

adaminho

That time I was on Jo Maxi

whisky_galore

Every second ad about milk replacer, mature and immature liver fluke, mastitis, bovine TB...

ollaetta

bobbyss wrote: »

Some cowboy on a horse detective?McCloud!!!

Denis Weaver, also in Gentle Ben as the cop father of a cherubic kid and a bear in the Florida Everglades.

RTE had loads of shows based on animals back then:
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Daktari (Clarence the cross eyed lion)
Tarzan
Flipper
Mr. Ed the talking horse
Green Acres (Arnold the pig)

I tell you, you youngsters don't know what you missed. :rolleyes:

Say Your Number

Didn't they used to show Star Trek on Saturday evenings in the early nineties.

HeidiHeidi

whisky_galore wrote: »

Every second ad about milk replacer, mature and immature liver fluke, mastitis, bovine TB...

Ciba geigy - quare name, but great shtuff!

odyssey06

Say Your Number wrote: »

Didn't they used to show Star Trek on Saturday evenings in the early nineties.

I remember ds9 airing 94-95 think it was midweek evening 7pm on network2... cant renember which day maybe Wednesday or Thursday.

Hangdogroad

Remember they used to constantly show these as filler between programmes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW9OYsMn4ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFfW0DCoGBg

bobbyss

Five Eighth wrote:

The High Chaparral with Big John and Manolito.

Five Eighth wrote:

Also, Mannix, Banacek and Ironside.

Blue Boy!
Ironside in a wheelchair.
Barnaby Jones used drink glass of milk.
Switch? Robert Wagner Stephanie Powers.
Mike Connors was in something. Mannix!!

Ash.J.Williams

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Remember they used to constantly show these as filler between programmes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW9OYsMn4ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFfW0DCoGBg

Wow flash back overload

Say Your Number

I'm presuming that was the inspiration for Worker and Parasite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI

Harry Palmr

Which reminds me of how the schedule was a good 10-15 out of whack by the end of the last programme of the evening. Time keeping really was optional back in the 70s and 80s. But then the VCR became ubiquitous so they had to keep to the published timings!

Hangdogroad

Say Your Number wrote: »

I'm presuming that was the inspiration for Worker and Parasite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI

Lol, I can remember RTE showing stuff not a million miles off that. Bizarre one off animations from Czechoslovakia and whatnot.

Amirani

iffandonlyif wrote: »

John's Bowman's Questions and Answers is also much missed. A controversial opinion, perhaps, but Vincent Browne's equivalent was a dreary mess.

I loved Questions and Answers. Watched it just before it finished as a young teenager and it really spurred a lot my interest in politics.

Harry Palmr

National Film Board of Canada.

Hangdogroad

Harry Palmr wrote: »

National Film Board of Canada.

Loved them.

Glaceon

If you said this image represented Irish television, you wouldn’t be too wrong!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTF4u693Uo

Remember listing to John Kenny on a Sunday for new music a man who promoted his share of gigs and Irish bands on his show and seemed genuinely passionate, and Dave Fanning during the weekday evenings but I'd classify him as an arsehole now

Are they still on radio or do RTE still cater for rock/indie/metal/ insert genre here in the evenings? Been a long time since I listened to radio in the evenings.


On the TV side there was one thing I used to rush home from school to see, some weird stop motion animated show about Fionn mac Cumhaill they showed on the Den in the early/mid 90's. Can't find any info about it online.

HeidiHeidi

John Kenny has been doing a Classic Rock show 10-11pm on weekdays instead of The Late Debate, covid/lockdown seems to have put paid to that.
It's good listening!