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Golden Age Of Irish TV - The Programs

THE FOREIGN GEMS:

In no particular order

 

21 Jump Street - Johnny Depp as you never seen him before
A Country GP
A Country Practise
Alf
All Creatures Great and Small
Are you being served? - 'I'm free!'
Auf Weidezehn, Pet!
Battle of the Planets - the adventures of G-Force
Battlestar Galactica
Benson - our favourite butler
Beverly Hillbillies
Bosco
Boys from the Balckstuff - Giz a Job!
Bracken
Brideshead Revisited
Brendan's Chase - british kids who run away to live in a wood called Brendan's Chase
Catweasel - Salmay, Dalmay, Adonay!
Charlie's Angles
Chilly Willy
CHiPs
Chopper Squad
Count Duckula
Curious George
Dallas
Dastardly and Muttley
Dempsey & Makepeace
Different Strokes - Gary Coleman
Donaghue - before anyone heard of Jerry Springer
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Droopy - 'I'm happy'
Dukes Of Hazzard
Dynasty
Electric Company
Falcon Crest - Those Channings were always fighting in that Tuscany Valley
Fame - Leroy, where are my leg warmers?
Family Ties - Michael J Fox and the Keatons
Famous Five - 'We are the Famous Five. Jullian, Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Dog!'
Fraggle Rock - Fraggles and Doozers Vs The Gorgs
Garfield
George and Mildred
George of the Jungle
Get Smart! - Maxwell Smart and the cone of silence fighting K.A.O.S.
GMTV
Greatest American Hero, The - 'Believe it or not I'm walking on air...'
Green Acres
Hair Bear Bunch
Hart to Hart - Max and Freeway the dog
Hawaii Five-O
Heidi
Highway To Heaven
Hotel
I Love Lucy
Inch High PI
Inspector Gadget - Brain and Penny
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Jabber Jaws (Cartoon about a shark with false teeth)
Jim'll Fix It
Knight Rider - 'A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. '
Little House - A New Beginning (Sequel to Little House on the Prairie)
Little House On the Praire
Lou Grant
Something House Mysteries - Creepy UK tv series about people who moved into an old house and found a hidden room and a headless ghost in armour.
Magic Roundabout
Magnum P.I.
Man From UNCLE
Manimal
Mannix
Mary Tyler Moore
Max Headroom
Miami Vice
Monkees
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Magoo
MT USA with the late Vincent Hanley
Muppett Show
Mysterious Cities Of Gold
Mystery Island
Newhart
North and South (with Patrick Swayze)
One Man and His Dog - before 'Babe'
Penelope Pitstop
Peter Cottontail & the Fables of the Green Forest
Popeye
Quincy - the crime solving coroner
Remington Steele
Ripley's Believe it or not - Jack Palance 'Believe it or Belive it not!'
Roland Rat
Sale of the Century with Knickerless Parsons
Sapphire And Steele
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby Doo - where are you?
Shogun
Silver Spoons (with Ricky Schroder)
Sons and Daughters
Sons and Daughters - Sons and Daughters, Love and laughter, Tears and sadness and happiness.
Space 1999
Stingray
Stingray - Capt. Troy Tempest and sidekick 'Phones', 'Anything could happen in the next 30 seconds!' 'Marina, Aqua Marina!'
Tales from the Darkside
Tales of the Unexpected
Taxi
Terry and June
Angelus
A-Team
Beachcombers
Brady Bunch
Colbys
Donny and Marie Show (with Donny and Marie Osmond)
Duchess of Duke Street
Edison Twins
Fall Guy
Flying Doctors
Flying Doctors
Gemini Man (The guy with the digital watch that could make him disappear but only for a few seconds)
Generation Game - 'Shut that door!'
Golden Girls
Good Life
Grape Ape
Krypton Factor
Late Late Breakfast Show - Noel Edmonds Contestant was killed doing circus trick(All fun and games until someone snuffs it)
Partridge Family
People's Court (with Joseph P. Wapner)
Rockford Files - remember the answering machine at the start
Six Million Dollar Man/Woman
Smurfs
The Snorks (Like the smurfs except they lived under water and used to breathe through a snorkel growing out of the top of their heads)
Sullivans - Australia part in WWII seemed to last for 10 years
Time Tunnel
Voyagers (Another Time Travel series)
Threads - depressing drama about nuclear holocaust
To The Manor Born
Top Cat - and office Dibble
Trapper John M.D.
Ulysses 31
Upstairs /Down Stairs
V
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Wacky Races
Waltons
Wanderly Wagon
Watership Down - 'Bright eye's burning like fire'
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonder Years, The
Woody Woodpecker - 'Meet my boss..Walter Lantz'
Worsel Gummage
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
3-2-1 Contact - " Contact is the secret, It's the moment when everything happens...". It's the Bloodhound Gang

The A-Team
Are you being served? - 'I'm free!'
Chopper Squad
The Gemini Man (The guy with the digital watch that could make him disappear but only for a few seconds)
The Rockford Files - remember the answering machine at the start
3-2-1 Contact - " Contact is the secret, It's the moment when everything happens...". It's the Bloodhound Gang
A Country GP
Knight Rider - 'A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. '
Mannix
Sapphire And Steele
21 Jump Street - Johnny Depp as you never seen him before
Electric Company
Mystery Island
Catweasel - Salmay, Dalmay, Adonay!
Worsel Gummage
All Creatures Great and Small
Dempsey & Makepeace
Doogie Howser, M.D.
The Fall Guy
The Six Million Dollar Man/Woman
Garfield
The Golden Girls
Greatest American Hero, The - 'Believe it or not I'm walking on air...'
One Man and His Dog - before 'Babe'
Sale of the Century with Knickerless Parsons
Silver Spoons (with Ricky Schroder)
Different Strokes
Sons and Daughters
The Beachcombers
The Edison Twins
The Flying Doctors
Threads - depressing drama about nuclear holocaust
Little House on the Prairie
Little House - A New Beginning (Sequel to Little House on the Prairie)
Highway To Heaven
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Heidi
Muppett Show
The Krypton Factor
Mary Tyler Moore
Lou Grant
Manimal
Shogun
Max Headroom
Monkees
Miami Vice
Mork & Mindy
Newhart
North and South (with Patrick Swayze)
The People's Court (with Joseph P. Wapner)
Battle of the Planets - the adventures of G-Force
Curious George
Peter Cottontail & the Fables of the Green Forest
George of the Jungle
Jabber Jaws (Cartoon about a shark with false teeth)
The Smurfs
The Snorks (Like the smurfs except they lived under water and used to breathe through a snorkel growing out of the top of their heads)
Magnum P.I.
MT USA with the late Vincent Hanley
Battlestar Galactica
Space 1999
Stingray
V
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Time Tunnel
The Voyagers (Another Time Travel series)
Hotel
The Colbys
The Late Late Breakfast Show - Noel Edmonds Contestant was killed doing circus trick(All fun and games until someone snuffs it)
Jim'll Fix It
The Donny and Marie Show (with Donny and Marie Osmond)
Wanderly Wagon
Bosco
Ronny Drew yabbering on about the rare auld times
The Angelus
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
Boys from the Balckstuff - Giz a Job!
Auf Weidezehn, Pet!
George and Mildred
Terry and June
Dukes Of Hazzard
Chips
Fame - Leroy, where are my leg warmers?
Falcon Crest - Those Channings were always fighting in that Tuscany Valley
Dallas
Dynasty
Family Ties - Michael J Fox and the Keatons
Famous Five - 'We are the Famous Five. Jullian, Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Dog!'
A Country Practise
The Flying Doctors
Sons and Daughters - Sons and Daughters, Love and laughter, Tears and sadness and happiness.
The Sullivans - Australia part in WWII seemed to last for 10 years
Fraggle Rock - Fraggles and Doozers Vs The Gorgs
Scooby Doo - where are you?
Wacky Races
The Grape Ape
Inch High PI
Penelope Pitstop
Dastardly and Muttley
Trapper John M.D.
Waltons
Little House On the Praire
Different Strokes - Gary Coleman
Benson - our favourite butler
Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
The Generation Game - 'Shut that door!'
Get Smart! - Maxwell Smart and the cone of silence fighting K.A.O.S.
Man From UNCLE
GMTV
Stingray - Capt. Troy Tempest and sidekick 'Phones', 'Anything could happen in the next 30 seconds!' 'Marina, Aqua Marina!'
The Good Life
To The Manor Born
Brideshead Revisited
Upstairs /Down Stairs
The Duchess of Duke Street
Bracken
Charlie's Angles
Green Acres
Hair Bear Bunch
Count Duckula
Inspector Gadget - Brain and Penny
Magic Roundabout
Mysterious Cities Of Gold
Mr. Magoo
Roland Rat
Top Cat - and office Dibble
Ulysses 31
Watership Down - 'Bright eye's burning like fire'
Woody Woodpecker - 'Meet my boss..Walter Lantz'
Droopy - 'I'm happy'
Chilly Willy
Popeye
I Love Lucy
Donaghue - before anyone heard of Jerry Springer
Alf
Battlestar Galactica
CHiPs
Hart to Hart - Max and Freeway the dog
Remington Steele
Ripley's Believe it or not - Jack Palance 'Believe it or Belive it not!'
Quincy - the crime solving coroner
Tales of the Unexpected
Tales from the Darkside
Taxi
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Hawaii Five-O
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonder Years, The

MISC TOYS

Cabbage Patch Kids
Care Bears
Space Hoppers
Trivial Pursuit
Skallecktik
Transformers
He man and the Masters of the Universe
Pacman

THEME SONGS:

Fourty Coats:
"When ya find you're in a fix, send for Fourty Coats.
When you've just been hit for six, send for Fourty Coats.
Think twice or maybe three times, before you eat your hat,
There's things you just can't remedy by sweeping 'neath the mat".

Supergran:
"Stand back Superman, ice man spider man, batman and Robin too,
There's no contest for BA Baroccus - I've got a match for you,
She makes them look like a bunch of babies,
she's got more bottle than you and I has,
Watch out. Look out.
For Supergran".

Follyfoot Farm:
"Down in the meadow where the wind blows free,
The wind blows free at the lightning tree,
Dreams come true when you want them to,
If you want them to then it's up to you.
Li-ightning Tree."

The Ballad of Biddy and Miley:
"And her hair shone red like the valley of the Rho-one,
Her skin was white as the light upon the snow.
How can I forget the morning that I met her,
Where the side of the hill meets the by-road to Glenroe"
Ould Miley forgot to mention that the subject of his song actually
looked
like the side of the hill that meets the by-road to Glenroe.

The Greatest American Hero:
"Looked like a light I never knew then,
It hit me from out of the blue,
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in,
Makin' all of my wishes come true"
Da d' da d' da, DA d' da d' d' da
"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air,
I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee,
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer,
Who could it be.
Believe it or not,
It's just me."

MORK and MINDY
"Mork calling Arse-N. Come in Arse-N"

HART to HART:
"Meet my boss - Jonathan Hart. Self made millionaire.
This is his wife - Jennifer. She's Goyjiss. She's on goyle who knows
howda dtake care of herself.
By the way - my name is Max. I dtake care of the both of 'em. Which
ain't easy. 'Cos when they met.........it was MOYDAH!!".

The HULK
"Mr Magee. Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century:
"The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America's Deep Sprace
Probes.
In a Freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot - Captain William "Buck"
Rogers,
Was blown out of its trajectory, into an orbit which froze its life
support systems.
An orbit which was to return Buck Rogers to Earth.......
Five
Hundred
Years
Later............."
(And then the song......)
"Far beyond this world I've known,
Far beyond my time.
What kind of world am I going to find?
Will it be real or just all in my mind?"
(Beautiful).
(Like Wilma in her white jumpsuit).
"Well you know my name is Simon,
And the things I draw come true,
All the witches take me take me over,
High on the ladder with you"

The Bosco Years:
Knock knock. Open wide.
See what's on the other side.
Knock knock. Any more.
Come with me through the magic door.
See ya soon, Goodbye goodbye,
That's all we have time for today,
We'll be back again, good bye good bye.
And remember now -
You're the tops!!
Gregory Grainneog (the hedgehog), Sile Seilde (the snail), Charlie
Crann (the tree) and Rory Rabbit (the Rabbit) and Fiachra Frog (the Frog).
Ollie Ostrich, Percy Penguin and Bruce Kangaroo.
Times the Tide.
Seamus and Sheila Mac Spud
The Tongue Twister Twins
Barbara, Marian, Grainne, Phillip, Frank, David, Jonathan, Paul and
numerous other school teacher types with dark curly hair, pale skin,
moustaches, hairy arms and pink dungarees.

Fame

Baby look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time I'll make you forget the rest

I got more in me
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hands
Don't you know who I am

Remeber my name
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High

I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame

I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember

Beverly Hillbillies

Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor Mountaineer barely kept his family fed
An' then one day, he was shootin' at some food,
An' up thru the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is! Black gold! Texas tea!

"Stop the Lights!"
(Qucksilver - Hosted by the magnificent Bunny Carr)

THE GREATEST TV TEAMS EVER

Ponch and John.
Dempsey and Makepiece
Phones and Yoyo
Starsky and Hutch
Cagney and Lacey
Hardcastle and McCormack
Simon and Simon
Michael Knight and KITT
David Banner and the Incredible Hulk
Biddy and Miley
Paul Daniels and "Dibbie" Magee
George, Bungle and Zippy
Olivia Tracy and Michelle Rocca
Johnny Logan and Linda Martin
Charlie Haughey and Garret Fitzgerald
Gay Byrne and Himself
Lance and Martin
North and South
Huckleberry Finn and Injun Joe
Jump the Gun (Ireland's Eurovision Entry in 1988)
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
Jonathan Hart and Jennifer Hart
Pigs in Space
Ernie and Bert
Big Bird and Mr. Snuffelophigas
Super-Grover
The Hardy Boys (but if you were experiencing transmission problems in
the
Mullaghanish area you may have had to make do with Nancy Drew)
Anne Redmond and Bunny Carr

HOMEGROWN TALENT:

Youngline
Poparamma
Wanderly Wagon with O'Brien, Godmother, Judge, Mr. Crow, Colm Coinin,
Mart and Market - radio show dedicated to the 'price of heifers'
Sneaky Snake and the mice in the window garden.

Superstars:

Declan Burns (Kayak canoist) - Chin up Record holder .
Captain Gerry Loftus - Squat Thrust Record Holder
Eoghan "The Bomber" Liston - Couldn't get his fat arse over the wall in
the obstacle course.
Vinnie Becker - No one Remebers him 'cos he was shite - but me Mom used
toknow him. He'd freckly arms. I remember that.

Fourty Coats Lovely Assistants:

Sofar Sogood.
Slightly Bonkers (Now plays Leo's Girlfriend in Fair City).
The Cat - "Spooky".
The Whirligig Witch - aka - The Woman in the Fire Safety Ad............
The Pickaroony (The guy who use to live in a dump).

Today Tonight

Anything Goes:

Aongus McAnally and his different colour shoes.
Mary "Make and Do" Fitzgerald - who always had something at hand that
sheprepared earlier 'cos she'd generally make a balls of whatever she did
live.
Dave Heffernan - who cried real tears when Phillo Lynott snuffed it.
Cathy who never shut up about how great the Phillipines were.
The Clock:
The blue clock with the yellow dots for numbers that used to come on
the telly 15 minutes before Anything Goes started. I remember watching
that for 2 hours one morning when nobody told me that Anything goes had
finished for the Summer. Sad. SEE IT HERE

Derek Davis when he used to read the News.
(He was pretty fat even at this early stage).
Pat Kenny when he used to read the news.
Veer-Wyn-Jones when he used to read the news.
Don Cockburn when he used to read the news.
Charles Mitchell when he used to read the news.
Richard Crowley when he used to read the news.
Anne Doyle when she used to read the news??
The alleged illicit affair between Newcasters Anne Doyle and Richard
Crowley.

Sunday Night at the Gaiety with Brendan Grace in his Tiger-skin jacket:
"Noel Keelihan take us away!"
Maureen Potter being funny (obviously well before my time).
Dempsey's Den when Zig and Zag and Dustin didn't wear any clothes.

Garda Patrol
"A set of nested tables was stolen from a 3 bedroomed house in
Skreenarinky. We don't actually have a photo of the nested tables in
question, but we have a photo of a different set of nested tables that
look like this (cue photo). If you have any information about these
(or any other crimes that we are currently unaware of) please contact your
local Gardai".

Jo-Maxi
Pat's Hat.
Pat's Chat.
Pat's Spider.
Murphy's Micro Quiz-M (With Mike Murphy)
"Sylvester - S'il vous plait."
Rapid Roulette (with Murray and Maxi)
"Leave the Table"
Ronny Drew yabbering on about the rare auld times before the Angelus
Anois 'is Aris
Trom agus Eadrom (with Liam O Murchu)
Caoga (with SBB) Sean Bean Breanach
SBB in a Shu* (with SBB)
Scaoil Amach an Bobail*n (with SBB & Cynthia Ni Mhurchu)
Radharc
Barry McGuigan vs Pedroza (Hip Hip Hurray!!)
Barry McGuigan vs Steve Cruz (Ah Shyte!!)
Ireland's Eye (with Frank Hall and Hugh Leonard)
Daybreak LA (during the 1984 Olympics - with Michael Lyster. They used
to teach the Dance steps to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' day by day).
Saturday Live
The Kidnapping of Don Tidy (Supermarket Magnate)
The Kidnapping of Shergar
Screen Test (Talent Competition with Mike Murphy)
Where in the World (with Marty "Giz a Kiss" Whelan)
Where in the World (with Theresa "Giz a Personality" Lowe)
Access Television (With the Fat Ciana Campell).
Evening Extra (With the Fat Ciana Campell)
12 to 1 (With the Fat Ciana Campell and Marty "Giz a Kiss" Whelan)
Auntie Poppy's Storytime (with the Fat Auntie Poppy)
Head 2 Toe (With the Fat Pat O'Mahony and the Fat Barbara McMahon)
Faces and Places (with the Fat Kathleen Watkins)
Davis at Large (With the Fat Derek Davis)
Live at Three (With the Fat Derek Davis and the Fat Thelma Mansfield)
Play the Game (With the Fat Derek Davis, the Fat Ronan Collins and the
Fat Twink).
Late Entry:
The Fat Jonathan Philbin Bowman.
Last but not least:
"Going Strong" with the magnificent slim and slender Bunny Carr

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