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1985 In Irish Television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1985. Events *March – Vincent Finn is appointed Director-General of RTÉ. *25 July – RTÉ 2 picks up the last British sitcom to star Leonard Rossiter, ''Tripper's Day''. *16 November – US action adventure series ''MacGyver'' premieres on RTÉ 1, two months after its first television airing in its homeland. *24 December – ''The Riordans'' is broadcast for the final time on RTÉ radio. The programme had switched from television to radio in 1979. *Undated – '' The Late Late Show'' attracts controversy following an interview with a pair of lesbian former nuns. The edition leads to protesters picketing the studio with hymns and rosary beads after a High Court case during which there are calls for the chat show to be outlawed over fears it will "greatly undermine Christian moral values" and "the respect of the general public for nuns". *Undated – 1985 is believed to be the airdate of Nova TV, a pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Ireland
Television in the Republic of Ireland is available through a variety of platforms. The digital terrestrial television service is known as Saorview and is the primary source of broadcast television since analogue transmissions ended on 24 October 2012. Digital satellite (from Sky Ireland, Saorsat and other European satellite service providers are available) and digital cable (from Virgin Media Ireland) are also widely used. The Irish satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish KA band spot and has been available since June 2011. While many people receive their television via Saorview, which is broadcast by 2RN, more than half subscribe to multichannel television networks. The biggest single multichannel television network in Ireland is Sky Ireland, which broadcasts digital satellite television services. Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone TV and Eir among others, provide similar digital television services to Irish viewers. History Television was firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Twomey (presenter)
Frank Twomey (1954 or 1955 – 11 December 2023) was an Irish children's show host, best known as the main host of the children's television programme ''Bosco''. Career Other than the one in Bosco, his lesser-known credits include other screen appearances and appearances on stage. Twomey went on to appear on ''Bull Island'', particularly as Mary O'Rourke, the then Minister for Public Enterprise. Twomey later featured on the advice show ''Agony OAPs'', with retired footballer Pat Spillane and retired politician Mary O'Rourke, whom he impersonated on ''Bull Island''. Personal life and death Twomey was openly gay Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ..., though this was not reflected on his show, ''Bosco'', at which time it was illegal, "but it didn't stop me fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Supercade
''Saturday Supercade'' is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS. Premise Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of arcade video games. The segments included: * Frogger (from the ''Frogger'' arcade game) * Donkey Kong with Mario and Pauline (from the ''Donkey Kong'' arcade game) * Donkey Kong Jr. (from the '' Donkey Kong Jr.'' arcade game) * Q*bert with Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam (from the ''Q*bert'' arcade game) * Pitfall Harry with his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda (unlike the others which are arcade games, this segment is from the home console game ''Pitfall!''). The cartoon was simply called "Pitfall!". Pitfall! and Q*bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly. During the second season, Q*bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Pitfall! and Donkey Kong Jr. segm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monchhichis (TV Series)
''Monchhichis'' is an American animated series based on the stuffed toy line of dolls, released by the Japanese company Sekiguchi Corporation. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, it premiered on ABC on September 10, 1983 as part of '' The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show'', replacing ''Pac-Man'' (which had by then been given its own half-hour time slot) from the previous season. The series aired as part of a package show with ''The Little Rascals'' and ''Richie Rich'' through the end of 1983, but as early as January 7, 1984, because of lower-than-anticipated ratings, the package show was split up into two separate half-hour shows - ''Monchhchis'' moved to 8:00 a.m. ET, switching slots with ''The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (which aired initially at 11:30 a.m. ET), the latter of which would move to 9:00 a.m. ET and ''The Little Rascals'' and ''Richie Rich'' remained in the 8:30 a.m. ET slot, as a downgraded package series ''The Little Rascals/Richie Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animated Series
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Gran
''Super Gran'' is a fictional series about a grandmother with super powers. Initially a series of books written by Forrest Wilson, a children's television show was adapted by Jenny McDade and produced by Tyne Tees Television for Children's ITV. The title character was played by Gudrun Ure, with Iain Cuthbertson as her nemesis, The Scunner Campbell. It originally ran from 1985 to 1987. Two series, each consisting of thirteen episodes, were produced, alongside a Christmas special. All episodes have been released on DVD by Network. The show inspired two computer games. Premise An elderly grandmother, Granny Smith (Gudrun Ure), acquires superpowers when she is accidentally hit by a magic ray created by Inventor Black (Bill Shine). In the guise of 'Super Gran', she protects the residents of the fictional town of Chiselton from villains such as Roderick 'Scunner' Campbell (Iain Cuthbertson) and his gang, The Muscles ( Alan Snell and Brian Lewis) and Tub (Lee Marshall, Jason Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper And The Angels
''Casper and the Angels'' is an American animated television series based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1979, to December 15, 1979. Plot Casper the Friendly Ghost is a " guardian ghost" to two female Space Police officers named Mini (who is a rather ditzy redhead) and Maxi (who is a much more intelligent African-American woman with a very short temper) who patrol the ''Jetsons''-style Space City on their flying motorcycles in the year 2179. They are joined by the rambunctious but good-hearted Hairy Scary, a large, shaggy, thousand year old ghost with a red nose and big bow tie who enjoys scaring people, especially villains and other troublemakers, but because he has a great deal of affection for his little pal Casper he, unlike most of their ghostly kind, tries to accept the fact that the gentle ghost does not like to scare people. Less accepting, especially towa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind In The Willows (TV Series)
''The Wind in the Willows'' is a British stop motion animated television series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel ''The Wind in the Willows'' and following the 1983 feature-length pilot film. The series continues from where the film left off, and original voice cast members David Jason, Richard Pearson and Michael Hordern return. However, Ian Carmichael, who had previously voiced Rat in the film, has now been cast as the narrator, and Rat is now played by Peter Sallis. The series was made by Manchester-based animation company Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network. An hour-long feature, '' A Tale of Two Toads'', was broadcast in 1989. It ran for five seasons, with the final season airing in 1990 under the title ''Oh, Mr. Toad'', with a different theme song. In some countries, the original title is retained in the fifth season, and all seasons were packaged together as ''The W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Island (TV Series)
Children's Island, formerly known as "Cat Island" is an island off Marblehead, Massachusetts, and is part of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. The YMCA of the North Shore has owned and operated a children's day camp on it since 1955. The first written record of the island was in 1655 when it was granted to Governor John Endecott. It was then bought and sold several times until around the Revolutionary War when the Essex hospital was built as a smallpox inoculation site. The hospital was burned down by townspeople of Marblehead. By the end of the 19th century, the Lowell island house was established as a summer resort. This was run for about 30 years before being converted into a sanitarium for sick and crippled children until 1946. The island then lay unused until bought by the YMCA and converted into a day camp. Name The island has had numerous names including Catta, Cotta, Catt, Cat, Lowell, Pollard, and Children's; for most of history it was Cat Island. Speculation about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin And The Chipmunks (1983 TV Series)
''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' is an American animated television series featuring the Chipmunks, which was produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with Ruby-Spears Enterprises from 1983 to 1987, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson in 1988 and DIC Enterprises from 1988 to 1990. Much of the overseas animation was done by Hanho Heung-Up for Seasons 2-5. The Murakami-Wolf-Swenson episodes were animated by A-1 Productions. The last Season was animated by Sei Young Animation. The show aired from September 17, 1983 to November 17, 1990 on NBC and is the follow-up to the original 1961–62 series, '' The Alvin Show''. The show introduced the Chipettes, three female Chipmunks with their female caretaker, Miss Beatrice Miller (who joined the cast in 1986). In 1988, the show switched production companies to DIC Enterprises; the first 11 episodes of season 6 were produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, and the series was renamed to ''The Chipmunks''. In 1987, during the show's fifth season, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ever Decreasing Circles
''Ever Decreasing Circles'' is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 1984 and 1989, consisting of four series and one feature-length special. It was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, and it reunited them with Richard Briers, who had starred in their previous hit show, '' The Good Life''. It was made toward the end of a run of British comedies focussing on the aspirational middle class, with ''the Guardian'' describing it as having "a quiet, unacknowledged and deep-running despair to it that in retrospect seems quite daring". Characters and plot Richard Briers plays Martin Bryce, an obsessive, middle-aged man at the centre of his local suburban community in Mole Valley, East Surrey. This relatively unsympathetic character was the antithesis of Tom Good. Briers said that it was his favourite sitcom role. The show's signature running gag (which appeared in almost every episode) was Martin walking past the telephone in his hallway and turning the receiver around. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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