Pub in Glenroe? (4 Viewers)

[Lefty Frizzell]

It was definitely called The Molly Malone.

Teasy - dead
Dinny - dead
Stephen Brennan - dead
Father Devereaux - dead...i'd say.

Not much chance of a reunion now let alone a blu ray box set.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

The Brits treat their archive television programmes with far more reverence and respect than we do with ours.

Fansites / forums
DVD releases
Regular repeats on television

Glenroe - a soap that ran for 18 years and there's fuckall on the net about about it. RTE don't want to know.

edit - just saw Gambra's post. Yep.

Ah but hasnt there always been a huge demand for British tv? If no one ever wanted to watch re runs of Fools and Horses it could now be wiped like Bracken and Wanderly Wagon or whatever.

I remember reading that the BBC destroyed an entire Cliff Richard series from the late sixties.

How many people do you think would be interested in old episodes of The Riordans on dvd?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

McDaid was Teasy's surname when she first moved to Glenroe. Remember her dodgy son, Rory McDaid?

But the pub was the Molly Malone and was renamed Teasy's when she took it over. It was at that point Stephen and Dinny got mad horns on them for her - both after a woman with a few bob. Dinny won of course. Stephen was an awful aul gobshite though so it wasn't much of a contest.

I have all the archive I need up in me ceann luaidh. I'd say I never missed an episode until the last season or 2 when it had really gone to shite altogether.

Good recollections there.
Rory was a wrong 'un,

Paddy Maher who was in it at the start now plays McAleer in Fair City. His sister ended up marrying Stephen's son Des (who underwent same character, different actor)

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Ah but hasnt there always been a much greater public demand for British tv? If no one ever wanted to watch re runs of Fools and Horses it could now be wiped like Bracken and Wanderly Wagon or whatever.

I remember reading that the BBC destroyed an entire Cliff Richard series from the late sixties.

How many people do you think would be interested in old episodes of The Riordans on dvd?

The Riordans would have limited appeal. But I'd say Bracken might sell - it's short enough [12 x 50 min episodes] and has Gabriel Byrne. Pretty sure it hasn't been wiped as it got TG4 repeats in the late 90s.

Glenroe was shown on ITV.

You'll see www.networkdvd.co.uk and what they release. I know that Indoor League wasn't a big seller but it doesn't stop them releasing similarly arcane material.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

any fans of Harbour Hotel here?

 

[cpr]

I miss Blackie Connors.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

any fans of Harbour Hotel here?

Gabriel !

 

[Deleted member 3435]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkN2dpLp5oc

precious memories

that = school tomorrow. shite!

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

pretty sure it was called The Manhole

 

[rettucs]

I miss Blackie Connors.

I saw him down having lunch in my work canteen one day. I think hes mates with one of the lads here.

Remember the film he was in - Clash of the Ash. Awful aul shite, but I loved it.

 

[Goodbye]

The Glenroe theme tune STILL makes me feel like I haven't got all my homework done

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Remember the film he was in - Clash of the Ash. Awful aul shite, but I loved it.

Really like that film
Captures mid 1980s Ireland perfectly. Small town, emigration, hurling, exams, etc

 

[rettucs]

Really like that film
Captures mid 1980s Ireland perfectly. Small town, emigration, hurling, exams, etc

the hurling scenes let it down a bit though. But yeah, it fairly accurately captured the nothingness that was 80's Ireland. Though I'm sure Fermoy/Mitchelstown might have had even less going for it than a lot of other places.

 

[rettucs]

The Glenroe theme tune STILL makes me feel like I haven't got all my homework done

yeah, likewise. I was never so conflicted as when Glenroe was on. On one hand it was the highlight of my TV viewing week (yes, I was a pathetic youngster), on the other it was the end of the weekend which meant school/college the next day.

Remember Biddy's car crash? Possibly the most feeble effort at a stunt in TV history. Think I looked for it on YouTube once and couldn't find it.

 

[Diddles]

Dick Moran was the best.

 

[cpr]

The Glenroe theme tune STILL makes me feel like I haven't got all my homework done

me too...the dread of school looms heavily with glenroe.

 

[cpr]

pretty sure it was called The Manhole

there is a bar in Chicago called Manhole- the slogan outside is "make your hole a man hole"

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M followed by Glenroe

followed by DREAD FOR LOOMING SCHOOL

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M

No one ever won the ford orion at the end.

 

[cpr]

What about "where in the world", thats synonymous with "oh bollocks, school tomorrow, another project about badgers etc etc..."

 

[evil bandit]

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M followed by Glenroe

followed by DREAD FOR LOOMING SCHOOL

It was always Where In The World (with the lovely Thelma) then Glenroe then bed in my youth.