WOW David! I also appeared on the show around 1983 but I don't have the video. I would love to be able to get it but it is probably lost forever. Like yourself, at the time all I cared about was winning the computer (I won a Sinclair ZX Spectrum). Mike Murphy did a great job considering the terrible technology and the outfits we all turned up in! I also remember the very glamorous Canadian lady who looked after my family before the show - she must have been about 22 at the time and sooo sophisticated compared to this 15 year old boy from the country - instant crush! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Regards, Peter.
+Peter Mullins Hi Peter, glad to bring back some memories for you! I don't think we even owned a VCR back in December '83, but I made sure someone taped it for us. My brother had it transferred to digital format last year, and I watched it again for the first time since probably the mid '80s. The technology was pretty awful, even for the time. I remember being apprehensive about the video game, as I never got into them and had never played that one before. I honestly don't remember a single thing about any other staff at the studio! I think I was still reading and re-reading my quiz books up until we went on stage, hoping I wouldn't crash and burn. All the best, Dave.
+David Mulligan Yes, I remember the video game. We were given 1 try each in the rehearsal on a game I had never seen before (I remember it was bouncing aliens I had to catch with a hoop). I only caught maybe 3 of them but the other boy I was up against caught maybe 1 so I got those points. We only came second overall though. The car had been won the week before so we didn't feel so bad - but the other family's father went on to win it! Possibly the only time in the show the car was won 2 weeks in a row. I remember the father was a Dublin doctor and the winning question was about naming a hospital in Dublin that was founded in a certain year. I'm sure it was meant to be impossible - but lucky for him. It has been years since I even thought about the show - I'm amazed that, as I think of it, I can sill remember so much.Thanks again for helping me relive my 15 minutes of fame!
My cousins were on the show also and I managed to get a VHS copy a few years back from the library in RTÉ. I was doing a bit of I.T work there at the time. It's worth asking as it may still be in the archives.
Yeah, it wasn't the best of times economically. I left Ireland in 1990 and have lived in the US for 32 years now. It was definitely the right choice for me. We're heading back for a visit next week, which should be fun!
1983 Wow Amstrad did not release the CPC 464 until 1984 My first computer It is hard to believe but this show was considered groundbreaking at the time Every Sunday night and then GLENROE. Those were the days
David, thanks very much for uploading this. It's a shame that RTE ignore a lot of their archive programming. If this was made by ITV then Network DVD would have released it by now. Anyway, the Quiz-M and Glenroe both made their TV debuts on the same night in September 1983. 7.30pm and 8.30pm. I rarely missed an episode of either. I actually remember this episode because of the Duffys' extremely low score - they were well off the pace. It looks like it dates from 4 December 1983 (or possibly even earlier) and at the very end of the tape I noticed the opening caption from the nuclear war film The Day After. I remember RTE broadcasting it at the time - they also showed Threads in 1984. Well done on the video game performance - my friend had a BBC Micro at the time, I was about to ditch my ZX81 for a 48K Spectrum. All the best.
If this was made by ITV, you can bet that Challenge TV would be airing it now, as they plunder Big Break, Bullseye, Strike it Rich, Wheel of Fortune, Catchphrase etc. RTE just think there is no money in repeating them.
We’ve already seen “Killinaskully” and “Bachelors Walk” return to RTÉ in light of all that’s going on in 2020. I think they should take the opportunity and show reruns of this again too.
Good info but one correction Glenroe debut on Sunday the 11th of September '83 in a special 40 min episode, Remington Steel was screened before it that night. Murphys Micro Quiz- M didnt make its debut until late September 1983.
Yeah, that was back in the days when most people just rented their TVs. I don't know about Ireland, but you can buy a 50" 4K Smart TV for $299 here now.
@@davidmulligan42 Ireland might be financially better off since joining the E.U and the GDP figures are good but we all know this reflects corporate wealth, the personal debt in Ireland is huge now compared to 1990 and it's never been so difficult or expensive to buy a house as mostly corporations are buying these homes and renting them at extortionate prices. The Government should block all companies from buying up houses and apartments and ensuring people can buy a proper home at a decent price. Politics is another issue, always has been and the general decline in quality of life has declines as the cost of living is so high and energy prices have massive taxes and carbon taxes that keep climbing, savings are taxed heavily, inheritance tax is high basically the Irish Government ensure that at the end of the money you will have only enough money to just barely survive, never before has there been so many homeless and people turning to pay as you go meters for heat and electricity. So yes Corporate Ireland has done extremely well since joining the E.U and all we get is more dictatorship from the E.U controlling more and more of the decisions that should be left up to each individual country. You can't even buy a car now that has not been destroyed by the rules posed upon car manufacturers for safety and emissions, reliability has suffered, the driving experience has suffered as a result of being harassed by electronics that are supposed to make driving safer. If the E.U is allowed continue on this path we will be forced to eat what the E.U tell us, drive what they tell us and live how they tell us, just stop interfering !
@@o00scorpion00o I can tell how expensive it is just from going back to visit family. My brother's house cost three times as much as mine and is one third the size. I remember when my daughter was little and we were buying kid food over there, gogurts, etc. The prices were double what we paid in the US and the portions were halved (not necessarily a bad thing!). I never regretted leaving, and I don't think I'd go back there to live, even in retirement.
@@o00scorpion00o Yeah, the weather is a plus here, for sure. We have a decent climate in NJ, but I think we'll head out west in retirement, to Colorado, Arizona, or Nevada. Somewhere sunny that's not Florida :)
I did, but not for long :) I was studying Electronic Engineering in college when the show was taped, but only worked in that field for a couple of years before switching to computer programming.
There is a advert break in it with adverts for Britvic Orange Juice, Atari, Hotpoint, Seiko & Natural Gas this broadcast was on December 18th 1983. Advert breaks all should be separated from programmes.
Sundays and that awful back to school feeling.
Yes that dreadful feeling of no homework done on Sunday evening 😏 keep posting these, thanks
Thanks so much for posting such happy memories watching with the family many of whom have passed
it was a great show,,the dread of school was always there on Sunday nite
Hey! That’s my grandparents, aunt and uncle! My dad recorded it.
WOW David! I also appeared on the show around 1983 but I don't have the video. I would love to be able to get it but it is probably lost forever. Like yourself, at the time all I cared about was winning the computer (I won a Sinclair ZX Spectrum).
Mike Murphy did a great job considering the terrible technology and the outfits we all turned up in! I also remember the very glamorous Canadian lady who looked after my family before the show - she must have been about 22 at the time and sooo sophisticated compared to this 15 year old boy from the country - instant crush!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Regards,
Peter.
+Peter Mullins Hi Peter, glad to bring back some memories for you! I don't think we even owned a VCR back in December '83, but I made sure someone taped it for us. My brother had it transferred to digital format last year, and I watched it again for the first time since probably the mid '80s.
The technology was pretty awful, even for the time. I remember being apprehensive about the video game, as I never got into them and had never played that one before.
I honestly don't remember a single thing about any other staff at the studio! I think I was still reading and re-reading my quiz books up until we went on stage, hoping I wouldn't crash and burn.
All the best,
Dave.
+David Mulligan Yes, I remember the video game. We were given 1 try each in the rehearsal on a game I had never seen before (I remember it was bouncing aliens I had to catch with a hoop). I only caught maybe 3 of them but the other boy I was up against caught maybe 1 so I got those points. We only came second overall though. The car had been won the week before so we didn't feel so bad - but the other family's father went on to win it! Possibly the only time in the show the car was won 2 weeks in a row. I remember the father was a Dublin doctor and the winning question was about naming a hospital in Dublin that was founded in a certain year. I'm sure it was meant to be impossible - but lucky for him. It has been years since I even thought about the show - I'm amazed that, as I think of it, I can sill remember so much.Thanks again for helping me relive my 15 minutes of fame!
My cousins were on the show also and I managed to get a VHS copy a few years back from the library in RTÉ. I was doing a bit of I.T work there at the time. It's worth asking as it may still be in the archives.
Thanks for posting this... takes me back a long long time :)
Great memories here, David.
Thanks for posting this!
I look at this and find it hard to believe that I'm now 12 years older than my dad was in this video :)
@@davidmulligan42 Staggering isn't it!?
RTE presenters were so well spoken in the 80s.
3:01 17 year old Paul looks about 40.
That bit at the end is for the Day After, mini series about nuclear war.
Yeah, I remember watching that. It was pretty good for its time.
great to see this again, =) not as high tech as i remember though.LOL
Not as Hi-Tech? It looks like shit now but it was cutting edge, state of the art in it's day.
Grim Grim Grim living in Ireland in 1983!
Yeah, it wasn't the best of times economically. I left Ireland in 1990 and have lived in the US for 32 years now. It was definitely the right choice for me. We're heading back for a visit next week, which should be fun!
What is the longest river in Britain?
The Shannon
WTF
LOL
Ireland surely of course?!
1983 Wow
Amstrad did not release the CPC 464 until 1984 My first computer
It is hard to believe but this show was considered groundbreaking at the time
Every Sunday night and then GLENROE. Those were the days
£800 pounds for a new 22 inch tv in 1983!!!!!!!!!!! What would that be today? €3000? €4000? Extraordinary.
Yeah, TVs were crazy expensive back then, which is why most people rented them. My computer monitor is bigger than that now :)
David, thanks very much for uploading this. It's a shame that RTE ignore a lot of their archive programming. If this was made by ITV then Network DVD would have released it by now. Anyway, the Quiz-M and Glenroe both made their TV debuts on the same night in September 1983. 7.30pm and 8.30pm. I rarely missed an episode of either. I actually
remember this episode because of the Duffys' extremely low score - they
were well off the pace. It looks like it dates from 4 December 1983 (or possibly even earlier) and at the very end of the tape I noticed the opening caption from the nuclear war film The Day After. I remember RTE broadcasting it at the time - they also showed Threads in 1984. Well done on the video game performance - my friend had a BBC Micro at the time, I was about to ditch my ZX81 for a 48K Spectrum. All the best.
how the fk do you remember all this..
If this was made by ITV, you can bet that Challenge TV would be airing it now, as they plunder Big Break, Bullseye, Strike it Rich, Wheel of Fortune, Catchphrase etc. RTE just think there is no money in repeating them.
We’ve already seen “Killinaskully” and “Bachelors Walk” return to RTÉ in light of all that’s going on in 2020. I think they should take the opportunity and show reruns of this again too.
Good info but one correction Glenroe debut on Sunday the 11th of September '83 in a special 40 min episode, Remington Steel was screened before it that night. Murphys Micro Quiz- M didnt make its debut until late September 1983.
@@murphy9039 Thanks for the clarification
You got the dragon 32..horray!
Used to loved this on Sunday night before gleroe in my nan house
And the first shot is a monitor screen showing a BBC computer screen. Nice branding RTE.
My God how bad were the Duffys.
Yikes, that Siemens 22” TV! £800 then equates to €2500 now, taking inflation into account.
Yeah, that was back in the days when most people just rented their TVs. I don't know about Ireland, but you can buy a 50" 4K Smart TV for $299 here now.
Sitting arond the range trying to stay warm
The car at the end is right out father Ted the one borrowed for the raffle
I left Ireland in Early 1990, so I've never seen the Father Ted show :)
@davidmulligan42 it's legendary here and in Britain.
😂😂😂😂😂 no comment
16 year-old Ursula Duffy is 52 now!
Scary. Same as me now🙄
Who xxxxing cares 😂😂😂😂😂
£800 for that TV Bloody hell that was a shit load of Money then
Yeah, we were still renting our TV back then :)
Jos and Toady 😀
800 for a TV wow ya couldn't dump em now loo
We didn't even buy them back then, just rented them!
I wish we kept out Punt and Miles and never joined the E.U !
I haven't lived in Ireland since 1990, so hard for me to say, but leaving the EU doesn't seem to have done the UK much good. You never know!
@@davidmulligan42 Ireland might be financially better off since joining the E.U and the GDP figures are good but we all know this reflects corporate wealth, the personal debt in Ireland is huge now compared to 1990 and it's never been so difficult or expensive to buy a house as mostly corporations are buying these homes and renting them at extortionate prices. The Government should block all companies from buying up houses and apartments and ensuring people can buy a proper home at a decent price.
Politics is another issue, always has been and the general decline in quality of life has declines as the cost of living is so high and energy prices have massive taxes and carbon taxes that keep climbing, savings are taxed heavily, inheritance tax is high basically the Irish Government ensure that at the end of the money you will have only enough money to just barely survive, never before has there been so many homeless and people turning to pay as you go meters for heat and electricity.
So yes Corporate Ireland has done extremely well since joining the E.U and all we get is more dictatorship from the E.U controlling more and more of the decisions that should be left up to each individual country.
You can't even buy a car now that has not been destroyed by the rules posed upon car manufacturers for safety and emissions, reliability has suffered, the driving experience has suffered as a result of being harassed by electronics that are supposed to make driving safer.
If the E.U is allowed continue on this path we will be forced to eat what the E.U tell us, drive what they tell us and live how they tell us, just stop interfering !
@@o00scorpion00o I can tell how expensive it is just from going back to visit family. My brother's house cost three times as much as mine and is one third the size.
I remember when my daughter was little and we were buying kid food over there, gogurts, etc. The prices were double what we paid in the US and the portions were halved (not necessarily a bad thing!).
I never regretted leaving, and I don't think I'd go back there to live, even in retirement.
@@davidmulligan42 The U.S has it's problems too, but the weather alone is a good reason to leave Ireland for good lol.
@@o00scorpion00o Yeah, the weather is a plus here, for sure. We have a decent climate in NJ, but I think we'll head out west in retirement, to Colorado, Arizona, or Nevada. Somewhere sunny that's not Florida :)
did u become an engineer :)
I did, but not for long :) I was studying Electronic Engineering in college when the show was taped, but only worked in that field for a couple of years before switching to computer programming.
Dear God, RTE are stiil making white like this.
There is a advert break in it with adverts for Britvic Orange Juice, Atari, Hotpoint, Seiko & Natural Gas this broadcast was on December 18th 1983. Advert breaks all should be separated from programmes.
It's a shame you can't fast forward a couple of minutes in UA-cam.
Stupid music get rid please.