1995 in Irish television

The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1995.

List of years in Irish television (table)

Events

  • 24 April – Network 2 airs the long running PBS television series for preschoolers Barney and Friends at 2 o'clock. The series was also very popular in Ireland and has often been transmitted on Network 2/RTÉ 2 as years and months go by making it one of the most popular imported children's programmes on Irish television.
  • 13 May – For the third year running, Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest. This year marks the 40th event, presented by Mary Kennedy from The Point Theatre, Dublin.[1] The BBC had offered to stage this year's Contest as a joint venture with RTÉ in Belfast as RTÉ were concerned they would not be able to afford the cost of hosting a third consecutive Contest. Ultimately an agreement was made that the BBC would host the 1996 event should Ireland win for a fourth time. However, it was won by Norway. The winning song was the mostly instrumental piece, Nocturne, by Secret Garden, although the group's violinist, Fionnuala Sherry, is Irish.[2]
  • July – RTÉ appoints Mark Little as its first Washington Correspondent.[1]
  • 31 August – BBC 1 Northern Ireland airs the pilot of its satirical comedy series Give My Head Peace. The programme was later commissioned as a series in 1998.
  • 11 September – Ray D'Arcy, Socky and Dustin are back when The Den returns to Network 2 after summer break. The return also marks the Irish television debuts of the acclaimed British children's animated series based on the books by Sarah Ferguson Budgie the Little Helicopter (the series was also animated and produced in Ireland), the US animated action series Biker Mice from Mars and the US 1960s cult animated comedy series from Hanna-Barbera Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, plus more cartoon fun with Yogi Bear as well as the Irish programmes Pop Goes The Den, Dinin and The Joke Box and the continuing episodes of the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and The Flintstones and the Canadian Nickelodeon/YTV supernatural-horror drama for children Are You Afraid of the Dark?.
  • 15 September – The hit BBC stop motion animated series for children Noddy's Toyland Adventures begins premiering in Ireland on Network 2 as part of The Den.

Debuts

RTÉ 1

Network 2

Changes of network affiliation

Shows Moved from Moved to
/ Widget Network 2 RTÉ 1
Batman: The Animated Series Network 2 RTÉ 1
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Network 2 RTÉ 1
The Brady Bunch Network 2 RTÉ 1
Jump Around Network 2 RTÉ 1
Casper and the Angels RTÉ 1 Network 2
The Girl from Tomorrow Network 2 RTÉ 1
The Odyssey RTÉ 1 Network 2
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Network 2 RTÉ 1
/ Rupert RTÉ 1 Network 2

Ongoing television programmes

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Ending this year

  • 1 September – Millionaire (1995)
  • 1 September – Jump Around (1995)

Deaths

  • 21 September – Frank Hall, broadcaster, journalist, satirist and film censor
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See also

References

  1. "RTÉ Libraries and Archives: preserving a unique record of Irish life". Rte.ie. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  2. O'Connor, John Kennedy (2007). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History. UK: Carlton Books. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3.
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