Bunny Carr - Quicksilver-1 Drumshanbo late December 1978 broadcast 1979

Two shows 1 & 2 both recorded on the same night in The Mayflower Ballroom.

[@seanmacdhuibhne]

What a beautiful voice. There are "singers" going around today that are nowhere near this lady.

[@wobblewobble7330]

😷👍 If you’re here your defo old school and who wants a time machine to go back?

[@HerFatherDidntLikeMe]

Great upload. I remember watching this as a child. It looks so dated now.

[@eugenepritchard702]

Brings back memories

[@GJSHEARER68]

It’s amazing and crazy to think it’s how we looked 40 years ago

[@edcampion3998]

my mum used to love this and watching this felt like old times as a child with my family watching this and thanks for posting and if you have any more please upload them Thanks again.

[@jameshogan6142]

Me too. God be with those days.

[@scottblack9213]

I've never seen people from Dublin on Quicksilver - seemed to be more for country people. Nothing wrong with that but bejaysus it's got the production values of something from mid 1970s eEastern Germany.

[@clareomalley5644]

innocent days ! charming show ...

[@stewartlynch7859]

RIP Bunny Carr.

[@briannolan8061]

Golden Buzzer, for Ann for sure, Irelands got talent.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

It was a great concept. Bringing a popular show to the people in many rural areas. But Normans musical clues were more obscure and cryptic than the Dusty Bin riddles on 3-2-1. And with no screening of audience, there was always a risk of getting the thickest bog mam/woman in the entire country.

[@ciaran5588]

5p's! loved it then, wish I was back there now

[@gg00777]

"What is a Walrus, 2:40 what kinda Yoke is that" Lmao!! Oh brilliant memories 😂

[@bonzodog6872]

The musical clues from Norman were quite brilliant

[@jackjones4248]

Playing the Sash to suggest 'north'!

[@jackjones4248]

"and I love her so" for Andrew! "oh oh Antonio" for Mark Antony...

[@jackjones4248]

At this time, a pint was 70p and a week's wages about £80

[@norwegianzound]

About enough to buy 113 pints. At 5 euros a pint you would need to be paid €560 a week. So we are better off today.

[@lagear8979]

So that's where the saying "Stop the Lights" came from lol

[@eamonward9036]

Great memories of happy times

[@cahalcostello9295]

Bunny Carr was a great entertainet

[@Lee-nh5bb]

Onya Gronya! Reminds me of a time in me childhood, circa 1971. I was in primary school in Sydney, in a suburb called Killarney Heights. Every street was named after an Irish county, and we lived in Kilkenny Avenue. One day, in my school, (Killarney Heights Primary School in Tramore Place, just across the road from the bottleshop), we had some new arrivals, there were two Irish girls, Oona and Gronya. ( I know I'm not spelling it properly, sorry.) Oona seemed like such a strange and exotic creature. She was so skinny, with copper-red hair, and covered in freckles. She was like a little elf, and seemed almost other-worldly. Gronya was a few years older, and she was tall and strong. I'd never seen anyone like Oona, and her accent was so thick. We'd never heard names like that before, and they'd come from so far away. I think the whole school was fascinated and surprised by these newcomers, as in our little part of the world, nothing new ever happened, nothing exciting, and we were all the same, just plain old Aussie kids, nothing exotic about us at all. Well, I was only six, and I can't really remember what happened to Oona and her family. I don't think that they stayed long. I wonder, now, if they had come to Killarney Heights thinking that there was a large Irish enclave here? I'm afraid there wasn't, but Oona, if you're out there, I still think of you! I'm still in Killarney, and, it really hasn't changed much at all. There endeth my story.

[@richiehoyt8487]

That was interesting, fascinating actually (speaking as a 55 y.o. Irishman, never been further than London).

[@Lee-nh5bb]

@@richiehoyt8487 I'm so glad you enjoyed my tale! You are so lucky to live in Ireland! May I ask what part you are from?

[@richiehoyt8487]

@@Lee-nh5bb It's funny, I was only thinking about your initial comment this morning. You have a great knack for evoking a particular time and place! To answer your question, I currently live in Dublin, in the working class district of Clondalkin. If I'm honest, there aren't many visitors to Dublin that make their way out here, but we _do_ boast one of Ireland's famous round towers. Unfortunately ours doesn't go all the way back to Viking times, but it _is_ 'out of history' nonetheless! My hometown is Cork, a port city of c. 200,000, which is built at the head of a natural harbour to rival even your own (really! Although it may be, of course, that you might have something to say about that!) I've been gone from there now for over 30 years, and still miss the place terribly! Speaking of Sydney Harbour, have you ever been out to Manley on the ferry? From what I can gather, those 'suckas' go out in just about any conditions short of a typhoon/cyclone(?) and from the videos I've seen, the waters around the mouth of the harbour look like they can be as serious as a heart - attack; they certainly look like they could take one of those boats 'quicker than *>`that!‘

[@Lee-nh5bb]

@@richiehoyt8487 Thank you so much for such an interesting reply! I've really enjoyed reading it. Yes, I've heard of Clondalkin. Is it on the north side? Isn't there a bit of a rivalry between the north side and the south side? Is it north of the Liffey? Is that the dividing line? I, too, have a bit of a "Gra", as you say, for Ireland, and Dublin in particular, ever since I was a kid, just as you've had for Australia. More recently, it's all been Dave Allen's fault. I was randomly sent a video of his on KZbin, and through listening to him and reading about him, it rekindled my interest in Ireland. He was born in Dublin, when there was more rural areas, around Rathfarnam I think, and I've thought for some time that I must try and visit Dublin one day, and have my first ever Guiness on Irish soil! What a beautiful day that will be! Yes, I've been on the Manly ferry many times, and yes, it does get pretty rough out there. There's an expanse of open ocean between North and South Heads, ( there's that nth and sth thing again! ) and even on a calm day, the ferry is a rockin' and a rollin' ! I was sure we'd capsize! I was in Manly the other day, and live just a few kilometres away. It's a lovely part of Sydney. It's funny how you still miss Cork all these years later. It seems that Ireland really has a very strong pull on its people. Isn't it said that Cork is the real capital?

[@1markivor]

RTE must have spent a fortune on that cardboard stage set....so funny looking back 🤣

[@tomthumb3500]

Priceless

[@dralbertsmeinheimer5738]

Bunny da legend

[@hughiecarolan94]

RTE should franchise this out to Gold and challenge TV. This would get more laughs than Mrs Brown

[@flyboy2880]

Don't know how Bunny keeps a straight face at times.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

If Channel 5 showed Quicksilver as part of The Best of Bad TV: Global, i'd be laughing.

[@lyverbird1973]

It's gloriously dreadful!

[@opinionday0079]

Your first question is ..for 5 pennies..... Jesus....

[@orionxtc1119]

Look what you could get for that back then...

[@Evilzionistbabykillers]

I thought it used to start with Tuppence to be honest 😂😂

[@stephenhickey1709]

Best laugh ever...

[@saxongreen78]

It's called Quicksilver and half the contestants seem to have mercury poisoning! 😂

[@antoh07]

"Stop the lights"

[@raygreen5926]

Time makes ghosts of us all

[@patscanlan2678]

Where is uganda?....in hospital visiting my ganny!

[@Del-yv1qy]

In most towns in Ireland, now............correct five pounds for you sir.

[@jabodl1]

Giving a contestant a tenner for miming a song in the middle of a quiz lol

[@Del-yv1qy]

Imagine we looked at this back in the day...........God fearing Ireland.

[@macker33]

A better ireland.

[@timber8403]

I am picturing RTE doing the payout at the end of the show and giving the last guy his 35p . “Now Sir will that be cash or Cheque”.

[@Dunlaoghairepunkers]

Is it a bumble bee Bunny

[@opencurtin]

Stop the lights!

[@richiehoyt8487]

Wasn't it sometime in1979 that they caught the Yorkshire Ripper? Looks like his job as a Lorry Driver must have brought Peter Sutcliffe to Co. Leitrim round about the time this was recorded (albeit under an assumed identity _obviously..!)_

[@RobertWhelan-yj5rw]

This is remarkably like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (not joking by the way).

[@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14]

1:40 *Special prize: Bord Failte £300 travel voucher* *Screen shows a £50 voucher* Me: A bit incoherent, no? 11:50 “Where you will found a Polar bear - would it be at the North Pole or at the South Pole?” *Norman plays “The Sash my Father wore” - Orange Lodges would sue* “South Pole.” “…pardon?” “South Pole.” “I BEG YOUR PARDON?” “North Pole.” “YES, YOU’RE RIGHT!”

[@khiggins7231]

What was Bunny short for if indeed is it short for anything? His parents must have had a very Bunny sense of humour.

[@littlebopeep2190]

Bernard is his proper name he was called bunny because he had big ears

[@howshecuttingbogman8999]

I think he was christened Bugs.

[@b30b60b90go]

@@howshecuttingbogman8999 Brilliant :)

[@pinkpoodlepaloma]

Stop the lights!!!

[@johnnypatrickhaus890]

Deadly never saw in before but.

[@clareomalley5644]

whatever happened to Bunny Carr ?

[@jameshogan6142]

I remember he did one Late Late show around this time but cannot recall exactly when. He was the head of Carr communications and died a few years ago.

[@kevinomalley7020]

Her doing grand

[@thal08emd97]

12:50 stop the lights

[@merrybutcher2978]

Shtop the fkn lights!

[@georgemaguire3582]

35p ffs

[@howshecuttingbogman8999]

“A sea animal”. Oh yeah, a fish.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Every one of these lights is worth £1. It's getting serious now. Lol

[@GirGir183]

It's so awful it's surreal. The difference between right answers and wrong answers is meaningless.

[@cheekyfacemurf1565]

Where is Wollongong?????

[@Lee-nh5bb]

When did Wollongong get a mention? It's a coastal town, south of Sydney.

[@davoxo100]

Cringe stuff

[@worthymemes502]

Just like your profile picture

[@patfraser3869]

Pocks bottle

[@jamesmitchell8922]

@@worthymemes502 Be nice dude