Excerpt of the last broadcast edition of the British television Saturday afternoon sports magazine show with Dickie Davies. Includes opening, highlights, and closing of the show. Preceded by the TVS clock.
Rest in peace Dickie Davies and say hello to Ken Walton and other world of sport colleagues who blessed our childhoods with, Sport and merryment. God bless you sir, the true professional.
Was a sad day when world of sport ended , loved the mixture of footy , horseracing and the fun and games of the wrestling......dickie Davies was superb presenting , and Saturdays were never quite the same again ....and still aren't,.....Great memories
For the most part I hate social media for its destruction of family values and its ability to be abused to bully people but the fact that Dickie passed away and many chaps have come here to wish him well on his journey to the afterlife warms my heart.
I lived 2 doors down in Camberley, Surrey from John Bromley who was the guy who started World of Sport and was executive producer of the program. John spent all week in London and was in great demand as an after dinner speaker at all sorts of events. He was approached by Peter Dymock who was in charge of sport for the BBC about joining the BBC but John turned him down after telling him the BBC could not afford his expense account. Great character.
I guess that was when BBC1 had Grandstand at the time and later BBC2 had a Sunday version. BBC1 also had Sportsnight on a Wednesday at the time too of course.
Rest in peace Dickie officially ended in 1985 then Saint and Greavsie took over and racing moved to channel 4, wrestling axed in 87 and results carried on for few years. Great memories even if a little young for 70s clips.
I absolutely adored this programme back in the 70’s especially. So grateful to this uploader, though I have to say I hated that updated theme tune, much preferred the original one. Must go, I’m basking in nostalgia right now... ahhhh old things... love it 😍😂
Am just old enough to remember this as a kid, wasn't very interested in sport generally but used to love the 4pm wrestling. World of Sport looks like it was a fun programme, much better than Grandstand which took itself too seriously.
Spot on Rachel, can’t count how many times I seen Eric Morecambe or Freddy Starr et al giving it plenty to amuse young lads like myself, just takes me back and I love it
we used to switch between the two depending on what was being covered, grandstand seemed to be a lot of rugby which had no appeal for me, but their results service was top notch. loved the wrestling on WOS and some of the other unusual sport they would show.
Saturdays where never better than when Tizwas, scooby-doo and chips was on, maybe a bit of WOS before going out to play but definitely some WOS when we had our chippy tea watching wrestling. _s&k pudding, chips, mushy peas and gravy_
Cheers Mark, loved world of sport with the great Dickie, the ITV 7 and of course my mothers favourite the Wrestling i can still hear her laughing every Saturday at 4, god bless her and Dickie
What a fun video. Clearly I’m here because the host passed away recently which suggests he lived a long life. Interesting how back in 1980’s, 9 dart legs and 147’s were less common although maybe part of that was because they were on tv less often.
it was a great showcase for sports that didn't always get much exposure on tv - not really sure why they decided to axe it when they did. grandstand soldiered on for a good many years after this. can only assume that the bean counters wanted something cheaper that would generate more ad revenue
@@michaelmcdonald2348 Schools And Colleges got axed from the daytime morning schedule by 1986 too. Again for the ad revenue. Got shoved to Channel 4. All very shameful.
@@Donkeymark1 Not a chance. TVS would *never* have employed an announcer with an accent in 1985. Tyne Tees did hire a couple with vaguely Geordie-ish twangs, but every other region in England - especially TVS/Southern - were frightfully posh still at this time.
The sound being mostly in the left channel is consistent from the intro to the rest of the video. There'd be no reason to mock that, but the v/o does seem a bit odd.
Elton Welsby would take over the Results Service the next week which for the first 2 years as a separate programme would continue to use the World Of Sport Results Service titles
RIP Dickie - one of the best for sure. And now John Motson...sad. Presenters then were "normal" people with no attitude or Bias...Compare Dickie & Motts to - Gary Neville, Carragher etc. !!
Both ITV and BBC did the British Public a huge disservice, by taking World of Sport and Grandstand off the air. World of Sport in 1985 and Grandstand in 2007. Although SKY has had the monopoly for around 30 years, not everybody has SKY. Given the appalling drivel that both ITV and BBC broadcast on Saturday afternoon, both Sports shows could make a welcome return to our screens. Incidentally this World of Sport theme was nowhere near as good as the previous one.
8:06 A football match (Association) played between 2 Irish teams on Irish TV in Black & White in 1974 when did Irish TV stop broadcasting in Black & White
Domi Jean:- probably due to a drop in viewer ratings. Couldn't compete with Grandstand any longer. And then Grandstand got axed in 2006 or 2007 as it couldn't compete with Sky Sports huge coverage.
It stopped as ITV wanted to free up its Sport budget to allow them to bid for more higher profile events such as Athletics and eventually exclusivity of First Division Football. Some in ITV, notably Lew Grade (although out of ITV ownership at this point) thought it was a hinderance on the schedule.
@@steviegTVreturns Low Grade wanted truly dreadful programmes on in its place on a Saturday afternoon which is what eventually happened by autumn 1992, when the only sport on ITV on a Saturday afternoon was the sports news snd football results on the ITN bulletin. What happened to the darts, snooker snd wrestling on ITV? They suddenly disappeared. And what happened to Dickie Davies after 1990? Saint and Greavsie and Elton Welsby all suddenly vanished after 1992 as well. Table tennis was more fun than some of the high profile sports.
@@dvidclapperton the darts and snooker were transferred to the BBC, wrestling was axed on ITV around 1988/89. The other minority sports would eventually re-surface on BSkyB in the early 90s and horse racing moved to Channel 4 in 1985 where it stayed permanently for 32 years until it came back to ITV as the exclusive terrestrial channel for all major racing meetings. Oh........ and the FA Cup is back on ITV. Woo-hoo 😃!!!
