16th April 1983 - Dickie Davies hosts World of Sport on FA Cup Semi-Final day. Includes On The Ball with Ian St John and an ITN News bulletin with Alastair Stewart
The memories! Ian St John was very good at presenting the programme. Whoever decided to have Jimmy Greaves guest on On The Ball created magic. Those moments together you could see the chemistry immediately.
Saturday afternoons have never been the same since September 1985. When the horse racing moved to Channel 4, they usually only covered one meeting at most, and some weeks they never showed any meetings at all when there wasn't a meeting come from York, Doncaster, Newmarket, Kempton, Epsom and Sandown that used to be meetings covered on the old ITV seven on World of Sport. Dickie Davies still presented the snooker and the darts on ITV after World, but no longer did he give you any latest football score updates like he used to when the snooker and darts was on world of Sport. You had to wait until 4.45pm with Elton Welsby for the latest scores.
@@AllenJeremy There was a sportsmasters champion from Dickie's show appeared on Family Fortunes with Les Dennis. Les Dennis tested his knowledge on the show. He got every one right and you heard the ding sound like when an answer was up on the board, or putting 15 or 20 seconds on the clock for the big money round.
Dave Rhodes Unlike Grandstand whoever was presented World of Sport each week would always greet you whatever age you were and they always made a point of welcoming the younger viewers first
World of Sport 68-85, Dickie Davies, Brian Moore, Reg Gutteridge, Brough Scott, John Oaskey, Jim Rosenthal, Saint and Greavsie, Adrian Metcalfe, Dave Lanning and Gary Newbon. Those were the days with World of Sport getting their football reporters such as Brian Moore, Gerald Sinstadt, Martin Tyler, Gerry Harrison, Roger Tames, Roger Malone and Arthur Montford.
I have an old VHS video cassette somewhere with Dickie presenting this programme and referring to a number of consecutive wins for a team, but instead of saying "On The Trot" he blurted out "On The Trout"
Another region with industrial dispute problems at the time was Central with the various upheavals of the time from the name change from ATV to the forced move from Hertfordshire (Greater London) (Elstree) to Nottingham and there were occasions when events that took place in the Central Region scheduled to be shown on World Of Sport that never got shown due to strike action eg racing at Stratford, Warwick or Leicester or Motorsport (Motor Racing and Motor Cycling) from Donington or Mallory Park
Elstree is not in London, but in Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire's not London. I only recall the river ident for shows produced in London coming from the South Bank of the Thames per The South Bank Show, not from Elstree. Was the 1984-5 Bullseye series with the 3 row audience the show being forced to come from Nottingham studio before it was complete?
Re. Derby v Man Utd semi final 76, this must have been a dubbed studio commentary from Brian Moore. He was at Stamford Bridge that day covering the other semi final!
converse91970 the 1976 semi final between Manchester United and Derby County was covered by the BBC hence Brian Moore commentating over the BBC footage
Wasn't that simple in those days. Whereas every race meeting is covered by TV in one way or another today, back then cameras would only be at a meeting if covered by BBC or ITV, and the chances are that the only other meeting that afternoon would have been Newbury, which would be a BBC course. Hope that explains :)
Newbury was the other major meeting that afternoon. There were also meetings at Bangor, Huntingdon and Stratford, but of course no cameras to cover those meetings.
@@babaza1972 The bookies at the time probably had on the TV's what World of Sport and Grandstand showed on a Saturday afternoon, and any midweek horse race coverage on BBC and ITV. Apart from that it probably was a radio link between the racecourse and the bookies for any other racecourse coverage. BBC and ITV only ever showed 3 or 4 horse races at most of a meeting. Whenever I passed a bookies with a door open in those days, it sounded whenever there was a live horse race like the commentator was speaking through a poor quality telephone line.
Love this old stuff: Dickie Davis and the girls on typewriters, Saint, Greavsie, Rosenthal ....... 22:46 .... "the most important 8 days in [the Aberdeen manager's] managerial career" ..... yeah, that was about as far as he could go, he never turned into much, did he ?? Good job United hired Big Ron in '81 instead .... couple great Cup wins was the most we could hope for at that time !! Robbo was really on fire for the Semi that daty ... who could forget Arturo Albiston kissing Mick Brown (coach ?) on the touchline after Norman's brilliant winner .... ??!!
Castrol GTX must have been one of World of Sports sponsors back then. Those were the days before programmes could mention who they were sponsored by in the titles. Remember Duckhams too?e
I think Darren is right. Thirsk is in a large overlap area that fell in both the Yorkshire and Tyne Tees regions. So I'm guessing both couldn't agree on whose responsibility it was to cover it, Yorkshire claiming it was Tyne Tees' and vice versa.
@@11carbuff19572011 Castrol GTX, Duckhams oil, Esso service ststions were some of the adverts during commercisl breaks on World of Sport. I wondering if some of them were sponsors of world of sport back in the day. Bring back world of sport, Saturday afternoons have never been the same since it was ditched.
@@dvidclapperton individual programmes didn't have sponsors in those days. It was (quite rightly) thought that advertisers shouldn't be able to influence the content of the programmes.
