It's hard to believe that a generation or two has grown up without knowing what Saturday afternoons were all about with Grandstand on BBC 1 in competition with ITV's World of Sport! Those were the days ...
Quite classy presentation actually. This takes me back to simpler times, when Dickie Davies headed up ITV for nearly five hours on a Saturday afternoon. Superb.
+malcs0 - the presentation quality contrasts to today's because the majority of presentation teams on both TV and radio used RP (received pronunciation) which meant communication was clearer, understandable and commanded respect. Dumbing down came with the advent of multiple channel broadcasting, satellite and cable.
Brings back memories, I used to rush to our local shop to buy a packet of spangles , a newspaper and some penny chews fruit salads and blackjacks , then watch Tizwas then World of Sport dad would have a bet on the horses , the ITV 7, we'd then watch wrestling with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Mick McManus and others entertaining us, dad would then get the football results and check his pools, he never won, we'd then settle down to watch chips or Incredible Hulk, great memore
What year was that show? It was probably before 1974. Does anybody know? The football league tables look suspiciously like they were only 2 points for a win.
@@MeTube3 Yes. It was difficult to know what year it was on this video when Dickie Davies didn't appear any different facially from week to week, but suddenly flash back a few years 1980 vs 1985 comparing videos on youtube he looked that few years younger in this video than in 1985. Great show it was on Saturday afternoons, much missed, same wirh Grandstand on the BBC.
I have a special memory of World of Sport. My father was in charge of the building of London Weekend Television on London's South Bank. I stood outside the studio once when Dickie was presenting. Great theme too!
There are words to say about Dickey Davies what a absosolut legend awesome fantastic true class quality presenter they don't have quality presenters like the legendry like Dickey Davies anymore unfortunately a true legend no doubt about it
22nd March 1980. The end credits show racing from the Lincoln meeting at Doncaster. Alan Minter had won the WBC & WBA World Middleweight titles by defeating Vito Antuofermo on points the previous Sunday
Such great memories of our childhood. Dickie Davies was the man, loved the way he would acknowledge the viewer by saying you are welcomed to join us today and next week unlike some the presenter now. This so reminds me of being at my nans house every weekend once this was over it was time for tea and other show like A-Team, Chips or Knight Rider
great memories? my dad doing his itv 7? mum going to tooting market every saturday? watching the wrestling at 4 with my school mates around, the house? waiting for the footie scores to come in? nearest you get to this is soccer saturday with super jeff stelling?.. rip father see you at the bookies in the sky?
used to wathch this at my Grandads house in Lye near Stourbridge every Saturday and loved every minute, bring back these afternoon shows where the whole family can sit and enjoy, without any kind of internet interferance
Well blo me ! ..... a mon from Lye a watchin A World a Sport..... od a thought yowd av ad Grond-stond on we that Dervid Cool-mon ? 😉 they were happy days indeed
. . or Toxteth, Handsworth, Tottenham, Bristol . . . 1982? - SPG, mass unemployment, The Miners, No-go areas on half the council estates in the country, football hooliganism and overt racism (active British Movement; NF everywhere) The UK was shit back then. Really, REALLY shit! There is absolutely NOTHING about 1982 that I would swap for today . . . . (apart from my youth of course)
Used to love this programme on a Saturday afternoon ... it also reminds me of a Benny Hill sending up of Dickie in one sketch which is well worth watching ... hilarious stuff! - I also remember Morecambe & Wise once discussing why Ernie's hair had gone grey - he said he worried a lot - Eric said why aren't you like Dickie Davies & just worry a little bit (his grey quiff) ... memorable to this day and I still find it funny
Thank You For Keeping The End Credits on your video. Just hearing that TV Theme again after all these years brings back such great memories watching on Saturday Afternoons 📺
As a child I was fascinated by the typists in the background. Decades later I won an Ebay auction for a light blue IBM Selectric "golfball" typewriter. Amazing machines but finding one in working order 50 years later is impossible.
Indeed. World of sport and Grandstand were far better on Saturday afternoons than the dreadful programmes that we see today. Bring back World of Sport and Grandstand.
22nd March 1980. After this, the news followed by Adventures of Dick Turpin and Mind Your Language. Over on BBC, The Pink Panther cartoon and Rolf on Saturday.
I wasn't born when world of sport was on but i know that it was on as a direct competitor to grandstand.. i always thought i'd enjoy Grandstand more to be honest but the more i see of world of sport the more im drawn towards liking it more.. Especially seeing all the motorsport and horse racing they had on then
Yes. Don't forget the Wrestling with Kent Walton, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. Does anybody know the names of the typists who were in the background.? Does anybody know those typists personally. As well as liking Dickie Davies, I also used to like Fred Dinenage when he presented it in place of Dickie Davies
I was livung with my grandparents in Lye west midiands when I first saw this and I so wish it would come back and the Sarurday mornings at the ciema in Stourbridge with all the cartoons
I used to look forward to what came on on Saturday nights after World of Sport. Buck Rogers, The A Team, Chips (and I don't mean those you eat for dinner), Celebrity Squares, Gambit, Tales of the Unexpected and The Professionals. And that's just some of the shows that used to be on ITV on a Saturday night. I can't recall all of the ITV Saturday night entertainment of the time off hand, it was a long time ago now.
The Women's Boat Race that Dickie Davies mentions took place the next day & was shown on World Of Sport the following week with commentary by Phil Liggett - in fact it was the first Women's Boat Race ever to be shown on Television.
It's worth remembering that the highlights show on ITV varies depending on the region. LWT - The Big Match ATV - Star Soccer Granada - The Kick Off Match Tyne Tees - Shoot Yorkshire - The Big Game Anglia - Match Of The Week Others like HTV & Southern had short highlights before "opting in" to The Big Match. Border & Westward would often take The Big Match unless their teams were featured elsewhere. For this particular week, I assume Aston Villa v Ipswich will have been the game shown on all said shows as the main game on ATV/Anglia & 2nd/3rd game elsewhere (only 3 games were allowed per region).
Dickie Davies was Eamonn Andrews' replacement,(originally plain Richard Davies). I think World of Sport knocked spots off of BBC Grandstand. BBC tried to "jazz up" their theme tune from the original "News Scoop", but it never worked. Dickie had the enthusiasm for all the sports, just look at his enthusiasm for what he was doing. I did like "Sportsnight with Coleman" though, midweek on BBC. Different times though. Only three TV channels, smoke where you like, Ford Cortinas, Hillman Avengers, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, the three day week, and Reginald Bosanquet reading the ITN News. All gone.
@@mikeoglen6848 Yes, I watched them as well as Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods. Dickie had a good innings, 94 wasn't he, and looking at all the comments here he was well regarded.
Richard, It was called ' World Of Sport March ', by the Don Harpur Orchestra on a Columbia 45, I bought new ,I think in 1968, cost me 6/8d, neally 3 weeks pocket money !
you all looked proper funkin dandy sir tophole and all....gents was gents and fondu was a cookin....half a double diamond and a shufty at the bar maids knockers eh!!
World of Sport had their football reporters during H-T and F-T including Brian Moore (LWT), Gerry Harrison (Anglia), Gerald Sinstadt (Granada), Martin Tyler (YTV), Hugh Johns (ATV), Arthur Montford (STV), Roger Tames (Tyne Tees) and Roger Marlone (HTV)
Saturday 22nd March 1980 - Kings Ride (10-1) ridden by Geoff Baxter (White colours) and trained by Bill Wightman just getting up in the final stride to win the Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster from Blue Bridge (Philip Robinson).
