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World Of Sport On Itv
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Can anyone remember World Of Sport on ITV with the likes of Dickie Davies?
Does anyone know what time of day it used to start on a Saturday?
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Does anyone know what time of day it used to start on a Saturday?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.//A typical edition would be broadcast between 12:15 and 17:10 and would take on the following format.[2]
12:20 On The Ball - football preview with Brian Moore and in later years Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves.
13:00 Sports Special 1 - A wide array of sports, often including clips from US show Wide World of Sports. Less prominent sports such as darts, snooker, bowls, water skiing, speedway, rallying and others would also feature. Sometimes Boxing would also be shown in this slot.
13:30 Racing, The ITV Seven.
15:00 Sports Special 2 - see Sports Special 1.
15:45 Half-Time Scores - the half-time scores from that day's football, plus racing results from races that had taken place in the previous hour.
16:00 Wrestling - a mainstay of the World of Sport schedule from 1965 until it ended. Many of the wrestlers featured became household names in the UK and the greatest rivalry was between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks
16:45 Results Service - all the full-time football scores, match reports and league tables plus the last of the day's horse racing results.//
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12:20 On The Ball - football preview with Brian Moore and in later years Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves.
13:00 Sports Special 1 - A wide array of sports, often including clips from US show Wide World of Sports. Less prominent sports such as darts, snooker, bowls, water skiing, speedway, rallying and others would also feature. Sometimes Boxing would also be shown in this slot.
13:30 Racing, The ITV Seven.
15:00 Sports Special 2 - see Sports Special 1.
15:45 Half-Time Scores - the half-time scores from that day's football, plus racing results from races that had taken place in the previous hour.
16:00 Wrestling - a mainstay of the World of Sport schedule from 1965 until it ended. Many of the wrestlers featured became household names in the UK and the greatest rivalry was between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks
16:45 Results Service - all the full-time football scores, match reports and league tables plus the last of the day's horse racing results.//
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just after lunch with "on the ball" with Brian Moore, then a slot usually featuring a lesser shown sport - maybe darts or snooker before they went mainstream in the 1980s, rallying, water skiing, etc. then the ITV Seven, and followed by another sports special slot. the half time football scores preceded the wrestling at 4pm, with the results service at 4-45.
Speaking of Giant Haystacks - there is a wonderful story about how a teacher pulled his son's hair at school, and said son advised, as sons are prone to do, that he would 'bring his dad down ...' and the teacher, as teachers are prone to do, advised him to proceed.
Mister Ruane, all six foot eleven and thirty-nine stone of him, duly appeared to speak to the teacher, and said -
"I understand you've pulled my son's hair. I've just come down to tell you that if you do it again, I'm going to come down and pull your hair. The difference is, if I pull your hair, I'll probably pull your "@+*ing head off with it."
The teacher's response is not recorded.
Mister Ruane, all six foot eleven and thirty-nine stone of him, duly appeared to speak to the teacher, and said -
"I understand you've pulled my son's hair. I've just come down to tell you that if you do it again, I'm going to come down and pull your hair. The difference is, if I pull your hair, I'll probably pull your "@+*ing head off with it."
The teacher's response is not recorded.