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 ...
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
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.
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.
. . 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)
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
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
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
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.
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 📺
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!!
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 !
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).
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)
As a small child I didn't know watching with Grandad, and he didn't know! My Mom said they were typing match reports for Dickie Davis to read out. (French and Saunders did a great sketch sending up Grandstand as background typists)
RIP Dickie Davies, THE face of Saturday afternoon sport on TV.
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 ...
Not all the top notch sport on world of sport, but still worth watching.
Absolutely.
They would rather look at Tik Tok or some garbage.
@@dvidclapperton Grapple fans at Wolverhampton Town Hall😁
Unless you weren't a sports fan, in which case your only small screen entertainment on Saturday afternoons would probably be old films on BBC2.
James - Yes, that's correct. On BBC2 there was during the 1970's into the 1980's a Saturday Matinee double bill of films and Play Away for children.
Dickie was up there with Coleman, Bough and Lynam. Cool, polished and unflappable. RIP.
This takes me back to Saturday afternoons of my childhood. The football results, Kent Walton doing the wrestling commentary. Happy days!
...the teleprinter!
My Grandad at the tea table with his specs on the end of his nose, checking the results.
Much better than today.
Bring back world of aport and Grandstand
Kent Walton,"Have a good week 'til next week ", great times.
Yes! Then Dukes of Hazard, watching Boss Hogg and eating poached egg on toast for tea! @@GEOFF0906
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
Not a PS4 in sight
Fkn magic
Kendo Nagasaki and Les Kellet 🙂
Same childhood for many of us!!!
Those were the days. The dreadful programmes we see on BBC1 and ITV in their places makes me longing for their return.
Fantastic and jam packed with entertainmeny.
Better than commentary from little girl wannabes
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.
What a tremendous Theme Tune - brings back happy 1970s Childhood Memories
I loved Saturday at home..such happy happy times
RIP Dickie Davies 🙏 thank you for the memories
What a fantastic professional Dickie Davies was. Pure class!
he's still alive
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.
@@rickyj5547
Giant Haystacks not though.
I miss all of those good old Saturday afternoons.
@@dvidclapperton 22nd March 1980. Alan Minter became world middleweight champion on 16 March 1980. QPR drew 2-2 with Luton on 22nd March 1980.
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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.
Something you don't hear much in 2019 'Cheerio'. Dickie Davies excellent Sports Presenter.
If I had one wish it would be to go back in time to a Saturday like this
Me to
"Christmas" 2020, so called, and I completely agree with you
Me three.
Definitely happy times. A much better UK back then.
+Sally Smith A much better UK? I dunno. The TV was for sure.
Sally Smith Well not in Brixton when it was burning 😉😨😲
. . 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)
...and the winter was the coldest in 20 years!
to right mate. but were just old codgers now
world of sport 1965.1985 great times sad it ended
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!
Dickie you were and always will be a total gentleman
Sadly those days are gone
RIP Dickie 🙏 ❤
Dickie Davis. RIP. Brilliant presenter and a true gentleman!
Raphael rau dikie Davies is still alive..he is 87 years old.
The best
"End Credits":
Back in the good old days when continuity announcers didn't yap over the closing theme.
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
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
Me to a lovely UK back then
Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century, Incredible Hulk, Metal Mickey were some of the other programmes that followed World of Sport on a Saturday night.
Dickie Davis, RIP.
Loved the end credit music.
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
I would have watched it in Wordsley near Stourbridge, not a million miles away.
Dudley! Grandad checking his pools coupon, then switch over to watch Dukes of Hazard!
bring the old days back..this was excellent!
Fantastic music! DD was a Great Presenter.
Tears coming down my face I backed the winner too what a theme these were very happy days
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.
Fantastic age. No irony, no pretensions. Dickie....what a leg end.
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 📺
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?
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
Andrew Swift thanks a lot. I knew very quickly it was 1980 but not the date. Much appreciated!
The race was the Lincoln Handicap
loved Saturdays world of sport many more
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.
As a child I used to watch this programme and Grandstand with our Dad. May he continue to RIP
Hes very much alive!
Hes very much alive
Me to
Dickie Davis - total legend
What a pro. Effortless delivery.
RIP DD
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
Giving you that Saturday feeling. Dickie makes it look very easy.
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.
I remember this so clearly . Saturdays with good old Dickie Davis.
Dickie Davis legend
We long for simple professionals like this ... not the thick woke twirlies we have now
Great memories from Saturday afternoon!
3 channels, great programmes, simpler times. And better Saturday telly than we have now.
Yes it was
Absolutely right. Now 199 channels of dross
Brilliant what a Saturday used to be like and only 3 channels !
+ithewonder More like two-and-a-half - BBC2 was the test card for 18 hours a day !
The good old days
How did we ever get through iit
And no mobile phones and 5g.
Wonderful days, we were spoilt. Great TV even great adverts!
Yes I have some still old adverts on my vhs tapes
It was 1980 as Sheffield Wednesday won promotion from the Third Division and Barnsley finished 11th, winning promotion the following season.
Ahh this great theme tune wrestling with big daddy and Kent Walton commentating the good old days !
Bring back world of sport
Gawd, this takes me back.
World of Sport brilliant memories...
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
bring back the 80's
Yes please
1980/1985♥️
RIP DICKIE DAVIES 2023,
Memories ❤❤
The good old days!
Saturday afternoon from 1pm to 5pm.Bring back some teenage memories.
Television was a joy back then
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
Yes me to
Love the teleprinter for the football results
bring back the days proper tv sport with no ads and damn good presenters
@crazyclive Ah, but in those days, commercials interrupted the programmes. Now, programmes interrupt the commercials!
Back in the day when Saturday TV was worth watching, now it's just SaTURDay!
So true
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.
Life was simpler, better, back then.
What a consummate professional, seamless delivery to camera...........Just watched benny hills WOS parody. What a different world we live in now.
Those were the days memories brought back
What were those birds behind Dickie actually doing?
Thanks, you have really made me smile and chuckle.
How true Steven. Sport was simpler and better back then as well.
The glory years of british tv sport World Of Sport Grandstand et tal all
But she's got Dickie Davies Eyes . . .
Well well.. @24 Chelsea top of Division 2. Good times, hope to see them back there again. ;)
Legend!!!!
I always used to enjoy the World Of Sport theame tune what was i called and can you get a copy of it could someone help me on this please
Cheerio is not used enough these days
RIP Dickie Davies (1933-2023)😢
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.
Don't forget Richard Baker and Robert Dougall...
@@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.
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.
Wow, look at Walsall - 7 pts clear and still blew it !!
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).
Used to love the weekend as a kid, when ITV changed over to LWT. Always felt special. Wasn't Dickie a classy presenter
Saturday 22nd March 1980
Where’ve I put the pools coupon?
Is it over there under last weeks Saturday pink?
Hair by Maurice!!! Brut aftershave and Cossack hair spray! Oh and something for the weekend sir? Yeah me too! What did we all look like?
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!!
The bar maids knockers looked even better after more than a few light & bitters.
TheTim59 brilliant!!
Proper Saturday afternoon telly beats reality shows and cookery programmes that's for sure..
Legend
Cheerio Dickie. RIP.
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 !
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).
What were all those girls typing?
"World of sport" What a name
What were the ladies typing in the background? Was it all the stuff Dickie had to read out?
Memories.space 1999 with dickie Davies to follow.
RIP Dickie Davies.
Anybody know what year this is?
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)
@crazyclive Didn't Dave Lanning also commentated for football on Southern too?
@crazyclive What's your ITV region Clive?
What were those women in the background typing, i often wondered? For the whole show.
When was this ? 1980?
Pretty certain this was 22 March 1980. Football results fit and Alan Minter won World Title in Las Vegas the weekend before.
This confirms the fixtures show at 2:14
www.worldfootball.net/schedule/eng-premier-league-1979-1980-spieltag/34/
Best days
LOL - Random week from wherever, and Newport right near the bottom of the bottom. Quelle Surprise
this would have been late march 1980
Having listened to Dickie Davis many times as sports commentator I was surprised he retired early..
Where did all the typists work go
As a small child I didn't know watching with Grandad, and he didn't know! My Mom said they were typing match reports for Dickie Davis to read out.
(French and Saunders did a great sketch sending up Grandstand as background typists)
Dickie Davis ....Jeff Stelling before Jeff Stelling RIP