Golden Arrows 1978 B.D.O Embassy World Championship Part 1

[@Wally-H]

It must have been very satisfying for Sid to commentate on such a great match between two players he personally plucked out of the valleys and put on our screens in the Indoor League. I wonder how many people realise how important Sid's contribution to the rise of televised darts actually was.

[@terryallen5328]

Two of the games best ever players, both no longer with us. RIP Leighton & Alan

[@bb7000]

Leighton scored 137 - 180 - 180 - D2 = 10-Darter. The marker on the board had it right, the person doing the tv-scores was wrong! and these two welsh legends phenomenal !!!

[@DartsReviewChannel]

Great watch! Love how Rees throws :)

[@esling77]

2 of my all time FAVS here. TY for posting.

[@Severin971]

At the end you see Leighton has the first ever televised ten-dart finish. Amazing!

[@WELLBRAN]

I went to see alun evans at an exhibition when he was worlds no 1, he was brilliant, such a short guy! wore platform shoes!

[@vantheman1234]

WELLBRAN he used to turn up in a Rolls Royce back in the day. His father was minted.

[@parksyist]

He used to play in a pub near me and they would buy his drink all night every week

[@AllenJeremy]

In this event the throwing distance was 7 ft 6 inches, they started using the 7 ft 9 & a quarter inch throwing distance the following year.

[@kanifuker721]

Yes but Reece preferred the 8ft distance from the News of the World days apparently.

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

Its a shock and depressing to think all of these familiar names aren't around anymore, Leighton Rees, Alan Evans, David Vine and Sid Waddell.

[@ShrewsburyMon]

Great game! I thought darts were supposed to be a lot better now but that was impressive, swap the board for a blade 3 then even better with less bounce outs!

[@ycymrobach9012]

And even bigger scores on a more consistent level.

[@bramleydragon]

The dragons certainly love their darts.

[@Dont_stay_long_k077]

Jolles ,, what a great venue it was

[@AllenJeremy]

Actually this event wasn't held at Jolles it was held at the Heart Of The Midlands nightclub in Nottingham it was held at Jolles from 1979 to 1985.

[@simonlevett4776]

It would be nice to see some action from the other matches. Alan Glazier, Eric Bristow, Barry Atkinson, Conrad Daniels, Stefan Lord, Nicky Virachkul, Tim Brown etc

[@SMSJSC]

Alan Evans could be a bit of a hot head - following defeats, he once went for both Jocky Wison and Eric Bristow on different occasions.

[@kanifuker721]

Jocky was just as bad and Bristowe was just a total wanker.

[@kingshearer2]

Darts was much better then, no false razzmatazz with the models, noisy chavs and stupid walk on's. The players could smoke and drink as much as they want which made the SPORT even better. Thanks for uploading this video.

[@Dartitis-26]

I love the walk-ons and noisy crowd, and I think it was the right decision to ban smoking on drinking on stage (imagine football without noisy fans and with smoking players while playing). You are right about the models though. We don't need those in a sport, no matter which.

[@geraldhills41]

I believe Leighton used Kwiz darts but I don't know the weight

[@zt7489]

I think possibly 26g 80% tungsten.

[@isis1able]

swear at the end of this video , rees has 354 left, hits a 180 to leave 174 , and another 180 and he then has 4 left? anybody understand what i mean?

[@dmdavidjmoloney]

Anyone else notice that this show is aired on sky gold. Strange to see sky recognising any darts pre split

[@jfm0155]

I think tihis was the best match in this time.

[@AllenJeremy]

The total prize fund for the first BDO World Darts Championship was £10,500.

[@padraigosullivan9979]

That's a lot more than Wayne Warren got for winning it this year.... Money was gone when they lost Blackthorn Extra Dry Cider, then Embassy Cigarettes, then Bob and Maureen Potter. Amazing they made such a balls of it.

[@carlsam1516]

Both brilliant

[@anthonygalpin9223]

Thicker wires hard to get 13 darts or under

[@seanofafrica]

Anyone know any links to four-times Embassy semi-finalist, the former British Champion and one-time World Ranked number two Tony Brown?

[@jamiedoyle3147]

evans 94.85 rees 97.49

[@Dartitis-26]

Does anyone know what dartboard they played on in the 1978 World Championship? Unfortunately there's no company name on the board itself.

[@AllenJeremy]

It was called the BDO International Dartboard which was manufactured by Winmau who supplied the boards for the BDO World Championship until 2019.

[@Dartitis-26]

@@AllenJeremy Wow, that's great information! Thank you! Really helpful. :) While we're at it, do you know any other official BDO Championship board of another year? I'm trying to make a list of all BDO/PDC Championship boards to compare them. Do you know how long the BDO International Dartboard was used? :)

[@AllenJeremy]

@@Dartitis-26 It was used with some changes to the wires on the board until 1997 then from 1998 until 2019 the Blade dartboards were used, for the 2020 BDO World Championship the One80 Gladiator 3+ dartboard was used.

[@TimmyTickle]

0:36 - were Smith and Jones watching this?

[@kratsjovic]

If Evans was still alive he would now be better than Taylor.

[@parksyist]

David Vine 😀

[@GigaDarter007]

what a great game it was. now pdc has ruined the sport

[@JimmyConnerly]

What was that other guy intimating? He didn't try too hard because Rees was his friend and not English! That is typical Welsh! The Welsh just never were Irish or Scotish. Or even French! They were just Welsh. And have been sulking about being so lack of passion for 700 years!