World OF Sport With Dickie Davis Plus End Credits

World OF Sport With Dickie Davis Plus End Credits

[@evertonporter7887]

RIP Dickie Davies, THE face of Saturday afternoon sport on TV.

[@kevinjackson292]

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 ...

[@dvidclapperton]

Not all the top notch sport on world of sport, but still worth watching.

[@paperchain1239]

Absolutely. They would rather look at Tik Tok or some garbage.

[@johnpettigrew83]

@@dvidclapperton Grapple fans at Wolverhampton Town Hall😁

[@bigredsock1]

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.

[@kevinjackson292]

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.

[@stephenguppy7882]

Dickie was up there with Coleman, Bough and Lynam. Cool, polished and unflappable. RIP.

[@malcs0]

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.

[@Candolad]

+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.

[@sarahbrummitt4383]

This takes me back to Saturday afternoons of my childhood. The football results, Kent Walton doing the wrestling commentary. Happy days!

[@andym9571]

...the teleprinter!

[@GEOFF0906]

My Grandad at the tea table with his specs on the end of his nose, checking the results.

[@dvidclapperton]

Much better than today. Bring back world of aport and Grandstand

[@andrewlawson5779]

Kent Walton,"Have a good week 'til next week ", great times.

[@CC-uc4gq]

Yes! Then Dukes of Hazard, watching Boss Hogg and eating poached egg on toast for tea! @@GEOFF0906

[@chrisevans5259]

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

[@dhall5785]

Not a PS4 in sight Fkn magic

[@sheranlanger247]

Kendo Nagasaki and Les Kellet 🙂

[@Cocobrown4u]

Same childhood for many of us!!!

[@dvidclapperton]

Those were the days. The dreadful programmes we see on BBC1 and ITV in their places makes me longing for their return.

[@paperchain1239]

Fantastic and jam packed with entertainmeny. Better than commentary from little girl wannabes

[@goblin-mx9qd]

What a fantastic professional Dickie Davies was. Pure class!

[@rickyj5547]

he's still alive

[@dvidclapperton]

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.

[@dvidclapperton]

@@rickyj5547 Giant Haystacks not though. I miss all of those good old Saturday afternoons.

[@MeTube3]

@@dvidclapperton 22nd March 1980. Alan Minter became world middleweight champion on 16 March 1980. QPR drew 2-2 with Luton on 22nd March 1980.

[@dvidclapperton]

@@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.

[@cliveevans9795]

I loved Saturday at home..such happy happy times

[@wind.del.change]

i was watching from borstal.

[@ianhart8811]

Something you don't hear much in 2019 'Cheerio'. Dickie Davies excellent Sports Presenter.

[@dzucco1]

If I had one wish it would be to go back in time to a Saturday like this

[@deanrideout1275]

Me to

[@Peter-wd1yo]

"Christmas" 2020, so called, and I completely agree with you

[@johnjenkins4392]

Me three.

[@johnrider5701]

Me too we had proper Saturday afternoon television back in those days. Now it's cookery shows and reality programmes 🥱

[@markward6240]

What a tremendous Theme Tune - brings back happy 1970s Childhood Memories

[@plondon3928]

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!

[@rajnirvan3336]

RIP Dickie Davies 🙏 thank you for the memories

[@kevinggoodchild6296]

Tears coming down my face I backed the winner too what a theme these were very happy days

[@terratec1001]

"End Credits": Back in the good old days when continuity announcers didn't yap over the closing theme.

[@richardgeorge8612]

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

[@keyfizz]

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

[@iainclark5964]

I would have watched it in Wordsley near Stourbridge, not a million miles away.

[@CC-uc4gq]

Dudley! Grandad checking his pools coupon, then switch over to watch Dukes of Hazard!

[@shaunlaws6521]

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

[@andrewswift5690]

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

[@raphaelrau1728]

Andrew Swift thanks a lot. I knew very quickly it was 1980 but not the date. Much appreciated!

[@andrewswift9039]

The race was the Lincoln Handicap

[@Tottenham1981]

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?

[@sallysmith1484]

Definitely happy times. A much better UK back then.

[@agfagaevart]

+Sally Smith A much better UK? I dunno. The TV was for sure.

[@evonne_]

Sally Smith Well not in Brixton when it was burning 😉😨😲

[@kevinhenaghan773]

. . 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)

[@evertonporter7887]

...and the winter was the coldest in 20 years!

[@colin2529]

to right mate. but were just old codgers now

[@andrewjohnstone963]

Dickie you were and always will be a total gentleman Sadly those days are gone RIP Dickie 🙏 ❤

[@rajnirvan3336]

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

[@deanrideout1275]

Me to a lovely UK back then

[@dvidclapperton]

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.

[@GILLY56ify]

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

[@cliveevans3328]

bring the old days back..this was excellent!

[@williamhughes934]

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 📺

[@kernow9324]

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.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

Fantastic age. No irony, no pretensions. Dickie....what a leg end.

[@ercaysalih5433]

world of sport 1965.1985 great times sad it ended

[@gorgeousgeorge3947]

Cheerio Dickie. RIP.

[@raphaelrau1728]

Dickie Davis. RIP. Brilliant presenter and a true gentleman!

[@harounmotala2706]

Raphael rau dikie Davies is still alive..he is 87 years old.

[@andymatthews7617]

The best

[@stevelamport5480]

loved Saturdays world of sport many more

[@dvidclapperton]

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.

[@Keefy2007]

Giving you that Saturday feeling. Dickie makes it look very easy.

[@markwhittingham7626]

Fantastic music! DD was a Great Presenter.

[@MikeyManchester]

RIP DICKIE DAVIES 2023,

[@stevenjohnson7442]

Dickie Davis, RIP. Loved the end credit music.

[@paultwiss199]

I remember this so clearly . Saturdays with good old Dickie Davis.

[@ithewonder]

Brilliant what a Saturday used to be like and only 3 channels !

[@ardennite1]

+ithewonder More like two-and-a-half - BBC2 was the test card for 18 hours a day !

[@deanrideout1275]

The good old days

[@cliveevans9795]

How did we ever get through iit

[@marleyite]

And no mobile phones and 5g.

[@nubianqueen4437]

As a child I used to watch this programme and Grandstand with our Dad. May he continue to RIP

[@paulsreddevils]

Hes very much alive!

[@paulsreddevils]

Hes very much alive

[@deanrideout1275]

Me to

[@MeTube3]

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.

[@petesmoth6320]

Great memories from Saturday afternoon!

[@mark1968]

Gawd, this takes me back.

[@Woody93185]

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

[@dvidclapperton]

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

[@79britchik]

Memories ❤❤

[@marksutton4123]

Wonderful days, we were spoilt. Great TV even great adverts!

[@deanrideout1275]

Yes I have some still old adverts on my vhs tapes

[@robinlumbus]

Brilliant thanks Dickie Davies.

[@shaunatkinson5489]

It was 1980 as Sheffield Wednesday won promotion from the Third Division and Barnsley finished 11th, winning promotion the following season.

[@moosey62]

What a pro. Effortless delivery. RIP DD

[@StickyTX]

Dickie Davis - total legend

[@anthonyperkins7556]

3 channels, great programmes, simpler times. And better Saturday telly than we have now.

[@deanrideout1275]

Yes it was

[@34tohayes]

Absolutely right. Now 199 channels of dross

[@nigewalker-mead6263]

World of Sport brilliant memories...

[@stg_69]

We long for simple professionals like this ... not the thick woke twirlies we have now

[@ramie14]

Ahh this great theme tune wrestling with big daddy and Kent Walton commentating the good old days !

[@littleenglander6988]

Dickie Davis legend

[@richardgeorge8612]

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

[@deanrideout1275]

Yes me to

[@canman5060]

Saturday afternoon from 1pm to 5pm.Bring back some teenage memories.

[@deanrideout1275]

Television was a joy back then

[@robertlloyd8948]

Those were the days memories brought back

[@leedavies4589]

bring back the 80's

[@deanrideout1275]

Yes please

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

1980/1985♥️

[@al488j]

Love the teleprinter for the football results

[@GG-pm5xi]

Bring back world of sport

[@mikjon67]

The good old days!

[@martintonge3254]

What a consummate professional, seamless delivery to camera...........Just watched benny hills WOS parody. What a different world we live in now.

[@richardgeorge8612]

bring back the days proper tv sport with no ads and damn good presenters

[@MrThecarebear]

@crazyclive Ah, but in those days, commercials interrupted the programmes. Now, programmes interrupt the commercials!

[@prben2]

Back in the day when Saturday TV was worth watching, now it's just SaTURDay!

[@deanrideout1275]

So true

[@dvidclapperton]

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.

[@philipjarrett3487]

RIP Dickie Davies (1933-2023)😢

[@nickforbes-warren6602]

But she's got Dickie Davies Eyes . . .

[@richardsharpe2966]

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

[@regantetlow]

What were all those girls typing?

[@bodie37]

Cheerio is not used enough these days

[@Avidcomp]

Well well.. @24 Chelsea top of Division 2. Good times, hope to see them back there again. ;)

[@TheHendonKissArmy]

How true Steven. Sport was simpler and better back then as well.

[@southlondon63]

What were those birds behind Dickie actually doing?

[@malcolmbrewis5582]

Thanks, you have really made me smile and chuckle.

[@stevenmilloy3933]

Life was simpler, better, back then.

[@kristianclark4783]

Wow, look at Walsall - 7 pts clear and still blew it !!

[@skellertons113]

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]

Don't forget Richard Baker and Robert Dougall...

[@skellertons113]

@@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.

[@johnhastings7841]

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).

[@FranssensM]

Where’ve I put the pools coupon? Is it over there under last weeks Saturday pink?

[@jeffhawkins1293]

Used to love the weekend as a kid, when ITV changed over to LWT. Always felt special. Wasn't Dickie a classy presenter

[@propheticwitness8624]

Legend!!!!

[@johnhastings7841]

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.

[@TheTim59]

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?

[@myboythom]

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!!

[@TheTim59]

The bar maids knockers looked even better after more than a few light & bitters.

[@John-mh1wz]

TheTim59 brilliant!!

[@richardsharpe2966]

The glory years of british tv sport World Of Sport Grandstand et tal all

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

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 !

[@Flubbydubbydoodoo]

What were the ladies typing in the background? Was it all the stuff Dickie had to read out?

[@2005peasah]

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)

[@kwameaboagye7959]

@crazyclive Didn't Dave Lanning also commentated for football on Southern too?

[@kwameaboagye7959]

@crazyclive What's your ITV region Clive?

[@worldofsports3144]

"World of sport" What a name

[@robfuller7841]

Saturday 22nd March 1980

[@ianmasters4225]

Anybody know what year this is?

[@JohnArchbell]

Legend

[@maximus8992]

Best days

[@CS-re5hl]

Where did all the typists work go

[@CC-uc4gq]

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)

[@espmadrid]

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).

[@al488j]

RIP Dickie Davies.

[@johnrider5701]

Proper Saturday afternoon telly beats reality shows and cookery programmes that's for sure..

[@jonguiry5999]

Pretty certain this was 22 March 1980. Football results fit and Alan Minter won World Title in Las Vegas the weekend before.

[@jonguiry5999]

This confirms the fixtures show at 2:14 www.worldfootball.net/schedule/eng-premier-league-1979-1980-spieltag/34/

[@kevinbroad9521]

Memories.space 1999 with dickie Davies to follow.

[@cycleSCUBA]

What were those women in the background typing, i often wondered? For the whole show.

[@MrPaulpops2003]

Dickie Davis ....Jeff Stelling before Jeff Stelling RIP

[@richardb1092]

this would have been late march 1980

[@stevendurrant1724]

LOL - Random week from wherever, and Newport right near the bottom of the bottom. Quelle Surprise

[@ramie14]

Loved World of Sport better than Grandstand by a country mile