ITV World of Sport (1985)
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- Excerpt of the last broadcast edition of the British television Saturday afternoon sports magazine show with Dickie Davies.
Includes opening, highlights, and closing of the show.
Preceded by the TVS clock.
Rest in peace Dickie Davies and say hello to Ken Walton and other world of sport colleagues who blessed our childhoods with, Sport and merryment. God bless you sir, the true professional.
Hi
Sorry for being a bit pedantic but I'm pretty certain it was Kent Walton who commentated on the wrestling. 😁
@@paulcrow3606 yes you are correct. Thank you
Two bloody legends 😭😭💔💔
Dicky was part of so many peoples childhoods. Tiswas and world of sport
Was a sad day when world of sport ended , loved the mixture of footy , horseracing and the fun and games of the wrestling......dickie Davies was superb presenting , and Saturdays were never quite the same again ....and still aren't,.....Great memories
Yeah then it was all about crappy football with saint and bloody greavesy , bloody football ...lol
RIP Dickie Davies & thank you for being such a big part of my childhood
RIP Dickie Davies....i grew up listening to your voice in my lovely dads house when i was a small child....happy days.
For the most part I hate social media for its destruction of family values and its ability to be abused to bully people but the fact that Dickie passed away and many chaps have come here to wish him well on his journey to the afterlife warms my heart.
Dickie Davies was such a class act
Prototype Desmond Lynam, but Dickie was the O.G.
Yes he was too-just right for the role really indeed too!
Sadly passed away aged 94 today
@@tizzim Such a shame too of course.
@@tizzim It was odd though that some said he was 89 though?
Word of Sport , early 80s,watched some classic boxing highlights on a Saturday afternoon, Hearns,Duran,Chavez etc RIP Dickie Davies a class act
RIP Dickie Davies (1928-2023)😢
RIP Dickie Davies, legend.
Indeed a sad day for ITV. Loved WOS
Thanks for the happy memories, Dickie. RIP.
R.I.P DICKIE DAVIES & BIG JOHN MCCRIRRICK - BOTH LEGENDS WHO MADE SPORTS PROGRAMS WORTH WATCHING.
Just heard the sad news about Dickie Davies' passing. A sad loss.
Dickie Davies will be sorely missed RIP
RIP Dickie... You will be remembered fondly by us all.. x
Saddest day when Saturday afternoon would never be the same. It was even more sad for me as an 8 year old I also moved home and school
I lived 2 doors down in Camberley, Surrey from John Bromley who was the guy who started World of Sport and was executive producer of the program. John spent all week in London and was in great demand as an after dinner speaker at all sorts of events. He was approached by Peter Dymock who was in charge of sport for the BBC about joining the BBC but John turned him down after telling him the BBC could not afford his expense account. Great character.
I guess that was when BBC1 had Grandstand at the time and later BBC2 had a Sunday version. BBC1 also had Sportsnight on a Wednesday at the time too of course.
And BBC1 had Match of the Day as well with Jimmy Hill too at the time I guess-of old now I know too.
9:28 This is precisely how sport should be played.
Rest in peace Dickie officially ended in 1985 then Saint and Greavsie took over and racing moved to channel 4, wrestling axed in 87 and results carried on for few years. Great memories even if a little young for 70s clips.
rip dickie loved watching u on world of sport many happy memories
Both Clough and Ali have sadly passed on
Sorry to hear the passing of Dickie Davies over the week, he was a great sports broadcaster and a fitting tribute to the final ITV World of Sport.
I absolutely adored this programme back in the 70’s especially. So grateful to this uploader, though I have to say I hated that updated theme tune, much preferred the original one. Must go, I’m basking in nostalgia right now... ahhhh old things... love it 😍😂
RIP Dickie Davies you are such a legend
I can't believe that a legend has gone and never will be replaced
Cheerio Dickie. RIP.
Dickie Davies RIP
Wow thanks for sharing. Pure memories and nostalgia for the whole run time.
Rip Dickie Davies
Dickie Davies, The Jeff Stelling of his day. RIP DD
I remember this theme and opening titles, it's quite good
Am just old enough to remember this as a kid, wasn't very interested in sport generally but used to love the 4pm wrestling.
World of Sport looks like it was a fun programme, much better than Grandstand which took itself too seriously.
Spot on Rachel, can’t count how many times I seen Eric Morecambe or Freddy Starr et al giving it plenty to amuse young lads like myself, just takes me back and I love it
we used to switch between the two depending on what was being covered, grandstand seemed to be a lot of rugby which had no appeal for me, but their results service was top notch. loved the wrestling on WOS and some of the other unusual sport they would show.
Rip Dickie .
My old man loved this. And grandstand. He was like a pig in shit when he got sky sports.
Saturdays where never better than when Tizwas, scooby-doo and chips was on, maybe a bit of WOS before going out to play but definitely some WOS when we had our chippy tea watching wrestling. _s&k pudding, chips, mushy peas and gravy_
Teatime, something like poached egg on toast while watching Dukes of Hazard!
Cheers Mark, loved world of sport with the great Dickie, the ITV 7 and of course my mothers favourite the Wrestling i can still hear her laughing every Saturday at 4, god bless her and Dickie
Sadly World Of Sport would not see it's 25th,30th,40th and 50th anniversaries and no 60th
Without doubt the best sports theme tune of all time. Just a magnificent digital composition!
What a fun video. Clearly I’m here because the host passed away recently which suggests he lived a long life. Interesting how back in 1980’s, 9 dart legs and 147’s were less common although maybe part of that was because they were on tv less often.
Biggest mistake ITV ever made was axing World of Sport
it was a great showcase for sports that didn't always get much exposure on tv - not really sure why they decided to axe it when they did. grandstand soldiered on for a good many years after this. can only assume that the bean counters wanted something cheaper that would generate more ad revenue
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Schools And Colleges got axed from the daytime morning schedule by 1986 too. Again for the ad revenue. Got shoved to Channel 4.
All very shameful.
"It's Saturday the 28th of September,Time now for the very last edition of the World Of Sport,And the time on TVS is exactly 12:15!".
Jimmy Hills idea to go from Richard to Dickie Davies. Played!
The TVS clock must be a mock because the picture's cleaner than the intro and World of Sport itself.
That was as transmitted by TVS in Hampshire, recorded on a Betamax VCR!
@@Donkeymark1 Not a chance. TVS would *never* have employed an announcer with an accent in 1985. Tyne Tees did hire a couple with vaguely Geordie-ish twangs, but every other region in England - especially TVS/Southern - were frightfully posh still at this time.
@@jasejj It does seem odd.
The sound being mostly in the left channel is consistent from the intro to the rest of the video. There'd be no reason to mock that, but the v/o does seem a bit odd.
Today's Saturday afternoon programmes are truly dreadful in comparison.
RIP Dickie Davis
RIP
Elton Welsby would take over the Results Service the next week which for the first 2 years as a separate programme would continue to use the World Of Sport Results Service titles
and part of this theme tune.
God bless happy times
rip dickie davies, 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Both ITV and BBC did the British Public a huge disservice, by taking World of Sport and Grandstand off the air. World of Sport in 1985 and Grandstand in 2007. Although SKY has had the monopoly for around 30 years, not everybody has SKY. Given the appalling drivel that both ITV and BBC broadcast on Saturday afternoon, both Sports shows could make a welcome return to our screens. Incidentally this World of Sport theme was nowhere near as good as the previous one.
RIP Dickie Davies
RIP Dickie - one of the best for sure. And now John Motson...sad. Presenters then were "normal" people with no attitude or Bias...Compare Dickie & Motts to - Gary Neville, Carragher etc. !!
Have u got the full programme mate
No, sorry, only the start and the end.
It’s just not the same without the iconic title music.
I wonder where the guys/girls in the background are now?
Consummate professionalism right to the very end.
🌟
Wish itv will bring back world of sport or something like like grandstand
8:06 A football match (Association) played between 2 Irish teams on Irish TV in Black & White in 1974 when did Irish TV stop broadcasting in Black & White
Well, according to the RTE archive website, the last major programme to go colour was The Late Late Show in 1976.
"World Cop Sucker" - classic TV
THAT Cannot be the real Continuity Announcer linking in to WoS. Weakest Voice Ever.
Interrupted his train spotting.
12:06
Ali v Cloughie haha 15mins40
First televised 147 and 9 dart finish ✅
Why did it stop ?
Domi Jean:- probably due to a drop in viewer ratings. Couldn't compete with Grandstand any longer. And then Grandstand got axed in 2006 or 2007 as it couldn't compete with Sky Sports huge coverage.
It stopped as ITV wanted to free up its Sport budget to allow them to bid for more higher profile events such as Athletics and eventually exclusivity of First Division Football. Some in ITV, notably Lew Grade (although out of ITV ownership at this point) thought it was a hinderance on the schedule.
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Low Grade wanted truly dreadful programmes on in its place on a Saturday afternoon which is what eventually happened by autumn 1992, when the only sport on ITV on a Saturday afternoon was the sports news snd football results on the ITN bulletin.
What happened to the darts, snooker snd wrestling on ITV? They suddenly disappeared. And what happened to Dickie Davies after 1990? Saint and Greavsie and Elton Welsby all suddenly vanished after 1992 as well.
Table tennis was more fun than some of the high profile sports.
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If world of sport couldn't compete with Grandstand, neither would the full schedule of non sporting programmes could compete eiither.
@@dvidclapperton the darts and snooker were transferred to the BBC, wrestling was axed on ITV around 1988/89. The other minority sports would eventually re-surface on BSkyB in the early 90s and horse racing moved to Channel 4 in 1985 where it stayed permanently for 32 years until it came back to ITV as the exclusive terrestrial channel for all major racing meetings.
Oh........ and the FA Cup is back on ITV. Woo-hoo 😃!!!
GBI
One World Of Sport moments when a fight between colleagues broke out in the studio background live on TV.
I remember thanking God when this rubbish came to an end!
That wrestling was pathetic,cringeworthy and any other words that means awful.
Dickie hated it but acknowledged it pulled in the viewers.
RIP Dickie.