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Saint and greavsie ran from 3rd of october 1985 to 21st of april 1992.
ian st john was scottish and jimmy greaves english.
Although Greaves and St. John had been contemporaries in the 60s football world, they had never played for the same club and were English and Scottish respectively.
However, a bond was quickly struck up and a long-running partnership soon began.
Greaves had recently won his battle against alcoholism when he began co-presenting but he was forever cracking his unique brand of gags that would have the audience either laughing or crying.
Jokes about Scottish goalies were a particular favourite, in a bid to wind up straight man St John.
The show was normally broadcast shortly after 12 noon on a Saturday afternoon, a point when much of its target audience were on their way to a match. At various points of the 30-minute show there would be goal round-ups, with ITV having exclusive rights to Football League action from 1988-1992. Other main components of the show included features on clubs from both England and Scotland and a look ahead at the main games from the weekend with particular emphasis on any live match ITV would be showing.
The series initially had a simple opening sequence showing a rotating rudimentary CGI-image of a football pitch revolving several times, before a still of the two presenters popped up at the end; the theme tune was initially identical to that used on the On The Ball segment of World of Sport. In later years, the introduction to the show began with St John and Greaves as cigarette cards from their playing days on the opening credits, and the theme tune was changed for a piece named "Aztec Gold" composed by Silsoe, which at the time was also used as the theme tune for ITV's The Big Match.
Although the show usually dealt with football, it also covered sports such as cricket and boxing, with interviewees including Mike Tyson and Chris Eubank. When Greaves was ill at Christmas 1990, he was replaced in successive episodes by a puppet modelled on him from Spitting Image, a show he had often featured on.
In 1991/92, the Rumbelows Cup draw was broadcast on Saint and Greavsie. The quarter-finals were drawn by Donald Trump when the duo were out in U.S for a programme looking at how the USA was preparing for World Cup 1994.
ian st john was scottish and jimmy greaves english.
Although Greaves and St. John had been contemporaries in the 60s football world, they had never played for the same club and were English and Scottish respectively.
However, a bond was quickly struck up and a long-running partnership soon began.
Greaves had recently won his battle against alcoholism when he began co-presenting but he was forever cracking his unique brand of gags that would have the audience either laughing or crying.
Jokes about Scottish goalies were a particular favourite, in a bid to wind up straight man St John.
The show was normally broadcast shortly after 12 noon on a Saturday afternoon, a point when much of its target audience were on their way to a match. At various points of the 30-minute show there would be goal round-ups, with ITV having exclusive rights to Football League action from 1988-1992. Other main components of the show included features on clubs from both England and Scotland and a look ahead at the main games from the weekend with particular emphasis on any live match ITV would be showing.
The series initially had a simple opening sequence showing a rotating rudimentary CGI-image of a football pitch revolving several times, before a still of the two presenters popped up at the end; the theme tune was initially identical to that used on the On The Ball segment of World of Sport. In later years, the introduction to the show began with St John and Greaves as cigarette cards from their playing days on the opening credits, and the theme tune was changed for a piece named "Aztec Gold" composed by Silsoe, which at the time was also used as the theme tune for ITV's The Big Match.
Although the show usually dealt with football, it also covered sports such as cricket and boxing, with interviewees including Mike Tyson and Chris Eubank. When Greaves was ill at Christmas 1990, he was replaced in successive episodes by a puppet modelled on him from Spitting Image, a show he had often featured on.
In 1991/92, the Rumbelows Cup draw was broadcast on Saint and Greavsie. The quarter-finals were drawn by Donald Trump when the duo were out in U.S for a programme looking at how the USA was preparing for World Cup 1994.
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