'Grandstand' or 'World of Sport'?

[darren]

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World of sport with Dickie Davis that brings back memories with the 4 o'clock wrestling.(I have the best of itv wrestling on dvd)The wrestling toured they came to a venue just around the corner from me it ost a mind blowing £4 LOL..But all the regulars where there Big Daddy ,Giant Haystacks etc...1992 i think that was?

Just 4 quid rto watchgthem all.
How long did the wrestling last and did you meet any of them.

Thing was with world of sport they did the more unusual obscure sports thats so much why i liked it.
Was a sad day it finished.

[telcur]

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Parents would be doing the saturday shop whilst my brother and sisters and I would watch the ITV seven horse races. We'd make our own selections and put 10p in the pot for each race. Whoever had the most points won the pot.

[memoman]

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World of sport with Dickie Davis that brings back memories with the 4 o'clock wrestling.(I have the best of itv wrestling on dvd)The wrestling toured they came to a venue just around the corner from me it ost a mind blowing £4 LOL..But all the regulars where there Big Daddy ,Giant Haystacks etc...1992 i think that was?

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Didn't like either as a kid. We had a black and white tv back then and I often felt that Des Lynam was simply a negative in reverse of Dickie Davies as the sets were very similar - desk, telephone, rows of typists doing who knows what behind them...

We did sometimes watch the footie results for the pools Mum and Dad had entered sometimes on Grandstand with that heavy breathy voiced man doing them as the score draws appeared live on screen - I used to think he had smelly breath breathing into his microphone...lol.

[havasack]

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Wasn't really that choice but 'On the ball' or 'Football focus'. Our house was On the ball but the rest was a flick to and fro, till the end of the horse racing or wrestling and play away would appear on BBC2 before the final scores came in.

Loved World of sports weirdness though of getting in anything that was cheap to fill time, the superbowl covered in 15mins, a weeks worth of the tour de france in 20mins, cliff diving from Hawaii and the wrestling which I hated.

[Trickyvee]

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It's got to be World of Sport. The wrestling, the funny 'S' logo and Dickie Davies with his white fleck of hair.

[shilton dipper]

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Was World of Sport in our house with Dickie Davis.............i remember the tickatape footy results and guessing the result by the tone of the voice

[ann22]

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I remember Saturday evenings, my dad in his grey work overalls drinking tea out of his big emanel mug..watching both these shows. I used to make shapes out of the foil in his ciggies boxes.....Doctor Who would be on later and I think the Pink Panther would be on too. Thanks Marine Boy for evoking these memories.

[darren]

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grandstand started 11th october 1958 and finished 28 th jan 2007.
it had various hosts.
peter sdimmock,steve rider,des lynham,frank bough.
there where more that 3000 episodes

[darren]

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A bit more research.
world of sport ran from 2nd jan 1965 till 28thseptember 1985.
one of the reasons it stopped is because horse racing went to channel 4.

[darren]

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I should perhaps have added in my original post that whilst Grandstand went on until 2007, World of Sport ended in 1985. This may be the reason the latter holds more nostalgia for me.

There was also the almost poetic reading of the football league results. Len Martin was that unforgettable voice on Grandstand until his death in 1995, but I can't recall the guy who was most associated with World of Sport's results service.

preferred grandstand but never knew world of sport eended so long ago.
why did it end so soon as it was more diverse in terms of sports hence the name world of sport.
i think good old dickie davies hosted it.

there where 1 thousand and fifty episodes.
each episode was 4 and a half hours long.
it was originally presented by eamonn holmes.

[curmudgeon]

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Let's weigh up the pros and cons.

Grandstand: Pros, Final score, Football Focus.
Cons, Rugby league, horse racing.

World of Sport: Pros, More diversity, all in wrestling with the likes of Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki (before the yanks got their greasy paws on it and turned it into some kind of homoerotic dance off), Dickie Davies and his white streaked barnet, Brian Moore and his total lack of barnet, the little plane towing the banner at the start.
Cons, adverts.

Looks like World of Sport for me.

Incidentally, we once saw our mate's mum ringside on the wrestling threatening Jackie Pallo with her handbag - priceless.

[Quetelet]

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Always Grandstand, though looking back I don't know why, I suppose it's a bit like choosing Blue Peter over Magpie.

WOS was much more fun, the presenters were 'cooler', Dickie Davies, Brian Moore etc., they covered enjoyable sports like cycling and speedboat racing, plus the ITV 7 helped me tremendously with my arithmetic, working out sevenfold accumulators with prices like 8/13 and 4/7.

[Richard1978]

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I used to like the ITV Wrestling, there was something strange but compelling about 2 or 4 (if it was a tag match) slightly too old blokes knocking each other senseless.

[jimexe]

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World of sport for me,and my nan used to love watching big daddy