Another little chapter of childhood gone. Saturday afternoons watching the wrestling with a bag of Tom Thumb drops and a can of Top Deck. Watching Steve Davis get a 147 in the Lada Classic, watching the horse racing and waiting for the full time football scores. RIP Dickie Davies. #dickiedavies #ripdickiedavies #WorldOfSport

@RickEtyhat Well if you liked HookedOnClassics, you surely liked #GeoffLove.

https://youtu.be/ef1ZzOgncvA

#DickieDavies #OldBritishTelly #WorldOfSport

Now _this_ is the vanilla #KPM version that I was expecting.

It's amazing what the 45s of some 1960s telly theme tunes were like. I can think of a handful that, like here, were completely unlike what was broadcast, yet were by the original artists rather than someone else's cover versions.

https://youtu.be/OXErc-_00Ps

#OldBritishTelly #WorldOfSport #DickieDavies #DonHarper

At last, I can use the #DickieDavies hashtag. I've found the right theme tune.

That said, this is not #WorldOfSport as we know it.

https://youtu.be/LQ_NrZRYb3E

#OldBritishTelly #DonHarper

Dickie Davies, host of ITV's World of Sport for nearly two decades, dies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64700358

A lovely reminder of my youth. One of those people who seemed to give some constancy and rhythm to the week in the sixties.
Unfortunately I also remember that he followed Eamon Andrews on #WorldOfSport who I thought was moonlighting from #Crackerjack !

RIP Dickie Davies

#DickieDavies #RIPDickieDavies #WorldofSport

[1981] World of Sport: Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks – The two titans of British wrestling battle it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSro4l_0cE

#OldBritishTelly #BigDaddy #GiantHaystacks #Wrestling #WorldOfSport