World Of Sport (UK TV Series)
World of Sport was a British television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 to 28 September 1985 in response to competition from the BBC's Grandstand. Like Grandstand, the programme ran for several hours every Saturday afternoon.
Read more about World Of Sport (UK TV Series): Early Years, Features, Demise, After World of Sport Ended, WOS Wrestling, Theme Tune and Opening, Historic, Noteworthy or Bizarre Live Events Broadcast
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or sport:
“Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)