Dickie Davies hosts t.v. wrestling prog.

In the 60s, Saturdays, surely for a kid the best day of the week (excepting when Christmas fell on another day, then that day would be the best one), Dinky Dizzy Dickie Davies would host the World of Sport, the program that could send us to sleep (horse racing) or send us running home from a football match (me) hurtling inside our front door to sit absorbed watching the WRESTLING (if only school had grabbed me as much). If today’s technology had been invented sixty odd years ago, Dickie would have probably had his own show, ‘Wrestling Roundup with Dickie’ with annoying crawlers’ running continually under the main picture, with the latest wrestling news and updates. (I say annoying because I find myself not being able to stop myself from reading those and only having half an ear to what the presenter is saying. Also, they repeat the same few items over and over). In Dickie’s day, his interruption would be the clatter of teleprinters banging out the football results. Anyway, if the technology had existed, here’s how in my universe, Dickie’s show could have panned out : (unlikely though).

DICKIE...' Well, fans of Joe Cornelius will not be too surprised, to learn that Joe has done it again. Wrestling the Zebra Kid last Sunday at the Brighton Stadium, after only four minutes of the first round in their eight, five minute round bout, Joe missed a flying tackle, flew out of the ring and landed in the third row, which just happened to be filled with an attractive  group of ladies. He failed to beat the count and had to be carried back to the dressing rooms by a stressed looking second'.

(crawler)... The Ghoul wins bout in Newcastle when a devoted fan tripped the masked man's opponent. The fan involved is believed to be the same man who interfered in another bout at the same venue, causing Jack Pye to win his contest.

DICKIE...'The Albert Hall has announced that next months wrestling has already sold out, despite the fact that only the MAIN EVENT of Billy Stock facing Leon Fortuna has been announced.

(crawler)... Mick McManus has suffered his third straight television loss and has now dropped out of the top ten contenders for the welter and middleweight titles. The loss of form is said to be due to McManus spending much of his energies on developing a television show for London Weekend Television. The working title at this time is ’The Mick McManus's Travelling Antique Show’.

DICKIE ...Alan Garfield has been named as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the new ITV

Series of Robin Hood begining in September. Joe Cornelius and Steve Veidor are unavailable to play the lead role of Robin. Catweazle is being considered for the part.

(crawler)... Les Kellet and Zando Zabo play the ugly  sisters in Bellvues’ Cinderella panto this Christmas.

DICKIE...’Next week our panel will discuss the Borg twins and ask, is their quest to become joint British Heavyweight Champions unlikely, unless they can prove they were born in Britain and not Malta. Also, big John Cox Will be demonstrating

how to fix a splint on a broken limb and Johnny Allan will be showing us his smallholding. And unfortunately, that’s all we have time for, so until next Saturday, it’s goodbye from myself and the team’

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