Really used to look forward to Wednesdays t.v. wrestling. Sometimes it would clash with the football on t.v but the wrestling always won out. Did you look forward to the Wednesday showings?
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Also remember at that time both channels would shut down by Midnight therefore Professional Wrestling was usually the final programme before the Epilogue
And Wednesday evenings meant I got to stay up later.
There was a general view that the matches on Wednesday evening were more "real". The final Wednesday evening broadcast was in December 1977 from the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Duke of Kent with Faulkner v Breaks
Wrestling was ok anytime for me. I recall going to a Saturday afternoon televised tournament and the matches for the next Wednesday were recorded before the Saturday matches took place.
I did look forward to it as we sometimes got matches they wouldn't show on a Saturday afternoon.